Greg Smith, the mid-level Goldman Sachs executive who wrote a scathing resignation essay for the New York Times that decried Goldman Sachs' culture as "toxic and destructive," is a Jew with a (left wing in terms of religion) Modern Orthodox day school education.
Leonard Fein writes in Ha'aretz:
…my own interest in the Smith saga is quirkily more parochial, particularly piqued by Smith’s inclusion among the proudest moments in his life his having won a bronze medal (in table tennis, aka ping-pong) in the Maccabiah games in Israel.
The Maccabiah games, together with the fact that Smith hails from South Africa, set me searching — and, sure enough, Smith graduated from the famous King David Schools in Johannesburg, schools whose mission statement says they aim to deliver “an excellent general education together with the study of Hebrew, Jewish Studies and the living of the Jewish calendar” and to produce “graduates who are menschen, confident and equipped to pursue any opportunity they wish to, who are proud of their Jewish heritage and its traditions, who have a love for learning, and a determination to contribute to their society.”…