As I glanced around a room of 25 C-suite leaders ahead of delivering a briefing on antisemitism, I thought, “What am I doing here?!” In my head, I was still the cybersecurity professional, the IT guy. I had no business speaking about Jewish lived experience in the workplace. And yet, in that moment, I realized I was standing in a gap that needed to be filled. Looking back over the past three years, the story sounds almost like a movie: A successful cybersecurity professional leaves his career in search of greater meaning, building a global Jewish workplace community. In fact, if you’d told me as I lay in bed on Oct. 7, 2023, awoken by the sound of distant interceptions by the Iron Dome missile-defense system, that I’d be writing about my career pivot, I imagine I would have laughed so hard that I’d be admitted for hysteria. Yet here I am. No longer solving tech problems but helping Jews around the world navigate something far more personal: how to show up at work as proud Jews. My story, however, begins before Oct. 7. In 2019, with a colleague in London, I started what was essentially a small Jewish social group at Amazon. We met for drinks once or twice before COVID-19 paused everything. We stayed in touch, even hosting a virtual gathering during lockdown. Then came the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 and mandatory 2.5-hour diversity training. Jews weren’t mentioned once. That omission was a turning point. I realized that if we were not included, we had to organize ourselves. I set out to build a formal Employee Resource Group (ERG). The resistance was immediate. I was told that Jews were just a religion, too small a minority, not an ethnicity. Even jokingly pointing to