Completed in December 2013, just weeks before he passed away, WHY BE JEWISH? expresses Canadian billionaire and philanthropist Edgar Bronfman's awe, respect, and deep love for his faith and heritage. Bronfman walks readers through the major tenets and ideas in Jewish life, fleshing out their meaning and offering proof texts from the Jewish tradition, gleaned over his many years of study with some of the greatest teachers in the Jewish world. This is the late Edgar Bronfman's clarion call to a generation of secular, disaffected and unaffiliated Jews. Canadian author.