Jason Greenblatt's present: The friends he lost, the lessons he gained, and the gift he hopes to keep sharing
Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab, Mishpacha archives
Standing outside on the porch of his Teaneck home so that I can find it on this dark night, Jason Greenblatt, in a sweater and casual pants, looks like any other after-work suburban dad, like he’s just finished a day at the law firm.
And if you know Jason Greenblatt, you know that it’s this — being at home, on his porch after dinner, children coming and going around him — that has brought him back from the heights of power, from backrooms and front rooms and secret military installations, from press conferences and summits and televised assemblies.
Because if you want to leave public life to “spend more time with the family,” it’s much more credible if you were already doing the family thing before you got the job. If your kids were more than props in your campaign propaganda.
The first time I met Jason Greenblatt, he handed me a book he’d written about traveling to Israel with family members. He and his wife, psychiatrist Dr. Naomi Greenblatt, parents of six children (including triplets), are avid travelers. After several family trips, they had it down to a science — and they shared their combined knowledge and experience in their book Israel for Families: An Adventure in Twelve Days, about how to make a family trip to Israel a success, part of a series of three self-published travel books.
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