5 Stocks For Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, the holiest and most solemn day of the year for Jews, is coming up this weekend. In honor of the holiday, Benzinga decided to profile some of the leading Jewish business leaders and their companies. Google

is one of the most innovative and admired companies in the world. Did you know that both founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page come from Jewish backgrounds? Brin was born to Jewish parents in Moscow before subsequently emigrating to the United States where he attended the University of Maryland and then Stanford. Page's mother was Jewish, but he did not grow up in a religious household. Another very prominent Jew in the business world today is Blackstone

co-founder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman. He is a legend on Wall Street, beginning his career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette before matriculating to Lehman Brothers. Schwarzman founded Blackstone with Pete Peterson in 1985. The company currently has a market cap of $16.15 billion and is one of the leading private equity companies on Wall Street. One of the all-time greats in the retail business is Lex Wexner, who is the founder and CEO of Limited Brands

. Wexner was born to Russian Jewish immigrants in Dayton, Ohio. He subsequently earned a business administration degree from The Ohio State University. After a brief stint in law school, he borrowed $5,000 from his aunt and started "The Limited." Today, that company is worth $12 billion, helping Wexner amass a fortune valued in excess of $3 billion. Starbucks

is one of the most iconic brands in the world, and their coffee is adored by millions. The founder, Howard Schultz, came from an impoverished background and has risen to the top of American business. He was born to a German-Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York and subsequently attended Northern Michigan University on an athletic scholarship. Today, Schultz is worth an estimated $1.1 billion. Oracle founder Larry Ellison is the wealthiest person of Jewish descent in the United States, and possibly in the entire world. Ellison was raised in a reform Jewish family on Chicago's South Shore. He went on to found the company that would eventually become technology behemoth Oracle in 1977 at the age of 33. The rest, as they say, is history. Oracle

currently has a market cap of $151 billion and Ellison himself is worth around $33 billion.