Is Elon Musk Jewish?

Elon Musk is not Jewish. The inventor and serial entrepreneur Musk is of Pennsylvania Dutch descent.

Musk, known for founding PayPal, is the CEO/owner of Tesla Motors. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa to a Canadian mother, Maye (née Haldeman), and a South African father, Errol Musk. Maye Haldeman's father, a Minnesota native, in 1950 moved his young family to Pretoria, South Africa.

Elon taught himself computer programming, and by the age of 12 he sold his first program—a space game called Blastar—for about $500.

In June 2013, Elon Musk made a $100,000,000 buy into Tesla Motors. The CEO bought a total of 1,084,129 shares of Tesla Motors at $92.24 per share. This buy cost him exactly $100,000,058.96 and represents the priciest insider buy reported for the company.

This buy is also the first insider buy for the company since Musk's buy in October 2012. Musk currently holds over 28 million shares of his company's stock. Since his most recent buy, the price per share has gone up 0.38%.

Elon Musk is a South African-American entrepreneur. He is best known for founding SpaceX and co-founding Tesla Motors and PayPal. Forbes recognizes him as ranked No. 181 richest of America's Billionaires, No. 66 Powerful People and No. 190 in the Forbes 400. As of March 2013, his net worth is estimated at $2.7 billion. Alongside his stake in Tesla Motors, Musk maintains a chairman position and 10% ownership of SolarCity, a company run by Musk's cousin Lyndon Rive.

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 in the Silicon Valley of California. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., and currently maintains 31 stores and service locations worldwide. Tesla Motors designs, develops, manufactures and sells high-performance fully electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. It owns its sales and service network and has operationally structured its business in a manner that it believes will enable it to rapidly develop and launch advanced electric vehicles and technologies.

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Is Aaron Swartz Jewish?

Aaron Swartz was Jewish. Aaron Swartz was the technologist and computer programmer who helped develop code that created the RSS feed  as a teenager. Aaron was born November 8, 1986 to Robert and Susan Swartz. He had two younger brothers Noah and Ben. His partner was Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, the Executive Director and Founder of Sum Of Us.

According to the NY Times, Aaron Swartz's uncle said that he had apparently hanged himself, and that a friend of Mr. Swartz’s had discovered the body. Aaron’s funeral will be held on Tuesday, January 15 at Central Avenue Synagogue, 874 Central Avenue, Highland Park, Illinois.

The NY TImes reported that, "At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows users to subscribe to online information. He later became an Internet folk hero, pushing to make many Web files free and open to the public. But in July 2011, he was indicted on federal charges of gaining illegal access to JSTOR, a subscription-only service for distributing scientific and literary journals, and downloading 4.8 million articles and documents, nearly the entire library. Charges in the case, including wire fraud and computer fraud, were pending at the time of Mr. Swartz’s death, carrying potential penalties of up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines."

It had been reported that Swartz suffered from depression and had contemplated suicide in the past. "In a talk in 2007, Mr. Swartz described having had suicidal thoughts during a low period in his career. He also wrote about his struggle with depression, distinguishing it from sadness."