Real Estate Developer • Investor • Entrepreneur • Author

Reuven Kahane is a New York real estate developer, investor, entrepreneur and author whose career has spanned more than three decades.

Through RKRE, Kahane has been involved in billions of dollars of real estate transactions across the United States, with investments spanning multifamily housing, retail and commercial properties in more than a dozen states.

In 2013, Kahane made national real estate news when he submitted a $2.25 billion bid for the Empire State Building, one of several competing offers for the iconic New York landmark. His bid and real estate activities have been covered by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Commercial Observer, The Real Deal and other publications.

Before building his career in real estate, Kahane founded Bonkers Bagels in Israel, growing the company into a 21-location restaurant business with approximately 160 employees.

Kahane is also an ordained rabbi and attorney and has written extensively on real estate, Jewish life, Israel and American society.

He is the author of an upcoming dystopian novel set in a violent, increasingly antisemitic America. The novel explores family, Jewish identity, survival and the unsettling possibility that history does not simply repeat itself somewhere else—it can repeat itself here.

Today, Kahane continues to work in real estate while writing about the forces shaping Jewish and American life.