Toward a renewed ethic of Jewish philanthropy
By: edited by Yossi Prager
Contributors: Prager, Yossi
Series: Orthodox Forum series
Publisher: The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Jersey City, NJ : Distributed by KTAV Pub. House
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781602801370
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Philanthropic behavior of Orthodox households / Jacob B. Ukeles; title: For the poor and the stranger: fundraisers, perspectives on Orthodox philanthropy / Margy-Ruth Davis and Perry Davis; title: American Jewish philanthropy, direct giving, and the unity of the Jewish community / Chaim I. Waxman; title: Public charity in medieval Germany: a preliminary investigation / Judah Galinsky; title: Jewish philanthropy in early modern and modern Europe: theory and practice in historical perspective / Jay Berkovitz; title: Orthodoxy and federations bound with unseverable bonds: the Orthodox Jew and the Jewish community / Barry Shrage; title: Orthodox involvement in Jewish communal philanthropy / Marvin Schick; title: Orthodoxy and Jewish federations: reflections from "out-of-townʺ / Michael Berger; title: Jewish philanthropy, whither? / Aharon Lichtenstein; title: Our poor and their poor: philosophical reflections / Baruch Brody; title: The giving of charity in Jewish law: for what purpose and toward what goal? / Michael J. Broyde; title: Think local, act global: tzedaka in a global society / Ozer Glickman; title: Ethics in philanthropy: should synagogues and mosdot chinuch accept tainted funds? / Kenneth Brander; title: New thinking for a changing philanthropic climate / Mark Charendoff and Yossi Prager; title: The role of the rabbi in the fiscal health of his congregation / Haskel Lookstein.