“…Modern Orthodox Jews can continue to display the courage of their convictions”
In brief, influences from the Right are not necessarily authentic. Influences from the Left...
“…the nonprofit sector is starved for growth and risk and idea capital”
…the for-profit sector can pay people profits in order to attract their capital for...
“Housing doesn’t have the kind of spillover benefit that you get from investments in other areas, like research and development…”
Most Americans have nearly all their wealth tied up in their homes. That’s risky...
“…what the parables mean today is different from what they meant to the Jews who first heard them twenty-one centuries ago”
The parables are among the most memorable aspects of Christian instruction. Ministers still preach...
“It is not just the individual and society that require consideration, for there is a third term to the human equation: God”
It is not just the individual and society that require consideration, for there is...
“…there’s no way you’re going to get a lot of people with $400,000 talent to make a $316,000 sacrifice every year to become the CEO of a hunger charity”
…what we don’t realize is that this system has a powerful side effect, which...
“…in the postwar era, the dominant face of American Orthodoxy was that of Yeshiva University-trained rabbis…”
…in the postwar era, the dominant face of American Orthodoxy was that of Yeshiva...
“An example of American Midrash is our interpretation of Hanukkah and Passover as freedom holidays–reflecting American ideals”
The discrepancies between our American and Jewish values create a dilemma around which we...
“Jewish law…does not sentence people to prison as a punishment…because the Jewish communities didn’t have real prisons”
He tells us that Jewish law, unlike secular law, does not sentence people to...
“…we don’t like nonprofits to use money to incentivize people to produce more in social service”
We have two rulebooks. We have one for the nonprofit sector and one for...