Sharing tzedakah with the next generation
Jewish Journal
November 20, 2014
Like many doting grandparents, Peggy and Ed Robin have given their grandchildren small cash gifts over the years.
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Giving
Why Judaism needs journalism
David Suissa
November 20, 2014
There’s a tendency in the Jewish world to look for big solutions to big problems.
My year of street tzedakah
Rabbi John Rosove
November 20, 2014
When I lived in Berkeley in the late ’60s and early ’70s, walking along Telegraph Avenue could be expensive if you gave to every panhandler who asked for spare change.
A grieving father’s mission to encourage positive choices
Jewish Journal
April 9, 2014
“Mathew is dead,” came the voice of Tomson’s wife, Carla, who was 10,000 miles away in South Africa while their son attended school there for a semester.
Diagnosis put brother on mission
Naomi Pfefferman
November 7, 2013
David L. Neale, a prominent bankruptcy attorney and major donor to AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA), was stunned when the call came from Brazil in late 1999: His younger brother, John (not his real name), then in his mid-30s and previously robust, was gravely ill in Rio de Janeiro.
Lorin Fife: Full-time philanthropy
Zan Romanoff
November 6, 2013
Lorin Fife has essentially had a second career since he retired from his position as senior executive and attorney at the financial services holding company Sun America in 1998, when he was only 45.
Rabbi David Wolpe in Thailand: Have you ever seen a menorah dance?
Rabbi David Wolpe
November 6, 2013
Traveling reminds us that the old is distinctive and the new melds together. I had never been to Thailand, or indeed to any country in Southeast Asia. As the bus rolled through the streets, nothing in the facade of the 7-Eleven convenience store or the crushed muddle of Bangkok traffic proved startling.
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