One muggy afternoon in December, a tour bus carrying a football team’s worth of young Los Angeles Jews pulled up to a dirty curb in South Tel Aviv.
One of the first clues that this Columbia-educated, liberal, Democrat, New York Jew had that there was something wrong at the heart of progressive/left-wing thought was when I read and was taught over and over that “poverty causes crime.”
William Rapfogel, the former chief of New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme.
The numbers tell a consistent storyline: Nearly one in four Israelis lives in poverty.
One-third of Israelis are at risk of poverty, a new Israeli government report shows.
Jewish groups joined prayer rallies and demonstrations in Washington and across the country to urge Congress to preserve federal programs for the poor.\n
A new report warns of a sharp rise in child poverty in Britain\’s haredi Orthodox Jewish community. The report says the rise in child poverty is due to the haredi community\’s large families, lack of secular education and work skills, and cuts in both charitable giving and state social benefits.
I tried to visit the orphanage every day, and I formed incredible relationships with almost all of the kids living there. I loved the kids so much; they were always so happy and hopeful, even though they have close to nothing, not even running water or clothes and shoes that fit.
As the price of food staples have risen, Israel\’s poor and the nonprofit groups that serve them have been hardest hit, with some impoverished Israelis skipping meals to pay their monthly bills
