Capitalism in pursuit of social justice. The notion is becoming more common in Israel as a new generation of entrepreneurs and innovators in the fields of high-tech, industry and real estate is delving into philanthropy.
Social justice protesters in Israel say they will hold a nation\’s strike at the end of the month.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel was awarded the 2011 Gruber Justice Prize.
Progressive Jewish Alliance & Jewish Funds for Justice has hired Alan van Capelle, the deputy comptroller for the City of New York, as its new president and CEO.
Nearly 4,000 American Jews have signed a petition from the New Israel Fund in support of Israel\’s social justice movement.
More than 400,000 Israelis demonstrated in cities across the country under the banner of social justice in what some say was the largest protest in Israel\’s history.
If money is, as former California Treasurer Jesse Unruh said, the \”mother\’s milk of politics,\” then Alan Solomont is one successful dairyman. Solomont, a longtime leader in Jewish philanthropic and national Democratic political circles, is one of the go-to men when big money is needed.
Kedoshim is a lofty and powerful parsha, known as the holiness code, which the Talmud and Midrash understood to be rav gufei Torah, or encompassing the majority of the Torah, namely that this chapter is a summation of the entire Torah itself.
When Max Webb was interned at 18 different concentration camps during the Holocaust, he made a promise. \”If he survived, he would make sure he would contribute to the advancement of the Jewish people and Judaism in any way he could,\” said his grandson, Greg Podell, the director of the Max Webb Family Foundation.
Webb has made good on that promise, donating to causes in Israel and to local Jewish charities, including The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles. And now, as he\’s about to turn 90, his foundation has purchased a plot of land for $3 million for a center to house two socially conscious Jewish organizations.
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