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There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice Through Jewish Law & Tradition
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How can a Jewish approach to social justice offer positive change for America?
"Ancient texts offer significant wisdom about human nature, economic cycles, the causes of inequality, and our obligations to each other. These insights can inform our own approaches to current issues, challenge our assumptions, and force us to consider alternative approaches. The conversation be ...more
"Ancient texts offer significant wisdom about human nature, economic cycles, the causes of inequality, and our obligations to each other. These insights can inform our own approaches to current issues, challenge our assumptions, and force us to consider alternative approaches. The conversation be ...more
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Hardcover, 257 pages
Published
March 1st 2009
by Jewish Lights Publishing
(first published February 2009)
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Excellent book. Probably one of the book's that has most influenced my view of tzedakah, charity. The first section of the book on obligations to the poor is the best part. Later chapters vary in how engaging they are. I found the chapter on housing a little weak, but the one on health care and prison reform surprisingly more interesting than anticipated. Even though I'm liberal, I appreciated the fact that Jacobs rarely stretched the arguments past what was reasonable from the text. There were
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Read the whole book in two days - a great look on social justice through traditional Jewish texts. Heavy on rabbinic sources, but with many explanations so as to be accessible to a fairly wide audience.
May 17, 2017
Kate
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I had to send this back to the library before I was quite finished with it, but it was a very interesting and thought provoking read. I will have to re-request it at some point so I can finish the last chapter.
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“Abraham pleads with God to save the condemned cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. In these negotiations, Abraham embodies an obligation to protest injustice even in situations in which victory seems impossible, and in which the potential victims are mostly strangers.”
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