Economy
The Cost of Altruism
By Steve Rosenberg, JNS.org For millennia, the Jewish people have upheld the noble concept of tikkun olam, the idea that individuals bear responsibility for ...
- Israeli military vows to stop flow of donations to soldiers, even from their parents(JTA) — For nearly a year, American Jews have flooded Israel with donations for soldiers fighting in Gaza, even as the Israel Defense Forces said such supplies were not needed. Now, the Israeli military has announced a crackdown against the flow of unauthorized donations, setting up a potential showdown with some of its most generous... […]
- Another Nazi-looted Schiele painting has been returned to heirs of ‘Cabaret’ inspiration Fritz Grünbaum(JTA) — On Friday, for the third time since September, Timothy Reif found himself standing in the New York District Attorney’s Office to accept a modernist drawing that the Nazis looted from his family. With him in the room was a relative of another family that survived the Nazis and that — in an... The […]