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Written by Rabbi Levi Brackman
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Friday, 12 June 2009 |
This week the Froward published an article that exposed which executives of major American Jewish organizations took personal pay cuts while firing staff and which did not. Out of the twenty one organizations surveyed only nine of the executives did so. Three of them refused to comment. The rest laid off employees while their own salaries remained sky high. While this shows a complete lack of leadership and commitment to people less fortunate than themselves it may not be unethical. The ethical dilemma here is another one. Is it proper for executives of Jewish non-profit organizations to be paid a base salary in excess of half a million dollars?
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Friday, 15 May 2009 |
In Israel people borrow money from banks differently than they do elsewhere in the world. It is called a Heter Iska where any loan is structured so that the lender becomes an investor rather than as a usurer. This provision is to avoid transgressing the law, found in this weeks’ Torah portion, against usury.
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
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Recently major cosmetics company Il-Makiage made news by deciding to close all of its stores in Israel on the Shabbat. This was somewhat of a controversial move because Shabbat has long been a contentious issue in Israel. Recommend this article... |
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Friday, 01 May 2009 |
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The Torah commands us to love our fellow man with the same intensity that we love ourselves. A commandment to love another person seems unrealistic. Love is something you either feel or you don’t. So to be commanded to love another just as we love ourselves is bordering on asking the impossible. How can the Torah reasonably expect us to attain this level of universal and all-encompassing love? Recommend this article... |
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Friday, 24 April 2009 |
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A former Shin Bet officer told me that he left the service because he found administering the harsh interrogation techniques needed to gain life saving intelligence from detainees difficult. It would be inappropriate for me to divulge the exact interrogation practices he described but suffice to say, that besides for waterboarding, they were not that different in nature to those in the recently declassified CIA memos. In fact Israel officially claims that it reserves the right to use what it terms as "moderate physical pressure" during interrogations. Recommend this article... |
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