What is the Best Way to Use Wealth Towards Tikkun Olam?

Sunday Forum - What is the Best Way to Use Wealth Towards Tikkun Olam? - Film Presentation and discussion

What is the connection between tzedakah and tikkun olam? What ways are best for using our wealth to enable the
opportunity of others? How should we balance our obligations as Jews to help Jews and to “welcome the stranger”? These big questions are at the core of the film which uses the story of Sears Roebuck CEO Julius Rosenwald to explore the partnership between Jews and blacks that he built through the establishment of more than 5000 schools in the South and 27 YMCAs across America, and through support for the Tuskegee Airman and many
artists, scholars, and physicians. Rosenwald’s work was inspired by Reform Rabbi Emil Hirsch who preached that tzedakah “is not a voluntary concession on the part of the well-situated. It is a right to which the less fortunate are entitled in justice” and introduced Rosenwald to Maimonides’ eight degrees of charity. Rosenwald who gave widely to settlement houses, Jewish organizations, and universities, established a giving model designed to prompt local communities, government officials, and other philanthropists to collectively invest in projects.
Come to learn and be inspired to do tzedakah in the last days of Hanukah.

Free- All are Welcome

Bob Liebman, PSU Professor of Sociology and faculty member of the Institute of Judaic Studies, will be presenting the film and leading the discussion afterwards.