In the wake of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, many in the Jewish community have invoked the language of tikkun olam in their response to this tragedy. These Hebrew words are typically translated as “repair the world,” or “mend the world,” — or as those who knew one of the victims that day put it when describing …
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MAGALIE LAGUERRE-WILKINSON: Welcome to Ethics Matter. I’m Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson, and joining us today is Robert Bank, CEO and president of American Jewish World Service (AJWS), which works to end poverty in the developing world and support human rights. Mr. Bank has made it his life’s work to combat just those things, and he joins us today to …
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Stanley and Marion Bergman are impacting the healthcare industry from two different angles. Stanley is chairman of the board and CEO of Henry Schein Inc.––the world’s largest provider of healthcare products––while his wife, Marion, practiced pulmonary medicine and critical care for more than three decades.
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Over 100 years ago, Barnett Levine was greeted by the New York skyline and the Statue of Liberty as he arrived in the United States, having fled anti-Semitism and pogroms in his native Poland. On Sunday, his grandson saw those very same sights when he joined about 700 others in this city’s Battery Park downtown …
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The Jewish resettlement agency HIAS is planning a national day of Jewish action on refugees with rallies planned in nearly a dozen states. Rallies are scheduled to be held in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver and San Francisco, among others. The New York rally will be held in Battery Park, in view …
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