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There Shall Be No Needy
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Foreword by Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, PhD xi
Preface by Simon Greer xvii

INTRODUCTION
The Search for an Integrated Judaism 1

1 A VISION OF ECONOMIC JUSTICE 9

2 ESSENTIAL TERMS
Tikkun Olam, Tzedek, and Prophetic Judaism 24

3 DEFINING POVERTY AND THE POOR 49

4 SUFFICIENT FOR ONE'S NEEDS
The Collection and Allocation of Tzedakah 79

5 SERVANTS TO SERVANTS OR SERVANTS TO GOD
Workers, Employers, and Unions 97

6 THEY SHALL TREMBLE NO MORE
Housing and Homelessness 132

7 I WILL REMOVE ILLNESS FROM WITHIN YOUR MIDST
The Provision of Health Care 159

8 THE CITY AND THE GARDEN
Environmental Sustainability for the
Twenty-first Century 179

9 WHEN YOUR BROTHER IS FLOGGED
Crime, Punishment, and Rehabilitation 192

CONCLUSION
Judaism in the Public Sphere 214

Notes 222
Glossary 247
Suggestions for Further Reading 251
Index 252

About the Author

Rabbi Jill Jacobs is the rabbi-in-residence of the Jewish Funds for Justice. She has been voted to the Forward newspaper's list of fifty influential Jews and to the Jewish Week's list of "thirty-six under thirty-six."

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