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"It's all a matter of taste,"
said Rabbi Miller of Newton,
Mass. "Some congregations
feel comfortable with oral
appeals; some with folding
down cards; some with
Jieither. It's really up to the
congregation."
Rabbis may have reserva-
tions about the method of
fund- raising, but few voice
qualms with the concept
itself.
"One of the themes of the
High Holidays is charity, as
long as it's done in a dig-
nified, non-pressured fash-
ion," said Rabbi Barry
Freundel of Kesher Israel,
an Orthodox shul in Wash-
ington. "Charity is a mitz-
vah, and a synagogue is a
non-profit charity organiza-
tion.'
Rabbi Lookstein agrees.
"The association of tzedakah
(charity) and tefillah
(prayer) is a very close one,
and it is therefore entirely
appropriate on the day the
whole congregation is pre-
sent to help the synagogue
serve the needs of the com-
munity," he said.
In traditional High Holi-
day services it was perfectly
acceptable for a synagogue
to auction off honors, such as
being called to the Torah. It
was also customary during
Yizkor services to make a
donation to the synagogue as
a way of honoring the
memory of the dead.
"Fund-raising has a long
and illustrious tradition in
Jewish history," said David
Horowitz, a Reform rabbi
from Akron, Ohio. "It's part
and parcel of the Jewish ex-
perience."
The concept of tzedakah is
outlined explicitly in the
book of Leviticus. It
stipulates that every Jew is
required to donate 10 per-
cent of his income to charity
every year. Charity is con-
sidered one of the three ways
to reverse an evil decree;
repentance and prayer are
the other two.
"The amount of wealth in
American Jewish hands is
staggering," said Rabbi
Stewart Weisg of Teferet
Israel, an Orthodox syn-
agogue in Dallas. "If every
Jew gave the 10 percent as
required by Jewish law,
you'd have no outstanding
community problems.
"But that is not the case,
he noted. "You have a large
percent who give nothing,
and the others end up
footing the bill."
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