Monday, December 22, 2008

Wow!

I was reading an article about that guy in NY that swindled a bunch of people out of a LOT of money, when I came across a paragraph with an interesting fact.
Jewish philanthropy has an enormous impact on the American nonprofit scene - a study by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found last year that 91 percent of Jews give to charity, making Jews far more charitable than most Christians - and the vast majority of Jewish giving goes to non-Jewish organizations, such as hospitals, museums, and universities.
Ninety-one percent? Oy! Is there any other demographic group that gives that highly? Let that be a challenges to the Catholics, who love to crow about all of their community works when someone brings up pedophile priests.

Apparently this guy's actions may have some antisemitic backlash, too, though I don't really understand why.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've worked many years for a non profit and OI VAY can I chew your ear off on this subject, but not gonna do it publicly. That article leaves a lot unwritten.