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Social Planning as a Political Process
Publication Date: September 1979
Publisher(s): Jewish Communal Service Association of North America)
Author(s): Louis Levitt
Series: Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 56-1
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Social conditions (Social policy)
Keywords: Jewish Organizations; Social Planning; Dialogue
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The author argues that social planning is an inherently political endeavor, and that the American Jewish community can be more effective in setting and meeting social goals if it admits this candidly. He suggests that Jewish communities ought to embrace a dynamic planning process that includes some measure of expected, constructive struggle and discomfort.
In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.56 no.1, Fall 1979.