The Jewish Helping Team: A Structure for Choice and Identification


 

Publication Date: September 1978

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Sheldon Jeral

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

Keywords: Religion; Social Services; Law

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author invokes the concept of a "Jewish Helping Team" made up of social workers, lawyers, and rabbis, contending that the Jewish community needs to focus its attention more consciously on what this kind of teaming up has to do with Jewish identification and choice. He asserts that such teams carry out a poly-centered Judaism, made up of Halachic, communal and "homeland" dimensions.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.55 no.1, Fall 1978.