Social Planning as a Political Process

Publication Date: September 1979

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America)

Author(s): Louis Levitt

Research Area: Culture and religion; Social conditions

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.