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American Jews and charitable giving: An enduring tradition

  • Written by Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim, Postdoctoral Fellow, Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, Brandeis University
imagePresident Barack Obama, right, meeting with leaders of large Jewish organizations in 2011.Pete Souza

Even though only about one in 50 Americans is Jewish, U.S. Jews donate at high levels, both as individuals and as a community.

As a scholar who studies community philanthropy, I am doing research to discover what accounts for this outsized generosity...

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