Aaron Dorfman: Judaism Unbound Episode 252 - Foundations of Jewish Life
Aaron Dorfman, President of Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah, joins Dan and Lex for a conversation exploring what Jewish philanthropy has been, is, and could be.
[1] Learn more about Aaron Dorfman by clicking here. Learn more about Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah at LKFLT.org.
[2] Two recent Judaism Unbound episodes that connect to themes from this conversation. Listen in to either or both at the following links: Episode 244: The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex - Lila Corwin Berman or Episode 249: Dangerous Religious Ideas - Rachel Mikva
[3] Dorfman refers to Vanessa Ochs’s framework of Jewish sensibilities, which has been in certain ways adopted and in other ways adapted by Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah. See Ochs’s initial piece, in which she introduced the idea of Ten Jewish sensibilities, here. Take a look at Lippman Kanfer Foundation’s approach to Jewish sensibilities by clicking here.
[4] Aaron Dorfman complicates the idea of “Give a man a fish, and he’ll have fish for a day…teach a man to fish and he’ll have fish for a lifetime.” For a graphic illustrating some of the points that Dorfman hinted at, click here.