Deep Pockets, Shallow Hearts?

1.05.2022 | Season 2 — Episode 4

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Generosity can nourish not just the receiver, but the giver, too. Is there a point when the act of giving can itself be a source of greed? Revisionist History’s My Little Hundred Million allows us to explore whether ulterior motives can taint the act of generosity and how it can lead it astray. Joining host Leon Wiener Dow for The Context segment is Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, and for The Hypertext segment is Joanne Wolmarans, a preschool educator at Wise School in Los Angeles.

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Cover image: George Freudenstein, "Gates of Charity." Available for purchase here.

Guests

Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson

Rabbi Dr Bradley Shavit Artson (www.bradartson.com) holds the Abner and Roslyn Goldstine Dean’s Chair of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies and is Vice President of American Jewish University in Los Angeles. A member of the Philosophy Department, he is particularly interested in theology, ethics, and the integration of science and religion. He is also dean of the Zacharias Frankel College in Potsdam, Germany, ordaining Conservative rabbis for Europe.

Joanne Wolmarans

Joanne Wolmarans is an early childhood educator at the Wise School in Los Angeles, California. She has worked as an early childhood educator for over two decades, bringing an expertise in fine arts into her work in the classroom.