I know Rabbi Jill Jacobs wrote about this in And There Shall Be No Needy, but that chapter was about a halachic charge for reform. I take that as a given. My question is institutional, programmatic, and -- agitational, I guess. Realms where I am not the one to lead, but I would love to advise and help propel.
In seeing inequities in health care as a moral crisis (and acknowledging there are socioeconomic approaches, scientific understandings, and ethical claims that are made in the secular sphere, all of which are vital and to which I separately subscribe), I feel the acute lack of a Jewish voice in healthcare reform. Do we need one, specifically, or is it enough to have the occasional resolution from the various denominations? I so admire the rabbis who got arrested while demonstrating against racism and its bitter brutal fruits. What should the Jewish response be to our healthcare crisis?
I know Rabbi Jill Jacobs wrote about this in And There Shall Be No Needy, but that chapter was about a halachic charge for reform. I take that as a given. My question is institutional, programmatic, and -- agitational, I guess. Realms where I am not the one to lead, but I would love to advise and help propel.
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