Mordechai Liebling

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Mordechai Liebling, a rabbi and former director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, is the Executive Vice President of the Jewish Funds for Justice. [1][2]

Liebling has written extensively on the relationship between money and Jewish values.

Liebling is one of the main subjects of the documentary film Praying with Lior, which portrays events surrounding the bar mitzvah of Liebling’s son Lior, a “spiritual genius” whose Down Syndrome does not prevent him from expressing a profound love of prayer. [3]

[edit] Publications

• “Making Synagogues Vessels of Tikkun Olam,” The Reconstructionist Volume 68, Number 1 (Fall 2003)[4]
• “Money in Synagogues,” Sh’ma March 2005[5]
• “Tzedakah Collectives,” socialaction.com[6]
• “The First Jewish Shareholder Activist Group,” greenmoneyjournal.com [7]

[edit] External links

• http://www.JewishJustice.org
• http://www.dantrachtman.com/lior/
• http://www4.jrf.org/