Sorry to clog the lines with even more weeds (why is it so hard to move around here lately?) but I wanted to answer your question, Shula, and couldn't get back there!

I am planning a service for my congregation on the topic of welfare reform and our response in our community. Am using this quote, "charity is scraps from the table - justice is being invited to the table itself" and when I saw your post re: tzedakah I thought the concept dovetailed nicely. Wanted to credit the Jews for their sensible, intelligent approach to a subject whose semantics are difficult sometimes. Got some neat info from another website: if you're interested, I'll think of the name.

The DT and the Mudcat have been invaluable to me in incorporating music with worship, which I see as interdependent concepts.

Dani