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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: fundraising follow-up
Message-ID: <1276@eosp1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:07:25 EST
Article-I.D.: eosp1.1276
Posted: Mon Dec  3 13:07:25 1984
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Reply-To: robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison)
Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton
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Summary: 

>Religious-school fees:  
>      [Raphael: The congregation should support the school, not the
>	reverse.]
>      [Yiri: Ambivalent. Raphael has a point. On the other hand, should
>	those who have no children pay for it? How about the poorer
>	families, etc?]

Of course those who have no children should should support it!  This
isn't analogous to some of the secular school support arguments;
the question here is which Jews have a stake in the future of Judaism.
Going further, Jews without children might even feel some
responsibility for the quality of the religious schools that are
helping to provide for the survival of their religion.  There are many
fine dayschools, but the quality of after-school programs is often
very low, and their cost to each parent is usually greater than the
cost of a private tutor who would do much better.

  - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
  {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison

>Bingo:  
>      [Raphael: Encourages gambling, taxes the poor.]
>      [Yiri: On the other hand, it's voluntary and relatively cheap
>	entertainment even for the poor?]
>
There has been some violent net argument on similar subjects before.
I think it is immoral for a moral organization to depend upon money
raised by immoral pursuits.  All forms of gambling are addictive and
dangerous to some people.  The effort of running a bingo organization
also interferes with more proper religious pursuits (it doesn't have to
be this way, but I have vivid memories of visiting a Synagogue and
trying to round up a Minyan in competition with, or even after,
a bingo session).

  - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
  {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison