Sunday December 10, 2006

I've Been Thinking:

Sheldon Adelson is the 3rd richest man in the world after Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
He just donated $500 million to Israel for medication and care for the poor and needy.
He also donated $25 million to Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, for Holocaust education.

Adelson grew up in Boston where he sold newspapers on street corners. He made his fortune in Comdex a computer trade show company and hit it even bigger in Las Vegas with the Sands Hotel.
Jews, like Adelson, are giving a lot of money to help other Jews in need and to support Jews in Israel - everyone, of course, according to their own ability.

For the majority of the Jewish community giving charity is second nature.
It is what they do.
They care and they commit and they put their shoulder to the wheel.
Has anyone asked why other communities do not do the same?

Private citizen Sheldon Adelson is personally giving more monetary aid to a foreign country than most countries give in international aid.