Robert Katz

Continuing Their Mission, Jewish Hospitals Reinvest in Philanthropy

In eight American cities, there are grant-making foundations created from the sale of Jewish hospitals, with combined assets in excess of $1 billion. For American Jewry, these foundations are the most important legacy of the Jewish hospital movement, one of American history’s most ambitious undertakings in Jewish philanthropy. Between 1850 and 1955, Jewish communities in…