Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: Money

Acknowledgments

vii Acknowledgments No series of books such as this comes about without the creative energy and support of many individuals. We wish to thank, first and foremost, Ellen Frankel, editor-in-chief of The Jewish Publication Society, for her vision in first conceiving of this series, and her willingness to entrust it to our editorship. Her wise and patient guidance throughout the process of creating these volumes has been invaluable. The JPS National Council played a critical role early on as the scope and format of the series was in the development stage. Jane Shapiro’s expertise as a Jewish educator was instrumental in helping us formulate the key issues around which to build each volume. Aaron Alexander and Steven Edelman-Blank, both rabbinical students at the University of Judaism (now the American Jewish University), collected, respectively, the traditional and the contemporary Jewish sources for this volume. We are indebted to them for their fine work in locating these materials. The staff of The Jewish Publication Society has been a pleasure to work with at every stage of the production process. We wish to thank especially Carol Hupping, Janet Liss, and Michael Pomante for their professionalism, their responsiveness to all our requests, their patience with all our delays, and their persistent good counsel. Finally, we wish to acknowledge Peter Wieben, a student at Carleton College, for all his work in assembling these volumes and preparing them for publication. His diligence and attention to detail are evident on every page of these books. ...