Day 25 - Shabbat, November 18 - Jewish Business Ethics

A line worth posting on your wall from this essay reads: "It is only when we believe that something is scarce that we need to hoard it or fight for it."

In other words, if we see our resources coming from an infinite Source, we are less likely to be create conflict over it.

I read this essay together with a business student at DePaul and he was excited to see that Judaism deals with all the issues in modern day business.

In fact, here in Chicago, there is an advanced learning program devoted exclusively to the study of these laws.

If you are interested in Jewish business ethics there is a great resource at the following site:

http://www.aish.com/search/article_search_results.asp?article_author=Rabbi+Dr%2E+Asher+Meir%2C+Business+Ethics+Center+of+Jerusalem&title_text=&date_amount=&date_option=year

This week's question is: Is a press release masquerading as a news article ethical?