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Fair Play, Jewish Law and the Writers’ Strike
By
Rabbi Susan Grossman
Rabbi Waxman is right that it is hard to feel sympathy for striking writers who may make millions of dollars a year. However, I disagree that the fact that many other workers in other industries are severely underpaid should prejudice us against the screen writers. Many writers are freelancers or lower level writers who make…
Writers Guild, Stop Whining
By
Rabbi Joshua Waxman
I have to admit that I was secretly thrilled when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert-–my sole pop-cultural fixes-–announced that they would be coming back on the air at the beginning of January, despite the ongoing Writers Guild strike. Now, I know that Jews go back to the beginning of organized labor and that such figures…
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