{"id":22025,"date":"2010-09-25T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/congregations_reeling_from_decline_in_donations\/"},"modified":"2010-09-25T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T17:30:52","slug":"congregations_reeling_from_decline_in_donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22025","title":{"rendered":"Congregations Reeling From Decline in Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Gerald L. Zelizer, who has led Congregation Neve Shalom in Metuchen, N.J., since 1970, described a phenomenon of financial extremes. On the one hand, more than 50 families out of a total of 580 in his congregation this year asked for their annual dues to be reduced. On the other hand, several large donors in the congregation, knowing of its budgetary struggle, increased their contributions to the annual fund, which rose to $67,000 from $53,000 over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Still, with what Rabbi Zelizer calls the \u201cgraying\u201d\u009d of Conservative Jewish congregations, and a \u201cgrowing disinterest in organized religion,\u201d\u009d a few philanthropic angels cannot provide a long-term solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a different dip than we\u2019ve ever had before,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cYou have to work harder to overcome this. The mountain is steeper.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/25\/us\/25religion.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rabbi Gerald L. Zelizer, who has led Congregation Neve Shalom in Metuchen, N.J., since 1970, described a phenomenon of financial extremes. On the one hand, more than 50 families out of a total of 580 in his congregation this year<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22025\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,40,42,149,66,154,155,184,441,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}