Boston - Bull Market or Bear Market, Jewish Charities' Assets Growing

Boston - Bull Market or Bear Market, Jewish Charities' Assets Growing: "Bull Market or Bear Market, Jewish Charities' Assets Growing

By Jacob Berkman




NEW YORK (JTA) — The Jewish philanthropic world is not worried that a downturn in U.S. stock markets so far this year will hurt investment in Jewish causes.

The economy generally has been booming since the early 1990s. And despite a market crash when the high-tech bubble burst in 2000 and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a bull market that resumed in 2003 pushed indexes such as the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrials Average back to record highs earlier this year."