Contemporary Jewish Perspectives on Business Ethics: The Contributions of Meir Tamari and Moses L. Pava—a Review Essay

Perhaps of all current writers on Jewish business ethics, Meir Tamari is the best known. In his prolific writings on the subject, he has sought consciously to make his work available to serious students of business ethics, Jews and non-Jews alike. Formerly chief economist of the Bank of Israel and founder/director of the Center for Business Ethics of the Jerusalem College of Technology, Tamari writes from a traditional Jewish orientation. Writing from a modern Orthodox perspectives, Moses Pava, who is professor of accounting and holds the Alvin Einbender Chair of Business Ethics at Yeshiva University, explicitly has sought to provide a source for Jewish and non-Jewish business leaders seeking to formulate a practical approach to business ethics by integrating the best of modern business thought and practice with traditional Jewish values.