Want To Give to Jewish Charities? Don’t Do It Over the Phone.

Want To Give to Jewish Charities? Don’t Do It Over the Phone.

Your favorite Jewish charity calls you on the phone. You haven’t renewed your membership, you’re told. What’s your credit card number, again? You might want to think twice before giving it. Jewish charities handed over a huge portion of the money they raised in telemarketing campaigns in New York in 2013 to for-profit telemarketing contractors,…