Jonathan Granoff: People don't realize that their brothers and sisters in the human family are living in unacceptably poor conditions, that they could have a positive effect in changing. When people feel the intimacy of other lives, then they step forward to express their caring, to express their love. These are natural human dynamics. And ah, it's the denial, the intellectual, emotional denial, of this interconnectedness. The great master said, "Love God with all your soul and all your heart and all your might, and like unto that love your neighbor as yourself." Well neighborhood now has become a moral location. It's not just a physical location. And then of course in Mathew twenty-five he describes how people will be judged. And he says "I was naked, did you clothe me. I was hungry, did you feed me. What you do to the least amongst you, you're doing to the presence of the divine amongst men. Now that's the premise of the Christian religion. I think that Christians understand and value this but they don't see that connectedness, they don't feel that intimacy with the poor. In Islam, taking care of the poor and the orphan and the disenfranchised is - it was the highest, one of the highest values of the prophet Mohamed. Charity toward the poor - which is not just charity but it's truly giving of oneself, is a fundamental requirement to being a full human being. Judaism has the same, if you read the Old Testament prophets, this sense of accountability to the poor, let justice flow down from the mountains like a river, the prophets said. And that justice is to care for the poor as your own family. Why is it acceptable? It's not acceptable. It's not acceptable.