He founded the National Jewish Coalition for Literacy and was co-founder and for 12 years editor of Moment Magazine.
[2] He was characterized by Daniel Sokatch of the New Israel Fund as "the father of our Jewish social justice movement.
[5] He was the author of four books and the editor of two, and he wrote extensively for newspapers, magazines, and journals.
From 1990, he wrote a syndicated weekly opinion column for The Forward newspaper.
D., Ph.D., a famed health economist termed "a father of Medicare"[6] and Professor of Economics of Medicine, Emeritus, in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.