Among the wealthy living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, there's Mark and Erika Gerson. Erika is a rabbi, Mark is a businessman. They have the money to give generously, but their $4 million didn't end up at art museums. They put it into Christian hospitals in Africa.
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Mark roomed in college with Jon Fielder, and respected his "moral seriousness." After college he taught for a year at a Catholic high school and developed an affection for Christianity.
His friend, Fielder, has spent his life as a Christian medical missionary.The Gersons became top donors at Fielder's HIV clinic. Last September Gerson and Fielder spent time with some of the HIV patients whose lives they have saved through their partnership.
“I learned the Torah, the Old Testament, commands us to love the stranger more than 36 times,” said Gerson, the fastest-talking New Yorker you’ll meet. "and who is more of a stranger than people suffering from TB or AIDS or any number of disabilities in a rural African village?”
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