"It's very underutilized, " says Edward Chapnick, an infectious disease specialist at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn.

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These include well-known centers such as Beth Israel Deaconess in Boston and Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.

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The medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides believed there was a hierarchy of charity, in which deeds performed anonymously outrank those performed publicly.

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Pamela Brier, a board member and CEO of Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, praised the mayor and the city's health commissioner, Thomas Farley, for the proposal.

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They were selected not only by investors, but also by 22 New York-based hospitals and clinics, including Maimonides Medical Center, Continuum Health Partners, and Adirondack Health Institute.

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When philanthropists talk about the spiritual aspects of giving anonymously, they often cite the 12th-century Jewish wise man Maimonides, who ranked anonymous giving as the second-highest level of charity.

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Questions regarding the rights of children have a certain force, but other arguments, quoting authorities like Aristotle and Maimonides, who otherwise would not be given a tad of credence by the perplexed, are beside the point.

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He has also endowed the Khalili Research Centre for the Arts and Material Culture of the Middle East at the University of Oxford, and is the co-founder and chairman of the Maimonides Foundation, which promotes peace and understanding between the three great monotheistic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

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