Tzedaka

From learning to leading: How students can pass on Jewish tradition - opinion

From leading campus tours to organizing charity committees, students can help strengthen Jewish identity by learning to pass it on.

A teacher in EJM Jewish school in Paris
Marcelle Talia, mother of Liora Ben Tzur, who was murdered by Hamas terrorists at Kibbutz Ein HaShlosha on October 7, 2023, while carrying candy for her grandchildren and other kibbutz children.

Beyond the Headlines: Unfinished business - opinion

Nathan Straus

Macy’s magnate Nathan Straus used his fortune to combat disease in New York and Mandatory Palestine

Purim is a time when giving tzedakah freely is encouraged.

On Purim, Jewish tradition tells us to give to anyone who asks, no questions required - opinion


Our Last Chance for Tzedakah

The Jerusalem Post

Israeli nonprofits and Diaspora funders and donors

"One of the issues that plague the relationship between Israel nonprofits and their funders, donors, supporters and contributors is developing a real sense of partnership."

Israel US flags

What we should learn from Moses – the first Jewish fundraiser

Those of us who believe in supporting social activism need to be demanding as to what is being done with our money, we also need to be fair.

Moses receives God’s Holy Commandments, in a woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld from ‘Die Bibel in Bildern,’ 1860.

David Shapell, philanthropist and Holocaust survivor, dies at age 94

Shapell together with his wife Fela donated large sums of money to institutions for Jewish education and Holocaust education throughout his life and was also a supporter of the Friends of the IDF.

Torah scroll

Nu York, New York: A shul gives blood

The Jerusalem Post

Yisrael Beytenu deputy minister among 30 nabbed in massive corruption probe

Yisrael Beytenu says that the investigation is an attempt to harm the party given that it comes at the height of an election campaign.

Faina Kirschenbaum

Nu York, New York: Paying it forward, New York style

The Jerusalem Post

Pious prices

Way before the 2011 social justice protests and the proliferation of cooperatives, the Ezrat Achim haredi nonprofit grocery opened in Tel Aviv.

The Ezrat Ahim grocery store.

Running for Afikim

A relay race from Jerusalem to Eilat will raise money for underprivileged families.

The Jerusalem start line

AKIM to launch donation day to help intellectually disabled

Thousands of children are set to knock on doors throughout the country, asking for contributions for the promotion and treatment of some 34,500 people with intellectual disabilities in Israel.

Ambassador Matthew Gould, his wife Celia and their daughters, with young people from AKIM Givatayim who came to help decorate their succa.