Tzedaka

Beyond the Headlines: Unfinished business - opinion

A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news

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.
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

Art auction at Kehilat Kol HaNeshama.

Canvas for a cause: Art, music, and tzedakah in Jerusalem


How to ensure a vibrant Jewish future

If Jews do not support our own community, our communal institutions will not have the support they need to continue.

Contract drivers paid by Amazon collect bags of free groceries to deliver from the Bread for the City social services charity during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Washington

Daily Giving: The power of donating $1 a day

One dollar on its own may not have much of an impact, but since its launch in January 2019, DailyGiving.org has already donated over $300,000 to Jewish charities.

A MEIR Panim volunteer delivers food during COVID-19

US college student spends 11 hours a day shopping to help families

Kaila Zimmerman-Moscovitch, a college student managing a full course load and two part-time jobs, has been spending 11 hours per day to help hers and other families in the Chicago Jewish community.

A PATRON exits a supermarket during the coronavirus pandemic.

I had to choose between buying Passover food and paying my bills

Given our wealth of community organizations and deeply generous donors, all it would take to feed all Jews in need for Passover, no questions asked, is the communal will to do so.

Letters in a letterbox saying "payment due" [Illustrative]

The power of giving: a mission to Ethiopia to bestow the gift of sight

“We live once; this is not a rehearsal. Make it count.”

An Israeli medical mission to Ethiopia to bestow the gift of sight

Temples in Boston and Philadelphia make Super Bowl wager

The synagogue from the city of the losing team will donate 18 times the difference in the score to the charity of the other synagogue’s choice.

Football players [illustrative]

Are there any Jews left in Morocco?

There are graves of tzaddikim in almost every city, village, mountain, valley and beachside town on the map, many of which I was blessed to be able to go to thereafter and pray at.

The Lazaama Synagogue (Synagogue of the Deportees, 1492), Marrakech.

Parashat Ki Tavo: From egoism to altruism

The teaching's of this week's torah portion.

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The next generation’s version of ‘tikkun olam’

Thanks to creativity, ingenuity and the support of the Genesis Prize Foundation, Genesis Generation Challenge winners are achieving their vision of turning Jewish values into action.

Avi Deutsch, speaks at a LAVAN pitch event last year

The Human Spirit: Lunching with cops

These men gather five mornings a week to prepare the food for a soup kitchen and social club called Avivim.

Hanoch Ben-Yehuda, a retired police officer, was among the first volunteers