By Canaan Lidor
Save One Life UK posted about praying for Gazans even as terrorists were murdering Israelis in border-adjacent communities on Oct. 7, 2023.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Ari Fuld Project is committed to advancing projects Fuld was working on at the time of his murder by an Arab terrorist, especially those that lend assistance to Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
By Josh Hasten
The synagogue, at the Lamed-Hey base in Gush Etzion, was also dedicated in memory of Ari Fuld, who was murdered by an Arab terrorist in 2018.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The funding comes mostly from groups posing as charities for Gaza civilians.
This isn’t the first time that terror groups were able to receive money through “fiscal sponsorship” arrangements.
A young couple’s project brings free food to thousands of needy families, in a respectful and normative setting.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The money will help increase supply to a food pantry for low-income New Yorkers; provide Jewish summer-camp scholarships for children impacted by COVID-19; and create a center for preschoolers who need physical, occupational and speech therapy.
The platform helps people join and lead social initiatives and organize them in a simple and effective way.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
AmazonSmile relies on the SPLC to determine which charities are eligible and which ones are “hate groups” and thus eligible or not for directed Amazon donations.
A new report is calling on the U.S. to designate three Iranian organizations as terror groups.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The challenges have affected every sector of Jewish communal life, including organizational closures, staff layoffs, canceled programs, a pivot to online education and an increase in financial-aid needs.
The Hebron Fund is raising $1 million for Israel’s most ancient and most strategic Jewish community – Hebron.
Let us make it our imperative, along Yad Ezra V’Shulamit, to ensure that every person in Israel has access to a hot meal and hopeful tomorrow.
The women of Gush Etzion celebrate their 10th season of Dames of the Dance.
For every Abeles & Heymann kosher salami you purchase for a family, Abeles & Heymann will match your purchase by sending an additional salami to those affected by Hurricane Harvey in Houston.
The 10 orphans and their father need your help.
Here's 7 easy ways to help others this Thanksgiving.
By JNi.Media
“When one of its senior managers stands accused of engineering and concealing – for years – a massive diversion of funds to the Hamas terror organization ... this is not the right moment to promote the interests of World Vision."
By JNi.Media
Hamas warehouses were disguised as World Vision warehouses, and trucks bringing supplies from Israel into Gaza unload their goods at those Hamas warehouses instead of legitimate World Vision warehouses.
During the month of Ramadan, poor Muslim women sit along the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem, hoping to receive charity from their coreligionists.
The 2 religious boys heard the blind Arab man say he couldn't pay for his medicine. Watch what happens next...
Volunteers from the "Leket Israel" charity organization and Israeli President's residence workers, pack boxes with food for families in need ahead of the Jewish holiday of Passover, at the President's residence in Jerusalem.
By JNi.Media
Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has come out in support of Pope Francis, endorsing 17 goals that will form the blueprint for the battle-plan against global poverty, climate change and inequality.
Thousands of British Jews fought an anti-Israel boycott.
A Hareidi man performs the Kaparos ceremony for his son, in Beitar. The ritual, which some consider controversial, is performed before Yom Kippur, as part of the repentance process. A chicken is gently raised and waved over the head of a family member or yourself. The person performing the ritual says the following statement (or […]
By Shalom Bear
Without fanfare, supermarket magnate Rami Levy has been quietly unloading truckloads of food and basics at the homes of all the fallen soldiers...
Across Israel, Meir Panim responds to the growing needs of the country’s 1.75 million impoverished residents through various food and social service programs.
Bracha Kapach, wife of a scholarly rabbi from Yemen and more widely known as the “Chicken Lady,” died Tuesday morning in Jerusalem at the age of 90. She earned her nickname because of her individual charity effort to make sure that poor Jews would have chicken and other foods for the Shabbat and holidays. The charity […]
Israelis take part at the Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia charity bicycle race near the Jerusalem Old City walls.
By JTA
More Jews give to non-Jewish causes than Jewish causes, and Jews overall are more generous givers than non-Jews, according to a new survey called Connected to Give. It found that 76 percent of American Jews reported a charitable contribution in 2012, compared to 63 percent among non-Jewish Americans. The median annual giving rate among Jews […]
Meir Panim distributes 2,500 prepaid food cards to those in need. The food cards can be used at major Israeli supermarket chains to purchase food and household items.
By Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks z"l
These stories all have to do with the mitzvah of tzedakah whose source is in this week’s parshah.
What brought together hundreds of Jewish fashionistas to attend an event with women with taste, class and an appreciation for the finer things in life and for an evening filled with laughter, joy, camaraderie, kindness?
Taking advantage of desperate people by getting them to part with their money in exchange for segulot is not what I believe God intended for us as a holy nation.
Sometimes, you need to be the recipient of your own tzedakah because the bottom line is that you are the only person who can really help yourself.
A Haredi organization helps Haredim be brought up to speed to meet the challenges of the modern work place.
If you are thinking of making a significant donation to a particular organization, consider employing the services of a family office to oversee the donation.
The Malki Foundation's goal is to make home-care a real option for families of disabled children.
The Palestinians actually stole a street pole (charity boxes included) to fire at Israel.
When saving for retirement, you may feel secure because you’re putting aside earnings into a pension plan. However, what you may not realize is that some of that money is going to be spent even before it reaches your bank account.
From the remarkable beis midrash in the town of Brodi came forth a dazzling number of Talmudic chachamim, many of whom went forth to greatness. The most famous was the great Nodah B’Yehuda, Rav Yechezkel Landau, who was the rav of the Diaspora during his lifetime. But there were other towering scholars who were members of the famous beis midrash. One of them, a giant in his time, was Rav Chaim Tzanzer.
A rabbi who called himself the “Jewish Indiana Jones” was sentenced on Thursday to four-plus years in jail for attempting to sell Torah scrolls which he claimed he had salvaged after they were lost during the Holocaust, the NY Post reports. Menachem Youlus, 51, stood with his eyes closed while Manhattan federal Judge Colleen McMahon […]
The Gaon, Reb Nachum devoted all his time, day and night, to collecting money for charity and helping the poor. The vast majority of the people thought so highly of Reb Nachum that they would deduct a fixed amount of their income every week and give it to him to distribute it to the poor. But there was always the exception, some people just tried to avoid contributing.
Rav Chaim Soloveichik, the Torah luminary of the city of Brisk, was a legendary figure when it came to charity and good deeds.
Years ago, I was taught by secular Jewish friend that giving away money was disrespectful to money. It devalued money to give it away. And, for years, I agreed. Until I tried it.
By dvora
It is said that giving charity can save one from death. We also believe that there is no such thing as a “coincidence.”
Hadassa Dubrofsky, a lovely twelve-year old girl from Toronto, Canada decided to forgo bat-mitzvah presents and replace them with something even more meaningful and exciting – an act of chesed (charitable kindness).
Border Policeman was caught on camera stealing from a shul pushkah.