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Gaza / Hamas / UK / News Briefs / Islamists

UK Charity Accused of Fundraising for Hamas

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.

Israel At War: Iron Swords / Chessed and Tzedaka

Ari Fuld Project Awards ‘Lion of Zion’ Prizes

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.

Featured / IDF & Security / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Judea & Samaria / Chessed and Tzedaka

Families of Fallen Soldiers Dedicate IDF Base Synagogue to Loved Ones

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.

Terrorism / US / Anti-Israel NGOs

Left-Wing Charity Organization Loses Fundraising Platform Over Ties to PFLP

By Pesach Benson / TPS

This isn’t the first time that terror groups were able to receive money through “fiscal sponsorship” arrangements.

Featured / Chessed and Tzedaka

The Israeli Supermarket Where You Can Shop for Free

By Abigail Klein Leichman

A young couple’s project brings free food to thousands of needy families, in a respectful and normative setting.

NY / Chessed and Tzedaka

Jewish Communal Fund Gives Almost $700,000 in Grants to New York Jewish Charities

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.

Chessed and Tzedaka

21-Year-Old Israeli Raises $1 M. for Social Volunteering App

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The platform helps people join and lead social initiatives and organize them in a simple and effective way.

US / Left vs. Right / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Diaspora

100 Orthodox Rabbis to Jeff Bezos: Stop Using Southern Poverty Law Center to Classify Hate Groups

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.

Terrorism / Iran

How Iran Uses Charities and Humanitarian Organizations as Cover to Export its Revolution

By Yaakov Lappin

A new report is calling on the U.S. to designate three Iranian organizations as terror groups.

News Briefs / Chessed and Tzedaka / Coronavirus

Jewish Philanthropies Establish $80 Million Fund for Nonprofits During Pandemic

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.

Featured / Chessed and Tzedaka

You Can Beautify Hebron and Honor the Original Fathers and Mothers

By Jewish Press Staff

The Hebron Fund is raising $1 million for Israel’s most ancient and most strategic Jewish community – Hebron.

Sponsored Posts / Chessed and Tzedaka

Not Just a Purim Priority: Giving Food Baskets Every Day to Underprivileged Israelis

By Jewish Press Staff

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.

Video of the Day

Dames of the Dance

By Video of the Day

The women of Gush Etzion celebrate their 10th season of Dames of the Dance.

Sponsored Posts / Chessed and Tzedaka

Send a Kosher Salami to Houston

By Jewish Press Staff

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.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Boycott / BDS / Anti-Israel NGOs / Australia, New Zealand and Oceania

NGO Monitor, Australian Jews, Pose Disturbing Questions to Christian Charity Chief on Eve of Hadassah Speech

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."

IDF & Security / US / Politics / Gaza / Hamas / Police and Crime / The Courts / News Briefs / United Nations (UN) / Rockets from Gaza

Israel: Hamas Dominates World Vision Christian Charity, Usurping Cash, Provisions, Permits

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.

Photo of the Day

Charity

By Photo of the Day

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.

Video of the Day / Jerusalem / Religious & Secular in Israel / Chessed and Tzedaka / Israeli Arabs

Two Jewish Boys Help Blind Arab Man #OnlyInIsrael

By Video of the Day

The 2 religious boys heard the blind Arab man say he couldn't pay for his medicine. Watch what happens next...

Photo of the Day

Kimcha D'Pischa

By Photo of the Day

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.

Jewish / UK / News Briefs / Chessed and Tzedaka

UK Chief Rabbi Urging Jews to Join War on Poverty

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.

Jewish / UK / Boycott / BDS / Chessed and Tzedaka

UK Jews Buy Israeli Goods for Needy Brits

By Maayana Miskin

Thousands of British Jews fought an anti-Israel boycott.

Photo of the Day

Swing That Chicken Over Your Head

By Photo of the Day

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 […]

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / Business and Economy / Israel At War: Operation Protective Edge

Rami Levy Quietly Helping Families of the Fallen

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...

Sponsored Posts

Meir Panim: Lighting Up Life for Israel’s Neediest Residents

By Daniela Berkowitz

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.

Israel / News Briefs / Obituaries

The ‘Chicken Lady’ Who Helped the Poor Dies at Age 90

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Photo of the Day

The Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia in Israel

By Jewish Press Staff

Israelis take part at the Gran Fondo Giro d'Italia charity bicycle race near the Jerusalem Old City walls.

Jewish / US

Survey: Jewish Americans More Generous than Non-Jews

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 […]

Sponsored Posts

Special Delivery: Meir Panim Pre-Paid Food Cards Make the Holiday Possible for Many Needy Israelis

By Daniella Feldman

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.

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

How to Give

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.

Queens and Long Island

A Fabulous Evening For The Fashion-Minded

By Margaret E. Retter

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?

Emes Ve-Emunah

Selling Snake Oil for Charity

By Harry Maryles

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.

Goldstein on Gelt

When Giving Charity Enables Bad Habits

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

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.

Emes Ve-Emunah

A Haredi Role Model

By Harry Maryles

A Haredi organization helps Haredim be brought up to speed to meet the challenges of the modern work place.

Goldstein on Gelt

The Best Way to Use Your Money to Help Others

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

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.

This Ongoing War

An End-of-Year Call to Action

By Frimet and Arnold Roth

The Malki Foundation's goal is to make home-care a real option for families of disabled children.

A Soldier's Mother

Creative Thieves

By Paula R. Stern

The Palestinians actually stole a street pole (charity boxes included) to fire at Israel.

Goldstein on Gelt

Three Ways That Your Pension May be Spent Before It Enters Your Bank Account

By Doug Goldstein, CFP®

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.

Tales of the Gaonim

Rav Chaim Tzanzer

By Rabbi Sholom Klass

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.

News Briefs

Rabbi who Sold Phony Holocaust Torahs Gets Four Years in Jail

By Jewish Press News Desk

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 […]

Tales of the Gaonim

Not The Correct Charity

By Rabbi Sholom Klass

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.

Tales of the Gaonim

The Cow

By Rabbi Sholom Klass

Rav Chaim Soloveichik, the Torah luminary of the city of Brisk, was a legendary figure when it came to charity and good deeds.

Not A Jew - Jew

Money? I’m Giving it Away!

By Not a Jew -> Jew

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.

Lessons In Emunah

Spare Change Can Spare A Life

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.”

Impact Of Women On Jewish History/Prof. L. Jackson

Hadassa Dubrofsky: A True Role Model

By Prof. Livia Bitton-Jackson

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).

News Briefs

Probation to Policeman who Stole from Tzadakah Boxes

By Jewish Press Staff

Border Policeman was caught on camera stealing from a shul pushkah.

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter II

By Ruchama Feuerman

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