Tzedaka

Tzedakah: The happiness of giving instead of spending on ourselves - opinion

Spending money on others has a stronger, more lasting impact on happiness than spending it on ourselves.

VOLUNTEERS PRESENT food packages to elderly people in Tel Aviv last year. The pleasure of giving often feels different from the fleeting rush of acquiring something for ourselves, the writer notes.
MAKING MATZAH in Jerusalem last week: Historically, community leaders would collect donations of flour, wheat, or money to provide matzah, wine and other essential Passover provisions to impoverished families.

What are the ancient and modern practices of Passover's Kimcha de’Pischa? - opinion

 THE PINCHEVSKYS in Israel

‘Philanthropy starts with curiosity’

 Businesswoman sitting on her desk in an office (illustrative).

American Jewish World Service to lay off 10% of staff and exit 3 countries where it has provided aid


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.

If it’s good for Buffett and Gates, it’s good for the Jewish community

Why not think about doing for our people what Buffet and Gates are doing in the general philanthropic world?

Bill Gates

A new year for the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, discusses the role that Christians are taking in helping Israel’s poor.

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder and president of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews.

Tikkun olam in Hebrew

The spiritual longing for a more just and beautiful world has always been the soul of Judaism

The spiritual longing for a more just and beautiful world has always been the soul of Judaism

Israeli non-profits look to US counterparts for funding

Non-profit organization director says 38% of US Jewish charity is directed toward Israel.

Shekel money bills

Watch: A new kind of Israeli tourism

Take a tour with American tourists who visit Israel to spend their vacations volunteering in a soup kitchen, taking part in 'tikkun olam.'

Pantry Packers volunteer packing plant of Colel Chabad in Jerusalem.