Tzedaka

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

On the day we wear masks, we are commanded not to look away. This Purim, when a hand reaches out, give. Start with something that feels like too much.

Purim is a time when giving tzedakah freely is encouraged.
Art auction at Kehilat Kol HaNeshama.

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

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.

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

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


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.

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