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


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

Lone Holocaust survivor visited by Bar Refaeli on birthday

Ernest Veiner, a blind and disabled Holocaust survivor, invited the public to join him in his birthday celebrations.

Holocaust survivor Ernest (left) celebrated his 92nd birthday with hundreds of guests, including supermodel Bar Refaeli (far right)

Monet: Discovering the Light

The Jerusalem Post