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


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.

Illustration

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

Promises, promises…

After the fires, those who knew what to do and whom to contact have been doing so.

A grateful family loads their car with supplies in Zichron Ya’acov

From the ashes

Communities in Haifa and Zichron Ya’acov forge ahead on fire recovery.

Debris clogs the waterlogged entrance to Haifa’s Moriah Congregation (masorti)