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


US envoy Dan Shapiro visits Leket Israel’s rebuilt facility

With the help of more than 50,000 volunteers, Leket Israel rescues 1.5 million hot meals and some 11 million kg of produce and perishable goods annually.

Dan Shapiro and his wife Julie Fisher at the Leket Israel facility

In memory of Dr. Max Glassman

Just two months shy of his 91st birthday, Max peacefully passed away Sunday, November 15, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, surrounded by his loving family.

Max Glassman

Giving Back: The challenging road from Jerusalem to Eilat with Run4Afikim

The 2015 run will kick off on November 18 at 6 p.m. and end on the 20th in Eilat.

Run4Afikim

Start-Up Spot: One simple act

Brooklyn teacher Orly Wahba wanted to motivate her students to perform a simple act of kindness – yet that good deed has grown into so much more.

Lifevest founder Orly Wahba. Her motto is that ‘kindness is a boomerang.’

Ruderman Foundation pushes for bottom-up inclusion movement for people with disabilities

“People with disabilities, like all of us, have the right to be included in all aspects of life, but that has to start with a change of attitude inside society,” says Jay Ruderman.

Former US senator Tom Harkin receives an award in Boston this week at the Ruderman Family Foundation’s Inclusion Summit

Our Last Chance for Tzedakah

The Jerusalem Post

Israeli nonprofits and Diaspora funders and donors

"One of the issues that plague the relationship between Israel nonprofits and their funders, donors, supporters and contributors is developing a real sense of partnership."

Israel US flags

What we should learn from Moses – the first Jewish fundraiser

Those of us who believe in supporting social activism need to be demanding as to what is being done with our money, we also need to be fair.

Moses receives God’s Holy Commandments, in a woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld from ‘Die Bibel in Bildern,’ 1860.

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