Jewish Charities

The Jaffa Institute is a private non-profit organization serving approximately 3,500 disadvantaged children, of all ages, without reference to religious or ethnic background. Presently, the Jaffa Institute provides over 30 social and educational enrichment programs in Jaffa, a residential educational center in Bet Shemesh, and an educational enrichment program in Kiryat Ha-Yovel, Jerusalem. The mission of the Jaffa Institute is to provide educational, recreational and social enrichment programs that provide severely disadvantaged children a sense of self worth, while furnishing them with the skills needed to succeed and to reach their full academic and social potential.

The Jewish Community Cyclothon is a cycling event where one can raise funds for any Jewish organization of their choice!

The purpose of this site is to encourage people to give to charity by tithing income (maaser kesafim). The site explains how this is done and why it has a miraculous reward. The central message is: The more you give, the more you get. Try it out!

The Koby Mandell Foundation helps individuals who have lost an immediate family member to terror heal, bereave and share their experiences with others who have also lost a loved one. Programs include Camp Koby for children ages 8 to 17 and Mother's Healing Retreats. The programs of The Koby Mandell Foundation have received global recognition for their unique approach to bereavement and grief. The foundation was created by Rabbi Seth and Sherri Mandell after their 13 year old son Koby was brutally murdered while on a nature hike near his home.

What you usually don’t notice in Israel are the members of her elite air force, those unsung, mostly unseen heroes who constantly patrol the Israeli skies, protecting this tiny Land from the heavily armed hordes determined to drive the Jews into the sea. It is truly no secret that this branch of her military is the heart of the Holy Land’s defense. Ramat David Air Force Base, Located in the Lush, green northern hills of Israel’’s Gaul, is home to thousands of officers and enlisted men involved in maintaining the country’’s security. Among them are 100 officers’’ families who reside on base. Regrettably, today, prayer services and other synagogue ceremonies at Ramat David Air Force Base are held in a cramped, 60 sq. meter shack with no room for women to participate in services, and no indoor plumbing!

The Ziv Tzedakah Fund is about Mitzvahs - Doing Good Things and about Tikkun Olam - Fixing Up the World with whatever talents and resources we have as individuals. And it is about Mitzvah heroes, Giants of Human Action most of whom are just ordinary people who found their way one way or another into Mitzvah work and have grown, assumed their True Selves, and exceeding their old visions of who they thought they were.

This website provides information about Tikva Children’s Home, a non-profit organization whose core mission is to care for the homeless, abandoned and abused Jewish children of the Odessa region of Ukraine. Tikva provides a loving home, essential social services, a first-rate education in the environs of a revitalized Jewish community, and an opportunity for a brighter future through immigration to Israel. The site is managed by Tikva's New York fundraising and pr office and includes photos and bios of the children it saves, information about programs in Ukraine and Israel, announcements of upcoming field visits to Odessa, and myriad opportunities for individuals, companies and organizations to help this worthy cause.

Charitable, direct, efficient, tax deductable (U.S.) 501c3, giving focused on helping Israeli's in need.

A site for the Chaim Zev Steinbach OBM Sefer Torah Fund.

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Israel related charity, reader-moderated discussions. Learn about the tzedakah online, contribute online, send a dedication card, etc. Participate in discussions and vote on the quality of posts.

Tzedek is a Jewish overseas development and educational charity. It is based in the United Kingdom and was founded in 1990. Tzedek has two principal aims: Firstly, to provide direct support to the developing world working towards the relief and elimination of poverty regardless of race or religion. Secondly, to educate people, particularly in the Jewish community, as to the causes and effects of poverty and the Jewish obligation to respond.

UJA Online, a resource for the American Jewish community, with links to organizations helping our people in Israel and around the world.

Our mission is to enhance the life of the Metro West community and to create a Jewish future rooted in our religious heritage and nourished by our dreams.