Tag: Tzedaka
JDC provides Rosh Hashanah aid to elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union
Impoverished elderly Jews across the former Soviet Union are expected to receive extra food and traditional holiday fare, including apples and honey, for the Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year.
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee...
Northern Palm Beach community provides relief following Irma
The Jewish community in Northern Palm Beach is recovering and providing relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.
According to Michael Hoffman, president/CEO of the West Palm Beach-based Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, the Federation...
Hurricane relief fund
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the Jewish Federation quickly opened an emergency fund to support the Houston community and others devastated by the storm. Then Hurricane Irma hit, leaving a path of destruction...
Jewish Federation expands Hurricane relief fund to aid Irma’s victims
The devastation already experienced and still expected from Hurricane Irma, the second massive tropical storm to strike in less than two weeks, has prompted the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago to expand the Relief...
Nine local businesses, organizations to be honored for giving back to the community
Nine Long Beach businesses and community groups will be among 21 entities within state Senator Ricardo Lara’s 33rd District to be honored Wednesday in downtown Long Beach.
The Excellence in the 33rd District Awards will...
Nazarian family donates $17 million to CSUN’s Valley Performing Arts Center
In the 1940s, many years before he fled the Iranian Revolution and became a rich man in America, Younes Nazarian was a boy from the Jewish ghetto selling and replacing light bulbs in the...
Married couple complete bike ride from Auschwitz for Jewish charity
A woman is supporting the charity that helped her family after their escape Nazi-occupied Germany by taking part in a charity bike ride.
Suzanne Gould, 49, and her husband Michael, 51 from Bushey have raised...
Inspiring children to be philanthropic can better shape their future
Philanthropy comes in many shapes and sizes. It can be volunteering time with an organization or donating money to a cause. It can be giving items to those in need.
It’s no secret that adults...