Tag: Tzedakah
A ‘Top 10’ of Hanukkah gifts for kids
The eight days of Hanukkah (this year the first candle is lit on Sunday night, Dec. 22 and the last one on Sunday, Dec. 29) are the highlight of the year for nearly every...
California day-school student homes in on Israeli education for ‘tzedakah’ project
A Jewish day-school student has visited ORT projects in Israel after researching the organization’s work for her school tzedakah project.
Karen Glenn, a 12-year-old at Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School in Palo Alto, Calif., decided to research...
New York twins donate $122,000 in bar mitzvah gifts to Israeli organizations
Benjamin and Brian Barth, 13-year-old twins from New York City, are passionate about the State of Israel and the transformative power of sports.
To celebrate their recent bar mitzvahs at Park Avenue Synagogue, they worked with UJA-Federation of New York’s...
Boosting online Jewish philanthropy, one dollar and one day at a time
A new online initiative has been launched to make the positive commandment of charitable giving easier and more accessible. Titled Daily Giving, it was inspired by a well-known Jewish principle that one should endeavor to give...