From the JNF.org: SPECIAL ALERT “The worst fire in Israel’s history is raging across Haifa and the Carmel Forest. Lives have already been lost, and many more are in danger as Israel’s Fire and…
Read moreHere’s a quick joke to take you into the Shabbat weekend… Source:Â Aish.com’s Jewlarious A Chinese businessman operating out of south China suffers a string of robberies. He calls up his associate in Israel and…
Read moreBeit Issie Shapiro is Israel’s leading organization in the development and provision of innovative therapies and services for children with disabilities and plays a leading role in promoting the inclusion of people with special…
Read moreMissing page from Where the Wild Things by Areby Guarina Lopez. “There must be more to life than having everything.” -Â Maurice Sendak We’ve all read the book “Were the Wild Things Are”. I’ve even…
Read moreAs reported today by Phlanthropy.com “The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation will spend $10-million over five years to provide emergency aid to impoverished Holocaust survivors, says The Baltimore Sun. The fund, established by the Baltimore…
Read more“Eli Broad is Los Angeles’ biggest philanthropist, who has given away over $2 billion, but he and his wife Edythe pledged on June 16 to do even better in the future by distributing 75…
Read more“The Hebrew Free Burial Association (HFBA) devotes its resources to performing chesed shel emet (the ultimate act of lovingkindness- for the deceased who are unable to repay the kindness). It is the only agency in the…
Read moreI was flipping through the University of Oregon’s Spring issue of Cascade magazine today and I found an article that I want to share with our readers. The article by Marc Dadigan is called…
Read moreMishneh Torah, Laws of Charity, 10:7-14 “There are eight levels of charity, each greater than the next.” 1. The greatest level, above which there is no greater, is to support a fellow Jew by…
Read moreJewish tradition teaches that there is something even better than charity… Nearly a thousand years ago, the sage Maimonides wrote:”A loan is better than charity, for it enables one to help himself.” And Jewish…
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