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Screenshot from an advertisement for US Jewish charity Kars4Kids. (YouTube screenshot/Kars4Kids)
May 15, 2026, 10:59 pm
Judge bars Kars4Kids from advertising in California, saying it misled donors about Jewish mission
Charity, which funds New York-based Orthodox Jewish programs, to appeal ‘flawed’ ruling, after it was sued by man who says he wouldn’t have donated had he known direction of funds
By Grace Gilson
Dr. David Hasan, the founder of The Gaza Children Village, speaks at Mediterranean Deli in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on April 28, 2026. (Courtesy of Rabbi Daniel Greyber via JTA)
May 2, 2026, 5:30 am
US synagogue helps Palestinians raise money for Gaza, finds common ground over falafel
Daylong fundraiser results from relationships formed between rabbi, Palestinian restaurateur and Duke neurosurgeon who seek peace, reconciliation and a good bowl of hummus
By Grace Gilson
BioCatch employees volunteer with Israeli nonprofit Heroes for Life. (Courtesy)
February 9, 2025, 7:51 pm
Israeli tech donates stock options amid war to aid national recovery
Nonprofit Tmura seeks donations of small stakes in startups and then, when they become valuable, uses the cash to fund youth and education; looks to expand model to US investors
By Sharon Wrobel
Eyal Feldman will swim across Lake Skaneateles in Upstate New York to raise money for Israelis orphaned by the October 7 Hamas atrocities. (Courtesy)
August 15, 2024, 1:40 pm
US-Israeli maker of Boy Butter lubricant attempts record-length swim for Oct. 7 charity
On August 17, Eyal Feldman will paddle 16 miles nonstop across upstate New York’s Skaneateles Lake to benefit orphans in Israel who lost their parents in the Hamas onslaught
By Cathryn J. Prince
A sign for Israel's Jewish National Fund is seen defaced, in Toronto, Canada, October 9, 2008. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images/JTA)
August 12, 2024, 7:46 pm
Canada strips 2 pro-Israel charities of tax-free status, including ‘flagship’ JNF
Rare move comes after anti-Zionist Jewish group complained repeatedly about groups’ donations to IDF bases; JNF says tax authority ‘refused to enter into a dialogue with us’
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: A shipment of tactical boots purchased using donated funds for Israeli soldiers arrives at Israel’s international airport. (Courtesy via JTA)
April 25, 2024, 4:14 am
Six months into war, Israeli soldiers still count on donations for basic supplies. Why?
Immediately after Oct. 7, charity at home and abroad aided troops who were mobilized more quickly and in higher numbers than ever before. Many wonder why that help is still needed
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
A tzedakah box for charitable giving in the foyer of a synagogue in Lafayette, California, Jan. 20, 2022. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
February 20, 2024, 11:15 pm
Jews who experience antisemitism give more to charity, US survey shows
American Jews donated more than $750 million to war-related causes after Oct. 7, but study authors say such giving isn’t sustainable in the long term
By JTA and ToI Staff
Shai Graucher on a mobile laundry truck his charity provides to IDF soldiers. (courtesy)
November 11, 2023, 8:43 am
Israeli charity aims to provide it all for soldiers, including mobile laundry and spas
With a special orientation towards reserve soldiers and evacuee families, the Klal Yisroel Organization also wants to bridge the religious-secular divide
By Gavriel Fiske
Batsheva Dahan shows the knife she keeps in her mobility scooter in case she encounters terrorists in Ofakim on October 11, 2023. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
October 14, 2023, 4:11 pm
In Sderot and Ofakim, Israelis put aside traumas to take care of neighbors in need
A grassroots effort is underway to help those who chose to stay despite the murderous terrorist incursion and relentless rocket fire
By Canaan Lidor
Workers unload goods outside a supermarket, in downtown Jerusalem, December 8, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
April 5, 2023, 2:18 pm
Food welfare organizations report sharp rise in requests as Passover approaches
Pitchon Lev says request for aid increased by 285%, and average age of those seeking assistance dropped from 67 to 53 in 2022
By ToI Staff
Sam Bankman-Fried testifies during a hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, December 8, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images via JTA)
December 7, 2022, 5:01 am
Will synagogues shun ‘effective altruism’ movement after Sam Bankman-Fried scandal?
Maximum-impact giving to save lives in the developing world has caught on among Reform Jews in particular, but the scandal involving one high-profile supporter is tainting optics
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Illustrative: A pro-Israel demonstrator waves flags toward the Capitol in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
July 9, 2022, 3:32 am
Why Jewish giving to Israel has been on the decline since 2009
Demographic and social changes, a diminishing perception of Israel as being in need and concerns over the Palestinian-Israeli conflict have likely driven this drop for years
By Hanna Shaul Bar Nissim
Amal el-Halabi (left) holds her grandson Fares while her grandson Amro, 7 (center) holds a picture of his father Mohammed el-Halabi, at their family home in Gaza city. The Arabic on the picture reads, " the man of humanity." August 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
May 3, 2022, 5:30 pm
After 6 years, Gaza aid worker accused of moving funds to Hamas insists on innocence
As trial drags on, World Vision, Australia and a number of independent auditors refute Israeli claims that Mohammad el-Halabi was involved in wrongdoing
By Agencies
A Satmar Orthodox man volunteers to deliver free food provided by Met Council at a distribution center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard run by the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, on April 10, 2022. (Jacob Henry/JTA)
April 18, 2022, 3:06 am
In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from ‘Zionists’
A faction within Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept holiday charity from Met Council because it holds ‘all the abominations of the world’
By Jacob Henry
Clockwise from the top: Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (Erik McGregor/ LightRocket via Getty Images), Rabbi Jill Jacobs (courtesy, Jill Jacobs), Rabbi Angela Buchdahl (Michael Brochstein/ SOPA Images/ LightRocket via Getty Images). Background: Demonstrators gather at the Damascus Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem with flags of Israel during the controversial Flag March, organized by Israeli right-wing nationalists on June 15, 2021. (Ilia Yefimovich/ picture alliance via Getty Images. All photos via JTA)
April 11, 2022, 3:09 am
Rabbis go public with plea to cut off US Jewish funding of Israeli extremists
After rebuff, 19 clergy publicize letter to donor-advised Jewish Communal Fund asking it to stop support to Lehava group associated with far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir
By Asaf Shalev
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