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January 22, 2026, 10:53 pm
Holocaust survivors are still with us. Let’s make sure they’re not alone.
Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors live in poverty. Remembrance must be matched with urgent action — now. Support Latet, Israel’s largest NGO fighting poverty.
By Gilles Darmon
Field workers of female-run initiative 710 West are in Eilat to help displaced men and women find employment. (Courtesy)
January 31, 2024, 11:11 am
Women-led initiative opens doors for southern evacuees needing more than just a job
To cope with war trauma, 710 West tailors employment opportunities for residents of distressed Gaza border region, harnessing remote work options for those seeking return to normalcy
By Sharon Wrobel
Rabbi Richard (Rick) Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), delivers a speech on the stage during a protest against the judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, February 25, 2023. (Matan Golan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images/via JTA)
March 30, 2023, 1:30 am
Chaotic response to Israel’s turmoil reveals dilemma for US Jewish organizations
What was supposed to be a unified statement instead exposes the fissures between 5 large groups as they walk a tightrope issuing unprecedented criticism of the Jewish state
By Ron Kampeas
A Tenufa Bakehila volunteer with the organization's emergency repair vehicle, used to do home repairs for free for those in need during the coronavirus (Courtesy Mark Neyman/GPO)
January 18, 2021, 6:19 pm
Home repair organization helps elderly during coronavirus
Tenufa Bakehila is raising funds for a second emergency repair-mobile in Israel’s south
By Jessica Steinberg
The Heichal David u-Mordechai Synagoue in Milan in 2015. (Nicole Becker/picture alliance via Getty Images/ via JTA)
August 17, 2020, 10:23 pm
Jewish ‘Communities’ in Western Europe operate like expensive members-only clubs
Unlike the US, the European counterparts are more than ideological and geographic groups, and offer education and religious services for an annual fee; both models are evolving
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A critically endangered yellow-tailed woolly monkey living in the El Toro forest of the Peruvian Amazon is now protected, thanks to a purchase of land by TIME. (Courtesy TIME)
June 5, 2020, 2:03 pm
Israeli’s crowdfunding effort seeks to save forests by buying a piece of them
Uri Shanas provides a platform for those wanting to help the environment, letting them vote on which parcel of threatened land should be purchased for preservation
By Sue Surkes
Becca Heller is the co-founder and executive director of the International Refugees Assistant Project. (Courtesy of the MacArthur Foundation)
May 9, 2020, 1:45 am
Trump’s ‘xenophobic’ green card halt ‘vilifies’ immigrants, says leading lawyer
International Refugee Assistance Project head Becca Heller says moratorium on issuing work permits ignores sacrifices made by non-citizens on ‘front line’ against COVID-19
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Observant health care workers and their colleagues receive kosher meals provided by a coronvirus initiative launched by Bethany Mandel. (Courtesy of Mandel/ via JTA)
April 2, 2020, 2:40 pm
6 Jewish coronavirus initiatives you can support from home
Even while communities cannot come together physically, many are still organizing projects to provide support to those who are suffering or at perilous risk amid the pandemic
By Josefin Dolsten
Socially distanced apart, from left, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer at a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 20, 2020. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/ via JTA)
March 26, 2020, 2:13 pm
What US Jewish groups want to see in $2 trillion Congress pandemic spending bill
As airlines get bailout, nonprofits every bit as important and must be ready to help get back to normal once crisis has passed, says Jewish Federations of North America president
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: The main entrance of the Staenberg-Loup Jewish Community Center in Denver, July 27, 2018. (Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post via Getty Images/ via JTA)
March 24, 2020, 3:33 pm
US Jewish nonprofits face dire economic prospects during and after coronavirus
With no revenue for possibly months, and philanthropies likely to tighten belts due to financial crisis, JCCs, museums, camps, take cuts from which they may not soon recover
By Ben Sales
Montage of Michael Steinhardt, chairman of WisdomTree Investments Inc., (L), speaking during an interview in New York, on April 12, 2012. (Scott Eells/Bloomberg via JTA) and Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL's New England Patriots football team, looking on during Super Bowl LIII Opening Night at State Farm Arena on January 28, 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images/AFP)
April 24, 2019, 3:01 pm
After Steinhardt, now what?
The Jewish community has so far resisted embracing the systemic change needed to build a gender reality rooted in equality and respect
By Jamie Allen Black, Naomi K. Eisenberger and Nicole Nevarez
A construction team from Tenufa Bakehila - Building Hope, a nonprofit organization founded to help low-income families fix and renovate their homes (Courtesy Jordan Polevoy)
October 10, 2018, 10:10 am
With extreme makeovers, nonprofit rebuilds families through their homes
Building Hope, an organization that combines house renovation with social services, has fixed 4,400 homes of needy Israelis, and wants to expand its activities
By Michael Harel
Jay Ruderman
July 20, 2018, 7:11 pm
Jay Ruderman
American Jews aren’t minding the store
Nationwide, leaders are moving on; it’s clear that different kinds of people should take their places
A view of the Ronald O. Perelman Emergency Center at NYU Langone hospital in 2014. (Governor Andrew Cuomo/Flickr/via JTA)
May 29, 2018, 4:45 am
Hasidic volunteers kicked out of major NY hospital blame clash on medical ethics
Satmar Bikur Cholim, operating since 1952, has been banned from the NYU-Langone Hospital in Manhattan. Organization workers say it’s due to a disagreement on end of life care
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
A volunteer with the organization World Jewish Relief works with refugees in Greece. (Minos Alchanati/via JTA)
June 17, 2017, 3:29 am
Jewish charitable organizations preach tikkun olam to a tune of $125m.
People are still planting trees in Israel, but Jews aren’t the only tzedaka recipients — some 3 million in the developing world also receive aid
By Ben Sales
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