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tzedakah

Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe asked their wedding guests to donate to four Bay Area art institutions instead of giving traditional gifts. (Courtesy Radostina Boseva)
Posted inFirst Person

How we turned our wedding into a celebration of tzedakah

Melissa Blaustein (Courtesy)David Saxe (Courtesy) by Melissa Saxe Blaustein and David Saxe December 17, 2025December 17, 2025

From the moment Dave got down on one knee in our Sausalito home and sent Bowie, our chocolate Lab, racing up the stairs to me with a ring tied around […]

Green-brown standing brick with tzedakah in Hebrew letters
Posted inPhilanthropy

‘My favorite mitzvah’: Our readers reflect on the meaning of tzedakah

by J. Staff October 20, 2025October 21, 2025
Alejandro Crosa (left) and Adam Nash are the founders of Daffy, which as a special $18 chai feature of Jewish organizations.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Synagogues tap into mobile apps like Venmo for collecting tzedakah

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss October 18, 2022October 19, 2022
(Illustration/JTA-Rebecca Kerzner)
Posted inReligion

For this second pandemic Purim, let’s focus on giving tzedakah

Sharon Weiss-Greenberg by Sharon Weiss-Greenberg and JTA February 22, 2021
Jewish Family and Children’s Services’ San Francisco food bank has become a primary food source for many during the pandemic. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inOpinion

We must step up our charitable giving — our tzedakah — during the pandemic

by Yvette Alt Miller and JTA November 23, 2020November 23, 2020
a pile of dollar bills
Posted inPhilanthropy

How to give effectively during a deluge of need

Michael Chertok by Michael Chertok October 8, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg chats with her granddaughter Clara in the documentary "RBG." (Photo/Courtesy Magnolia Pictures)
Posted inOpinion

Let RBG’s memory be a blessing — and an inspiration

Hannah Lukanuski by Hannah Lukanuski September 22, 2020September 22, 2020
This week's Torah portion introduces the commandment to leave fallen harvest in the field to be "gleaned" by the poor, as illustrated here in "The Gleaners" by Gustave Doré from the 1865 La Sainte Bible.
Posted inTorah

Giving is a pillar that holds up the world

Rabbi Joey Felsen by Rabbi Joey Felsen August 28, 2020August 27, 2020
At a gathering earlier this year in New York, attendees brainstormed for a new Jewish holiday: Yom HaTzedek — Day of Justice. (Photo/Courtesy Andrew Mandel)
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He’s on a quest to create a new Jewish holiday — Yom HaTzedek, a Day of Justice

David A.M. Wilensky
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins)
J. The Jewish News of Northern California Staff Headshots. by David A.M. Wilensky July 9, 2019July 9, 2019
a pile of dollar bills
Posted inPhilanthropy

Too many causes? How to align your tzedakah with your values

Lisa Tabak by Lisa Tabak November 12, 2018

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