- Charity Investment Policy
- Foreword
- JVN – Jewish Volunteering Network
- Online Giving to Jewish Charities
- ‘Mergers & Acquisitions’
- Jewish Helplines
- Charity shops /Non-financial Donations/ Grant Making Trusts
- Searching for Heirs
Foreword
This thirty-second edition of the Jewish Charity Guide has been created under unprecedented circumstances.
The Jewish world has experienced shock after shock. The mind-numbing horror of the massacre on 7th October was followed firstly by the awareness of an unbelievable indifference, which then soured into the sort of antisemitic horrors that we all believed were the province of the history book and the TV documentary.
This is the reality of Jewish life 2024. Thankfully there is some light among the darkness. One perceptive comment reminds us that we as Jews are good at so many things but one thing we are really bad at, possibly the worst in the world, is giving up. Whatever the odds, whatever the difficulties, we take stock, we cope and we prevail.
It is this spirit which has permeated an enormous burst of volunteering and civic and personal commitment in Israel, evident in so many aspects of life both large and small. That same spirit has been evident in the response of our advertisers to this 2024/25 edition of the Guide, charitable organisations which have shown their determination to continue and where possible to expand their work for the community.
As the editors of the Guide, we not only thank our advertisers for their loyal and much appreciated backing but we salute them for the work they continue to provide in the UK, in Israel and around the Jewish world. They are all deeply worthy of your support, now and in the future. Please, as a matter of urgency, consider what you can do to bolster these charitable causes which are all, in their very different ways, deserving and essential.
In the Ethics of the Fathers there is one famous quote that is especially appropriate. It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it. The challenge of caring for the well-being of our fellows cannot be solved by any one individual – rather, we all have a role to play.
Sharon Graham and Alan Gold, Joint Editors
Please note: The editors accept no responsibility for any information supplied to them by individual charities about their work or charitable status, which is accepted in good faith, as are the opinions voiced by the authors of the articles featured at the front of the Guide.