Uri L’Tzedek is an Orthodox social justice organization guided by Torah values and dedicated to combating suffering and oppression.Through community-based education, leadership development and action, Uri L’Tzedek creates discourse, inspires leaders, and empowers the Jewish community towards creating a more just world.
Since 1970, Mitzvah Corps has been the premier provider of social justice experiences for Jewish high school students, giving teens the opportunity to travel the world, build meaningful relationships with one another and their global peers, understand the complexities and challenges facing various communities, take action on issues they care about, and embrace the ways that Judaism empowers them to enact real change. Mitzvah Corps currently offer summer service experiences in New Jersey, Seattle WA, New Orleans & the American South, Costa Rica and Israel.
Yad Leah is a volunteer based organization whose staff and supporters share a collective dream of alleviating poverty in over 30 communities throughout Israel. By collecting new and gently used clothing in the United States, Yad Leah provides upwards of $4 million dollars worth of new and lightly used clothing, bringing warmth and joy to thousands of people. Yad Leah sorts, packs and ships the clothing that it collects to Israel, where it is sold to Israel’s neediest at a fraction of its true value in a store-like environment. By providing families with an opportunity to shop for affordable clothing, Yad Leah treats its customers with the dignity that is due all human beings.
Yes She Can provides a job skills development program for teen girls and young women with autism and related disabilities. Through coaching and support at Girl AGain boutique, trainees learn business skills, workplace social skills, and emotional regulation.
Girl AGain sells gently uses refurbished American Girl dolls and all their accessories.
Yesh Tikva, Hebrew for “There is Hope,” was established to end the silence and create a Jewish community of support for all Jewish people facing infertility. Yesh Tikva offers free professional psychosocial services, resources and tools to those struggling with infertility, while simultaneously educating the broader Jewish community through raising awareness and sensitivity to the issue. Yesh Tika offers a variety of groups including ones for women only, men only and couples groups. Yesh Tikva also offers groups for those facing a primary/secondary infertility diagnosis, pregnancy post infertility and parenting post infertility.
Yesh Tikva sends Care Packages of Hope to the 1 in 6 during difficult times of the year for those yearning to have children, including Purim, Hanukkah, and Mother’s/Father’s Day. Additionally, Yesh Tikva’s “Fertility Friends” program allows those experiencing infertility to be matched with a peer mentor who has been there, understands and is trained to hold space. Yesh Tikva’s goal is for everyone- family, friends and communal leaders- to be a part of that support village to the 1 in 6 in their lives. Yesh Tikva’s educational initiatives raise awareness and sensitivity through: Guides on how to be an ally; helpful resources about infertility; virtual events; infertility and Jewish law manuals; and training communal leaders to understand the issues surrounding infertility, ensuring that all Jewish people feel welcome within our synagogues and communal spaces.
The YWCA Bergen County is a co-ed, non-profit organization offering many programs for youth-adults to promote health and wellness, eliminate racism and empower women and girls to meet their potential.
