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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.
The Women’s International Zionist Organization identifies the needs of Israeli society, and creates solutions to meet them. Now over 250,000 members strong in 50 federations worldwide, WIZO is the main agent of change for women, children, and youth in Israel. The organization strives to strengthen women and their families in Israel and to connect global Jewish communities by working together for a stronger Israel. WIZO has three main focus areas: women’s rights, children, and youth. For women, WIZO offers empowerment and leadership, legal aid and advice, legislation and policy, and works to reduce and treat domestic violence. For children, WIZO has 183 Day Care Centers, offers foster homes, and integrates children with special needs or children at risk in their Day Care Centers. For youth, WIZO has a number of Youth Villages, youth centers, and schools for special education.
Yad Ezra V’Shulamit works hard to fight hunger through many projects – from our food basket project to our employment desk, children’s centers and our feed-a-baby project we work around the clock to break the cycle of poverty, feeding hungry children and families in Israel. We provide 3,000 food baskets throughout Israel each week and 20,000 on Rosh Hashanah and Passover.
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.
Bnai Mitzvah Projects or Volunteer Opportunities offered by the organization for children ages 11 – 13:
Yashar LaChayal has been helping soldiers since 2006. Yashar LaChayal builds and maintains Warm Corner rest stations for soldiers on patrol, responds quickly to cases of injured soldiers and offers them assistance, and aids bereaved families in many ways. In addition, we supply work closely with needy soldiers, maintaining Needy Soldiers Supply Closets filled with toiletries, blankets, socks and other necessities, and distributing food baskets to needy soldiers and their families for the holidays. Yashar LaChayal also works closely with Lone Soldiers, ensuring that they have the goods they need and a support system during and after their service. Additional projects are described in detail on our website: www.yasharlachayal.org.
Every donation goes directly to the soldiers. We are grateful recipients of a grant that funds all our operating expenses, so all other money is used to make purchases for the soldiers.
You can show your support for the IDF combat soldiers by adopting a unit, or by raising money to provide soldiers with specific goods.
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.
ZAKA’s 3,300 Israeli volunteers provide life saving free services in Israel, to any and all individuals, Jewish or otherwise, who have been injured in any manner. They also provide chesed shel emet services to the deceased, and bring closure to the deceased’s family.
The volunteers include men and women, ultra orthodox, modern orthodox, secular Jews, as well as Arabs, Druze and Bedoiun.
ZAKA’s international unit has trained some 700 local volunteers in 25 countries.
