Descriptions of
Tzedakot: J - M
Please note:
Many of the e-mail addresses are the personal accounts of our contacts. They have given us
permission to give them to you, but please direct pertinent questions only.
If the organization has a web page, click on its name to access the page. Please send
corrections to youth@uscj.org.
Jaffa Institute for the Advancement
of Education (E4)
The Jaffa Institute's programs range from youth clubs to bar mitzvah projects, and from audio-visual reading
enhancement to field trips, and summer camps. Its work with the underprivileged is done in
coordination with the existing schools and other local bodies to improve the quality of life for
these young people.
Jerusalem Council for Children and Youth (B4)
Founded in 1984, the JCCY is an advocate, lobby and project initiator on issues related to the
health, social and educational well-being of Jerusalem's children and youth, regardless of gender,
race or religion. Its focus is on the weaker segments of the population and on those issues that
governmental and municipal agencies do not address sufficiently or at all. Our funds are being
used to renovate playgrounds in poor neighborhoods in Jerusalem, where the equipment is in need
of repair and/or replacement.
Jerusalem Shelter for Battered Women (B5)
In operation since 1981, Beit Zipporah is a shelter in Jerusalem for battered women and their
children. They have been able to provide shelter for over fifty families a year. No matter how
long each woman stays in the shelter, the fact that she has been there and has begun to break
through the wall of secrecy and silence and shame gives her strength to face her future choices,
and to make choices independently.
E-mail:
jshelter@netvision.net.il
Jewish Braille Institute of America (D13)
Centered in New York, the Jewish Braille Institute provides services for the Jewish Blind
throughout North America. This includes religious training through tapes and transcription of
Braille materials in Hebrew such as Siddurim and Chumashim. Our contributions have been used for
the low vision center in Tel-Aviv, to expand the tape library in New York, to print a large-print
edition of the Torah, and for programs in Eastern Europe.
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (F8)
Many of the non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust are now destitute.
The Foundation raises funds to provide monthly stipends to financially needy rescuers.
Occasionally they provide emergency funds for medical expenses, burial or other situations.
Jewish Theological Seminary
of America (A4)
The main educational center for Conservative Judaism operating on both the undergraduate and
graduate levels, the Seminary educates Conservative rabbis, cantors, teachers, communal workers,
and scholars. Our funding is used for a Rabbinic mentor program to help the students learn from
voices of experience while in school.
Jews For Judaism (F9)
Jews For Judaism was formed as a reaction to the growing Christian Missionary
activity directed at the Jewish community in the early '80s. Today, Christian
Missionary groups number well over 500, and spend over $100 million per year
in their efforts to convert Jews. Jews For Judaism reaches thousands of Jews
each year in communities around the world with information on cult and missionary
groups. It is the only full-time, counter-missionary, counter-cult organization
in North America.
Keren Geeta (E5)
Founded in memory of the daughter of Dr. Pesach Schindler, Rosh Yeshiva of the Conservative
Yeshiva in Jerusalem, who died at age 38, the Keren Geeta fund is designed to support projects
which reflect her ideals and with which she was involved in order to do Tikun Olam. At the
present time the money is being used to enhance the environment and land in the Goldstein Youth
Village in Jerusalem and to sponsor educational class visits.
Keren Or Center (D14)
This is the only Jewish residential institution in the world devoted exclusively to the care and
rehabilitation of blind children and youth with multiple disabilities, many of whom have been
abandoned by their parents because of their complicated needs. Our funds are being used to help
purchase physiotherapy equipment as well as playground equipment for the Center.
Kesher (B6)
Established to fill the gap in the health care system for families with children with
disabilities and chronic illnesses in Israel. Kesher provides information assistance, counseling
and referrals, and is the only service designed specifically to help parents and families to cope
better with everyday difficulties of raising their children.
Linda Feldman Rape Crisis Center (B7)
The center provides immediate and follow-up services to victims of rape and sexual assault. It
hopes to become the focus of statistical and treatment information about rape and rape victims in
Jerusalem. Our funds have provided for various public awareness campaigns, including programs to
help prevent teenage and date rape.
E-Mail:
jrcc@netvision.net.il
Magen David Adom (C5)
As Israel's equivalent to the Red Cross, Magen David Adom has provided emergency medical aid
wherever and whenever needed, through its 75 branches. It runs the only blood fractionation and
processing plant in Israel, and provides concentrated training in first aid techniques and
emergency treatment. When there is a terrorist attack in Israel, Magen David Adom is always first
on the scene to save lives. Our funds are currently being used for paramedic scholarships as part
of an overseas training program to provide advanced training, and also to fund blood centers and emergency medical stations.
Masorti Olami (A7)
Masorti Olami strives to create Conservative (or “Masorti”) Jewish communities wherever Jews live in order to combat the disappearance of young Jews seeking to “blend in” with their peers. They do this by setting up Masorti synagogues, schools, camps, NOAM youth groups and MAROM young leadership networks everywhere Jews reside: Western and Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the FSU, Latin America, Australia and South Africa. In the past, Tikun Olam funds have gone towards Camp NOAM in Aregntina.
Mavoi Satum (B8)
Formed in 1996, Mavoi Satum (literally "the dead end") was created in order to help the thousands
of agunot (literally "chained women") in Israel whose husbands refuse to grant them a divorce
("get") and are thus bound by Israeli and Jewish law to remain in a state of limbo, neither
married nor divorced. For many such women, the only way out has been to submit to extortion from
their husbands by way of forfeiture of property or child custody in order to be granted a
divorce. Mavoi Satum assists these women emotionally, financially, and legally during their
difficult times.
Micha [Jerusalem] (D15)
Micha's programs work to enable the deaf child from early age to use his residual
hearing and activate his sense of understanding and speech development and help
him enjoy his childhood like other children. Our funds have helped to purchase
books, toys, playground equipment and hearing aids for the children.
E-mail:
micha_jr@netvision.net.il
Misholim (D16)
The Jerusalem Expressive Therapy Center for Children is run by a group of educators and
therapists who have specialized in the treatment of children with emotional and organic problems.
Such children have difficulty expressing themselves and establishing the interpersonal
relationships necessary for their normal development. Therefore, they need a special program in
which use is made of creative and expressive methods as the means of treatment - plastic, arts,
movement, drama and music.
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