Charity

In 2008, Harley Finkelstein was a young law student at the University of Ottawa when he told Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky that he’d like to one day help purchase a building for Chabad at the campus. At the time, Chabad was being run out of the Boyarsky family liv...

Until now, the villagers of Atunda Village in Nigeria had to walk miles to access safe drinking water. But last month, Yossi Uzan, 13, chose to honor his becoming a bar mitzvah by helping finance a source of clean potable water for its residents. He was i...

Tzedakah, or charity, is a central pillar of Judaism, to the extent that the Jerusalem Talmud refers to it as a mitzvah (“commandment”) without modifiers or qualifiers. The principle is simple enough: give to others in need. But how much are we to give, h...

When Rabbi Chaim Grossbaum of Village Chabad-Stony Brook helped a young boy and girl whose parents were down on their luck and facing eviction, he never imagined that 25 years later, it would amount to an anonymous donation in his mailbox in the form of a...

Haitian-born Gabriel Pierre is gentle, kind, thoughtful and eager to help others—the perfect candidate to serve as an aide for an elderly person with dementia. It also made him the perfect candidate for smooth-talking scammers who robbed him of his life s...

Some very special gifts are making their way to Odessa, Ukraine, for children in Chabad’s Mishpacha orphanage, thanks to the efforts of a group of women in New Jersey. About 60 women gathered recently for an annual event hosted by community member Renata ...

JERUSALEM—Colel Chabad has launched an innovative debit card program this year that enables Israelis in need to go to designated supermarkets and purchase their holiday necessities according to their own choices. And they can do so with dignity and self-r...

Sixth in a series of articles on the 40th anniversary of the worldwide kosher campaign launched by the Rebbe in 1975. As predictions of the mammoth snowstorm that dumped more than two feet of snow on New York City over the weekend gusted through the news ...

Russian Jewish individuals and families who received food packages as part of a large Maot Chitim project there are enjoying Passover with “fuller plates than ever,” according to the charity’s organizers. The Matan BeSeiser Fund of Moscow’s special Passov...

On the outside, the C. family appears unremarkable. Both parents leave their modest townhouse to go to work every morning, while their four children head off to the local Jewish day school. Yet behind closed doors, a very different story unfolds. The peel...