Jewish Justice Giving Day is returning for its second year! This national giving day for affiliates of the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable. Jewish Justice Giving Day provides an opportunity to make giving a more central and visible part of Jewish justice activism and philanthropy. We collectively uplift the importance of investing in Jewish social justice as a core expression in Jewish life.

As we reflect on the first of many annual Jewish Justice Giving Days, we are energized by the opportunity of creating a better future, together. We approach that work with faith in the Jewish community’s evergreen commitment to justice. 

Our very first Jewish Justice Giving Day was Wednesday, February 26, 2025. This date was chosen to connect to Shabbat Shekalim on the Jewish calendar (which begins on Friday, February 28). On Shabbat Shekalim, we recall that our ancestors were asked to contribute half of a Biblical shekel to meet the needs of the community as a whole.

On Jewish Justice Giving Day, we act on our tradition of tzedakah (giving) as one way of supporting justice work.

Last year, we raised over $250,000. This year, the sky is the limit. Join us on February 10th, 2026.

  • American Jewish World Service is the leading Jewish organization working to fight poverty and defend human rights in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.  

  • Avodah provides Jewish leaders with the tools, experience, and community they need to create change. Through the Service Corps, Justice Fellowship, and Institute for Social Change.

  • Aytzim: Ecological Judaism hosts a grove of projects, including
    Jewcology.org; the Green Zionist Alliance; Jews of the Earth; EcoJews of
    the Bay; and Shomrei Breishit: Rabbis and Cantors for the Earth.

  • Bend the Arc is building a multiracial, multiethnic, intergenerational movement of Jews and allies all across the country who are rising up to build an American future free from white supremacy, antisemitism, and racism.

  • Carolina Jews for Justice is an ever-growing hub for Jewish social justice in North Carolina.

  • Jews for a Secular Democracy, is a project of Society for Humanistic Judaism. JSD seeks to galvanize the Jewish community to defend the separation of church and state.

  • The Center for Jewish Food Ethics (CJFE) is dedicated to building a food system that does good for all. CJFE creates change by equipping Jewish communities with the resources needed to transition toward sustainable food practices.

  • Rooted in Jewish values, experience, and spirit, Dayenu: A Jewish Call to Climate Action is building a movement of American Jews confronting the climate crisis with spiritual audacity and bold political action.

  • Detroit Jews for Justice advances racial and economic justice by developing Metro Detroit Jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with our neighbors. 

  • Jews For Racial & Economic Justice is the home for Jewish New Yorkers organizing with their neighbors and allies to transform New York from a playground for the wealthy few into a real democracy (with playgrounds for all of us)!

  • Jewtina y Co. is an anti-oppressive Latino/x and Jewish organization on a mission to nurture Latin-Jewish community, identity, leadership and resiliency.

  • JOIN for Justice is building a powerful field of Jewish leaders capable of effectively organizing for justice, both inside and outside Jewish communities in the US.

  • Kirva equips those dedicated to social change with Jewish ancestral wisdom and practice, empowering personal spiritual growth and transformation while fueling their work for sustainable, effective systemic change.

  • MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national organization fighting to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. MAZON is a leading voice in the anti-hunger field advocating for policy solutions, investing in partnership grants, and engaging with communities to fight for systemic change.

  • National Council of Jewish Women elevates Jewish perspectives on the issues that matter most to our community — from reproductive freedom to quality, affordable childcare to gun safety, and antisemitism.

  • New York Jewish Agenda represents and amplifies the voice of New York’s liberal Jewish community. Founded in 2020, NYJA is the advocate, organizer, and convener for liberal Jewish New Yorkers to impact state and local policies, politics, and Jewish communal discourse.

  • For more than six decades, the Religious Action Center—the social justice hub of the Reform Jewish Movement—has educated, inspired, and mobilized North America’s largest and most diverse Jewish community.

  • The Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies is an international membership association of over 165 nonprofit Jewish human service agencies in the United States, Canada, and Israel.

  • A dynamic online feminist organization that shapes discourse and inspires action, the Jewish Women’s Archive is the world’s largest source of information about Jewish women.

  • Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action pursues social, economic, environmental, and racial justice based on our Jewish values.

  • Urban Adamah seeks to build a more loving, just, and sustainable world by grounding and connecting people to themselves, to others, and to the natural world. We do this by providing farm-based, community building experiences that integrate Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social action.

  • YAFFED’s mission is to ensure that Haredi and Hasidic Yeshivas in New York deliver a sound basic education to their students.