Jewish Justice Giving Day is a new 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 look to 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 is 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.

Please see our list of 2025 participants below!

  • 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.

  • Bend the Arc is a national Jewish social justice organization with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through Jewish leadership and action. Rooted in Jewish values and a deep belief in inclusive, multiracial democracy, BTA is dedicated to dismantling systems of oppression, advancing racial justice, protecting democracy, and organizing in solidarity for collective liberation. 

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

  • 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.

  • HIAS is the international Jewish humanitarian organization that provides vital services to refugees, asylum seekers, and other forcibly displaced and stateless persons in more than 20 countries.

  • Since its founding 80 years ago, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs has served as the national convener of Jewish coalitions working to build a just and inclusive democracy — bringing together national and local partners to address the issues that most deeply affect our community and advance our most essential values.

  • Founded in 1964, Jewish Council on Urban Affairs works to combat poverty, racism, and antisemitism in partnership with diverse communities in Chicago.

  • 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.

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

  • Jewish World Watch works to end genocide and mass atrocities worldwide by educating and mobilizing individuals, advocating for policy changes and funding projects to support and build resilience in conflict-affected communities. Partner Affiliate

  • 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)!

  • Jews United for Justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in Washington, DC, and Maryland by educating and mobilizing its local Jewish communities to action.

  • 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 is proud to have worked alongside other organizations on this page to pass Amendment 4 in Florida, restoring the right to vote to 1.4 million people with prior felony convictions. JOIN served the campaign through coaching, training, strategy development, and media work.

  • Keshet works for the full equality of all LGBTQ Jews and our families in Jewish life.

  • 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.

  • Inspired by Jewish values and ideals, 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.

  • Mitsui Collective works at the intersection of Jewish wellness, spirituality, nature connection, and community building. It seeks to activate models for contemporary Jewish practice centering multi-racial & multi-generational community and embodying Jewish values, ethics, and spirituality all seven days of the week.

  • Moving Traditions emboldens Jewish youth by fostering self-discovery, challenging sexism, and forming connections to Jewish life, in partnership with hundreds of synagogues, JCCs, camps, and other Jewish institutions.

  • National Council of Jewish Women has pivoted to providing opportunities to learn, engage, and mobilize online.

  • 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. Its members provide a full range of human services for the Jewish community and beyond, including healthcare, employment, and mental health services, as well as services for youth, families, and older adults, Holocaust survivors, immigrants and refugees, persons with disabilities and family caregivers.

  • The New Israel Fund protects and advances democracy, human and civil rights, and progressive values in Israel. NIF was founded in 1979 to actualize the vision of Israel’s founders: a Jewish and democratic state that, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, “ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex.”

  • 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.

  • In 2019, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism trained over 4,000 Reform Jews to organize for social justice through its L’Taken Teen Social Justice Seminar, the Consultation on Conscience, state lobby days, and webinars.

  • Once a noble Jewish ethic of peace in the home, the term shlom bayit has come to imply that Jewish families do not experience violence. When this myth is shattered, the community has blamed women for their failure to maintain the image of a “perfect Jewish family.” Shalom Bayit hopes to spread a new message—not of keeping the family together at all costs, but of the right to true peace, safety, and sanctuary in one’s own home.

  • Society for Humanistic Judaism launched Jews for a Secular Democracy, a new, pluralistic initiative that seeks to galvanize the Jewish community to defend the separation of church and state.

  • T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rightsbrings the Torah’s ideals of human dignity, equality, and justice to life by empowering rabbis and cantors to be moral voices and to lead Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights for all people in the United States, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories.

  • The Shalom Center reimagines Jewish holidays as portals for public prophetic action. Through actifests, or “activist festivals,” it is building a national movement of sacred justice rooted in the Jewish calendar cycle.

  • Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee engages our local Jewish community to be active, thoughtful residents of the Milwaukee area. By working with other Jewish and local service organizations, we strive to alleviate the pressing needs of those most vulnerable in our community. 

    Our vision is an engaged Jewish community that pursues justice, deepens empathy and builds empowerment for all

  • Significant growth in the number of Gap Year participants allowed Tivnu: Building Justice to spread 1000 volunteer hours per participant to eight new sites, including Portland’s Criminal Justice Reform Clinic, Street Roots newspaper, Jobs with Justice, and Outside the Frame homeless youth video project.

  • Urban Adamah recently re-launched its Free Farm Stand through which the organization has donated over 30,000+ lbs of organic produce to community members who may not otherwise have access to healthy vegetables.

  • YAFFED’s mission is to ensure that Haredi and Hasidic Yeshivas in New York deliver a sound basic education to their students. There are currently over 65,000 Yeshiva students across New York who are being denied access to a basic English, math, science, and social studies education in their respective schools. YAFFED’s vision is that Haredi and Hasidic yeshiva students receive the education and skills for long-term personal growth and self-sufficiency, enabling them to contribute meaningfully to their communities.