Tzedakah for Haiti

January 14, 2010

Lift up your hands to God,
     for the sake of your children’s lives, 
The ones who faint from hunger 
     on every street corner.

Lamentation 2:19 (trans. by Rabbi Jo Hirschman)

The 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th devastated its capital and has left over a hundred thousand people dead, with many thousands more injured. A number of prominent Jewish organizations have opened up relief funds, and some have sent teams to the country to assist in rescue and rebuilding efforts.

The following links take you to donation pages to assist in those efforts. We have left these urls “raw” so that you can copy and paste this page and forward it to your friends. Please feel free to circulate widely:

NGO Transdenominational Social Justice organizations:

Mazon, https://mazon.org/donate/?c=haiti
American Jewish World Service, http://ajws.org
Zaka, http://www.zaka.org.il/index_e.php

Denominational Organizations:

Chabad Lubavitch, http://bit.ly/7MSiUj
Orthodox Union, http://bit.ly/8aVXIZ
Union for Reform Judaism, http://bit.ly/6HxQQN
United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, http://bit.ly/6bFXms

National Organizations

U.S.: Jewish Coalition for Disaster Relief/Jewish Federations of North America,
Israel: Israel Aid, http://www.israaid.org.il/
Canada: UJA Donations, https://www.ujadonations.com/ or call 416-635-2883
. Australia: Jewish Aid, www.jewishaid.org.au/support-for-victims-of-haiti-earthquakes.html
U.K.: World Jewish Relief, http://www.wjr.org.uk/appeals/646-Haiti-Emergency-Earthquake-appeal

Other
B’nai Brith

If you know of other Jewish organizations soliciting donations and able to direct those donations to people on the ground in Haiti, please email us joellen@zeek.net.

Tzedakah for Haiti

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