Tzedakah Box Donations at JRC
As Reform Jews, we are called to engage in the work of tikkun olam, improving the world in which we live. One way to participate is through Tzedakah.
All donations made via the Tzedakah Box are designated for a variety of local, national, and global causes that reflect our Jewish values.
Your contributions to our Tzedakah Box in July, August, and through mid-September are designated for Durham CAN. Durham CAN (Congregations, Associations, and Neighborhoods) is a broad-based, non-profit organization that works to coalesce, train, and organize communities in Durham across religious, racial, ethnic, class, and geographic lines for the public good.
Tzedakah cannot be translated because it joins together two concepts that in other languages are opposites, namely charity and justice. It is the idea that no one should be without the basic requirements of existence, and that those who have more than they need must share some of that surplus with those who have less. This is fundamental to the kind of society the Israelites were charged with creating, namely one in which everyone has a basic right to a dignified life and equal worth as citizens in the community. - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, from his essay "Tzedakah: The Untranslatable Virtue."
You can contribute at the Tzedakah box located in the Judea Reform lobby or in the Education Building, or send a check to Judea Reform with the memo "Tzedakah.”