Where Would You Put Your Money? | Behrman House Publishing

Your family puts money in a tzedakah box every Friday before Shabbat. Before Pesach, the funds are divided equally among your family members, and each decides where his or her portion goes. You send your portion to *

A local preschool program for children with special needs.

An organization that protects the environment.

A fund to help rebuild a Jewish Community Center that was damaged by a storm.

Your rabbi gives a rousing speech about the need to support the homeless. You just earned $20 shoveling snow, so you want to give something to help out. *

You contribute to the Jewish Family and Children’s Service, which will use your money to help a needy Jewish family pay the rent.

You make a contribution to the local homeless shelter.

You send a contribution to a fund helping rebuild homes destroyed in a hurricane.

A friend comes to your synagogue youth group and asks everyone to sponsor his bike-a-thon ride, which raises money for a camp for kids with cancer. *

Your parents want to contribute 10 percent of the amount they spend on your camp tuition to help send needy kids to camp. You suggest that they give the money to *

Your synagogue’s fund to provide scholarships for kids to go to Jewish camps.

A camp where Jewish and Arab kids go to learn how to live in peace.

A camp that gives poor kids from your city the opportunity to have a “fresh air” experience by a lake.

You receive a check for $100 for your birthday. You have decided to give 10 percent of each gift to tzedakah and choose to give the money to *

An organization that helps people learn to read.

A family in your town whose home burned down last week.

A group that tries to improve relations between Israelis who are religiously observant and non-observant.

Your Hebrew class has been collecting tzedakah for Israel all year, and now it’s time to divide it. You vote to give the majority to *

A research hospital in Israel.

The parents of a classmate who moved to Israel and who are now without jobs.

A fund to provide school supplies to middle school kids in poor Israeli towns.

As part of your sixth-grade unit on blessings over food, each person in your class is doing a tzedakah project to make sure that people have food. You choose to *

Collect cans of food to distribute to the poor of your own community.

Raise money for an Israeli organization that provides food relief for the needy elderly in Jerusalem.

Send money to a fund for food relief in Africa.