Here are this year’s 4 selected charities, chosen from 16 deserving causes. The donations we invite you to make go to all the 4 selected charities. Our small community manages each year to contribute generously – let’s do so again this year.
Emunah
https://www.emunah.org.uk/
Set up in 1933 by a group of British women who wished to provide practical help for children escaping Nazi persecution, Emunah has evolved since then to confront the different issues faced by the 10,000 at-risk and vulnerable children and families they support. Their services today include residential centres, crisis and intervention therapy centres, high schools, children’s day care centres, multi-purpose day care centres and community centres.
British Emunah is the UK affiliate of Israel Emunah. There are over 200 Emunah projects in Israel and British Emunah donations are crucial in supporting 27 of them.
Women Wage Peace
https://www.womenwagepeace.
Women Wage Peace (WWP) is a large, grassroots, politically unaffiliated movement that promotes a non-violent, respectful, and mutually accepted solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the active participation of Palestinian and Israeli women through all stages of negotiations. WWP collaborates closely with Women of the Sun, an independent Palestinian women’s movement. WWP’s approach takes inspiration from other initiatives in conflict areas including Northern Ireland and Liberia. It was co-founded by Canadian-Israeli peace activist Vivian Silver, who was killed by Hamas in October.
Queer Yeshiva
https://www.yeshiva.lgbt/
The Queer Yeshiva was established in 2021 to bring a new approach to Torah study creating opportunities for ‘rigorous, immersive, radically inclusive Jewish learning through an explicitly Queer lens’. So far, they have organised a range of learning and study opportunities including short courses, immersive residential study camps and bnei mitzvah preparation following an approach that emphasises the role of the teacher as a co-learner with their students.
The Welcoming
https://www.thewelcoming.org/
The Welcoming is a small Scottish charity dedicated to supporting asylum seekers, refugees and migrants in Edinburgh. They support New Scots to learn English, find work and access local services and create opportunities for local people and New Scots to meet each other. There are many and varied ways in which people can volunteer to get involved. As Jews, many of us share a personal and family history of migration. Supporting The Welcoming will enable our community to support recently arrived people in our own city.
TO DONATE
Donations can be made by bank transfer:
Sukkat Shalom Edinburgh Liberal Jewish Community
Sort code 301301
Account 00974077
Please reference as KN CHARITIES
Donations can also be made by PayPal here. Please reference as KN CHARITIES.
If you can pay by bank transfer this is our preferred method since PayPal takes a percentage of the donations.
Any queries, please email contact@eljc.org for help.
