Dollars at Work
The Annual UJA Federation Campaign is the means through which the Federation facilitates people helping people. A gift to the Federation touches the lives of Jews in Greater New Haven, in Israel and in our worldwide Jewish community. It assures that Jews everywhere will be cared for from birth to senior years, with the loving kindness and sense of justice that define our Jewish values.

Every one in our community plays a vital role in helping to create a caring environment in which no child wanting a Jewish education will be turned away, no family in crisis is denied access to counseling, every family living in danger in distant lands can be rescued at a moment’s notice and our elderly are provided dignity of life and the comfort of companionship in a Jewish setting.

Each year, scores of community members volunteer their time and efforts to raise funds to meet these community needs. And each year, members of our Jewish community step forward to contribute the financial resources that enable us to respond to the needs of our young, our seniors and our families in Greater New Haven, Israel and around the world. In partnership with the Federation professional staff, volunteers confirm pledges with existing donors and contact new donors to build and sustain our ability to meet growing needs.

We All Support the Community
It takes the commitment of every Jew to create and maintain a strong and healthy community. As it is the Federation’s conviction that every Jew is important, it raise funds to support every Jew in need. When a donor recognizes these obligations, the Federation recognizes that donor’s commitment. Those so blessed that can make substantial gifts are counted as members of honor societies because their acts of generosity help to sustain local and worldwide services. (For more information, search the Community Resources pages with keywords Lion, Pomegranate, Olim, Maimonides, King David)

At the same time, every gift of any amount is gratefully appreciated by children who receive Jewish Education; frail, homebound elderly in the Former Soviet Union and here in Greater New Haven; families in crisis receiving counseling and rescued Jews immigrating into Israel. There are countless stories, countless needs.

Learn more about the very real needs being served by your contributions:
Services for Families
Services for Youth
Services for Seniors
Israel and Overseas

Federation Campaign Events
Federation Annual Events and activities help to educate our donors about a world of unmet Jewish needs and provide an opportunity for the community to recognize these donors for their generosity and commitment to building our community. Guests enjoy presentations by renowned experts, speakers and performers. Please see the Community Calendar to learn more about these events as they are scheduled.

Where Does Your Gift Go?
Locally, your Campaign gift touches every Jewish home in Greater New Haven through the efforts of our beneficiary agencies, the Federation’s programs and services and its community building efforts. Your gift also benefits community building efforts in Israel and Overseas.

Federation Programs and Services
Federation Programming is developed to enrich the lives of Jews at every level of community involvement. Groundbreaking Women’s Division programs, such as last spring’s highly successful outreach and educational programs kind in the area.
The Department of Jewish Education (DJE) provides year-round adult learning opportunities, supports the work of synagogue religious school teachers, administers the area’s Jewish special education, family Jewish education, oversees the Holocaust Education and Prejudice Reduction Program and directs the nationally acclaimed MAKOM Hebrew High School. Additionally, the DJE produces the annual A TASTE OF HONEY evening of adult learning at which over 600 attendees choose from more than forty workshops concerning a wide variety of Jewish subjects as well as a wide variety of adult learning opportunities throughout the year.

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Services for Families
The Federation cares for Families by supporting the crucial work of our community’s Jewish agencies and organizations, and through the efforts of the Federation’s Department of Jewish Education and Refugee Resettlement.

Your financial commitment to the UJA Federation Campaign makes a substantial difference in the lives of thousands of families in Greater New Haven by supporting:

Your gift to the UJA Federation Campaign helps to build a vibrant, lasting Jewish community.

Keywords:
Jewish Community Center, Jewish Care Network, Department of Jewish Education, Jewish Family Service, Jewish Home for the Aged, Tower One/Tower East, Refugee Resettlement

Services for Youth
Federation dollars provide thousands of Jewish children and teens in our community with Jewish educational and social opportunities. We support them through:

  • After-school and youth programs
  • Child welfare
  • Day School Education
  • MAKOM Hebrew High School
  • Hebrew High School of New England
  • Pre-school programs
  • Scholarships for Jewish study
  • Summer camps
  • Synagogue School Principals Council
  • Talmud Torah Meyuchad (Jewish special education)
  • Teacher Resource Center at the DJE Library
  • Ongoing professional development for Judaic studies teachers
  • Yale and UCONN Hillel programs for college students
  • Youth programs such as BBYO
  • Financial assistance for youth travel to Israel
  • Israel Desk informational service about youth programs in Israel

With your help, we are building a vibrant Jewish community, and preparing our youth to carry on our tradition.

Keywords:
Department of Jewish Education, Jewish Community Center, Jewish Family Service, MAKOM, Education, Talmud Torah, DJE Library, Hillel, BBYO, Youth, Israel Desk

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Services for Seniors
With social services diminishing and the elderly population increasing, our seniors need us more than ever. Your contribution to the UJA Federation Campaign sustains thousands of seniors in the Greater New Haven area through:

  • adult day care and wellness programs
  • independent and assisted living facilities
  • classes and social activities
  • counseling and social work for seniors and their families
  • kosher hot meal program and “Meals on Wheels”
  • religious life programs at the JCC, Jewish Home and Tower One / Tower East
  • Jewish Chaplaincy services for hospital patients and their families
  • Fully integrated and coordinated access to eldercare


We are working to build a vibrant Jewish community –— without forgetting those who built one for us.

Overseas Needs
There are still hundreds of thousands of Jews living in desperate conditions, under political duress and in danger. We continue to stand by them:

In the Former Soviet Union

  • A community contribution of $25,000 to rebuild a Jewish day school in Kazan that burned down
  • Delivery of 500,000 meals to home-bound elderly Jews
  • Providing Jewish education for youth in the former Soviet Union
  • Funding the construction of now thriving Jewish Community Centers

In Israel
Expanded and focused efforts are being directed toward helping the people of Israel at this time of crisis. Isolated elderly, children and youth, who were already at risk, and immigrants cut-off by language and culture from the Israeli mainstream, need help to understand and cope with the extreme stress that is now dominating their lives. Through the Joint Distribution Committee, your dollars provide:

  • Supportive Communities for the Elderly – including adult day care centers, assisted living complexes and communication in the seniors’ native languages to further ensure that they are not isolated
  • Hebrew literacy support for immigrants
  • Shaham: Home-based support for Ethiopian-Israeli families at risk
  • Amharic-language television that helps Ethiopian immigrants whose isolation is exacerbated by their inability to understand news broadcasts in Hebrew
  • Emergency Centers for Children at Risk
  • Programs for Children and Youth in Battered Women's Shelters

Additionally, the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) oversees:

  • Resettlement of One Million Jews in Israel in the last ten years alone
  • Continuing resettlement support for Ethiopian Jews in Israel
  • Establishment of social, cultural and business relationships with our sister region in Israel, Afula Gilboa
  • Support of religious diversity in Israel

Throughout the World

  • Continuing efforts with local organizations to stimulate the growth of Jewish cultural development and delivery of religious, educational and youth activities
  • Identifying and responding to new community needs
  • Promotion and training of lay and professional leaders
  • Restoration of Jewish life in India
  • Providing seed money for innovative model projects
  • Promotion of regional meetings and cooperative exchange and coordination among communities
  • Support for the Argentina and other South American Jewish communities who are under the severe strain of anti-Semitism
  • Non-sectarian aid to war-torn countries such as Bosnia

Your UJA Federation Campaign enables Jews around the world to build safe communities in which their nutritional, medical and religious needs are met. We’re making progress, and there is so much more to be accomplished.


Campaign dollars help support the worldwide Jewish Community. We are a member of United Jewish Communities representing 189 Jewish federations, 400 independent communities and 700,000 people across North America, who contribute more than $2 billion every year for Jewish needs worldwide, assisting 800 communities in North America, in Israel, the former Soviet Union and 60 countries worldwide. The UJA Allocation also serves Jews worldwide through the efforts of the Jewish Agency for Israel, United Israel Appeal and the American Joint Distribution Committee, Partnership 2000 (link to Israel and Overseas Building Relationships Page) efforts with our sister region – Afula Gilboa, missions to Israel and other efforts to strengthen direct connection between Israel and Greater New Haven.

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