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Getting a handle on your Israeli contributions
is a few clicks away.

DEBBIE HITSKY
Special to the Jewish News

Jaffe's Giving Wisely: The Israel Guide
to Nonprofit and Volunteer
Organizations (Jerusalem: Gefen
Publishing House).
Both Hebrew and English can be
accessed for viewing
givingwisely.org.il . Help is provided
for using the Hebrew version on both
the Internet Explorer and Netscape
browsers. The site is organized into
partial and full profiles of Amutot
(nonprofit societies) and Foundations.

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zedaka (doing justice
through good deeds) is an
ethic deeply rooted in
Judaism. It's something we
learn as children. Who doesn't remem-
ber the pushka (coin canister) sitting
by mother's Shabbat candlesticks, or
the stamp books we filled at Hebrew
school to buy trees in Israel through
the Jewish National
Fund? How about the
Israel Bond drives, the
poppies sold by the
The Internet Directory of
Israeli Nonprofit
Jewish War Veterans,
and Philanthropic Organizations
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New to the Internet is a
searchable database
offering information on
more than 27,000 reg-
istered Israel nonprofit
organizations.
The questionnaires each charity
www.GivingWisely.org.il was pre-
answered are provided as well. Since
pared as a book and a Web site to aid
these are self-reports, the accuracy of
Israelis and diaspora Jews seeking ser-
the information is not guaranteed. Let
vices or, shoe on the other foot, need-
the giver beware!
ing information about where and how
This is not a glitzy, high-tech Web
to direct their contributions.
site. It is, after all, strictly a database.
Available in hardcover, and also
The profiles, however, are easy to
orderable at the site, the publication
access. It's possible to search by
is part of a project by author
Amutot registration number, by name,
Professor Eliezer D. Jaffe of Hebrew
or by Israeli Classification Code, in
University in Jerusalem. He is the
the two languages.
Centraide-L. Jacques Menard
Professor Jaffe says, "Life is a loan
Professor for the Study of
that we must return one day; and it is
Volunteering, Nonprofit
not interest-free. The interest we pay
Organizations and Philanthropy in
is to make the world a little better
the university's School of Social
than when we entered." His database
Work. This is an update and expan-
might make that charge a little easier

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