Israel and Overseas Impact
Supporting Jewish Communities Worldwide
Israel and Overseas Impact
Supporting Jewish Communities Worldwide
Israel and Overseas Impact
Supporting Jewish Communities Worldwide
Since its founding in 1928, the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle has made significant investments to support global Jewish communities in need. Through partnerships with the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) and the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), as well as direct funding, the Federation supports humanitarian assistance, immigrant aid, education, and Jewish identity programs. These efforts take place locally, in Israel, and around the world.
Unrestricted Grant: Supports global humanitarian work, emergency response, rescue efforts, and Jewish community connections.
Ukraine Emergency Response: Aid for communities affected by the war.
Ukraine’s Jews are in a desperate state. For four years, they have faced fear and devastation, trauma and loss, bitterly cold winters and rising prices. With help from generous donors through the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, JDC has delivered essential support and lifesaving aid from day one. But with the crisis ongoing and donor support waning, the needs are now more urgent than ever.
In the coming year, JDC seeks to provide basic humanitarian aid, such as material and winter survival assistance, as well as trauma care, education programs, and community-building initiatives. Your gift to the Federation will enable JDC to continue to provide urgent relief in 2025, offering stability, hope, and resilience to those in crisis.
Sarvas Jewish Camp (Hungary): Strengthens Jewish identity through youth camp experiences.
For more than three decades, Camp Szarvas in Hungary has been strengthening Jewish life and cultivating Jewish leadership, particularly in Europe and the former Soviet Union, where Jewish communities were nearly decimated by the Holocaust and Communist rule.
Szarvas invites campers ages 6-18 to embark on a meaningful Jewish journey, exploring Jewish identity in a safe and pluralistic environment. For some, it is their first meaningful encounter with Jewish culture and tradition. For others, it is an opportunity to deepen their connection to their heritage while forging lasting relationships with Jewish peers from some 25 countries. Inspired and transformed by their experience, many alumni go on to become leaders in their home communities.
ENP SPACE (School Performance and Community Empowerment) provides holistic, supplementary educational, social, emotional and nutritional support to Ethiopian-Israeli school-age children.
SPACE increases the number of Ethiopian-Israeli high school students who pass the matriculation exams, improves the level of achievement in these tests and reduces overt and covert dropout rates. SPACE provides four weekly supplementary teaching hours in small groups to strengthen students’ academic achievements, including preparatory classes for matriculation exams on subjects critical to future success.
The Magshimot project addresses the urgent social needs of Israel’s most marginalized women, many of whom are from Ethiopia, former Soviet Union, or Israeli second generation to Aliya.
The program focuses on women living in extreme poverty and social isolation in Ashkelon and Ofakim, cities severely impacted by the war. These women face language and cultural barriers, lack education and job skills, and struggle with low self-confidence, preventing them from breaking free from hardship.
Jindas provides emergency aid, access to rights, and employment support, empowering women to gain financial stability and create a better future.
Leket provides 1,500 students at seven elementary schools in low socio-economic regions with nutrition education and healthy surplus fruits and vegetables.
Topics relating to healthy eating habits, the importance of balanced nutrition, and integrating fresh produce into the students’ diets are incorporated into the participating schools’ educational curriculum.
Throughout the year, Leket conducts workshops for parents and students in all grades of the participating schools. Alongside the seminars, each family receives 26.5 lbs. of 8 produce types every two weeks.
Selah provides urgent emotional and practical aid to new immigrant children and youth at risk, and their families facing severe crises. Many have lost parents or siblings in the war, have relatives held hostage, or have been displaced from their homes. The trauma of war, grief and uncertainty leaves them highly vulnerable.
Selah’s dedicated team—social workers, psychologists, and volunteers—offers trauma-informed counseling, urgent financial aid, school-related assistance, and direct support for food, housing, and essential needs. Through rapid and culturally sensitive intervention, they help children and youth process their loss, regain stability, and begin to rebuild their lives with dignity.
Technology Training Program: Tech-Career equips young adults with the skills and support needed to break the cycle of poverty through high-tech careers. Partnering with industry leaders, it designs up-to-date training programs that combine technical expertise with high-level career preparation and job placement. Graduates gain industry experience, secure rewarding jobs, and often return as mentors, paving the way for others to succeed in Israel’s tech sector. The proposed program will provide 2 technology training courses of the highest professional caliber and market relevance for 40 Ethiopian Israeli students: (1) Data Analysis course for Ethiopian Israeli women with academic degrees, to begin in October 2025 and (2) DevNet and Cyber course, to begin in December 2025.
Unrestricted Grant: Supports:
Immigration to Israel (Aliyah)
Youth programs and Israel experiences
Global Jewish community connections
Assistance for vulnerable populations
Restricted Grant: Youth Futures
Youth Futures, a subsidiary of The Jewish Agency for Israel, has helped tens of thousands of children and families from Israel’s geographic and socioeconomic periphery break cycles of risk and fulfill their potential through the holistic interventions of Mentors. Currently serving 14,000 direct beneficiaries – children and their parents – across 49 diverse communities, the program supports new immigrants, Arabs, Druze, Bedouin, and the ultra-Orthodox.
Their professionally trained, full-time mentors work intensively with children and families for three to five years, addressing challenges such as learning disabilities, behavioral difficulties, poverty, and familial instability, ensuring long-term positive change.
Unrestricted Grant: Supports global humanitarian work, emergency response, rescue efforts, and Jewish community connections.
Ukraine Emergency Response: Aid for communities affected by the war.
Ukraine’s Jews are in a desperate state. For four years, they have faced fear and devastation, trauma and loss, bitterly cold winters and rising prices. With help from generous donors through the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, JDC has delivered essential support and lifesaving aid from day one. But with the crisis ongoing and donor support waning, the needs are now more urgent than ever.
In the coming year, JDC seeks to provide basic humanitarian aid, such as material and winter survival assistance, as well as trauma care, education programs, and community-building initiatives. Your gift to the Federation will enable JDC to continue to provide urgent relief in 2025, offering stability, hope, and resilience to those in crisis.
Sarvas Jewish Camp (Hungary): Strengthens Jewish identity through youth camp experiences.
For more than three decades, Camp Szarvas in Hungary has been strengthening Jewish life and cultivating Jewish leadership, particularly in Europe and the former Soviet Union, where Jewish communities were nearly decimated by the Holocaust and Communist rule.
Szarvas invites campers ages 6-18 to embark on a meaningful Jewish journey, exploring Jewish identity in a safe and pluralistic environment. For some, it is their first meaningful encounter with Jewish culture and tradition. For others, it is an opportunity to deepen their connection to their heritage while forging lasting relationships with Jewish peers from some 25 countries. Inspired and transformed by their experience, many alumni go on to become leaders in their home communities.
ENP SPACE (School Performance and Community Empowerment) provides holistic, supplementary educational, social, emotional and nutritional support to Ethiopian-Israeli school-age children.
SPACE increases the number of Ethiopian-Israeli high school students who pass the matriculation exams, improves the level of achievement in these tests and reduces overt and covert dropout rates. SPACE provides four weekly supplementary teaching hours in small groups to strengthen students’ academic achievements, including preparatory classes for matriculation exams on subjects critical to future success.
The Magshimot project addresses the urgent social needs of Israel’s most marginalized women, many of whom are from Ethiopia, former Soviet Union, or Israeli second generation to Aliya.
The program focuses on women living in extreme poverty and social isolation in Ashkelon and Ofakim, cities severely impacted by the war. These women face language and cultural barriers, lack education and job skills, and struggle with low self-confidence, preventing them from breaking free from hardship.
Jindas provides emergency aid, access to rights, and employment support, empowering women to gain financial stability and create a better future.
Leket provides 1,500 students at seven elementary schools in low socio-economic regions with nutrition education and healthy surplus fruits and vegetables.
Topics relating to healthy eating habits, the importance of balanced nutrition, and integrating fresh produce into the students’ diets are incorporated into the participating schools’ educational curriculum.
Throughout the year, Leket conducts workshops for parents and students in all grades of the participating schools. Alongside the seminars, each family receives 26.5 lbs. of 8 produce types every two weeks.
Selah provides urgent emotional and practical aid to new immigrant children and youth at risk, and their families facing severe crises. Many have lost parents or siblings in the war, have relatives held hostage, or have been displaced from their homes. The trauma of war, grief and uncertainty leaves them highly vulnerable.
Selah’s dedicated team—social workers, psychologists, and volunteers—offers trauma-informed counseling, urgent financial aid, school-related assistance, and direct support for food, housing, and essential needs. Through rapid and culturally sensitive intervention, they help children and youth process their loss, regain stability, and begin to rebuild their lives with dignity.
Technology Training Program: Tech-Career equips young adults with the skills and support needed to break the cycle of poverty through high-tech careers. Partnering with industry leaders, it designs up-to-date training programs that combine technical expertise with high-level career preparation and job placement. Graduates gain industry experience, secure rewarding jobs, and often return as mentors, paving the way for others to succeed in Israel’s tech sector. The proposed program will provide 2 technology training courses of the highest professional caliber and market relevance for 40 Ethiopian Israeli students: (1) Data Analysis course for Ethiopian Israeli women with academic degrees, to begin in October 2025 and (2) DevNet and Cyber course, to begin in December 2025.
Unrestricted Grant: Supports:
Immigration to Israel (Aliyah)
Youth programs and Israel experiences
Global Jewish community connections
Assistance for vulnerable populations
Restricted Grant: Youth Futures
Youth Futures, a subsidiary of The Jewish Agency for Israel, has helped tens of thousands of children and families from Israel’s geographic and socioeconomic periphery break cycles of risk and fulfill their potential through the holistic interventions of Mentors. Currently serving 14,000 direct beneficiaries – children and their parents – across 49 diverse communities, the program supports new immigrants, Arabs, Druze, Bedouin, and the ultra-Orthodox.
Their professionally trained, full-time mentors work intensively with children and families for three to five years, addressing challenges such as learning disabilities, behavioral difficulties, poverty, and familial instability, ensuring long-term positive change.
Questions?
Questions?
Contact Alana Gross, Associate Director of Foundation Operations, at alanag@jewishinseattle.org or (206) 774-2247.
