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J-Serve is the annual day of service for Jewish youth throughout the world. It is a day on which Jewish teens join their counterparts in other faith communities, other cities and other countries in giving of their time to serve the communities in which they live.

 

About Us

Welcome to the J-Serve website!

J-Serve, the National Day of Jewish Youth Service, is a program created by teens for teens. Upon hearing about Youth Service America’s Global Youth Service Day, a teen leader in the Jewish community asked us, “Why don’t we have something like that?”

Five months later, J-Serve was born.

Since 2005, we have partnered with Youth Service America, to bring you the Jewish component of Youth Service Day.

J-Serve provides Jewish participants with the opportunity to fulfill age-old Jewish values. By engaging in community service, J-Serve participants are fulfilling the ideals of; gemilut chasadim, acts of lovingkindness; tzedakah, just and charitable giving; and tikkun olam, the idea that Jews are duty bound to help fix a broken world.

J-Serve is a program in partnership with PANIM: The Institute for Jewish Leadership and Values and The Jewish Coalition for Service. J-Serve is made possible by the The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Awards Committee, and the Lipman Kanfer Family Foundation. You will also find listed a wide array of national endorsing agencies from the Jewish community.

To register your project, please click here.

To find information about projects going on in your area, click here.

For project resources and to see project ideas, click here.

If you are a member of the media, please visit our press page.

For more information, or to find out how your group can get involved, please contact Lia Katz.

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J-Serve has been generously underwritten by the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Awards Committee, the Lippman Kanfer Family Foundation and the Estelle Friedman Gervis Family Foundation.