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Do gentiles have the obligation of giving charity to help the needy?
The only source I found that relates to charity and gentiles is that Jews are expected to give charity to help the non-Jews in their environment for the sake of "darkei shalom".
Given that ...
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Can a non-Jew give tzedakah?
I saw videos on YouTube from Rebbe Lubavitch saying to give money to tzedakah to run better on business and to be blessed. I'm giving money for a Jewish charity institution in Brazil monthly to test ...
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Should I donate money to non-jewish organizations that I've benefited from, or is it better to give that money to Jewish institutions?
I was thinking that on the one hand there may be an ענין to give to a non-Jewish organization that you've benefitted from (e.g. Wikipedia) as a way to train yourself in the middah of הכרת הטוב (...
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Donations from non-Jews
Are donations to Torah institutions from non-Jews acceptable?
Does it make a difference if they donate money or objects (e.g. a sefer Torah)? Does it make a difference who the donor is and what their ...
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Are Noachides/Non-Jews encouraged/expected to do maaser kesafim?
A friend of mines has been infatuated by Judaism for as long as I can remember. He came from the Christian world and has since left it. Even as a Christian he would take 10% of his income and give to ...
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Do non-Jews have the mitzvah of tzedoko?
Some one told me the Lubavicher Rebbe told non jews to do charity
Are there sources that they have a commandment to do so?
By them doing it it is only them doing a mitzvah they were not commanded to ...
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Is it okay for a gentile to join a Christian or an Islamic charity movement?
If a gentile want to spend his free time other than Study Torah and want to join a Charity movement but the problem isnthat all the charity movements he/she knows and are near them is Christian or ...
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Accepting charity from a non-Jew
If a person sends out a group email to solicit funds to help needy families and inadvertently includes non-Jews on the email - Is it permitted to use the funds that the non-Jews donate towards helping ...
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Giving handouts/alms to the poor: Which halachos and Jewish ideas are relevant?
I am invoking here the important question of whether and how to respond to a request for money by a beggar on the street.
I ask this question from the U.S., where, outside of Jewish neighborhoods, it ...
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Government subsidies or tzedoko
it is preferable not to take charity from non-Jews (maybe only if it is not in private)
Source Yore daiya 254
In a case of need (someone needs money for housing and/or food),
which is more ...
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Giving to a "mission" collection
In some religions, people accept upon themselves some kind of "mission" to do whatever act to help others. In many cases, it involves collections to send to the poor, or to 3rd world countries. The ...
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