Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee

The Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee helps to foster a stronger Jewish community through a variety of charitable activities which support Jewish communal life. The Charities Committee works to develop educational, interfaith and inter-cultural opportunities for Canadian Jewry and strives for tolerance, understanding and goodwill among all segments of society in a multicultural Canada. The committee also works on humanitarian and social justice issues that affect the Jewish community and Canadian society at large.

Among its many activities, the Charities Committee’s primary goals include:

• Creating opportunities for engagement with other faith and cultural communities;
• Marginalization of attitudes that set the context for antisemitism or otherwise negatively affect the welfare of the Jewish community in Canada, Israel or elsewhere in the world;
• Fostering education on antisemitism and other forms of racism;
• Supporting the Canadian Jewish community’s efforts to learn about, commemorate and receive restitution related to the Holocaust; and
• Maintaining a National Jewish Archive to support academics and others in their efforts to learn about the history of Canadian Jewry.

The CJC Charities Committee office is located in Ottawa and has affiliated offices across the country.

Working separately but in cooperation with the Charities Committee, Canadian Jewish Congress advocates on behalf of Canadian Jewry to foster a Canada where Jews, as part of the multicultural fabric of this country, live in and contribute to an environment of opportunity and mutual respect. For more information on the separate advocacy activities of Canadian Jewish Congress, click here.