Get Involved !

We Depend on Volunteers.

Every year, hundreds of your neighbors are finding easy ways to make meaningful, rewarding contributions  to the Jewish community through our Federation.  In fact, our vital work is made possible only by people like you, who know how good it feels to lend a helping hand. 

Click here to read our volunteer profiles.

Our activities:

Provide Various Opportunities to Help - Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey volunteers visit the sick, promote Jewish learning, help allocate community resources, and organize educational and social programs.

Fit Your Schedule - We can work with you to provide rewarding experiences, whatever your schedule.

Require a Variety of Skills - We need people with all kinds of different backgrounds, talents and skills.

Click here for How You Can Help.  

Jewish Family Service

Jewish Family Service (JFS) of Central New Jersey, a non-sectarian social service agency which provides life-saving services for community members, such as homemaker and respite care for the frail elderly and their families, Food Pantry, Kosher Meals on Wheels Program, and much more.  Volunteers are needed for a number of outreach programs... more

Summer Internship Program

VOLUNTEER IN ISRAEL

Looking for a Unique and Meaningful Experience in Israel?

The New Jersey/Delaware-Arad/Tamar Partnership 2000 offers volunteer opportunities, working from two weeks to two months with children, seniors, new immigrants and living like an Israeli in a warm, friendly community.   

The Partnership covers one-way transportation to or from Ben Gurion Airport and a simple but amply furnished apartment with fully equipped kitchen and air-conditioning.
Sight seeing programs are available.

Contact Amy Cooper by phone at 908-288-2405 or email acooper@jfedcnj.org for more information

 

Especially for Teens

Bnei Tzedek

Juniors To Seniors

 

Chaplaincy Program

The true test of any society is its commitment to treat all of its members with dignity.  This includes the middle-aged women in intensive care with liver disease who refuses to pray because she feels her illness is  punishment from God; or the holocaust survivor who refuses to speak... more

 

Resident Reader Program

Help combat illiteracy. Volunteers work with children in kindergarten through third grades as readers in Plainfield and Roselle public schools.  Volunteers are asked to make a commitment to read once a week for 15 minutes. Early Intervention is the best solution – IF YOU DON’T LEARN TO READ, YOU CAN’T READ TO LEARN!