Tzedokah

Tzedokah (charity) and chesed (caring) are at the heart of the Hasmonean community. Our students are educated to care about and for other people, and graduate from the school understanding that a commitment to charitable work is at the centre of Orthodox Judaism and citizenship.

The Tzedokah department is led and run by members of the Sixth Form. Throughout the year, students of both Schools run many different types of activity to raise large sums of money for a wide variety of Jewish and Non-Jewish charities. These include the following:

Zicron Menachem, Camp Simcha, Chazzon Yeshaih, Magen David Adom, Hatzolah, Jewish Child's Day, Genes for Jeans day, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, Cancer Research UK, World Cancer Research Fund, North London Hospice, Kisharon, Jewish Deaf Association, Poor farmers (both locally and in Israel), Local Soup Kitchens, Project Seed, Shmitta charities, Jewish Children's Holiday Fund.

Hasmonean students also devote large amounts of their own time to chesed activities to support individuals and groups within the local and wider community. Projects that they have undertaken include concerts for old age homes and primary schools, carnival for children from Zichron Menachem, working with children from Kisharon Special School, GIFT, supporting students in Russia and the Ukraine, supporting needy families in the local community and delivering balloons to children in local hospitals.