OUR FUTURE. YOUR LEGACY.
Your legacy plan reflects what is most important and meaningful to you.
Creating a legacy plan is an empowering experience that enables you to leave your personal imprint on the future. It completes the work of your life and offers the opportunity to support the cause you care most deeply about.
Our legacy program brings together our passionate community of supporters who are committed to ensuring a thriving Jewish community within an egalitarian and inclusive setting in the heart of Jerusalem.
Your committment to the future not only protects what FJC has achieved, but also plants the seed for the future of Israel as we envision it together.
About FJC
The Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center (FJC) is a home in the heart of Jerusalem where leaders and seekers can find an authentic place in Jewish tradition to call their own. FJC offers opportunities to study, pray and explore within an egalitarian and inclusive setting, creating multiple pathways for finding personal and communal meaning.
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- Dynamic Jewish Text Study: Our Yeshiva provides intensive short- and long-term Jewish study experiences for learners wherever they are on their Jewish journeys
- Spiritual Home: Our synagogue and Jewish Innovation Lab offer rich musical, spiritual, and communal practices bringing people of assorted backgrounds and traditions together.
- Immersive Israel Experiences: Our trips and seminars combine experiential Israel education with immersion in Jewish tradition, helping participants forge lifelong bonds with Israel and their Jewish heritage
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Ways to Give
There are many ways to support the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center.
Explore many of the options below.
Most Legacy gifts come in the form of a bequest. A bequest is a gift that is made as part of a will or trust. For example, a charitable bequest to a nonprofit organization. A bequest can be made by adding a simple instruction in one’s will: “I give $10,000 to Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center.”
An endowment is a structure commonly used by large nonprofit organizations to raise donation capital in order to fund its ongoing operations. Most of the money in an endowment is invested rather than spent and the investment proceeds are then used to fund the organization’s operations.
Estate planning is the process by which an individual creating a plan to handle one’s assets in the future, typically after one’s death. An estate plan usually includes a will, but can also include other documents, such as insurance policies.
Giving real estate, such as a primary home, vacation home, undeveloped property, or a farm, can be a highly effective philanthropic and financial strategy.
Each of the following gift arrangements has distinct tax benefits, which we would be happy to discuss with you:
- Your property can fund a trust that makes payments back to you or someone you name for a period of time.
- You can choose to make an outright gift of real estate, which can be used for funding a capital facility, creating a program endowment, or for other purposes.
- If you are planning to sell your real estate, you can transfer ownership of an interest in the property to FJC prior to sale. After the sale, FJC receives its share of the proceeds.
- You can make a gift through a retained life estate arrangement, under which you give FJC your home, but retain the right to live there for the rest of your life. You also receive a current income tax deduction.
Under any of the above arrangements the property that you contribute is removed from your taxable estate.