How to Make a Gift

Supporters can make gifts to The Jewish Theological Seminary with many kinds of assets and in a variety of forms. Options include cash, checks, credit card payments, gifts of marketable securities, and estate planning, among others. Please write or call for advice or details.

Contact Your Local Development Office

JTS has development offices offering JTS events, fundraisers, and opportunities for learning throughout the country. Our offices offer public lectures and sessions with our Kollot: Voices of Learning rabbinic fellows.

Find your local JTS development office

Donating Online

JTS is pleased to offer you the ability to make secure online donations via credit card.

Checks / Credit Cards

Checks should be made payable to "The Jewish Theological Seminary" and mailed to:

The Jewish Theological Seminary
Development Office, Box 62
3080 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

For payments by Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or American Express, please call (212) 678-8991.

Marketable Securities

Please notify your bank or broker that you are making a gift of securities to JTS and instruct your bank or broker to telephone your local development office or call (212) 678-8991 for more instructions.

For Securities or Israel Bonds Held by you
Please send unendorsed certificates by mail, along with a letter giving your name and address to:

The Jewish Theological Seminary
Development Office Box 62
3080 Broadway
New York, NY 10027

In a separate envelope, please mail to the same address a stock power for each certificate, along with a copy of your letter. Do not complete any information on the stock power other than your signature and the date.

Your bank or broker can supply you with blank stock powers, or Contribution Processing will be happy to send them to you.

Please do not fill in JTS's name as transferee on either stock certificates or the stock power and please do not send stock certificates to a transfer agent for transfer into JTS's name.

Planned Giving

The Tzaddikim Society

Being a Tzaddik (righteous person) in your own time calls for recognition. That's why we have created the Tzaddikim Society. Membership in the society is open to concerned individuals like you who care deeply about Judaism and who wish to support JTS through bequests in their wills and other planned gifts.

There are many ways to give to JTS. You may give a percentage of your estate or specific property, securities or real estate.

Please consider a bequest or other planned gift to JTS. As a member of the Tzaddikim Society, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are helping to secure the future of Conservative Judaism. Your name will be recognized in the Tzaddikim Society category of our annual report.

The JTS Planned Giving Program exists to encourage you to plan your charitable gifts to your maximum advantage. Because tax laws favor charitable giving by providing substantial tax deductions, the ways you decide to give will affect the benefits for you and your family—now and in the future.

We welcome the opportunity to work with you in planning for your future and the future of JTS by way of:

Bequests
Life Insurance
Charitable Remainder Trusts
Charitable Gift Annuities
Charitable Lead Trusts

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