I often criticize the Jewish Orthodox community, however:
1. If you are Orthodox and getting married, you can turn to your local gemach - lending organization - for a free bridal dress. (It is customary, but not obligatory, to give a small donation for the upkeep of the gemach, according to your financial abilities.)
2. If you are sick - you have an entire community to pray for you, to visit you in the hospital, to make you meals.
3. Most synagogues have a bikur cholim society that goes around visiting sick people in hospitals - regardless of whether or not said people are synagogue members, or even Jewish.
4. If a loved one passes away, the community unites to comfort the mourner by visiting her/him and making meals.
5. If you give birth - presto, there will be a sign-up sheet going around as people volunteer to cook you meals.
6. If you need a shabbat meal or even to be set up in a city for shabbat, just let the synagogue know, and it will send out emails and call members, in order to arrange hospitality for you. Just in general, people within the Orthodox community have a "my pleasure" attitude towards hosting others, whether the guest is a friend, a friend of a friend, or a stranger one is hosting at the community's behest.
These qualities might exist in other denominations of Judaism, or in other religions, but I am talking about Orthodox Judaism because it's the community I grew up in and am most familiar with. To me, the six values I've mentioned above - each a different way of being kind towards others - are part of the core values of Judaism - and part of why, at times, I love being Orthodox.
