Seasonal & Holidays
Passover 2016: Fairfield's Jewish Family Service Delivers Food Baskets to Local Residents
Jewish Family Service, now located in Fairfield, has been distributing Passover Baskets and giving out financial aid for almost 95 years.
Written by Harvey Paris
Jewish Family Service
FAIRFIELD, CT — Each year during the Holiday of Passover, our local community joins with Jewish communities around the world in reading the Haggadah.
We declare “All who are hungry, let them come and eat.”
While the Jewish tradition recognizes that there will always be people in need, the custom of Ma’ot Chitim, translated as “Wheat Fund,” obligates each of us to contribute so the hungry cannot only eat, but also celebrate this Holiday of Freedom.
One of the beautiful aspects of our tradition is how we can all share in the mitzvot of both giving and enabling others to celebrate.
To honor this tradition, Jewish Family Service, now located on Reef Road in Fairfield, has been distributing Passover Baskets and giving out financial aid for almost 95 years.
This year JFS, in conjunction with Project Hope B’nai Brith, already distributed 125 baskets of Kosher for Passover food to deserving people in the Greater Bridgeport area. These baskets included matzah, gefilte fish, borscht, canned vegetables, sweets and other holiday essentials.
Contributed photos:
1. Volunteers deliver Passover Food Baskets to residents of Seymour I. Hollander Apartments in Bridgeport.
l to r- Barbara Paris, JFS Vice President, Yekatrina Liderman, former refugee from the former Soviet Union who was resettled by JFS in the 1980s and Tom Kay, JFS Board Member.
2. Volunteers load baskets of Passover Food for delivery to local Jewish residents.
L to r. Jill Banks, JFS Board member and her son Steven.
3. Volunteers pick up Passover Baskets for delivery to local Jewish residents
L to r- Jay Dimand, JFS Board member, Harvey Paris, JFS President, Tom Kay, JFS Board Member, Henry Litt, JFS volunteer deliverer to residents of the Seymour I. Hollander Apartments in Bridgeport , Roman Breslav, JFS volunteer deliverer to residents of Stern Village in Trumbull and Lev Stelman, JFS volunteer deliverer to residents of Laurelwood Apartments in Bridgeport.
4. Barbara Paris, JFS Vice President loads baskets of Passover food for distribution to local residents.
5. Amy Lipper McCauley, JFS Board Member and husband John McCauley, loads baskets of Passover food for distribution to local residents.
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