Montclair Synagogue Will Serve Chinese Food To Syrian Refugees On Christmas Day

Montclair, NJ - Bnai Keshet of Montclair, in partnership with other area synagogues, will host a “traditionally Jewish” Christmas Day dinner of Chinese food for 10 newly arrived Syrian refugee families at 6 p.m.

According to a release, the community is invited to participate and/or contribute to support outreach efforts and send families home with the gift of financial support.

For more information, click www.bnaikeshet.org/event/breaking-bread-on-christmas-day.html

According to a release, the meal is an “effort to promote the Jewish value of welcoming the stranger.”

“Many of Bnai Keshet’s own members have family histories of fleeing warfare and violence, seeking asylum in lands that were not always welcoming,” the release stated. “The Syrian families Bnai Keshet’s welcoming were recently resettled in Elizabeth by the International Refugee Committee. More recently, an additional Syrian family was resettled in Paterson by Church World Service, amid controversy sparked by Gov. Chris Christie’s efforts to block them from entering the state.”