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2018 Community Passover Food Drive Locations
Milwaukee Jewish Federation has started accepting donations for their Community Food Drive.
FOX POINT-BAYSIDE, WI - From Milwaukee Jewish Federation: Food donations for the Community Passover Food Drive (Ma’ot Chittim) will be collected March 6-20 at several collection sites, including Milwaukee Jewish Federation, Harry and Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center and local synagogues.
Products needed, which must have kosher certification for Passover: matzo, canned gefilte fish, chicken
soup/matzo ball mix and grape juice. These basic items will then be supplemented with additional
traditional Passover items. In 2017, the drive was able to serve 540 individuals and families.
Monetary contributions will be used to purchase food items. Send donations to: Community Passover
Food Drive Project, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Milwaukee, WI 53217; make checks out to JCC
Community Passover Food Drive Project.
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This year’s Passover food distribution will be from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. on Sunday, March 25 at Ovation
Jewish Home - Rubenstein Pavilion, 1410 N. Prospect Ave. For further details, contact Rabbi Shari
Shamah at (414) 967-8229 or SShamah@JCCmilwaukee.org.
For a complete list of collection sites, go to MilwaukeeJewish.org/PassoverFood.
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The Community Passover Food Drive is a joint effort of: Coalition for Jewish Learning & Jewish
Community Relations Council, programs of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation; Harry & Rose Samson
Family Jewish Community Center; Hillel Milwaukee; Jewish Community Pantry; Jewish Family Services;
Kosher Meat Klub; Ovation Jewish Home; Rabbi Scheinfeld Maos Chitim Fund; Salinsky Program to
Feed the Hungry; Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee; and Wisconsin Council of Rabbis.
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