With so many struggling financially, over 100 Crown Heights families received packages of food and other necessities, including financial assistance, to alleviate the expense of the Pesach holiday this year.
The funding for the Pesach assistance was made possible by Bais Shmuel Chabad and various donors.
Other projects to enhance Pesach in the community included weekly gift packages before Shabbos as well as Erev Pesach for Hatzalah members who have been on the front lines of caring for the community during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Erev Shabbos packages, arranged by Shmuli Kopfstein, who sponsored the project with a group of generous donors, included flowers from Chani Greenbaum florist and wine, Challah, fish and Kugel.
The Pesach packages included Pesach necessities and 2 pounds of Matzah.
Each package also included a $100 gift card to Kettle & Cord on Kingston Avenue.
Also included were discounts at neighborhood businesses such as Regency Cleaners, Eber’s Wine, Wine by the Case, and Weinstein’s Hardware.
Sponsors included Yosef Yitzchok Popack, Nash Foundation, Benz’s, Gourmet Glatt, Emporium Gourmet Glatt, Kettle & Cord, Schmerling’s Swiss Chocolate, יהודה לייב ז״ל בן מרדכי / איטא ז׳׳ל בת יוטלא, and the Drizin Family in loving memory of Avrahom Ben Dovber Yortzeit Yud Nissan, Ben Ish winery and Wine by the Case.
Special thanks to Zalman Lezell for his assistance with Matzah distribution.
Thank you for all the activists and business owners are doing for the community. Is there any plans being worked on to help families who lost their jobs lower or pause tuition payments without it having a repercussion on the local schools and mechanchim financials?