Passover food drives need donations, helpers

With Passover around the corner, local Jewish groups are organizing food drives for needy families and the elderly.

Project N.O.A.H. (No One Abandoned Here), a program of Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley, will accept donations of wrapped, kosher foods for its Passover packages through March 20 at bins placed at the Jewish Federation of Silicon Valley, Addison-Penzak JCC, Yavneh Day School, South Peninsula Hebrew Day School, Congregation Beth David, Temple Emanu-El, Congregation Shir Hadash, Congregation Sinai and Pars Kosher Market. The Feinstein Foundation will match the dollar value of contributions.

Jewish Family and Children’s Services of the East Bay will deliver Passover food to about 195 homebound elderly in Alameda and Contra Costa counties on March 24. Packages include large donations of groceries from Beth Chaim Congregation in Danville and B’nai Shalom Congregation in Walnut Creek. For more information  email Kathryn Winogura at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

S.F.-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services has begun its annual Seder Sack program, which invites community members to help assemble Passover packages for seniors, those with disabilities, and the needy. Volunteers are needed at the following locations: Koret Family Resource Center in Palo Alto (Bobbi Bornstein; 650-688-3090; .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address));  Santa Rosa (Barbara Tobin; 707-303-1510; .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)); Miriam Schultz Grunfeld Building in San Francisco (Rachel Kesselman; 415-449-1288; .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)); Eleanor Haas Koshland Center in San Mateo (Pauline Shulman; 650-931-1858; .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)); and the Dr. George Sugarman Swift Building in San Rafael (Betty Hirschfeld; 415-419-3663; .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). 

JFCS also invites community members to contribute to the Seder Sack program. To do so, they can call 415-449-1256; email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address); or go to http://www.jfcs.org.