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 [email protected].
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; [email protected]); Santa Rosa (Barbara Tobin; 707-303-1510; [email protected]); Miriam Schultz Grunfeld Building in San Francisco (Rachel Kesselman; 415-449-1288; [email protected]); Eleanor Haas Koshland Center in San Mateo (Pauline Shulman; 650-931-1858; [email protected]); and the Dr. George Sugarman Swift Building in San Rafael (Betty Hirschfeld; 415-419-3663; [email protected]).
JFCS also invites community members to contribute to the Seder Sack program. To do so, they can call 415-449-1256; email [email protected]; or go to www.jfcs.org.