While giving Tzedakah, or money to the poor is a mitzvah all year round, there is a special Mitzvah to do so on Purim. As always, we will be distributing cash assistance from your support on Purim day, so that the Mitzvah will be fulfilled, and those in need in our own communities will be helped. We have needs right here in our own backyard, and never before have these needs been greater!
During the pandemic:
- Our staff came to the office each day from the beginning of the pandemic.
- 40 families received food each day, three times the usually daily number to obtain food from our Freedberg Kosher Food Pantry
- There was an increase of more than 500% in people seeking food from the Freedberg Kosher Food pantry
- 70,000 meals were distributed to over 750 clients.
- An average of 30 Holocaust survivors traveled to virtual events to avoid isolation and loneliness
- 18 children received scholarships to attend virtual and in person camps through the Zinbarg Camp Scholarship Fund
- 20 Seniors with memory impairments, attended weekly brain fitness sessions
- 40 people received weekly therapy sessions via zoom to help deal with the anxiety brought about by the pandemic, as well as other interpersonal issues through the Kuriansky Family Counseling Program
- 50 bags of groceries were distribute every week to dozens of elderly people who were unable to leave their homes; in addition, hundreds of meals were also delivered to people through our Hirsch Kosher Home Delivered Meal Program.
Please consider helping Schoke JFS with your Matanot L'evyonim this year. Your mitzvah, and your congregants’ mitzvoth will help save people from despair. We will distribute matanot l’evyonim on Purim Day.