The 2015/5775 Pesach4All/Maot Chittim Project still needs volunteers -- especially DRIVERS!

“Let all who are hungry come and eat” is not just a part of the Passover Haggadah –
it’s a community imperative.

Every Jewish community is obligated to ensure that everyone has the food they need to celebrate a joyous Passover, and this year – as in years past – Portland’s Jewish community is stepping up.

The Pesach4All/Maot Chittim Project – literally “Money for Wheat” – again will be collecting donations to ensure that area families can truly celebrate Passover.

“We really want this to be a community event,” says Michael Rosenberg of Congregation Kesser Israel, who has organized the food drive in cooperation with Jewish Family and Child Service for nearly two decades. In recent years, other congregations, Portland Jewish Academy, and other groups have pitched in to expand the project’s reach.

Begun as a project of an early Jewish Boy Scout troop (not the current one), the Maot Chittim Project last year provided kosher-for-Passover food boxes for some 120 families in the greater Portland area.

According to Marian Fenimore, former JFCS executive director, "This community effort has special meaning to many Jews who do not have the means to have a Seder. Several clients have called in past years to say how much the Passover box meant to them.”

The boxes usually include at least 10 pounds of potatoes, three dozen eggs, five pounds of matzah, a frozen kosher chicken, soup mix, wine – and haggadahs. DRIVERS AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED TO HELP ASSEMBLE, PACK, AND DELIVER THE BOXES!

Assembly and delivery will be on Sunday, March 29, beginning at 9:00 a.m. at the Mittleman Jewish Community Center. The first seder begins at sundown on Friday, April 3rd.

To volunteer, please contact Michael Horenstein, mthorenstein@gmail.com.
Thank you for your time and interest!