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PHOTOS: Kimcha D’Pischa Fund of Lakewood Annual Pesach Distribution


[PHOTO LINK BELOW] The driving rain couldn’t deter the 150 dedicated volunteers yesterday in Lakewood at the Kimcha D’Pischa Fund of Lakewood Pesach distribution center. The all day event ran from 10 a.m. until 1:00 a.m. as the volunteers readied the Pesach packages and delivered them to more than 500 Lakewood families. 

The packaging took place in the parking lot of the Lake Terrace Hall and was visited throughout the day by local Roshei Yeshiva and askanim. The Roshei Yeshiva of Bais Medrash Govoha, Rav Malkiel Kotler and Rav Yeruchem Olshin, visited the distribution center during the course of the day. State Assemblyman Gary Schaer, an Orthodox Jew from Passaic, State Senator Bob Singer, Lakewood Mayor Steve Langert and local Committeemen Meir Lichtenstein and Menashe Miller also came to witness the scene.

Kimcha D’Pischa Fund of Lakewood, a project of Tomchei Shabbos of Lakewood, has a Pesach budget of $500,000, roughly 25% of the annual Tomchei Shabbos budget. The fund has become the largest kupah for kimcha d’pischa in Lakewood. The $500,000 is divided evenly among the 500 families who receive Pesach essentials from the Kimcha D’Pischa Fund. The packages include Yom Tov essentials; wine, grape juice, matzah, fish, chicken, meat, produce, potato starch, plastic ware and more. Each family’s needs and chumrahs such as hand matzah, Beis Yosef shechitah etc. are met by the staff of the kupah.

The kupah distributed this year 5,000 pounds of matzah, 7,000 pounds of fish, 12,000 bottles of wine and grape juice, 50,000 pounds of meat and chicken and 110,000 pounds of produce. https://www.jewishboxoffice.com/ch/tomchei?aff=yw

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5 Responses

  1. MazelKGH, your making it sound like we never hear of good things from Lakewood! I think a lot of Torah learning goes on in BMG and in various other Yeshivos in Lakewood. In fact, don’t they say something to the tune that BMG is the Torah center of America. I think that’s a good thing!

  2. Very nice, but If I’m not mistaken, such a thing should be done quietly without fanfare. If someone has to come on to such a program, it is more respectful to have it done “Matan B’seser.”

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