More than 607,500 pounds of matzoh and matzo meal and 21,700 bottles of Passover wine have been shipped to Europe and North Africa by the Joint Distribution Committee to help the Jewish communities celebrate the Passover holiday properly, it was announced this week by Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland, JDC chairman.
“This is only part of the JDC Passover assistance program,” Ginsberg said. “Passover relief grants in Eastern Europe, Morocco and Iran, special Passover food parcels and Passover meals in canteens will entail expenditures more than double the cost of the supplies shipped this year.” The estimated cost of the Passover shipments is $136,500, he added.
“The program will enable tens of thousands of elderly and needy Jews, who otherwise would have been unable to do so, to observe and celebrate Passover properly and with dignity,” Ginsberg stated. Funds for Passover relief and other JDC health, welfare and refugee assistance programs comes mainly from the campaigns of the United Jewish Appeal. Most of the Passover supplies were shipped to Eastern Europe, Ginsberg noted.
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