She didn’t have the words.
An elderly woman in Jerusalem, receiving a Passover basket for the first time, could barely get through her thank-you. “I’m truly speechless,” she said. Preparing the holiday on her own had become too hard, and this was the first time she’d ever received everything ready-made, a complete Passover package delivered to her door.
That moment happened because of you.
Together, you raised over $33,000 for families in need this Passover. Here’s what that made possible.
This Passover, together with Chabad of Kiryat Yovel in Jerusalem’s Kiryat HaYovel neighborhood, your gifts funded three programs: complete food baskets, shopping vouchers for items a basket can’t cover, and a public Seder that brought 200 people to the table, the elderly, the lonely, and those with nowhere else to go. Across Kiryat HaYovel and the surrounding area, one thousand families celebrated Passover with food on the table because donors like you made it possible.
The volunteers who showed up to make it happen packed vegetables, fruit, eggs, poultry, and fish, everything a family needs to sit down at a Seder. Parents brought their children. One volunteer described watching her daughter, little Bibi, learn more in a few hours of packing and giving than she had in weeks of school. “When you do good,” she said, “it makes people smile.”
That’s what your generosity looks like from the inside.
For weeks, Iran’s assault on Israel upended daily life across the country. Construction sites went quiet. Fathers who had built their families on steady work watched that work disappear. The ceasefire has brought relief, but the financial damage didn’t stop when the fighting did. Food costs still run 51% higher than the EU average, and nearly one in four Israeli families still faces food insecurity. For the families you helped this Passover, the holiday of freedom was close to becoming the holiday they couldn’t afford to celebrate.
It didn’t turn out that way.
“Whoever is kind to the poor lends to God, and He will reward them for what they have done.” (Proverbs 19:17) That verse isn’t a figure of speech. It’s a transaction the Hebrew Bible takes seriously. You opened your hand, and God took note.
The woman finished with a blessing: “May we hear good news and have everything we need.” The volunteers closed theirs, looking toward the Seder table, toward soldiers on the front lines, toward a people determined to get through this together.
You were part of that. You helped make it happen. Thank you.
The need in Israel doesn’t end when Passover does. Families who couldn’t afford the Seder table this year will face the same struggle next month, and the month after that. If you’d like to keep food on those tables, you can make a gift at any time here. It goes directly to families on the ground.