Met Council, America's
largest Jewish charity
dedicated to fighting poverty, hosted
a Passover food distribution at Brooklyn Navy Yard on Sunday, where
they provided food to over 2,000 Jewish families for their sedars. It’s
one of nation’s largest kosher-for-Passover distribution sites in the city.
A traditional Passover seder
is a ritual meal at the beginning of the holiday. However, as inflation
increases, food has become extremely
expensive.
"Think of it like Thanksgiving,
except its eight days of Thanksgiving and that sort of explains why
it's so expensive," says CEO of Met Council and Jewish Poverty
David Greenfield.
The group received over $10 million donations worth of food. There were
seven tractor-trailers
filled with produce, 200 cases of
chicken, 2,000 cases of grape juice and over 41,000 dozens of eggs.
Senate Majority Leader
Chuck Schumer says these donations will enable poor families to celebrate a
tradition that’s been with the Jewish people for thousands of years.
"One of the great traditions in
our Jewish tradition is called tzedakah,
charity. And one of the best things in charity you
can do is make sure people are able to obey they traditions like having a seder,"
says Sen. Schumer.