AT SEDERS

Don’t forget to order your Shana Tova cards! The last day for ordering before Rosh Hashanah is September 7.

This year, in addition to Passover hampers and Seder-in-a-Box meals, your Passover donations also gave the gift of connection and memories with family and friends through JFS Seder Get-Together Grants. Families who received the grant graciously sent photos and highlights to share just what it meant to be able to gather together this year.

“This year Passover had much more sense and power in light of that war in Ukraine, very close spiritually.

We started with the story of Passover. My son explained the rationale of Passover this way: ‘The journey from slavery to freedom is one we need to travel in every generation. So we were commanded to gather our families together every year at this time and tell the story of what it was like to be a slave and what it felt like to go free.’

Keep an eye out for our annual food drive, Project Isaiah, September 15 - 25, 2023. This year, multiply your donation x3 by donating online!

Questions? Contact the Development Department at 604.257.5151 or email development@jfsvancouver.ca.

After dinner, we told more stories, this time all about our beloved Ukraine and that horrible miserable war, and the incredible strength and courage of Ukrainian people and their love for freedom and unbeatable and unstoppable fight for their independence and for their beautiful country Ukraine.

Those stories occupied us the whole evening until late into the night.” -- Vera, Seder Get-Together Grant recipient

Shared meals don’t just feed the body, they nourish the soul and allow us to continue our mission to repair the world.