Isolated Jewish Communities from Namibia to Japan to Receive Passover Boon
Small Jewish communities isolated from the major centers of Jewish life will receive over 50,000 packages of matzah and wine for the upcoming Passover holiday. For the third year running, the project is being funded by the philanthropic Werdiger family of Melbourne, Australia. Deliveries will be carried out with the aid of dedicated Shluchim strewn out across these far-flung communities • Full Story
Times of Israel
Small Jewish communities isolated from the major centers of Jewish life will receive over 50,000 packages of matzah and wine for the upcoming Passover holiday, according to the Jewish Agency for Israel.
For the third year running, the project is being funded by the philanthropic Werdiger family of Melbourne, Australia. Deliveries will be carried out with the aid of the Jewish Agency and the Chabad Hasidic movement.
According to a spokesperson for the family, the contributions include 1,750 boxes of wine and 6,500 packages of matzah. The parcels will benefit around 110 different isolated Jewish communities in countries such as Tanzania, Rwanda, Namibia, China, Japan, Nicaragua, Laos, Ethiopia and others. Some of these countries lack access to kosher products and have limited access to wine and matzah for the holiday.
Jewish Agency chairman Yaakov Hagoel expressed his thanks to the Werdiger family as well as those who helped to carry out the operation.
In the African nation of Tanzania, Rabbi Claudio Kupchik, the local Chabad emissary, will host his movement’s first-ever seder to take place in the city of Arusha.
“This year, we are expecting to celebrate with 300 people, Jews and Israelis from different countries united on one evening around the seder table,” Kupchik said.
Rabbi David Kaplin, who has headed Chabad in Central America for 13 years, voiced his and his community’s excitement about the upcoming holiday and the return of Israeli tourists to Central America after a two-year lull amid the pandemic.
According to Kaplin, Chabad houses across the region will host upwards of 5,600 Israelis for the seder.
According to the Financial Review, patriarch Nathan Werdiger came to Australia in 1949 after surviving the Holocaust and built his family’s fortune in the rag trade before shifting his focus to property development in the 1980s. Werdiger was a major contributor to Jewish institutions in Melbourne and across the world, according to the Australian Jewish News. Since his death in 2015, his family has continued his legacy of philanthropic work.
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