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2025 Passover Food Drive

“Let all who are hungry come and eat”

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The Community Food Drive is happening again this year! Food will be collected Sunday, March 9 – Sunday, March 30 at several sites throughout the community. Distribution will be Sunday, April 6. Kosher for Passover matzah (dated 2025) is the *only* food item we are collecting this year. 

Thank you to the dedicated Passover Food Drive volunteers and staff who helped pack and deliver Passover food bags to Jewish community members last year! Every bag that was packed was delivered to a grateful recipient. Together, we managed to deliver over 415 food bags to our community.

The Community Passover Food Drive (Ma’ot Chittim) is collecting monetary donations to fund this important work.

Receive Help


  • Please pre-register before picking up.
  • Register here or by clicking the button above
  • Food will be picked up at one of three locations. You must select your pick-up site when you pre-register for food. There will be no deliveries.
  • Passover food includes: kosher chicken, matzah, grape juice, matzah ball soup mix, gefilte fish, horseradish, and candles
  • The last day to request food is Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

Pick up locations on Sunday, April 6 from 10 am – 12 pm

  • North Shore: Harry & Rose Samson Family JCC, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Whitefish Bay, WI 53217 (Gan Ami Entrance off Devon St)
  • East Side: Jewish Family Services, Inc., 1300 N. Jackson St., Milwaukee, WI 53202
  • Central City: Jewish Community Food Pantry, 2900 W. Center St, Milwaukee, WI 53210

Give Help


  • April 4: Packing bags from 9-11 am at the Jewish Community Pantry
  • April 6: Packing and distributing bags at all three distribution sites. Drivers needed, families welcome. Shifts from 7:30-9 am at the Jewish Community Pantry and 9 am – 12:30 pm at JFS and the JCC.
  • Maot Chitim, distributing food for Passover, is a special mitzvah
  • Click above on the DONATE button to make your contribution
  • You may also mail in your donation. Make checks payable to Tikkun Ha-Ir Passover Food Drive and mail them to:
    Community Passover Food Drive Project
    Tikkun Ha-Ir
    P.O. Box 090287
    Milwaukee, WI 53209

Locations collecting Kosher for Passover matzah (dated 2025):

Chabad of the East Side
Congregation Anshai Lebowitz
Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid
Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun
Congregation Shalom
Congregation Sinai

Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center
Hillel Milwaukee
Jewish Family Services
Milwaukee Jewish Day School
Milwaukee Jewish Federation
Yeshiva Elementary

New this year — Good Deeds Day


New this year, we are building on the foundation of our 16th annual Passover Food Drive to bring you a full day of community-wide volunteering called Good Deeds Day. This day of service will have around 200 volunteering opportunities for all-ages and abilities throughout Milwaukee and at the JCC while bringing together 25 Jewish, multi-faith and secular organizations. Good Deeds Day is part of a global movement created in 2007 in Israel, and we are excited to be bringing it to Milwaukee!

Questions?


Contact Laura Slatky-Verkuilen at (414) 967-7145 or lslatky-verkuilen@jccmilwaukee.org

A joint effort of


Coalition for Jewish Learning & Jewish Community Relations Council, programs of the Milwaukee Jewish Federation
Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center
Hillel Milwaukee

Jewish Community Pantry
Jewish Family Services
Ovation Communities
Tikkun Ha-Ir of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Council of Rabbis

Funded by


The Rabbi Schoenfeld Maos Chitim fund
The Salinsky Program to Feed the Hungry, a fund of Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun