2026 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 8 – Tuesday, March 24, 2026, at several sites throughout the community. Distribution will be Sunday, March 29. Kosher for Passover matzah (dated 2026) 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, March 25, 2026.

Pick up locations on Sunday, March 29 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

  • March 27: Packing bags from 9-11 am at the Jewish Community Pantry
  • March 29: 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 the Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center and mail them to:
    Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, Attn: Passover Food Drive Project
    6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217

Returning for second year —
Good Deeds Days

Going into its second year, we are building on the foundation of our 17th annual Passover Food Drive to bring you a full day of community-wide volunteering called Good Deeds Days. These days 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 Days is part of a global movement created in 2007 in Israel, and we are excited to bring it to Milwaukee!

Locations collecting Kosher for
Passover matzah (dated 2026):

(Growing list)

Congregation Beth Israel Ner Tamid
Congregation Emanu-El B’ne Jeshurun
Congregation Shalom
Congregation Shir Hadash
Congregation Sinai

Harry and Rose Samson Family JCC
Milwaukee Jewish Day School
Milwaukee Jewish Federation
Milwaukee Synagogue for Russian Jews
Ovation Communities

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 JCC
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