(Jewish Group) In Brooklyn, some rabbis ask followers to turn down free food from 'Zionists'
Two years into the pandemic, many Hasidic families in Williamsburg, Brooklyn are struggling to make ends meet: Lost jobs, rising prices and large families mean the cost of holding a Passover seder can be out of reach for many religious families without charitable help.
One of the largest organizations filling the gap is the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, which runs a massive warehouse in Flatbush that offers kosher staples. Met Council expects to give out free food to over 300,000 families this Passover season in Brooklyn and beyond.
On Sunday, less than a week before Passover, nearly 3,000 families received holiday staples provided by Met Council and a local organization, the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, at the UJO’s distribution center at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Thousands of boxes of kosher grape juice, eggs and fresh produce were being offered as cars driven by Orthodox Jews lined up for over a mile.
And yet despite this, a faction within Williamsburg’s Satmar Hasidic community is warning followers not to accept food from the charity. According to a decree that has been circulating in the weeks before Passover, accepting the donated food is forbidden because Met Council and its partner, UJA-Federation of New York, are “Zionist” organizations that “hold all the abominations of the world.”
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MORONS! But, boy are they loved by the anti-Semites. MORONS!
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