As Passover approaches, we want to wish you and your family a Chag Pesach Sameach. 

Your impact as a leading donor is particularly meaningful during this time. Through our Annual Campaign, as well as initiatives like Global Seder and UJA’s Packing It Forward, your generosity is alleviating food insecurity across our community and around the world—especially when access to kosher food is critical. 

Here in Toronto, food banks are facing unprecedented demand. Yet even as this need continues to rise, some food banks are emptying or, worse, being forced to close. That is what makes our work, and your support, so vital. 

Through Global Seder, we have helped individuals and families in Israel and Cuba struggling with food insecurity. In Cuba, more than 1,300 community members received kosher-for-Passover food items so they can celebrate the holiday and have enough shelf-stable items to last in the months that follow.  

Closer to home, Packing It Forward helps Toronto families in need put food on the table during Pesach. Together with dedicated volunteers and community members, your support helped provide 1,200 kosher-for-Passover food boxes to families across the GTA, ensuring that traditions can be observed with dignity in homes throughout our community.  

At a time when connection and resilience matter more than ever, your generosity helps ensure that Jewish life is sustained and strengthened here in Toronto and around the world.