From Anash.org:
Each spring, Rabbi Mendy Katz of Bal Harbor, Fla., spends a few weeks in a northern New Jersey shipping warehouse. As the director of outreach programs for the Aleph Institute, Rabbi Katz oversees the logistics for delivering hundreds of shipments of Passover essentials— matzah, maror, seder plates and haggadahs—each headed to a correctional facility somewhere around the United States. The price tag runs into the hundreds of thousands, and the vast majority of the recipients will never meet him, but he says it all worth it.
“For prisoners, it means the world to them to know that someone cares,” said Rabbi Katz. “They know that they haven’t been forgotten about, and we’re there to help them, materially and spiritually.”
Every year before Passover, the Aleph Institute ensures that Jews behind bars are able to celebrate the holiday. This year, they will send out over 400 Seder Plates, 2,000 Hagaddahs and more than 8,000 lbs of matzah, as well as 2,750 packages of macaroons, gefilte fish, and other holiday foods. Continue reading >>>
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