"Let all who are hungry come and eat..."
Help ensure that everyone in our community has a happy Passover.
Use this coupon to help feed hungry Jews. Yad Ezra will use your donations to
purchase cases of food and distribute them to our needy neighbors.

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1 case of chicken
1 case of tuna fish
1 case of matza meal
1 case of matza
1 case of gefilte fish
❑ 1/2 case of chicken

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$82.00
$80.00
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$41.00

❑ 1 case of farfel
Ell case of coffee cake mix
❑ 1 case of oil
❑ 1 case of tomato sauce
(:) 1 case of large eggs
❑ 1 case of Shabbat candles

❑ A Seder Package for a family of six
(Hagaddahs included)

$34.00
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$26.00
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$24.00

$75.00

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Ashkelon and Tel-Aviv, which the planes again and go back to
killed more than 60 innocent Is- war. But it won't help.
raelis, Arabs, foreign workers
"We have to fight Hamas and
and students, brought back Irit's wipe them out. We are fighting
trauma.
for our lives. But if we stop the
"She disappeared for almost peace process, that would be a
two weeks," Eitan recalls. "She victory for the bombers. If Maya
took it very hard; she was crying had a fax machine, she would
a lot. She didn't want to go to send us a fax saying keep going.
work. I forced her to go to work, Maya believed in peace even
to bake a cake, anything."
more than I did."
The Kupsteins have three
Then Eitan starting visiting
younger children.
the bereaved families of the
Eitan's own first reaction to Jerusalem bus bombings. "I
the bombs was blind anger. But didn't come to tell them every-
not for long. Eitan is a practical thing's going to be all right. I
type. As a soldier in a tank crew, came to tell them I know what
he fought the Syrians
they are going through.
on the Golan Heights in
I've been there. I told
An Wul i soldier
the 1973 Yom Kippur
them there's no comfort
weeps d uring the
War. He saw action
in what people are going
funera I of a
nine years later in
coma rade.
to say to them, what I'm
Lebanon. He buried
saying to them. But I
comrades. His instinct
can help with the bu-
is to act, not just to mourn.
reaucracy.
When he heard right-wing
'They knew about Maya; they
demonstrators denouncing Shi- had read about her. They took
mon Peres as a murderer and a my phone number. They were
traitor, he led a delegation rep- very excited. They kissed me and
resenting 45 families of terror vic- hugged me. There were a lot of
tims to the Prime Minister's office tears. I told the families, the first
and urged him not to give up the thing you must do after the shi-
peace process. They marched va is go back to work, back to
along the route taken by the school. You must make a new be-
number 18 buses which were ginning."
blown up twice in eight days.
Eitan Kupstein is tall, athlet-
They called on Israelis to be ic, gentle and controlled. He
strong.
channels his emotion through his
"A small band of crazy fanat- words. At least two of the newly
ics can't destroy a whole country, bereaved families, he reports,
or stop the peace process," he in- have joined his group, which he
sists. "I said it at Maya's funer-
denies has any political agenda
al, and I say it now. I don't see beyond its support for peace.
another way to a solution with
He turned down an invitation
the Arabs except to talk. Sure,
from Israeli television to debate
we can take out the tanks and with another bereaved father. n

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