High Holiday food
donations stock the
Yad Ezra pantry to
feed the hungry.

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GLENN TRIEST AND KRISTA HUSA
Photographers

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t started 10 days ago, as congregants from
21 synagogues and other institutions in the
metropolitan Detroit area came to Yom
-
Kippur services toting bags of food.
Over the next several days the gifts were
brought by truck to the Oak Park-based central
warehouse run by Yad Ezra. When the tally was
made, the annual food drive had amassed nearly
23,000 pounds of supplies to stock the warehouse
shelves.
Yad Ezra's Eugene Sherizen organized more
than three dozen volunteers on Sunday to sort
through the cans of fruits and vegetables, the cake
mixes and the soups and to divide the kosher
from the non-kosher foods. The latter will go to
the Oakland County Food Bank while the bulk
of the supplies will help meet Yad Ezra's monthly
distribution of 42,000 pounds of food to needy
clients.

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10/9
1998

16 Detroit Jewish News