L

ast month, Farber High School students and staff came together to help 
those in need halfway around the world. 
Daphna Feldman, Farber High School’s Hebrew coordinator, watched 
the news when the war started in Ukraine and, like everybody else, was very 
upset and disturbed. Feldman then read about children from two Jewish orphan-
ages in Odessa who fled the country seeking refuge and felt something needed to 
be done. 
Together with her faculty, it was decided to launch a fundraising activity. 
Feldman and her team decided they were going to cook — making enhance-
ments for the Shabbat Hagadol meal, the Shabbat before Passover. It was decided 
they would cook the food and sell it with all proceeds raised going to the Jewish 
children who were forced to leave their orphanages in search of safety. The food 

Farber High School 
students, staff raise money 
for Ukrainian orphans.

DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER

32 | MAY 5 • 2022 

Cooking for 
Ukraine

OUR COMMUNITY

TOP: Hodaya Ellis, Alyssa Skoczylas, Jordana 
Jacobs, Daphna Feldman and Rena Press work 
together. BELOW LEFT: Farber student Jordana 
Jacobs preparing Yerushalmi Kugel. RIGHT: Farber 
students Avi Selesny. Aharon Kosofsky and Aviel 
Siegel hard at work.
 

