PSA: Carrots and Onions – Free for All
Beginning now, 7:00pm, a truck is unloading a number of skids with fresh Carrots and Onions and is being distributed for free for all those who want. The produce is being distributed on East New York Avenue between Kingston and Brooklyn. There is no need to be on any lists, just come and take.
The distribution is being done l’zchus Refoel Chaim ben Chana, in coordination with Crown Heights Shomrim.
This is the third year Shomrim has arranged such a distribution for the sole purpose of easing the burden of celebration Yom Tov.
Tomorrow, Monday, there will be another such distribution with many more Pesach items. Stay tuned and we will keep you posted.
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is there a limit?
PR
Great Job Rafi
What about the fruit/vegie store owners?
No one is buying any carrots or onions in my store! How can I afford pessach if no one buys my fruits and vegetables??? This may be great for some, but not for fruit store owners!
To number 1
There is no limit, there is no questions asked! Thank you to all the Shomrim members who helped me with shlepping my 50 lbs sacks of onions!
to Rebbetzin Deutsch & Zaki Tamir,
Mrs. Deutsch must be a true Tzaddekes, but FYI families in CH received Mehadrin chicken this year unlike in the past and many don’t or won’t use this hechsher.
of course, it’s a shame to see food go to waste but its also a shame to see disappointed people in need that relied on this chicken for pesach. Please consider this next time.
serel maness
how about the organic chickens?
To #3 the selfish merchant
You are so selfish and selfcentered. I hope you choke on a piece of matzah.
Rebbetzin Deutch : A Big Yasher Koach
Just one question :
No where on the packaging of the chicken did it say it was Kosher for Pesach .
How to we know it’s Kosher for Pesach ?
DovD
to number 5.. really get real.. they need chicken for their families but won’t use that hechser!!? if that all they have.. such people should be grateful and feed their kids the beautiful food that hashem provided them this way.. no matter that isn’t their usual “hechsher”!
Dear # 5
if it’s Kosher & you’re desperate/starving/can’t afford any alternative, i don’t think anyone will burn for eating Mehadrin. Of course the Bad-Atz could provide free chickens to needy families if it’s such a shanda to eat other hechscherim.
Nuff said.
Rochi
wow crown heights rocks. I’m like 19 and don’t cook, but still I am proud just to live here.
Deutsch-land unter alles!
The Deutsches do NOT do anything leshem Shamayim. This sounds like just what they would do – find the cheapest chicken of dubious kashrus just to bring CH down.
CH gvirim need to start supporting the shechuna and not leave it to outside elements, especially a wannabe rebbe with a chip on his shoulder and the Obama-like usurper relative of his who is now rosh vaad hakohol.
AMAZING
wow may we all have an amazing strict kosher Pesach!
Oil
Yasher Koach!
This is true Moat Chitim
One unlrelated criticism.
How come our great beis din and kashrus division can’t even
provide potato starch and oil with a chabad hechsher
Granted, I can buy olive oil at $10 bucks a pint and also granted that this is processed food, but come on!
The kollel store is packed with Kosher for pesach food.
I know I can buy their products but why can’t I get something
with a chabad hechsher??
All these machlokisin about the CHKK et. al. and a they can’t even provide a simple passover basic!
I missed sunday giveout
is there any food or vegetables distribution on monday? where? can someone tell me please?
Disgusted!
To Number 7
We cannot believe that you could talk that way. . . we are horrified and shocked that COL would even allow such a comment on their website! The guy is totally right in feeling that way, his parnossoh is being affected, how could you blame him????????? Get a life, it was evil and unfair of you, and you should watch your words!!!!!!!!
What happened to thinking before talking in such an awful way!!!!!!!
to 7
is that how you treat a fellow yid?!?!?!?! what would you say if you were that grocery owner? everyone has to make a living.
Sarale
to sixteen.
Think before YOU speak. This is not COL. This is crownheights.info
The jokes on you.
The Rich CRY with crocodile tears
It’s no secret that price gouging is very common before Yomim Tovim and especially before Pesach.
There is not one kosher food store owner in CH or in the entire NY area who is not earning a HUGE windfall profit and getting RICH on the backs of all the poor families who have no choice but to purchase food for Yom Tov.
I have no crocodile tears for all the food merchants who are all making a HUGE PROFITS be foe this Pesach and every year.
All Food Merchants make more money on food before Pesach than they do in the entire year in total.
The “Free Food” is for the poor families and or very huge families with many children who are on a fixed income and have Parnasa all year but can’t afford the huge added expense of Yom Tov.
The store merchants will still make hundreds of thousands in profits on the backs of those who can afford to pay while the poor will not get poorer by enriching the already rich store merchants.
Speilmans Food is a JOKE!
It’s almost 6:00pm on Monday, when I have just returned form waiting on line at specimens since 2:30pm and the line is not moving at all.
I as well as many others, all left empty handed after waiting on line for hours and the line is not moving.
Speilmans have a very archaic system for food distribution. Each client takes them a 15 minutes to serve and there are more than 100 people on line now, so you do the math. Those who went on line at 2:30pm will get home by 12:00 midnight.
Speilmans convoluted fardreita system takes forever in part because they operate out of very small basement which can’t handle the crowd and also has no space for much food.
Speilmans system works like this:
1) You wait on line for a few hours and you must repeat this waiting each and every day of the week because on each day they give you different stuff.
After waiting on the line for several hours (even when cold, windy and raining) you finally get inside where they COUNT what they give you: You Get 7 Lemons and 1 Bag of Sugar and One box Potato Starch and 13 Small bags of carrots and 6 Beats and 1 peace of Moror and the like.
It’s this counting (based on how many people are in your family) which takes them FOREVER!
The Speilmans are STUPID for doing it this way. If they can only afford to purchase 1 box of lemons they should skip the entire thing rather than COUNT 1 lemon per person. All other food distribution places just hand out BOXES ONLY (no counting of anything) and so the line moves very quickly because each person takes 1 case of each item and moves on in 1 second flat.
Speilman has this M E S H U G A A S (they live in FANTASY LAND) that have to provide everyone with “everything” (1 of each) for pesach even if it’s 1/4 of 1 Kazayis Matza and 1 tomato and 1 Orange and 1 apples for each person – instead they should purchase and distribute CASES ONLY and let the line MOVE and not literally T O R T U R E everyone waiting on line for countless HOURS on end each and every day over and over and over again.
Because today they giving out 6 small items – so everyone must wait on line for 6 hours to get these 6 tomato’s and onions.
Next day Speilman gets in a few eggs and potato’s so now 300 people have to wait on line for another 6 hours, all over again this time to get just the eggs and potatoes.
Next day Speilman gets apples and oranges – now a few hundred people are FORCED to wait the following day, all over again on a new line for another 6 hours each just to get the new delivery of the oranges and apples.
Now you are told that chicken might be available at the end of the week – we don’t know yet – keep CALLING forever and keep on waiting on line a few more days on end.
But GOOD NEWS: Bananas is arriving the following day – we have no idea yet when so “just keep waiting and keep calling” and when the bananas arrive you will be privileged to wait on line for another 6 hours to get 1 box of bananas too.
The Speilman system” serves no one ones needs except their own because it’s convenient for Speilman to have everyone wait on line 8 times (6 hours each time, each day) over and over and over again, just so it’s convenient for Speilman and accommodates his matchbox sized basement.
to # 20
Mrs. Spielman is a true tzadekes. don’t criticize unless you can donate your (time and) basement or space
to #14 Oil
Kosher L’Pesach oil, potato starch in CHK?
minhag chabad is to only use unprocessed foods, so why do you expected CHK to endorse it?
If you need these prodocts, then obviously you don’t need CHK.
Chaya Mlussia
I don’t know if I am more disgusted or more shocked by some of the comments here! I know that if it weren’t for the Spielmans, the Deustches and the other food donations, I would not be able to make Pesach on my family’s income. There are many other families here in Crown Heights that would probably not be able to feed their families over Yom Tov if it werent for the chesed of these individuals & organizations.
so #12 & #20, unless you are willing to get off your tucheses & help out and organize food for Yom Tov for those in need, maybe you should lay off the criticism.
“Rabbi Joseph Dovber Soloveichik, the “Beis Halevi,” was instructing his students when a man came with a strange question: ”Am I allowed to drink four cups of milk instead of wine at the Passover Seder?“
”Why? Wine is bad for your health?“ the Rabbi asked.
”No, wine is too expensive. I am poor and can’t afford it.“
Instead of answering the man’s question, the Rabbi gave him twenty-five rubles. ”Now you can enjoy wine at your Seder,“ he said. After the man left, a student asked the Rabbi, ”Why did you give him twenty-five rubles? Only five rubles are enough to buy the required amount of wine.“
Rabbi Soloveichik answered, ”If he intended to use milk at the Seder, that means he also has no meat, as Kosher laws forbid milk and meat at the same meal. I wanted to give him enough so that he could have a complete Seder.“
Charity is a pillar of Judaism, for ”Tzedaka equals all the other Miztvot combined.”
that is really nice!!
sooo nice!!
Deutsch-land unter alles!
If you want what Deutsch has to offer, begashmius or beruchnius, move to Boro Park and daven at the museum Purim rebbe’s shtibl. He is a snake who is only helping in CH so he can thumb his nose at Lubavitch and at the Rebbe chas vesholom. Who knows where he gets his food or his money from; no one in his right mind would donate anything to this meshuggener.