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A Met Council CEO David Greenfi eld loads a box of kosher-for-Passover food
items into a recipient’s car in 2022.

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woman pushed her shopping cart
down an aisle fi lled with Passover
foods in a supermarket in northern New
Jersey. She lifted a box of kosher-for-
Passover soup mandle off the shelf and
started to stack it with the rest of her
groceries. Then she noticed the price
tag. “Five dollars for this?” she murmured
aloud as she returned the container to
the shelf.

“Food costs are high everywhere,”
chimed in a nearby fellow shopper.

This exchange in a supermarket
that stocks a good number of kosher-
for-Passover items is indicative of the
challenging fi scal environment facing
consumers and shop owners in the
countdown to the holiday, which this
year starts at sundown on April 5.

“It is more expensive this year than at
any other time in our lifetimes, and that’s
when you adjust for infl ation and every-
thing else,” said David G. Greenfi eld,
CEO of Met Council, a New York-based
Jewish charity. “It’s a wonderful holiday,
but it’s bringing a lot of people stress
this year, and what we are trying to do is
blunt that stress.”
Menachem Lubinsky, founder of
Kosher Today and the annual Kosherfest
conference for the food industry, cites
several factors for the high costs, includ-
ing supply-chain concerns and higher
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Courtesy of Met Council
Jewish Shoppers Struggle
With Highest Prices in Recent Memory
for Passover Food