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organization has already had “30 appli-
cants, and we haven’t even advertised
the program yet.”
‘Our job is to make sure that
people have food’
Alexander Rapaport, executive direc-
tor of Masbia, a kosher food pantry
that serves meals to people in parts of
Brooklyn and Queens, New York — New
York City being the epicenter of kosher
food in the United States, though similar
trends take place in major urban markets
throughout the country — estimates that
his organization will spend nearly $1.5
million to feed at least 10,000 families.

“Our job is to make sure that people
have food,” he said. “We need to get the
most volume so it results in more people
being fed.”
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in need. As of now, eggs are still off the
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Met Council, which will provide kosher-
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people through 200 distribution sites in
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New York and New Jersey, was able to
secure a gift of $500,000 worth of eggs
from Deb El Foods. The gift comes as
the overall donations to the organiza-
tion’s Passover campaign are down.

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artifi cially infl ated at Passover — by
far the most expensive Jewish holiday
cost-wise when it comes to food — to
the tune of more than $2 billion in sales,
Lubinsky said that is not the case.

“Ninety percent of retailers go out
of their way to keep their prices down
because they are dealing with loyal
consumers who shop their store all year
round,” he said. “I even know stores that
don’t pass on the whole increase to their
consumers.” ‘There is a ton of waste’
If that’s the case, then why does Passover
food cost more, even if anecdotally?
Lubinsky named several reasons.

One, some factories need to shut down
a production line to accommodate
changes in how items are made for
Passover, which raises costs. In other
cases, a manufacturer may need to hire
additional delivery trucks or arrange for
more kosher supervisors to handle the
increased demand for Passover food.

Those who make it a point to eat round,
handmade shmurah matzah (specially
“guarded” to make sure that no fermen-
tation has occurred during the milling,
making and baking process) during the
holiday are being further challenged by
the closure of one of the major suppliers,
the Brooklyn-based Shatzer Matzos.

Krich has noticed the higher cost of
shmurah matzah. While she can fi nd it in
most stores in her New Jersey neighbor-
hood for about $20 a pound, her family
in Los Angeles can’t fi nd it for under $40.

Regardless of where people live or
how much money they put aside for
holiday purchases, the key to spending
less on Passover starts with a budget,
said Stacey Zhiren, a fi nancial planner
and lay leader for Living Smarter Jewish,
a division of the Orthodox Union.

“Then create a list and have a menu.

Don’t go shopping just to browse and
pick up things that ‘look good,’” she
advised. “Get everyone involved in
planning the meals. If you are having
guests and they say, ‘What can I bring?’
it’s OK to ask them to contribute a side
dish or fruit plate.”
On Passover, Zhiren noted, “there is a
ton of waste. We buy too much, we cook
too much. The answer isn’t to not buy
meat or chicken, it’s to buy only what you
need and know what are the ‘extras.’” ■