{"id":79268,"date":"2019-04-24T17:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T22:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=79268"},"modified":"2019-04-25T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T23:09:31","slug":"a-hundred-year-old-tradition-of-delivering-passover-meals-feeds-15000-chicagoans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/a-hundred-year-old-tradition-of-delivering-passover-meals-feeds-15000-chicagoans\/","title":{"rendered":"A hundred-year-old tradition of delivering Passover meals feeds 15,000 Chicagoans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Josephine Chu<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Medill Reports<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">Volunteers from all over the city worked for weeks to make sure Passover celebrants had meals for the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>They packaged ingredients needed for Passover Seder into boxes and delivered them to places like food pantries and senior living centers. The <a href=\"http:\/\/maotchitim.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish nonprofit\u00a0Maot Chitim<\/a> has been organizing this event for the last 100 years.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"A hundred-year-old tradition of delivering Passover meals feeds 15,000 Chicagoans\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/332322119?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Photo at top: Volunteers unload food boxes from a U-Haul to deliver to elderly residents at Village Center in Skokie, Ill. (Josephine Chu\/MEDILL)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Josephine Chu Medill Reports Volunteers from all over the city worked for weeks to make sure Passover celebrants had meals for the holiday. 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