OUR COMMUNITY
Cooking for Ukraine Farber High School students, staff raise money for Ukrainian orphans. DANNY SCHWARTZ STAFF WRITER 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.
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MAY 5 • 2022
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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 orphanages 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 enhancements 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
