JFSCNJ receives $14,500 in groceries from Hackettstown market
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JFSCNJ receives $14,500 in groceries from Hackettstown market

Kathleen Fernandez, left, with Marc DeFeo, Daniella, Tara, Kayla and Eitan Speyer, and Danielle McLeer. (Courtesy JFSCNJ)
Kathleen Fernandez, left, with Marc DeFeo, Daniella, Tara, Kayla and Eitan Speyer, and Danielle McLeer. (Courtesy JFSCNJ)

The executive director of Jewish Family Service of Central New Jersey, Tom Beck, got a call from Marian Marlowe, the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ’s director of local partnerships. The call led to JFS collecting $14,500 worth of groceries from Shop Fresh Marketplace in Hackettstown.

The store, which was going out of business, offered the JFSCNJ Charlotte Shak Kosher Food Pantry the opportunity to have a supermarket sweep to benefit its clients and the Tomchei Shabbos – Shabbat Packages program.

Tara Speyer of Hillside, a JFSCNJ board member and Tomchei Shabbos co-chair, and her family; Tomchei Shabbos co-chair Bracha Shechter and her daughter Sarah; and JFSCNJ staffers Danielle McLeer, its director of outreach and volunteers, and Food Pantry coordinator Kathleen Fernandez, rented a U-Haul truck and went shopping.

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