{"id":37469,"date":"2021-09-10T01:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T08:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=37469"},"modified":"2021-09-09T11:05:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:05:06","slug":"light-of-holiday-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/light-of-holiday-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"Light of holiday meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Light of Shabbat Volunteers packaging kosher meals for the High Holidays. (photo from Chabad Richmond)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 29, a contingent of 12 Chabad Richmond volunteers worked to ensure that recipients of the Richmond community Light of Shabbat (LOS) meal program would be well fed throughout Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0volunteers cooked more than\u00a0800\u00a0LOS\u00a0meals in a local kosher commissary. \u201cThis is truly a labour of love,\u201d said organizer Chanie Baitelman, co-director of Chabad Richmond.\u00a0\u201cOur Light of Shabbat participants rely on these meals. It\u2019s not just about feeding individuals and families, it\u2019s about nourishing their souls as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since 2011, Chabad Richmond has run a community-building program called Light of Shabbat, where volunteers cook and deliver kosher Shabbat meals to old and young, singles and families, the unemployed and working poor, immigrants and born-and-raised community members. The program is run entirely by volunteers, who coordinate, plan, shop, cook, bake, package and deliver full, healthy, kosher meals.<\/p>\n<p>Since the pandemic began, more than 12,000 such meals have been prepared and delivered to people in the Richmond community.\u00a0All of this is made possible through the generosity of donors, many of whom are LOS volunteers themselves. They know that everyone needs a helping hand at some time in their life.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Chabad Richmond, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/chabadrichmond.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chabadrichmond.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy Chabad Richmond<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light of Shabbat Volunteers packaging kosher meals for the High Holidays. (photo from Chabad Richmond) On Aug. 29, a contingent of 12 Chabad Richmond volunteers worked to ensure that recipients of the Richmond community Light of Shabbat (LOS) meal program would be well fed throughout Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. The\u00a0volunteers cooked more than\u00a0800\u00a0LOS\u00a0meals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[781],"tags":[9950,1959,5807],"class_list":["post-37469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays","tag-light-of-shabbat","tag-tikkun-olam","tag-volunteering"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}