Children Work to Send Troops Matzah

Editor’s note: And this soldier asks, what did we ever do to you? Just kidding! The enthusiasm of children in helping troops both sustain morale and fulfill mitzvot is itself remarkable.

In connection with the Aleph Institute, a Chabad-Lubavitch organization that caters to Jewish military personnel serving overseas, the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y., will be sending packages of matzah to forward bases in advance of Passover.

The museum, a project of Chabad-Lubavitch’s Tzivos Hashem children’s organization, will kick off the project, dubbed Operation: Message in a Matzah, on Wednesday. Ending on April 13, the initiative will see children bake their own matzahs from scratch and writing greetings to soldiers stationed abroad. For each matzah baked, the museum and the Bal Harbor, Fla.-based Aleph Institute will send one package of specially baked unleavened bread for use at the Passover Seder.

Army Sgt. Scott Humphrey, who has been deployed overseas four, remarked that “gestures like this make the time go by a lot faster.”

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