Yad Yisroel has a mission to assist and bring Yiddishkeit not only to the young, future generations of Russian Jewry – but to every single Jew in need. Our students and volunteers cleaned, and did bedikas chometz, in the apartments of the elderly and infirm who sought to be rid of chometz but could not do so on their own. To see how happy Rosa, a 92 year old Holocaust survivor, was after finding the ten pieces of Chometz that were hidden in her house, was a truly a sight to see.
Many of these elderly people joined us for Pesach, and accommodations were arranged for those who wanted to be closer to the shul to spend Yom Tov with us.