Brooklyn, NY – A local Brooklyn appliance store, The Buzz is donating 200 hand mixers and several of their newest appliances to help a group of needy single mothers prepare for Passover.
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The Buzz, which has two super stores in Brooklyn, has got major manufacturers to develop a line of appliances geared towards the Orthodox Jewish community in the New York Metropolitan area who tend to cook at home more and in larger quantities than the general public. These appliances are variations on standard appliances such as a food processor, but have been tweaked in size and in the blades, to accommodate traditional dishes, most notably Kugel.
Passover,which falls on the eve of Monday, March 25, is considered one of the most cooking intense holidays which starts with the Seder meal and lasts for 8 days and makes it the busiest season of the year for The Buzz’s niche market. This is a holiday that is also particularly difficult for needy families, and especially single mothers who must provide for their families alone.
The store will be contributing the mixers to the Masbia soup kitchen Charoset Drive which is trying to raise support for special food distributions of Passover related foods for needy families. One of five Masbia Passover distributions will cater to a group of 200 single mothers.
In addition to the food, each mother will receive a Prima Chef 5 Speed electronic Hand Mixer from The Buzz, and a few of the largest and neediest families will also receive a Gourmet Grade 14 Cup Food Processor with a Kugel blade, and a Gourmet Grade 7 QT. Commercial Class Mixer, both of which are being debuted this season for the first time and which are expected to make traditional food drastically easier.
“This is a very special first for Masbia,” said Alexander Rapaport, Executive Director of Masbia soup ktichen network. “As a soup kitchen we are usually preoccupied with helping people get food, but now thanks to The Buzz, we can also make it easier for needy families to prepare their meals. Providing the poor with the means to cook their own meals, also increases their ability to eat fresh and healthy food. And most importantly it helps them leverage the money they have for food!”
“What we share with Masbia is a commitment that’s not just about recognizing the needs of our community but about addressing them as well, said Heshy Beigeleisen, the founder of The Buzz.
Online:
www.masbia.org/charoset
this is wonderful. i feel so good about having shopped at the buzz knowing they are ba’alei tzedakah
I was planning to get some things there for pesach, and now I’m convinced about where to shop. I support shops who support the needy.
What a nice gesture!
Absolutely amazing, I never heard of such a genereous gesture from a store!
Beautiful gesture. Will be a store to check out.
Great idea and kol hakovd to those who support this effort. The article mentions how “cooking intensive’ the yom tov is and that raises the point of why it has to bet hat way. In an increasing number of frum homes, both the wife and husband work and the intense pressure to clean and cook for pesach makes it more of dreaded two week period than an happy and relaxing yom tov. Perhaps its time to think of how to make this a geulah and zman charusenu for all the yiddeshe women who don’t feel like a baas melech this time of year.
it’s refreshing to see a private (well-run) jewish business donating goods and giving back to the community that supports it rather than jews lining-up for government programs which invite corruption and ganeva . private charity rather than government welfare that is the real American way and what helped make old- America a medina of chesed rather than the current system which invites social and financial welfare parasites and over- taxes those who work to pay for those who never will..(Romney’s 47% +)
great story and great guy
Now if only they will shorten their commercials on Zev Brenner’s show on motzi shabbos….they are a wonderful business and do much chessed in the community but their commercials have now become like 10-15 minute infomercials at midnight….
The real question should be why do we have so many single poor mothers? Where are the husbands/fathers?
thank you VIN. For this true feel good story. Everyone agrees its a good thing. Everyone right? We can do it.
I am really not used to this. almost waiting for someone to complain that the brand of mixer cant be toivelled or that they are cheap refurbished mixers. (JUST JOKING)
Well done a huge kiddush Hashem
to number 12 The anonymous one. I know that.electricity and water can be shocking even fatal. and agree almost completely with you . That is why . after my comment and my ill fated attempt at humour i wrote in capitals JUST JOKING u must have missed that because like the rest of us u are too tired from all the preparations before pesach.
However, since you brought it up i can tell you with all honesty that i saw instructions for those that wish to be machmir and toivel small electric appliances eg. toaster (the example used ) You toivel it and then to let it air dry…. well for 24 hours on paper towel before using ..
pretty nuts huh? i couldnt make this stuff up if i tried.
Chag Kossher Visamayach`
ps the part i dont agree i never check with the mikvah lady.
Kol hakovod! I wish we could all learn from them! I’ve always loved shopping there & know I’ll be a returning customer. Having grown up in a very poor single family home, where no one followed the Pesach mitzvah of opening ones door to all especially the poor, I know just how important things like this are
The deadbeat fathers who never give their ex-wives money all year round, don’t bother to support their kids on Pesach. They’re such ruchmunes those poor single moms. Thank H’shm for our yiddishe community who help.