Cards and gift baskets to help Israel’s poor and soldiers

Leket Israel, Israel’s National Food Bank and largest food rescue network, is selling printed Purim cards. For every dollar donated, the organization will rescue 10 pounds of produce from farms and packing houses to benefit Israel’s poor.

It costs $36 for 18 cards and envelopes, $70 for 36, $90 for 54, and $170 for 108. Unlimited Purim e-cards and video cards are available for $18. To order, call (201) 331-0070 or www.purim.leket.org.

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Yashar LaChayal (Straight to the Soldier) will deliver mishloach manot (gift baskets) to soldiers in Israel, from Har Dov in the north to the southern tip of the Negev, including IDF bases on the periphery. Baskets will be assembled by volunteers and delivered on Purim.

Year round, the organization provides soldiers on the front lines with basic necessities and supports lone and injured soldiers and financially distressed families of soldiers.

The group reports that 100 percent of donations go directly to Israel’s soldiers with funds from the Moskowitz family funding all operating expenses.

The Purim drive continues through March 7. Visit www.yasharlachayal.org.