Hagaon Hacham Mordechai Eliyahu z.s.l.

When an ill person is in the hospital, lo alenu, there are medical staff always available to attend to their needs. But what about the patient’s family members and friends, who may be sitting by their bedside 24/7 for support?

Lottie’s Kitchen, a division of Ezer Mizion in Israel, known for its “See Something, Do Something” policy, has undertaken the task of providing warm, nourishing meals for family members of hospital patients. A caring volunteer arrives regularly bearing a tasty meal – together with moral support. “I never would have made it through the ordeal without Lottie’s Kitchen,” says many a grateful recipient. 

And Lottie’s Kitchen doesn’t stop there. Each evening at midnight, volunteers arrive at the Emergency Room of Jerusalem’s major hospitals with sandwiches and snacks for the exhausted, overwrought families waiting for care. Others make regular visits to homes where the mother is unable to cope with the daily demands of caring for her family due to the illness of one of its members. The elderly and the disabled,desperately trying to maintain their independence, also benefit from the angel of love who arrives with a delicious meal that would have been very difficult for the recipient to prepare on her own.

Expenses are high, but thanks to the generosity of Jews everywhere, on a typical week:

1,500 meals are prepared and distributed to hospitals;

150 meals are prepared and distributed to homes;

1,700 sandwiches are prepared and distributed in hospitals;

1,200 pastries are distributed in hospital emergency rooms and outpatient clinics.

You are invited to attend The Annual Lottie’s Kitchen Event at the Jersey Shore for the benefit of Lottie’s Kitchen in Israel to be held on Thursday, July 8^th. For further information, please call the Ezer Mizion office at 718 853 8400.