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Our neighbors in need

Between Rosh Hashana and Sukkot, Yad Yehuda will spend $165,000+ providing food and financial assistance to hundreds of local, financially-struggling households.

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Nobody chooses a financial challenge. Rather, for whatever reason, Hashem sometimes presents these challenges and it is our privilege and our responsibility to do whatever we can to help.​

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Making a difference through a variety of programs.

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Emergency Relief

Our resource assistance works to help ​stabilize financial burden and ​prevent greater loss.

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Capital Kosher Pantry

Helping hundreds of fellow community members feed their families with ​pride and dignity.

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Tomchei Shabbos

Assisting community members in financial distress purchase food for Shabbat and Yom Tov.

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Chesed with dignity

Since 2006, Yad Yehuda has fed, clothed, paid rent, utility bills and medical bills for needy individuals and families, many of whom have fallen on hard times due to unemployment, personal and financial struggles, or illness. Our goal is to help these individuals and families get back on their feet, and in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity.

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Stories of Impact

“I had been a full-time mom in a middle-class family for close to two decades. Due to complicated circumstances my ex-husband was awarded most of our joint assets and contributes very little to child support.
After twenty years out of the workforce, it’s been extraordinarily difficult to re-start my own career. After many false starts, I am still earning well
below the poverty line.
My children, now entering their later teen years, have been hungry many times because I wasn’t earning enough to buy the food we need. I spent nearly two years trying to feed them on my own, knowing I was failing, and promised their pediatrician I would take action.

Fortunately, a caring individual linked me the Capital Kosher Food Pantry, which does everything right:
They let shoppers take what they need.
They allow shoppers to shop privately instead of coming during open hours.
They check in with me to make sure I’m getting what my family needs.
The Capital Kosher Pantry has provided food and emotional security for me and my children. Now that we have a secure, sustainable source of kosher food, we’re never hungry anymore and we don’t worry about being hungry again.”

— A Single Mother of 3 Formerly Hungry Teenagers

“I reached out to Yad Yehuda when my family was experiencing a terrible medical/financial emergency. We were dealing with a very sick child and making a wedding for another child at the same time. One of us had to stop working to give their total attention to our sick child. The thought of also paying for a wedding was so overwhelming.
Our expenses literally snowballed while our income decreased. The financial challenges consumed us with worry.
And then, with hashgacha pratis (Divine providence) I discovered Yad Yehuda and applied for assistance. They signed my family up for Tomchei Shabbos; it turned into a relationship that, at this point, I couldn’t imagine doing without.
I never know when I’m swiping that Tomchei Shabbos card if people are wondering, where did she get that? But it has made such a difference because everyone else shops in the kosher stores for Shabbos, and doing so too makes me feel normal. You just want to feel a little normal, to have nice food on your table for Shabbos. Tomchei Shabbos makes all the difference in the world.
Going through hardships that you can’t share with a lot of people can be lonely; it can affect your life, your mental state, and how you deal with stress. You’re trying to maintain some sense of normalcy while hiding what’s going on.
I feel that Yad Yehuda is a shaliach from Hashem — offering me a hug.”

Lasting impact begins with you.

With your help, every Jewish child in the Greater Washington area will get the nourishment they need.

Pantry wish list
100000

Pounds of food
distributed in 2025

1000

Pantry shopping
appointments

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