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NY Observer: Recession Takes Its Toll On NYC Charities
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“The impact of the recession on Masbia can be measured by a number of gauges. Some of our big donors who helped us financially before the recession, can no longer help us,” said Alexander Rapaport, founder of Masbia. “Other donors have been awakened by the recession
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Squadron Volunteers at Soup Kitchen
State Sen. Daniel Squadron volunteered at a kosher soup kitchen only steps away from a hate-crime scene. Masbia of Williamsburg is located near the corner of Lee Avenue and Ross Street, where a 51-year-old Hasidic man was severely beaten just late last Friday night, Nov. 12, by three perpetrators in
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The Forward: Masbia Kosher Soup Kitchen Sources Locally
For many of the 1.4 million hungry people in New York there is little or no access to sustainable and locally sourced food. Out of necessity, many food pantries and soup kitchens historically stocked take-home bags and filled plates with mass-produced food from far away places, frozen veggies and ca
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Masbia Opens New Kitchens, Serves More Meals
BROOKLYN — In its last fiscal year, from July 2009 to June 2010, Masbia, the kosher soup kitchen organization, opened three new kitchens with the help of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty and United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies.
In addition to its original kitchen in
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NY Daily News: Kosher Soup Kitchen Masbia is Hungry for Aid
In these tough times, even people who help people have to find ways to save money doing it.
For the last few weeks, Masbia has been serving chicken wings.
"We used to give whole chickens, based on family size, or maybe thighs and breasts," said Alexander Rapaport, co-founder and execut
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Masbia Distributes $30,000 Worth Of Passover Food Monday Night
For the last 36 hours dozens of volunteers have turned the Masbia central kitchen into a Passover grocery store. They have been arranging a large-scale display of donated Passover staples such as matzah, potato starch, nuts, chicken, meat, oil, grape juice, produce and much more, to be distributed t
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NYC Comptroller Wearing A Different Hat At Masbia
BROOKLYN, NY -- New York City Comptroller John Liu visited the Masbia soup kitchen on Coney Island Avenue. As chief fiscal officer for New York City, Liu experienced firsthand the plight of New York`s unfortunate and the effect that the current state of the economy has on real people.
The sou
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QChronicle: Fighting hunger with elegance and grace
REGO PARK, N.Y. -- With the belief that no one should ever go to sleep hungry, the nonprofit group Masbia opened its fourth soup kitchen in Rego Park almost a year ago. Masbia, which brought in about $30,000 at a breakfast fundraiser last Sunday — with the promise of more to come — boasts that it is
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Cold Hands, Warm Hearts
As this week’s blizzard blanketed New York City in snow, Jewish Community Councils and other organizations scrambled to continue providing much-needed services in the hardest-hit neighborhoods, as well as meet emergency needs.
“All of our home care workers got to the homebound clients across
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Mark Weprin Visits Soup Kitchen
REGO PARK, QUEENS -- City Councilmember Mark S. Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) recently visited the Orenstein Met Council Masbia Community Kitchen on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, where a soup kitchen serves nutritious meals to those in need.
“Masbia is doing a tremendous job in feeding the hun
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Lending a helping hand
REGO PARK, QUEENS -- State Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi and State Senator Joe Addabbo recently took a tour of Masbia Soup Kitchen, the only Kosher soup kitchen in Queens.
Masbia, on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, opened in March with the help of Henry and Susie Orenstein via the Metropolitan
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Midwood `Restaurant` Feeds the Hungry
Soup kitchens are traditionally associated with processions of the hungry crowding city sidewalks outside centers where food is offered in a mess-hall style for free or for a very low price. The long wait draws unwanted attention from passers by, heightening the shame often associated with poverty.<
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Yeshiva World News: MASBIA Soup Kitchen Hosts Chanukah Party
On Sunday, December 9, the Fifth Day of Chanukah, Masbia graciously hosted a festive Chanukah Party and it was a dazzling hit! The doors opened, the guests of honor, women and children, entered and they were inspired by the delightful atmosphere. Food and friends, fun and family combined to create a
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