North America’s oldest Jewish congregation is celebrating America turning 250 years old by partnering with a kosher soup kitchen network to open an annex in their complex. For over a…
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As you can imagine, feeding people in need across three locations keeps us in constant need of resources. This Thanksgiving, two synagogues, one on the Upper West Side of Manhattan…
SNAP benefits have been temporarily put on hold, leaving those who depend on the program without the funds they rely on for groceries each month. With this pause in place,…
To purchase an Israel bond for Masbia, go to www.israelbonds.com and register the bond to “Masbia” at PO Box 191181 Brooklyn, New York 11219. For more information, call Cynthia Blustein, Development Corporation…
We’ve just drawn our Week 85 raffle winner! Congratulations to Deborah Shatkin, who’ll receive a copy of Marble Spoon: Tried and True by Vera Newman. With summer fast approaching, we need your…
“Delivery for Passover” might bring to mind very different images. For some, it means receiving Afikomen gifts from grandparents, luxurious items from a spouse, or even the latest trendy Matzah…
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By Laura Allen Insert: Cookbook cover, L-R: Jody Eddy and Alexander Rapaport speaking at a farm convention in Ohio 2014 Jody Eddy’s new cookbook, Elysian Kitchens, offers readers a unique,…
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Special thanks to Shofar Expert, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Meisner for sponsoring a handcrafted artisanal SHOFAR for this week’s prize. Rabbi Meisner, who was featured twice in The New York Times…
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The rabbis of the Talmud teach us that in order to make a fast day meaningful, one should share the money and food they saved by not eating with someone in need. אגרא…
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Over here there must be a food Reserve people and we’re getting out today onions and carrots and potatoes in each bag is being delivered by a Dasher the dash is only saying six at a time but it needs to be less than 25 pounds but we need your help we need a lot more we need you to please go to mastia.org Passover and donate and…
When it comes to the weeks before Passover, three words are most important to Masbia’s Executive Director. They are: logistics, logistics, logistics. But this year, there’s something even more critical…
The rabbis of the Talmud teach us that in order to make a fast day meaningful, one should share the money and food they saved by not eating with someone in need.
אגרא דתעניתא צדקתא. ברכות ו ע”ב
Sharing food with the needy is a great Mitzvah. Please Help Masbia Soup Kitchen Network Feed the Needy by donating charity to Masbia today. Hi! My name is Naomi Nachman. Thousands of families in need get food at Masbia every week…
As the High Holidays approach, Masbia Soup Kitchen Network is bracing for an increase in demand. The general clientele for emergency food are the old, frail, sick, mentally ill, poor and homeless. But, you also have the working poor…
The rabbis of the Talmud teach us that in order to make a fast day meaningful, one should share the money and food they saved by not eating with someone in need.
אגרא דתעניתא צדקתא. ברכות ו ע”ב
The rabbis of the Talmud teach us that in order to make a fast day meaningful, one should share the money and food they saved by not eating with someone in need.
אגרא דתעניתא צדקתא. ברכות ו ע”ב
Earlier this week, I got a surprise notification that the dozen truckloads of food we get at each site every week from the Government will not be coming. Masbia operates both soup kitchens (ready-to-eat food) and food pantries…
The Bronx building fire affected 118 families who lived there, with 17 dead, and many more injured. The Need is URGENT! We are now inviting families who are victims of the historic Bronx fire to go shopping for clothing…
Families of the bronx fire has been very nice but Masbia Relief Team has arranged for them to buy whatever they need all that stuff that they need and we’re going to take care of all of this and this is not just to give them all…
Mayor Eric Adams: “I want to also thank masbia Soup kitchen Network non-profit in borough park they have been up there every day yesterday they took family members uh to target to buy clothing and other…
Within a few hours of the historic Bronx High Rise Building Fire, the Masbia Relief Team was there bringing relief and comfort to the residents of the building on behalf of the Jewish community. We teamed up…
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At Masbia, we have seen a 500% increase in demand in the past year and a half due to the pandemic. As the High Holidays approach, that number will increase even more. This is due to the extended unemployment…
2021 NYC AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate Program Are you passionate about fighting hunger and poverty? Join Hunger FreeAmerica for 10 weeks this summer (June 21st- August 30th) as a full-time…
Ground Chicken Recipes For The Heimish Kitchen by Chef Jordana Hirschel have been created using minimal ingredients keeping in mind both costs in these difficult economic times, as well as…
Crumble matzo into a large bowl. Submerge in water for 15 seconds then drain. Whisk eggs and pour over wet matzah crumbles. Add salt and mix to form a loose batter. Heat a small frying pan over medium heat. Melt butter or oil…
Preheat the oven to 350. Mix Finely Textured Chicken Grind, eggs, matzah crumbs (like what we provide regularly from our food pantry – if you don’t see it, please just ask), onion, 1/2 cup ketchup, salt, and pepper. Pour batter into…
Masbia KIS Recipes by Chef Jordana Hirschel is a collection of simple recipes designed for people who are introduced to the main ingredient for the first time and presumably have a minimal pantry…
This year, Masbia was in the news almost eighty times. The news stories at the very beginning of the year started off with happiness, hope and positivity. In January there was a bridge building event for the MLK Day…
The pandemic took a toll on too many people’s lives, but did so in way greater numbers on people’s livelihoods, leaving many jobless and stranded for food. The NY Times wanted to find a way to document it as it happened. The scope…
In addition to the 500% increase in demand that Masbia experienced throughout the pandemic, the demand is spiking even higher with many new faces showing up. It has been a…
Earlier this week, Masbia Soup kitchen Network announced that they were drastically increasing the amount of grocery food clients could take home in one visit to an amount that will last 14…
isha B’Av is almost over and in a few short hours, we’ll go back to our normal food routine. But for some people, there is no normal food routine. While we were traditionally doing without meat and chicken for…
Naftali and Remi Engel, the founders of The Rebbe’s Choice company, have been generously donating their high-end, delicious herring for Masbia’s Shabbos Kiddush every week. They recently added a new…
Our best response to hate and darkness is kindness and mitzvos. So let’s show solidarity and Jewish pride this Shabbos. The first Shabbos after Passover is known for the shlissel challah, which is an old custom…
The other night I received anonymous photos of someone cooking chicken wings. The photos actually made me feel very good. As you have been reading in previous emails, cash flow at our…
At Masbia we try to use the media to spread awareness to the issues facing the needy and Masbia’s accomplishments. We hope this list makes you proud. Queens Jewish Link published a story the week the new location at…
Challah is a very basic food staple in a Jewish household. Therefore, making sure people have the ability to put challah on the table is something that is very important to us at Masbia. This is why it’s included as…
After months of collaborating with KJ Poultry to find an eco-friendly, cost-effective package for chicken, clients at the Masbia food pantry will be receiving this new poly-pouch. See photo. Chicken is one of…
See news clips and articles on Masbia staff and volunteers feeding the needy for Rosh Hashanah for over a decade. The news stories and videos are listed in chronological order. Masbia’s first Rosh…
All of the High Holidays are jam-packed in the month of September, leaving only 7 full work days. Typically, people who are in the gig economy are more prone than people with salary based jobs in needing to use…
A butcher-wrapped pack of chicken legs in foam trays or chicken legs shoved into sealed polybags – which would you give to a needy family? It will be produced in the same plant. It will be the same…
At Masbia, we work hard to make our donors and partners proud. Here are the highlights of Masbia features in the news from 2017. Masbia had seven events that were on TV. The West Side Institutional Synagogue…
A soup kitchen network in New York City is taking its cues from some of the most watched food shows on cable television with a benefit event that will feature…