A two-alarm fire on the last night of Passover has left a Brooklyn family with eight children without a home. The blaze broke on Friday night at the Borough Park home of Simcha and Sarah Salz. Two firefighters…
With rising inflation and prices for everyday goods going up, Muslim communities are struggling to help the most vulnerable during Ramadan. A day before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Jabaran Akram was volunteering at a food bank in Brooklyn, New York City…
An unusual array of forces have conspired to depress production in the United States, and kosher plants have suffered alongside everyone else. The reports are coming fast and furious from the Costcos, butcheries, and grocery stores of America: Kosher chicken is hard to come by…
Listen to the latest episode of Table For Two by Naomi Nachman on the Nachum Segal Network at the Masbia Food Reserve featuring Masbia Soup Kitchen ED Alexander Rapaport, and chef Ruben Diaz. Ruben Diaz shows us how to prepare Chicken Potato Chremzlach…
Nonprofits have kicked it into high gear to make sure those in need have meals this holiday season. CBS2’s Leah Mishkin went to food distributions happening in Brooklyn on Friday. The nonprofit soup kitchen and food pantry Masbia plans to hand out food to 20,000 families for Passover. Its executive director, Alexander Rapaport, said the largest families in the network…
The anchor of CBS New York, Dana Tyler, presents Jenna Deangelis reporting from Brooklyn about rising food costs and families feeling the squeeze…
Listen to the latest episode of Table For Two by Naomi Nachman on the Nachum Segal Network at the Masbia Food Reserve featuring Masbia Soup Kitchen ED Alexander Rapaport, The Chef’s Garden, Manischewitz Co, Tuscanini Foods, Gefen and chopped champion Rachel Goldzal…
With the need for emergency food at an all-time high, Masbia gets a huge warehouse in Boro Park, down the block from Bingo. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Masbia added more storage space by renting additional storefronts adjacent to the original facilities, but this one is the first standalone warehouse facility where…
It’s not the Irish Potato Famine of 1845, Baruch Hashem. But potatoes not making it over the Canadian border this year has knocked the starch out of Pesach preparation. In the weeks leading up to Pesach, we’re hyper-focused on house cleaning and mishloach manos leftover disposal…
The anchor of News12: Dan Serafin presents Zhané Caldwell reporting from Masbia Soup Kitchen in Brooklyn about the major cut of food right before Passover affecting those in need. Alexander Rapaport, Masbia’s ED, talks about efforts to get…