Tamar Snyder and Staff reportsAs 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,…
REGO PARK, QUEENS — City Councilmember Mark S. Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) recently visited the Orenstein MetCouncil Masbia Community Kitchen on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, where a soup kitchen serves…
by Pete Davis 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…
By: Melanie Grayce West This filet has soul. The Stefansky family, owner of Brooklyn kosher fish company Dagim, is donating 2,500 portions of tilapia, flounder, salmon and tuna to the…
The following are video clips of the event:
Written by Christina PisanoSoup 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…
By COREY KILGANNON The poor and hungry people at the Masbia soup kitchen in Borough Park hardly fit a bums-and-bag ladies stereotype. The storefront, on 14th Street in central Brooklyn, in…
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…