On Wednesday, February 8, two culinary worlds will come together for one purpose. Restaurateur Micah Seavers, who got involved with the Masbia Relief Team in the aftermath of the tornado that ripped through Kentucky in December 2021, will come to New York City and contrast his cooking against long-time…

Sender Rapaport is a man whose every waking moment is steeped in chessed. Through his efforts, Masbia has served millions of meals to those who are hungry while filling his own inborn need to do chessed. Masbia started out as a soup kitchen, with hot meals served to those who are hungry, not only for food but also for a kind word…

Janis Robinson, vice president of institutions and partnerships at Food Bank for New York City, planned on visiting two of the food pantries that the group supports in the Bronx late Tuesday morning. “People will be standing on long lines out in the cold,” she said as the morning temperature had barely broken the freezing…

Masbia Soup Kitchen has been feeling the heat of inflation. At the peak of COVID, it was able to serve 500 people a day. Now, due to the high price of food, it can barely provide meals for 300 people. Executive Director Alexander Rappaport says Masbia Soup Kitchen heavily relies on donations from the Nourish New York Program…

Healthcare workers from LIJ Forest Hills volunteered at the Masbia of Queens soup kitchen and food pantry in Forest Hills on Thursday, Dec. 8, preparing more than 500 kosher meals. The prepared food was distributed across all three Masbia of Queens locations. Since the beginning of…

Masbia a soup kitchen Network helped feed those in need this holiday volunteers with the kosher soup kitchen gave out turkeys and food boxes to local shelters in Brooklyn housing Asylum Seekers celebrating their first Thanksgiving in the U.S Masbia executive director Alexander Rappaport told JBS it was a special Mitzvah…

These days when you hear “border” the next word is usually “crisis.” The same is true for “labor”: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce calls the labor shortage a “national crisis by the numbers.” Now the two crises are combining to make matters worse. When I visited the border town of Del Rio, Texas, in April, help-wanted signs…

A big kiddush Hashem was made by Mr. Leon Goldenberg, Shomrim of Staten Island and the Masbia Relief Team at La Colmena. La Colmena is a NYC-based charity organization with a mission to empower the immigrant community through education, organizing, culture…

Every year, on the day before Kosherfest, the kosher food industry’s annual trade show, a small group of journalists, influencers and foodies from all over the kosher spectrum gather for the Jewish Food Media Conference. This year, the event was held at Sen Sakana, a kosher nikkei…

Asylum Seekers who are taking steps towards a career in construction now have one less expense to foot thanks to a non-profit that’s headquartered in Brooklyn at this graduation ceremony in Stapleton nearly three dozen Asylum seeking migrant…