“Food is powerful,” said Mayor Eric Adams, when he stopped by the elegant, kosher Japanese restaurant Sen Sakana in Manhattan, where more than 100 Jewish writers were gathering at the 9th annual Jewish Food Media Conference. The conference’s participants were meeting to eat, network, and socialize…
The Masbia Soup Kitchen in Borough Park is teaming up with DoorDash to deliver free groceries to families in need. The soup kitchen hands out over 500 meals per day, and Alexander Rapaport, executive director of Masbia…
When Masbia Soup Kitchen Network learned migrants were flooding into the city, the soup kitchen operator bought up 100 pairs of construction boots from Amazon at $100 a pop and lined up a donor to help shoulder the cost. Nonprofits have also been helping migrants enroll in construction site safety training, a must-have…
New York City Hall is opening new shelters, and relief groups including the Jewish-run Masbia Soup Kitchens Network are redoubling efforts as New York City takes in record levels of migrants. Alexander Rapaport, the executive director of…
The Masbia of Borough Park is honoring the seven-day holiday of Sukkot by serving traditional kosher food. Starting tonight at 7:30 p.m., they will serve meals twice daily for the next three days. There will be fourteen different free meals…
The forced relocation of illegal migrants is inhumane and a dark stain on the governors and legislatures that are pursuing this cynical tactic. One can be concerned about illegal immigration…
Six packages a minute was the pace at which groceries were leaving Masbia’s food depot on a Wednesday afternoon in September, bound for neighbors in need. Rosh Hashanah was starting on Sunday and volunteers at Masbia, a network of kosher soup kitchens and food pantries, were racing against the clock , assembling large food packages for the festivities. The packages were strapped to the bikes…
The mayor’s plan to temporarily house some arrivals outside the city shelter system, with its stringent criteria, has advocates on alert. Late in the morning on Sept. 23, roughly 50 new arrivals to New York City – men, women and children, including several toddlers and babies – waited on chairs inside a gated-off section of the main entrance to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. They were surrounded by bags…
100,000 emergency food packages have been delivered in the last six months to feed the needy it’s a major Milestone as Masbia and DoorDash partnered up to meet the high demand during the high holiday season that partnership is geared toward eliminating the stigma attached to being in a food line and food insecurity…
Alexander Rapaport carries multilingual greeting signs and cheers and waves when certain buses pull into the terminal in New York City from Texas and Arizona these days, carrying people sent by the Republican authorities there who don’t wish to assist them. “These people are seeking asylum…