Read the article below written by Reuvain Borchardt in the Straight Talk section in Hamodia. Hamodia speaks with Masbia chef RUBEN DIAZ shortly after he led a delegation of Masbia workers and volunteers marching in New York City’s Hometown Heroes Parade. The parade honored 14 categories of frontline COVID workers, including those who worked in emergency food operations. Masbia has food pantries and soup kitchens in Boro Park, Flatbush, and Forest Hills.

Since the beginning of March 2020, when the idea of a lockdown was somewhat in the air, senior staffers from Masbia, a kosher soup kitchen network headquartered in Flatbush, started planning food contingencies to be able to be open during this looming emergency.

Read the article below written by Bryce Gruber, published in the Newsbreak, on Masbia Soup Kitchen and Farmer Lee Jones getting together to help those in need throughout an amazing cookbook with recipes made of fresh vegetables, the cookbook which is filled with mouth-watering recipe gems, isn’t categorized as kosher, so Chef Jordana Hirschel and Chef Jamie Simpson, together, they reviewed the entire 600-page cookbook and came up with 22 alternative recipes for the ones that aren’t kosher.

On a sprawling piece of land near the shores of Lake Erie in rural Huron, Ohio, you’ll find the Chef’s Garden, an innovative farm dedicated to growing high-quality crops through natural and environmentally-friendly practices. True to its name, the farm is focused on providing specialty and heirloom vegetables, herbs, microgreens and edible flowers to the most esteemed chefs and restaurants around the world. Their Earth-to-Table™ philosophy focuses on the health and nutrition of the soil first as the foundation to growing high-quality, ultra nutrient-dense crops, using techniques that are somehow both as old as times and incredibly innovative at the same time. 

The anchor Steve Lacy of Fox 5 New York introduces reporter Lewis Antwan interviewing, via Zoom, our ED, Alexander Rapaport, about food rescue to help combat New York City food insecurity, a problem that our community faces even before the pandemic.

The anchor of ABC7 New York, Bill Ritter, reported on Masbia Soup Kitchen of Queens in Forest Hills is holding an outdoor celebration to light the Menorah and feed the hungry on the fifth night of Hanukkah during the covid-19 pandemic. At the celebration attended, NYC Council Member Brad Lander and our ED Alexander Rapaport.