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Queens offi cials distribute kosher food for Jewish new year
BY CARLOTTA MOHAMED
cmohamed@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, the
Jewish new year, more than 900 community
Met Council CEO David Greenfi eld (l.)
volunteers and 20 elected offi cials
joined the Met Council at 82 locations
throughout the city to distribute fresh
food packages for more than 100,000 New
Yorkers in need of food.
Met Council has spent the last few
weeks distributing food packages in
Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten
Island. Th e diverse list of groups that Met
Council provides free food for includes
Boro Park JCC to COJO Flatbush, from
the Vaad Hakhol of Crown Heights to the
JCC of Washington Heights to Tomehei
Shabbos of Queens.
Queens elected offi cials that participated
in the food distribution include: Council
members Donovan Richards and Barry
Grodenchik; state Senator Joseph
Addabbo; and state Assembly members
Nily Rozic, David Weprin and Daniel
Rosenthal.
“During these Yomim Noraim (High
Holidays) there is no greater mitzvah than
tzedakah – helping our fellow neighbors
in need,” said Met Council CEO David
Greenfi eld. “We at Met Council are grateful
to the hundreds of volunteers, donors,
community and elected leaders who came
together in the weeks before Yom Tov to
make sure that everyone that needed food
in New York had fresh quality kosher food.
It’s a real zechus (privilege) for us at Met
Council to operate the largest free kosher
food distribution network in the world.”
For the past four decades, Met Council
has provided comprehensive social services
to aid, sustain and empower more
than 225,000 poor and near-poor New
Yorkers. Th e organization works with any
Jewish organization that is interested to
make sure that communities across New
York have food for the holidays.
Met Council has 10 diff erent programs
ranging from aff ordable housing at 21
locations across New York to domestic
and family violence services to Holocaust
survivor services to senior programming
to the largest free kosher food distribution
program in the world. Additionally,
during the year, Met Council provides
food daily to 39 kosher food pantries in
New York, ensuring that no one in the
community goes hungry.
Th e organization distributed 26,000 jars
of honey and hundreds of thousands of
pounds of fruits, vegetables, eggs, fi sh
and glatt kosher chicken during the largest
free Yom Tov distribution in the U.S.
“Th is year’s Rosh Hashanah distributions
were our most successful yet thanks
to our Met Council Food Czar Jessica Chait
and our active support from co-Presidents
Ben Tisch and Joseph Allerhand and our
friends at UJA-Federation of New York,”
Greenfi eld said. “We came up with new
and improved ways to serve the community
including an expansion of our digital
food pantry system.”
Photos courtesy of Met Council
Met Council’s Kosher Food Network of 30 pantries (and more than 100 pantries for holiday food distributions) is the largest kosher food network in the
country.
jewish new year
Temple Beth Beth Sholom Sholom of of Fl Flushing
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A Reform Synagogue Serving Our Area For Over 65 Years!
FREE SERVICES!!
COME CELEBRATE THE HIGH HOLIDAYS WITH US!!
Rosh Hashanah:
Monday, September 30th:
Children’s Service.....................................................2:00 PM
Tashlich @ Little Bay Park.........................................3:30 PM
(Entrance by Fort Totten)
Tuesday, October 1st:
2nd Day Morning Service........................................10:00 AM
Yom Kippur:
Wednesday, October 9th:
Children’s Service.....................................................2:00 PM
Afternoon Service......................................................3:00 PM
Yizkor/Ne-ilah Service..............................................5:00 PM
For more information contact the Temple Office at
(718) 463-4143 or e-mail membership@templebethsholom.org
or visit our website at:
http://www.templebethsholom.org
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