JMF Awards Grant to HUC Soup Kitchen

JMF Awards Grant to HUC Soup Kitchen

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“I will never forget the sight of Jonah leading a group of tenth graders into the Manhattan subway system to find where the homeless were and to offer them food and a kind word” (Billy Dreskin, Jonah Maccabee Foundation).

That’s why we feel especially good about making this grant. For nearly 30 years, the common room of Hebrew Union College (Reform Judaism’s rabbinical/cantorial seminary in New York City’s Greenwich Village) has been transformed each Monday evening into a dining room where students prepare and serve dinner to 100 people who might not otherwise get a meal that evening. NYU law students offer free legal aid, and there are clothes and supplies available to help these folks get by. There’s live music by professional jazz musicians and free flu shots at the Duane Reade down the street.

These students really take to heart the Jewish prophetic teachings of Isaiah (58), “to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh.”

The Jonah Maccabee Foundation is proud to support the HUC Soup Kitchen. Learn more here.

BillyJMF Awards Grant to HUC Soup Kitchen

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  • Sally Wilson - February 20, 2017 reply

    The Jonah Maccabee Foundation is doing a great job encouraging the students for their HUC Soup Kitchen to prepare the meal for students.

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