On the foothills of the Catskills in Goshen lies a 227-acre farm, where most of the workers speak Yiddish, and organic wheat and spelt for shmura matzah is the main crop. The Yiddish Farm also grows ripe, red tomatoes that…
“We don’t know what we’re going to get the next day,” Diaz said. “So we have to be very creative to create a meal.” Masbia operates as a soup kitchen and food pantry offering kosher meals and groceries for the community…
Masbia, a nonprofit soup kitchen network that provides nutritious meals for New Yorkers in need, has partnered with DoorDash to deliver groceries in Queens and Brooklyn to families facing food…
A two-alarm fire on the last night of Passover has left a Brooklyn family with eight children without a home. The blaze broke on Friday night at the Borough Park home of Simcha and Sarah Salz. Two firefighters…
With rising inflation and prices for everyday goods going up, Muslim communities are struggling to help the most vulnerable during Ramadan. A day before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Jabaran Akram was volunteering at a food bank in Brooklyn, New York City…
An unusual array of forces have conspired to depress production in the United States, and kosher plants have suffered alongside everyone else. The reports are coming fast and furious from the Costcos, butcheries, and grocery stores of America: Kosher chicken is hard to come by…
Listen to the latest episode of Table For Two by Naomi Nachman on the Nachum Segal Network at the Masbia Food Reserve featuring Masbia Soup Kitchen ED Alexander Rapaport, and chef Ruben Diaz. Ruben Diaz shows us how to prepare Chicken Potato Chremzlach…
Nonprofits have kicked it into high gear to make sure those in need have meals this holiday season. CBS2’s Leah Mishkin went to food distributions happening in Brooklyn on Friday. The nonprofit soup kitchen and food pantry Masbia plans to hand out food to 20,000 families for Passover. Its executive director, Alexander Rapaport, said the largest families in the network…
The anchor of CBS New York, Dana Tyler, presents Jenna Deangelis reporting from Brooklyn about rising food costs and families feeling the squeeze…
Listen to the latest episode of Table For Two by Naomi Nachman on the Nachum Segal Network at the Masbia Food Reserve featuring Masbia Soup Kitchen ED Alexander Rapaport, The Chef’s Garden, Manischewitz Co, Tuscanini Foods, Gefen and chopped champion Rachel Goldzal…