Food banks around the country are implementing new policies to combat rising food costs and food shortages as more people are struggling to get enough to eat. On July 1,…
For the last 36 hours dozens of volunteers have turned the Masbia central kitchen into a Passover grocery store. They have been arranging a large-scale display of donated Passover staples…
Written by 5TJT Staff BROOKLYN, NY — New York City Comptroller John Liu visited the Masbia soup kitchen on Coney Island Avenue. As chief fiscal officer for New York City,…
BROOKLYN, NY — New York City Comptroller John Liu visited Masbia soup kitchen on Coney Island Ave. As Chief Fiscal Officer for New York City, Liu experienced firsthand the plight…
by Jason Cohen REGO PARK, N.Y. — With the belief that no one should ever go to sleep hungry, the nonprofit group Masbia opened its fourth soup kitchen in Rego…
Tamar Snyder and Staff reportsAs this week’s blizzard blanketed New York City in snow, Jewish Community Councils and other organizations scrambled to continue providing much-needed services in the hardest-hit neighborhoods,…
REGO PARK, QUEENS — City Councilmember Mark S. Weprin (D-Oakland Gardens) recently visited the Orenstein MetCouncil Masbia Community Kitchen on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, where a soup kitchen serves…
by Pete Davis REGO PARK, QUEENS — State Assemblymember Andrew Hevesi and State Senator Joe Addabbo recently took a tour of Masbia Soup Kitchen, the only Kosher soup kitchen in…
By: Melanie Grayce West This filet has soul. The Stefansky family, owner of Brooklyn kosher fish company Dagim, is donating 2,500 portions of tilapia, flounder, salmon and tuna to the…
The following are video clips of the event: