By Devra Ferst For many of the 1.4 million hungry people in New York there is little or no access to sustainable and locally sourced food. Out of necessity, many…

BROOKLYN — In its last fiscal year, from July 2009 to June 2010, Masbia, the kosher soup kitchen organization, opened three new kitchens with the help of the Metropolitan Council…

NY Daily News: Kosher soup kitchen Masbia is hungry for aid  In these tough times, even people who help people have to find ways to save money doing it. For…

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…