NYC Mayor Eric Adams made a surprise visit to the 9th annual Jewish Food Media Conference, a gathering of food critics and Jewish media influencers, where he declared, “Food is powerful.” The mayor noted how individuals often define themselves by their foods, like the Jewish community’s…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams urged food writers and influencers this week to help fight antisemitism by using food at a media conference held in advance of the kosher industry’s largest trade fair. Adams issued the appeal during a visit to Jewish Food Media Conference…

“Food is powerful,” said Mayor Eric Adams, when he stopped by the elegant, kosher Japanese restaurant Sen Sakana in Manhattan, where more than 100 Jewish writers were gathering at the 9th annual Jewish Food Media Conference. The conference’s participants were meeting to eat, network, and socialize…

The Masbia Soup Kitchen in Borough Park is teaming up with DoorDash to deliver free groceries to families in need. The soup kitchen hands out over 500 meals per day, and Alexander Rapaport, executive director of Masbia…

When Masbia Soup Kitchen Network learned migrants were flooding into the city, the soup kitchen operator bought up 100 pairs of construction boots from Amazon at $100 a pop and lined up a donor to help shoulder the cost. Nonprofits have also been helping migrants enroll in construction site safety training, a must-have…

New York City Hall is opening new shelters, and relief groups including the Jewish-run Masbia Soup Kitchens Network are redoubling efforts as New York City takes in record levels of migrants. Alexander Rapaport, the executive director of…

The Masbia of Borough Park is honoring the seven-day holiday of Sukkot by serving traditional kosher food. Starting tonight at 7:30 p.m., they will serve meals twice daily for the next three days. There will be fourteen different free meals…

Six packages a minute was the pace at which groceries were leaving Masbia’s food depot on a Wednesday afternoon in September, bound for neighbors in need. Rosh Hashanah was starting on Sunday and volunteers at Masbia, a network of kosher soup kitchens and food pantries, were racing against the clock , assembling large food packages for the festivities. The packages were strapped to the bikes…

The mayor’s plan to temporarily house some arrivals outside the city shelter system, with its stringent criteria, has advocates on alert. Late in the morning on Sept. 23, roughly 50 new arrivals to New York City – men, women and children, including several toddlers and babies – waited on chairs inside a gated-off section of the main entrance to the Port Authority Bus Terminal. They were surrounded by bags…