Jews fight for food stamps

By Ryan Torok
Published on January 30, 2013

As many Americans worried about the wide implications of the fiscal cliff debate at the end of last year, Jewish groups concerned about domestic hunger issues fought to protect one issue in particular: food stamp funding.

Jewish organizations host National Hunger Seder

Published on March 29, 2012

Michael Fassbender on “Shame,” sadism, playing a Jewish supervillain and why he’s not in therapy

By Naomi Pfefferman
Published on December 6, 2011

Opinion: Hungry 24/7

By Susan Freudenheim
Published on October 5, 2011

Are you hungry? Chances are you’re only a short reach away from your next meal or snack. If you’re reading this on Yom Kippur, your wait is probably longer. But either way, when you say you’re hungry, you probably know where your next meal will come from.

As strike wears on, top doc says he’ll go hungry

Published on July 25, 2011

The head of the Israel Medical Association went on a hunger strike to ramp up doctors' demands for better wages.

Mazon doling out $3 million in grants to fight hunger

Published on June 28, 2011

Mazon said it has awarded more than $3 million in grants for 2011 to agencies dedicated to fighting hunger.

End, don’t extend, the scandal of hunger of America

Published on April 12, 2011

Before we tell the Passover story, before the Four Questions and all the rest of the elaborate rituals that mark the Passover celebration in Jewish homes across the globe, we raise a piece of matzah, the unleavened bread that is meant to remind us of the haste with which we fled Egypt some 3,500 years ago, and we say (or chant): “Let all who are hungry enter and eat.”

Hypochondriacs are We!

By Julia Bendis
Published on December 6, 2010

Federation to Reorganize Focus on Hunger Program

By Julie Gruenbaum Fax
Published on June 8, 2010

Just nine months ago, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles launched Fed Up With Hunger, a $375,000 campaign to rally Jews around combating hunger and, in the process, attract more Jews to Federation.

Dig, plant, grow, give—sharing the bounty of food

By Rachel Heller
Published on November 19, 2008

If there's one thing Gabe Goldman wishes more Angelenos would do next spring, it's get their hands dirty.

Holiday Heartburn

By David Suissa
Published on October 1, 2008

"Not eating is not suffering," he said, "it's elevating ourselves to a state of transcendence. The fast, on Yom Kippur, reminds us how little material we really need; that we can do with less meat, with less bread, with less of everything."

Food prices squeeze Israel’s needy

By Dina Kraft
Published on July 21, 2008

As the price of food staples have risen, Israel's poor and the nonprofit groups that serve them have been hardest hit, with some impoverished Israelis skipping meals to pay their monthly bills

Food Stamp diet underscores need to aid the poor

By H. Eric Schockman
Published on September 13, 2007

We have reached the threshold of another new year. Let us pledge, you and I, to cross it together, committed to a future in which food stamps, the majority of which go to feed children, require neither a diet nor a challenge. Hungry people deserve better. We all do.

The Circuit

By Norma Zager
Published on March 30, 2006

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Yaelle and Nouriel Cohen: Kindness Starts at Home

By Julie G Fax
Published on January 5, 2006

The Cohens understand desperation. Eight years ago, Nouriel's beauty supply business went under, and the family had to give up their Beverly Hills home. He hasn't had steady employment since then and has had to rely on his parents and family to get by.

Community Briefs

By David Finnigan
Published on December 22, 2005

Rabbi David Wolpe has removed himself from consideration for the job of leading the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) in New York. Wolpe, of Sinai Temple in Westwood, had been widely considered a front-runner for chancellor at JTS, the central institution in Conservative Judaism.

Yom Kippur in Chad: Fasting a Way of Life

By Rabbi Lee Bycel
Published on October 7, 2004

I am sitting in Adam's living room -- a carpet on a dirt patio. On one side is a small tent for his five children, as well as two nephews and a niece who have been orphaned.

It’s Time to Change

By Jane Ulman
Published on September 2, 2004

The oldest and most primitive human dates back about 7 million years, according to a skull found by scientists in Central Africa.

"That's so depressing," I say to my husband, Larry. "I can't believe that in 7 million years we haven't evolved any further than this."

"This" being a world in which half the people live on less than $2 a day; in which 1 billion people go to bed hungry every night; in which 115 million children never go to school at all; and in which 27 million people live in some kind of slavery.

"You're looking at this all wrong," Larry assures me. "Seven million years is an insignificant blip in the history of the cosmos."

And, Jewish tradition tells me, the first 6,994,235 years hardly count.

Food Poverty Grows in Israel

By Loolwa Khazzoom
Published on September 18, 2003

When, not so long ago, the director of an Israeli nonprofit organization noticed that an employee would appear at work every Sunday morning so fatigued that he could barely function, he issued him a stern warning to "stop partying so hard on Saturday nights."

The gaunt-looking employee burst into tears, explaining that he had not eaten since Thursday afternoon, when he received his last hot meal of the week at work.

The Hunger Question

By Gil Sedan
Published on August 15, 2002

"We will never go hungry," Ahmad Zughayer boasted as a truck from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) unloaded sacks of flour, sugar, oil, rice and milk powder in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.

Poverty and Unemployment Plague Israel

By Larry Derfner
Published on December 2, 1999

The peace process isn't the news in Israel anymore; it's poverty, unemployment and hunger. The domestic agenda, the one that Prime Minister Ehud Barak focused his election campaign on, has jumped up and bitten him.

Answering the Call

By Eric Silver
Published on February 18, 1999

Anne Roberts is passionate about the idea of tzedakah, a concept she has diligently instilled in her son Spencer Nieman.