humanitarian organization that is fighting poverty and hunger by encouraging and supporting the projects of Hazon Yeshaya Soup Kitchens in Israel. Founded in 1997 by a successful businessman from New York, Hazon Yeshaya has grown to a nationwide network of three central kitchens serving more than 200,000 hot meals every month at 38 locations.

Hazon Yeshaya are dedicated to daily offerings of hot, nourishing meals to people of all ages, nationalities and backgrounds, immigrants and locals, healthy and ill, as well as children from broken or abusive homes, battered women fleeing abusive relationships, Shoah (Holocaust) survivors, and victims of terror and their families.

“Unemployment remains at an all-time
high and the (Israli) government has slashed
benefits while approving price increases on
basic food staples such as bread.”

These services are desperately needed, now more than ever. The Israeli economy continues to falter. Unemployment remains at an all-time high and the government has slashed benefits while approving price increases on basic food staples such as bread. The poor are the hardest hit by these changes. More than 1.3 million Israelis now live below the poverty line, according to a recent economic report.

Father Pat Fitzpatrick, Sam Moses, Father Joe Korchinski, Arie Fisher, Nora Turkevics & Stewart Borden