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Harriet Zimmerman
Billie Feinman
Atlantans in UJA
United Jewish Appeal Women's Division leadership positions
have recently been tilled by Atlanta women.
Lois Blonder was named Region III chairman of the UJA
Women's Division, Rosanne Zinn is Region 111 missions chairman
and has also been appointed to the UJA National Women's Div
ision Board, along with Billie Feinman was chosen to participate
Rosanne Zinn Lois Blonder
leadership roles
on UJA’s Kadima leadership mission to Russia and Israel this
summer.
Harriet Zimmerman continues to serve as president of UJA’s
National Women's Division Board.
All are also active in a variety of leadership positions in Atlanta’s
Jewish community.
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NEW YORK (JTA)—“There’s
enough food left over from Jewish
organizational functions in this city
to feed every hungry Jew in the
community,” said Robert Kohler,
w ho served for 30 years as assistant
national director of the Anti-De
famation League of B’nai B’rith.
In those years he had watched
hundreds of pounds of food remain
untouched after an organizational
dinner and wondered if it was recy
cled or simply thrown out.
When he became executive di
rector of the Metropolitan New
York Coordinating Council on
Jewish Poverty last summer and
learned that there are thousands of
Jews who are not getting enough to
eat in the city and who need kosher
food, Kohler talked with former
colleague Nathan Perlmutter,
ADL’s national director. Out of
this discussion emerged ADL’s
commitment to turn over left
over food from dinners to the
poor—Jews and non-Jews.
Kohler then approached City
Harvest, asking for its help in deal
ing with the growing need for
emergency kosher food in the Jew
ish community. City Harvest is a
non-profit telephone-and-trans-
portation network created over
three years ago by Helen VerDuin
Palit to pick up food from restau
rants, caterers, organizations —
“anyone with good food”—and
deliver it in its vans within a few
hours to facilities that feed people.
Every day City Harvest picks up
and delivers enough food to 235
soup kitchens and food pantries
for 4,500 meals. Its trucks are
equipped with thermal boxes and
refrigeration to preserve prepared
food.
Over 1,400 food companies
donate food to City Harvest, which
has duplicated its programs in
Halifax, Minneapolis-St. Paul,
Montreal, New Haven—where Palit
ran a soup kitchen and similar
operations—Paterson, N.J., Phila
delphia and Winnipeg.
Kohler and Palit together deve
loped City Harvest’s new Project
Masbiah (from the Hebrew word
for eating to satisfaction), which
will collect prepared and uncooked
kosher food from Jewish organiza
tions and food companies and de
liver it to various Jewish agencies
which feed people—and, as well, to
non-kosher shelters, soup kitchens,
and food pantries throughout the
city.
The project will use one van for
kosher food only. It is currently
being prepared for this purpose
according to traditional kashrut
standards under the guidance of
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The council will also ensure that
all contributed food is strictly
kosher, and provide City Harvest
with a list of agencies to receive it.
Together with the ADL and the
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approach Jewish organizations and
food companies for contributions
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Project Masbiah is being final
ized and is expected to be opera
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Kohler is working on involves
developing food storage facilities
at potential recipient Jewish agen
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them
The ADL has already turned
over food left over from all its
spring functions to City Harvest,
according to Christina Velasquez,
associate director of is meetings
and conferences department. She
and department director Deena
Lee know by 7 p.m., when the
smorgasbord is over, how much
food remains and how many peo
ple will not be showing up for
dinner. The caterer wraps up the
food—which averages between 70
and 100 pounds—for City Harv
est. “What gets picked up at ADL
at 8,” Palit told JTA, “is eaten
within two hours at a shelter.”
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