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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. Project Masbiah New York’s needy to get ‘movable feast’ CALL US We’ll make this FATHER’S DAY Special! Atlanta Balloonery Toco Hill Center 325-5844 Balloons » Cards • Gifts For Father’s Day Give the gift of sound Aviva Cantor 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 PERFECT! A GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TO THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE IS A GREAT IDEA! 876-8248 — Professional & Personal Home Health Care NURSING CENTER 373-2858 — Decatur 426-8668- Marietta . RN'S, LPN’S. NA’S • Homemakers • Live-in Companions • Elderly Person Aides • Critical Care • !. i . 1’nerap; Ton dir Loving Care the Orthodox rabbinical staff of the Metropolitan Council. 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 American Jewish Congress, it will approach Jewish organizations and food companies for contributions of food. Project Masbiah is being final ized and is expected to be opera tional by the fall. One problem Kohler is working on involves developing food storage facilities at potential recipient Jewish agen cies, most of which don’t have 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. 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