On the fifth night of Sukkot, a panel gathered in The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles’ Wilshire Boulevard headquarters to discuss how to handle hunger both at home and across the country. Rabbi Noah Farkas of Valley Beth Shalom in Encino explained that it was an auspicious date for such a conversation.
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\”Hy looked at me and said, \’He\’s not Jewish,\’\” recalled his wife, Zucky Altman, 89. \”I said, \’So what? He\’s hungry.\’ From that moment on, we decided we would just feed everybody.\”
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
\”We have slaves to help,\” Jerry Rabinowitz, the Friday co-captain of the North Hollywood Interfaith Food Pantry, announces. \”We Jews know something about slaves.\”
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