“Is this the fast that I desire? ... to share your bread with the hungry
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We sharing and organiz two options to help end hunger for all, Mazon and the Grow Clinic. Learn more and please help today.
Donate to Mazon
Please consider a High Holy Day gift to Mazon, the only national Jewish nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing and alleviating hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds.
Donate now to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.
Donate to the GROW Clinic
On Yom Kippur the prophet Isaiah calls on us to feed others’ bodies as part of our day-long fast. Whether you plan to attend in person or on Zoom, at HBT, we make this mitzvah easy for you.
Help support the Grow Clinic and Boston Medical center with donations of food, grocery store gift cards, or a check (paid to HBT so that we can send one community contribution).
In September (dates TBD) You can pick up paper grocery bags from the temple and return the full bags with items from the attached list.
The Grow Clinic also welcomes gift cards to local supermarkets and cash donations. Please make the check out to the Temple, designated for the Grow Clinic. To highlight our collective effort, HBT will send in a single check from all of us.
About the Grow Clinic
During the pandemic, Grow Clinic and other Boston Medical Center Pediatric staff personally delivered boxes of food from the pantry to the doorsteps of many desperate households. The referral rate of underweight children to Grow Clinic went up by 40%. Hunger today remains higher than pre-pandemic levels, especially for families of color with children.
We and the patients we serve are dreading September because of the planned termination of some of the public supports such as increases in SNAP (food stamps) that were put in place during the pandemic. While school nutrition programs may buffer the impact for older children, the families who bring their underweight infants and toddlers to Grow Clinic cannot expect this support. In addition, we are bracing for a large influx of refugees from Haiti following the recent assassination.