A percentage of the money we receive for our programs goes directly to MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger.

In addition, Temple Jeremiah joins congregations and organizations across the country asking people to generously donate to this worthwhile organization.

Temple Jeremiah recently received thanks from MAZON for its donations of food and toiletry items during Sisterhood's High Holy Day Food Drive.

Since 1985, MAZON has provided food, help and hope to hungry people of all faiths and backgrounds. Donations from the Jewish community are allocated to the most effective hunger relief organizations in the U.S., Israel and poor countries worldwide.

MAZON was founded to build a bridge between Jews who enjoy the blessings of abundance and the millions of children and adults who are hungry or live at the edge of hunger each day. This includes 33 million Americans. Since its founding, MAZON has granted more than $30 million to emergency food providers, food banks, advocacy groups which seek long-term solutions to hunger and groups providing multiple services to low-income individuals and families.

Partner synagogues encourage congregants to donate 3 percent of the cost of their life-cycle celebrations to MAZON. More than 75,000 Jews donate to MAZON's hunger relief efforts annually.

Temple Jeremiah's Rabbi Cohen received a letter in May, 2007 from MAZON Vice President Barbara H. Bergen thanking our congregants for their generous contributions during its annual Passover appeal. The organization is one of the country’s largest private funders of anti-hunger programs. ”MAZON’s success is your success. Clearly, without you, your members and affiliates, MAZON could not exist, not could it ever have evolved into today’s premier Jewish organization fighting hunger here, In Israel and in impoverished countries nationwide.”

For more information on this organization, log onto MAZON.