Lynbrook Temple feeds the hungry

The Feed the Hungry Crew cooks meals every Wednesday.

Courtesy Sandy Alexander/Temple Am Echad

The Feed the Hungry crew at Temple Am Echad in Lynbrook cooks every week, with few exceptions for holidays, throughout the year. 

The crew consists of about a dozen or so 15 dedicated volunteers who show up every Wednesday and pitch in with whatever needs to be done to turn out 450 hot meals, packaged and ready to go. The mission that they serve now feeds 130 to 150 meals per day at their facility, but the Temple is the only organization that provides them with hot meals. They also provide funds to feed seniors at JASA, support Mazone (A Jewish response to hunger), and help with supermarket gift cards to The Inn and the local Our Lady of Peace Church in Lynbrook.

Within the Temple, Feed the Hungry lends support to the Temple Am Echad Caring Community, which provides food for the families of newborns, and those stricken with illness.

The FTH program is sustained exclusively on donations, and takes no funds from the Temple operating budget. They periodically receive food from events held at Nassau Coliseum and Citi Field to pass on to the mission.  

The recent purchase of a new freezer for the Temple by the Feed the Hungry program facilitated storage, and made buying the food to cook monthly instead of a weekly task.  Temple Am Echad’s Stephen Miller is the coordinator and inspirational leader of the program.