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Rock and Wrap It Up, an award-winning anti-poverty think tank, has provided a veterans farmers market for residents of the Five Towns and Valley Stream since July 2020. Syd Mandelbaum, CEO of Rock … more
On Nov. 9, workmen continued to string electrical wires across the ceiling of what will be the new Marion & Aaron Gural JCC Sustenance Center in Cedarhurst in the Maple Plaza Mall. more
You can still RSVP to the White Party at the Lawrence Yacht & Country Club at 101 Causeway in Lawrence to support Cedarhurst-based Rock and Wrap It Up! more
Now in its 26th year, Rock and Wrap it Up! (RWU) is an award-winning anti-poverty organization that researches, discovers and nurtures potential sources willing to share food with those in need. … more
For the 25th year under the Rock and Wrap It Up! banner, a free Thanksgiving Day feast will be hosted by the Cedarhurst-based anti-poverty think tank at St. John Baptist Church at 7405 Rockaway Beach Blvd. in Far Rockaway from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. more
A Cedarhurst resident who has made it his mission to honor his parents, who survived the Holocaust, and to use his scientific expertise to reduce hunger and waste, is the Herald’s 2014 Person of the Year. Syd Mandelbaum, 64, of Oceanpoint Avenue, helps feed those in need through his Rock and Wrap It Up! poverty think tank. more
The Fishbin family, of Port Washington, and the Seaman family, of Merrick, have known each other since their sons attended sleepaway summer camp together many years ago. Now they are joining together for the benefit of two organizations that are dear to their hearts: Rock and Wrap it Up! and Music Never Stops: The Tyler Seaman Foundation. On March 27, a concert at City Winery in downtown Manhattan will raise money for both organizations. more
When people in other parts of the country think of Long Island, they may imagine lavish Hamptons soirees attended by A-list Hollywood glitterati. They see Gold Coast palaces. But this American paradise has a desperate side that is too often hidden by the glare of its wealth. more
Saul Lerner, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District’s athletic director, learned recently that Butch Yamali, a Merrick Board of Education trustee and restaurateur, bought the Sands in Lido Beach and the Coral House in Baldwin. Therein, Lerner saw an opportunity to help feed the poor. more
Dozens of volunteers from the Five Towns and Bellmore-Merrick communities turned out on Thursday to help at Rock and Wrap It Up’s annual Thanksgiving feast at the First Congregational Church at Beach 94th Street in Rockaway Beach, which provides a hot meal of turkey and ham with all the trimmings to families in need. more
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