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Nutrition Assistance Resources

Nutrition Assistance Resources

 

"The SNAP program - also known as food stamps - was implemented to ensure that people who fall into hard times, those who struggle to earn a living due to mental illness or physical or health challenges, and children who are born into poverty do not die of starvation and malnutrition. This is not a benefit or a privilege - this program is here to keep people alive. We cannot allow the politics of our time to violate this most central moral premise: to love our neighbors and care for them, and to preserve life."

— Rabbi Ari Margolis

 

Please click on any of the links below for ways to take action and help those in urgent need. If you have any suggestions of resources or opportunities to add to this page, please email Claire or Rabbi Ari.

Resource Links

 

•    Make Your Voice Heard with Mazon – With support from our local Federation and Jewish Child and Family Services, the Jewish food distribution organization MAZON has put together a campaign to alert your congressional and senate representatives to the importance of this moment. This is a critically important way to advocate for those who are food insecure.

 

•    Support the Mundelein Welcome Center – The Welcome Center, serving those in Mundelein’s School District 75, has requested the following supplies (please drop off at 1500 W. Hawley):

•    Food: canned beans, cooking oil, oatmeal, cereal, juice, snacks, flour, pancake batter, jelly, pasta/pasta sauce, coffee, mayonnaise, ketchup, sugar, lentils, cookies

•    Non-Food: Dish soap, bath soap, laundry detergent, diapers, wipes, toothbrushes/toothpaste, paper towels, cleaning supplies, gently used or new clothing and shoes, new socks and underwear (all sizes), grocery store gift cards

•    Financial Donation: Consider contributing any amount directly to the Welcome Center via Omella and we will do the shopping for you! You can make your contribution HERE.

 

•    Help  "Pack the Pantry" with The Ark  -  The Ark, the Jewish community food pantry in Northbrook and Chicago (and the same organization we have supported for our High Holy Days food drive), has put out a call to stack their pantries in preparation for this potential wave of extra need. Options to help include making a financial donation, shipping items to The Ark, and/or dropping off items at either Ark location.

Sat, November 1 2025 10 Cheshvan 5786