CITYWIDE — CITY HARVEST HAS LAUNCHED ITS ANNUAL High Holidays Food Drive, calling on New Yorkers to donate kosher food to Jewish New Yorkers experiencing food insecurity. City Harvest’s kosher food program provides free food, including produce and kosher meat, to support the one in five Jewish households in New York that are struggling to afford basic necessities like food, rent or medical care. The High Holidays Food Drive will run for one month, starting Monday, Sept. 8 and ending on Monday, Oct. 13, the festival of Simchat Torah. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset on Monday, Sept. 22.
Last year’s High Holidays Food Drive collected nearly 8,000 pounds of food for City Harvest to deliver to kosher food pantries across the five boroughs. This year, City Harvest plans to provide approximately 7.9 million pounds of food to 24 kosher community food programs across New York City.
City Harvest, New York City’s first and largest food rescue organization, rescues nutritious, high-quality food that would otherwise go to waste and delivers it for free to hundreds of food pantries, soup kitchens, community partners and the organization’s Mobile Markets across the five boroughs. The kickoff coincides with Hunger Action Month.
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