MAZON collaborates with diverse stakeholders to showcase what’s possible: a country built on compassion, mutual support, and meaningful opportunity. By reflecting on the world as it is, we create a vision of what it could be — one where those in need are supported, the powerful are held to account, and hunger is a distant memory.
Sukkot
Every year during Sukkot, we invite friends and family into our sukkah to enjoy a communal meal. Traditionally, we are taught to extend an invitation to the needy members of our community as well. Whether symbolically or more literally, Sukkot is the perfect time to share your hospitality and good fortune to help improve the lives of the most vulnerable among us, including the millions of Americans facing hunger. We hope you will utilize MAZON’s Sukkot materials and contact our Outreach team with any questions.
Resource Guide for Celebrating Sukkot and Indigenous People’s Day
Sukkot (the Jewish festival for harvest) and Indigenous People’s Day (to honor Native American cultures and histories) often fall closely in the calendar. As the Jewish community reflects on themes of harvest, scarcity, peoplehood, and food justice, MAZON invites you to learn more about — and join us in the movement to support — Indigenous food sovereignty.
Your community can help end hunger.
Many of us participate in food drives during the Sukkot season to help to those facing hunger locally. Please consider taking this one step further by fundraising for MAZON's work to change the systems and policies that allow hunger to persist.
Tree of Life Community Art Project
How will you nourish your community? The Tree of Life is a powerful symbol, representing all that sustains us. As we start this year, every person should share in our abundance — every person should have enough to live a life of dignity. We invite you to incorporate this activity in your sukkah. Please print the materials and answer the prompts to fill your tree with abundance.
Decorate and Educate with MAZON’s Ushpizin Posters
Sharing stories of people struggling with food insecurity is a powerful way to help your community better understand the realities of who is hungry in America today and why. Honor the tradition of welcoming ushpizin (guests) into your sukkah by printing stories of real people facing hunger. Print and display these posters in your congregational or personal sukkah to spark conversations.
Take Action
Despite rising food prices and financial uncertainty plaguing low-income American families, President Trump and Republicans in both chambers of Congress enacted a deeply problematic law, including an estimated $120 billion cut from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next decade — the largest cut to SNAP in history — in order to extend tax breaks for businesses and the ultra wealthy.
Please join MAZON in urging your Members of Congress to safeguard the interests of American families by reversing this destructive policy, influencing its implementation, and rejecting further cuts to SNAP and other basic needs programs.
Send a Postcard to Protect Basic Needs
We’re launching a national postcard campaign to flood the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) with messages demanding protection for basic needs programs that help our neighbors put food on the table.
Each postcard will represent 1,000 people experiencing hunger. Our goal: 47,000 postcards delivered to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins with a simple message: No one deserves to go hungry. No exceptions.
Send High Holy Day E-cards
As we prepare to celebrate the High Holy Days, e-cards are a special way to honor your loved ones and celebrate together. A donation to MAZON helps us fight for a world in which no one faces hunger, both during the pandemic and thereafter. Send an e-card today.
Include MAZON in Your B’nai Mitzvah
Jewish tradition teaches that we deepen our own happiness when we share our joyous celebrations with people in need. MAZON has created materials to integrate meaningful tzedakah and tikkun olam opportunities into B’nai Mitzvah celebrations.
Download our B’nai Mitzvah guide and please email Tammy Habteyes, Senior Outreach Manager, for more information.
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