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MAZON Announces New Grants for Top Organizations Fighting Hunger in Israel

December 16, 2024 — MAZON announced three new partnership grants as part of the organization’s efforts to combat food insecurity in Israel. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), Life & Environment, and Tzedek Centers will each receive one-year grants to grow and enhance the existing systems change work they are doing in their communities.

MAZON Statement on National Defense Authorization Act Passing House of Representatives

December 11, 2024 — Following today’s passage of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 by the U.S. House of Representatives, leading national anti-hunger advocates called particular attention to provisions in the bill that would address military hunger. MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, which has led the fight to address military hunger for over 12 years, welcomed improvements to military family quality of life issues in the legislation while condemning Congress’s failure to close a loophole preventing some military families from accessing SNAP benefits.

Anti-Hunger Advocates Sound the Alarm over “Extremist” Choice to Lead Department of Agriculture

November 25, 2024 — Following an apparent last-second change of heart, President-elect Donald Trump announced this weekend that Brooke Rollins, one of the architects of his first term’s domestic policy, is his nominee for the 33rd Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger noted with alarm the threat Rollins represents to the 47 million Americans facing food insecurity and urged members of the Senate to press the nominee on her views on key issues impacting hunger nationwide.

Anti-Hunger Advocates ‘Gobsmacked’ by Trump’s Pick of Loeffler for Secretary of Agriculture

November 22, 2024 — Today, credible reports stated that President-elect Donald Trump will appoint former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler as the 33rd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger expressed extreme concern about this pick and called on Senators to utilize the confirmation process to ensure that Loeffler would take concrete steps to fight hunger in this country.

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger Firmly Opposes H.R. 9495 as Threat to Free Speech

November 21, 2024 — Following the passage of H.R. 9495, the Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act by the U.S. House of Representatives, the Jewish anti-hunger nonprofit MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger condemned the legislation as a threat to the nonprofit sector and free speech. The organization strongly urged the Senate and White House to block the bill’s advancement.

Anti-Hunger Advocates Call for Swift Passage of Stabenow Farm Bill

November 18, 2024 — Following the introduction of the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024 by U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), anti-hunger advocates applauded the legislation and called for its quick passage. MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, the leading national organization advocating to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds nationwide, urged Congress to move quickly to pass the legislation, noting the impact it would have on the tens of millions of Americans living with hunger.

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