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.
High Holy Days
Each year the High Holy Days offer us a moment of reflection and renewal. May the sounding of the shofar call us to act on behalf of all those who are hungry in our midst. Please utilize MAZON’s High Holy Days materials for your family or community observances and contact Liz Braun-Lilenfeld, Director of Outreach, with any questions.
Honor your loved ones with a High Holy Day e-Card or printed tribute card.
As we close the book on 5785 and welcome the start of a new year, we hope you will join MAZON in ensuring that every person, regardless of circumstance, can feed themselves and their families with choice and dignity.
Watch our High Holy Days Video
We invite you to watch this short video — on your own, with your loved ones, or as part of a High Holy Days service or learning session — and then reflect on the themes using our discussion guide and other materials below.
The statistics referenced in the video reflect the height of the pandemic. For the latest information, explore our Hunger in America page.
Join Us on Social Media
We’ve put together a toolkit of High Holy Day graphics to share on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Share them on your social platforms to engage your community in MAZON’s fight to end hunger this High Holy Day season. We encourage you to feature these graphics in your synagogue’s mailings or virtual newsletters!
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.
Order High Holy Day Materials
Fill out a simple form to order MAZON donation envelopes to distribute during the High Holy Days. This is a perfect way to compliment food drives, encouraging your community to support MAZON's fight to end hunger in every community.
Include MAZON in Your Food Drive
To compliment the food drives that many communities hold for the High Holy Days, we hope you will encourage support for MAZON as well — whether by distributing MAZON materials along with collection bags or starting a community fundraiser to support our work. Together, we can create a world in which every person is able to keep food on their table.
D'var Torah and Sermon Seeds
Ground conversations about hunger in the larger themes of the High Holy Days using MAZON's sample D'var Torah and "sermon seeds" for Rosh Hashanah, Kol Nidre, and Yom Kippur.
Yom Kippur Activity
Explore options for social action activities and discussions during your Yom Kippur programming.
Sukkot Resources
Sukkot offers an opportunity to gather as a community and celebrate the bounty of the earth — as well as recognize and break down the barriers for those who cannot enjoy that bounty.
Your community can help end hunger.
Many of us participate in food drives during the High Holy Days 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.
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.
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.
Educate Your Community
MAZON offers a suite of materials to help educate and engage individuals and communities about the scope of hunger and how we can work together to end it. Learn more.
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