While Kentucky’s small Jewish community was not impacted by the flood, Jewish organizations are nevertheless pitching in to help. In addition to Chabad and the Israel consulate, Masbia, a kosher soup kitchen based in the Chassidic neighborhood of Boro Park, N.Y. The organization’s disaster relief team, which includes its executive director Rabbi Alexander Rapaport, went down to Kentucky to deliver needed supplies, including bleach and blow-up beds.

A two-alarm fire on the last night of Passover has left a Brooklyn family with eight children without a home.

The blaze broke on Friday night at the Borough Park home of Simcha and Sarah Salz. Two firefighters and a resident suffered minor injuries during the fire, according to AMNY. Approximately 125 firefighters responded to the emergency.

Volunteers with the Masbia Kitchen Network, a nonprofit soup kitchen network, food pantry, and the Shomron civil protection organization teamed up to help the victims of a horrific fire that struck a large apartment building Sunday afternoon in the Bronx.

Within four hours of a deadly tornado hitting the town of Mayfield, Kentucky in December, Micah Seavers’ family-owned restaurant, Southern Red’s Barbecue, was preparing meals for the emergency workers who were streaming in to help. It was about 2:30 am.

The hosts of Newsmax, Heather Childers and Bob Sellers, presents Masbia Relief Team at Kentucky helping victims of the tornado lead by ED of Masbia Soup Kitchen Alexander Rapaport. Naomi Nachman was interviewed by Newsmax hosts, and she talk about the so emotional experience volunteers had during the supplies sharing out to the victims.

The Hebrew word “masbia” means to satiate. Fittingly, it’s also the name of a Jewish nonprofit that came to Greenville yesterday to provide satiating quantities of free halal meat to newly arrived Afghan immigrants, among others.

On December 28th, 2021, radio host Zev Brenner of Talkline interviewed Masbia Soup Kitchen's, ED Alexander Rapaport. Zev Brenner pointed out how Masbia has provided kosher meals not just to the Hasidic community but Latino, Chinese and other communities in the metropolitan area of New York since 2005. Also, in the interview, you will find out how the Masbia Relief Team has been at the forefront of delivering food to Haiti and other disaster spots. Recently Masbia Relief Team went to Kentucky to help those hit by a deadly tornado.

The anchor of NBC New York, Natalie Pasquarella, reports about Masbia Relief Team, with the camera of Lou Braga, welcoming Afghan refugees families in New Jersey. Masbia Soup Kitchen allows families to get halal meat-free of charge as a welcoming gesture from the Jewish community.