MAZON: A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger is a national nonprofit organization working to end hunger among people of all faiths and backgrounds in the United States and Israel. Founded in 1985, MAZON was the first national organization to rally the American Jewish community around the issue of hunger, and remains the only national Jewish organization dedicated exclusively to that same cause. MAZON believes we can end hunger in America and Israel by acting to ensure that hungry people have access to the nutritious food they need today and by working to develop and advance long-term solutions so that no one goes hungry tomorrow.
THE JEWISH COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS The mission of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) is to serve as the representative voice of the organized American Jewish community in addressing the principal mandate of the Jewish community relations field, expressed in three interrelated goals: 1.
To safeguard the rights of Jews here and around the world;
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To dedicate ourselves to the safety and security of the state of Israel;
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To protect, preserve and promote a just American society, one that is democratic and pluralistic, one that furthers harmonious interreligious, interethnic, interracial and other intergroup relations.
The JCPA’s Confronting Poverty campaign – of which the Hunger Seder mobilization is a key program – engages the Jewish community in meaningful anti-poverty advocacy, outreach, and activism against a backdrop of profound and increasing need. The Confronting Poverty campaign has been successful in raising poverty as a priority on the Jewish communal agenda by mobilizing activists and community organizations to combat poverty in a coordinated, sustained, and effective way.
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