News

• 16.05.2012

  UN envoy Olivier De Schutter blasts Canada for ‘self-righteous’ attitude over hunger, poverty | News | National Post

  by: daphne

  Is Canada Self-Righteous?

  
• 10.04.2012

  Make Tzedakah a MAZON Experience

  by: daphne

  If you are having a simcha please consider making a donation to MAZON Canada. MAZON was founded by Leonard Fein on the “3% Principle”. We ask you to remember those who are hungry in times of plenty by donating 3% of the food costs of your simcha in honour of

  
• 03.04.2012

  Passover Message from MAZON Canada Co-Presidents

  by: daphne

  As we prepare for Pesach, events in the Middle East today seem to be replicating what our ancestors experienced in Eretz Mitzrayim: the desire to be free, both spiritually and physically. The Exodus from Egypt is not only our holiday of freedom but also the beginning of our attempt at

  
• 26.03.2012

  “The Scandal of Hunger” by Rabbi Dow Marmur

  by: daphne

  This edition of MAZONEWS features excerpt of an article written by Rabbi Dow Marmur in response to his article of April 1990 entitled “The Scandal of Hunger.” Rabbi Marmur is the Rabbi emeritus at Holy Blossom
  Temple in Toronto and is a Toronto Star columnist.

  Twenty-Five Years Later
  Article

  
• 26.03.2012

  “Hunger and Social Progress” by Gerard Kennedy, Newsletter articles 1992 and 2012.

  by: daphne

  Passover 2012 MAZONEWS features a sequel to an article entitled “Charitable Justice” written in December
  1992 by Gerard Kennedy, the then executive director of the Daily Food Bank. Gerard subsequently went on
  to become the MP for Parkdale High Park in Toronto and currently is running his own firm—Enterprising for