Board & Staff
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Betty Gaertner
Chair
Directors
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Suellen Boyd
Talia Klein Leighton
Laurel Rothman
Carrie Goldstein Mazoff
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Founders
Rabbi Arthur Bielfeld
Dodo Heppner
Roger Hyman
FREE
SEDER READINGS
This year, Mazon is releasing a collection of free Haggadah supplements throughout the course of our campaign:
short, poetic call-and-responses, prompts for deep discussion,
and more.
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Some have a mindful, reflective feeling; others teach the material facts of hunger in Canada. Browse a few for one or two that feel right for
your Seder.​​
OPENING OUR HEARTS AND MINDS
This discussion activity invites us to name something we've learned recently that brought us into deeper empathy with another's struggle - so our hearts will not be hard like Pharoah's.​
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YACHATZ - THE BREAKING OF THE MATZAH
For many, the act of saving a piece of food for later is not just symbolic seder ritual - it is survival. Together, we pledge to act against injustice wherever we find it.
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THE FOUR CHILDREN OF FOOD INSECURITY
This short reading thinks through four responses to the crisis of hunger - and how we can respond to them.
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AFTER THE MEAL: EXPRESSING OUR GRATITUDE
Our traditional after-meal prayer, Birkat HaMazon, is composed of four blessings. What are we grateful for as we finish our Seder with full bellies?
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MORE RESOURCES TO COME!
YOUR DONATION
MAZON Canada is a grassroots community foundation that feeds both Jewish and non-Jewish Canadians in need by supporting food projects across the Canada - including food banks, school nutrition programs, hot meals at shelters, community gardens and more.
We do this work year round on behalf of our community, and on Passover so that "all who are hungry [may] come and eat."
OTHER WAYS TO
FEED THE HUNGRY
THIS PASSOVER:
