BLOGS and Testimonials

Ladies Night Cooking Demo and Dinner ...

Kehilath Jeshurun (KJ) recently held a ''Ladies Night'' Cooking Demonstration and Dinner by Professional Chef and Author, Kim Kushner, at Congregation Edmond J. Safra Shul of Manhattan. KJ and Safra are prominent Upper East side synagogues. The proceeds of the evening went to benefit Project Leke...

Jared Picks Kohlrabi with Leket

High School student, Jared Kaufman, recently partcipated in a ''Volunteering Tiyul'' which included a stop to pick vegetables for the needy with Leket Israel, Israel's National Food Bank. Jared is in Israel studying at the Alexander Muss High School, known as HSI or AMHSI, which provides teens th...

East Bay Jewish Community Gleans on I...

A contingent of East Bay (San Francisco, CA) community members on a recent mission to Israel met with Leket Israel Founder, Joseph Gitler to learn about nutritional insecurity in the country. After hearing from Mr. Gitler, the group harvested turnips and other crops to be distributed to the poor ...

Young Judaea's ''Tzeva Kachol'' Glean...

The Activisim Track and other members from Young Judaea's ''Tzeva Kachol'' recently visited Leket Israel to glean produce for the needy. Check out their photos as posted to the group's facebook page. Thank you Tzeva Kachol members for joining us in the fields and please come again soon!

Englewood Fathers & Sons Glean for th...

The Englewood Father-Son Bar Mitzvah Mission to Israel helped Israel's National Food Bank, Leket Israel, pick vegetables for the needy in honor of Yom Ha'atzmaut (Israel Independence Day). The group, led by Rabbi Shmuel Goldin of Congregation Ahavath Torah and Rabbi Zev Reichman of East Hill Syn...

Leadership Mission from Atlanta Volun...

PARTNERSHIP2GETHER - April 17, 2013. As part of a mission representing the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta, the ''Frank Leadership'' group joined Yokneam Ethiopian community members in the fields of Moshav Nahalal for vegetable picking with Leket Israel, The National Food Bank. The Ethiopian...

Carmel Academy 8th Graders Volunteer ...

As part of a whirlwind itinerary, 8th graders from the Carmel Academy of Westchester and Fairfield counties, New York, recently participated on an exciting Israel trip. Despite their jet lag, the group valiantly volunteered with Leket Israel only hours after arriving to the country to pick radis...

Friends and Family from St Louis Glea...

PARTNERSHIP2GETHER - April 8, 2013. As part of their trip to Israel just prior to Pesach, the Goldberg Family of St Louis, Missouri, participated in a ''wonderful mitzvah project'' – gleaning crops from Leket Israel fields to benefit needy families. Leket Israel engages its friends and family fro...

Birmingham Jewish Federation Feeds th...

A recent article on the Birmingham Jewish Federation's website highlights the work and partnership between Leket Israel and the Birmingham Jewish community. In the article, members of Birmingham's Krell family are pictured in a field where they helped pick beets for distribution to Israel's need...

Leket Israel Awarded $4,700 from JCYF...

Leket Israel was recently presented with a check for $4,700 from the Jewish Community Youth Foundation's (JCYF) Teen Philanthropists. The check, one of the largest presented during a special ceremony, was accepted by American Friends of Leket Israel's Lauren Yoked, Associate Director of Developme...

B'nai Tzedek Teens Award Grant to the...

A $500 grant from the B'nai Tzedek Youth Foundation has enabled Leket Israel to rescue nearly 10,000 lbs of produce that would have otherwise been destroyed--all collected by previously exploited Arab women through the organization's Leket Work Project. The women participating in the program are...

LYA Students Volunteer with Leket Israel

On their recent trip to Israel, LYA students volunteered with Leket Israel, Israel's National Food Bank--picking 400 kilos of oranges in a single afternoon. According to chaperone Rochel Leah Kosofsky, ''At LYA we teach the students that we are leaders who give back to our community. It was a gr...

Developing Menuhah blogger features L...

''Developing Menuhah'' blogger describes how instead of receiving a food gift from one friend over Purim, instead she received an email telling her a contribution had been made to Leket Israel, Israel's National Food Bank. ''I am providing their website in case you want to contribute money but al...

Temple Emanu-el's Mitzvah Project

March 2013 — As reported in Temple Emanu-el's Bulletin, ''We took an hour's bus ride near Rechovot to work on our Mitzvah project with Leket Israel. In Leviticus we read that you reap a but not until it is bare; leave some for the poor. (This is called Leket). We picked oranges off many trees—en...

US Ambassador Picks Beets with Leket ...

A March 28, 2013 facebook post by US Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro reads: ''Our family went out to the fields yesterday to pick beets and help feed the needy in Israel. Thanks to Leket Israel - Israel's National Food Bank for the opportunity to volunteer.'' Thank you Ambassador Shapiro for y...

From Israel to my Seder Table

In discussing her experience on a multi-family mission to Israel, Carolyn Kolers, President of Beth Tzedec Congregation, writes, '' For my kids, the highlights were picking oranges with Leket Israel (Israel’s National Food Bank) for distribution to Israel’s under privileged children and families ...

VIDEO: Young Leket Israel Volunteers...

April 2013 - Over the recent Passover holiday, more than 1,200 volunteers joined Leket Israel's produce growing initiative located on Moshav Nahalal to pick beets for distribution to Israel's needy. Check out this testimonial from two young Leket Israel volunteers!

Beth Tikvah Supports Leket Israel

Beth Tikvah congregation of Richmond, BC Canada, is raising awareness about food rescue this Passsover. An annoucement in the congregation's ChaiLights newsletter reads: This Passover, please consider a donation for Food Rescue. A $1 donation to Leket Israel (Israel's National Food Bank) provid...

Bar Mitvah Volunteers with Project Leket

Joshua Emery Robbins, son of Beth and Brian Robbins of Pepper Pike of the B’nai Jeshurun Congregation and University School, volunteered with Project Leket, among other charities, as part of his Mitzvah project. Way to go Joshua!

Katif - Fruit Picking for Needy Families

Rabbi Michael Schwab and Hazzan Larry Goller of the North Suburban Beth El Synagogue recently led a mission to Israel that included teaming up with members of the synagogue's sister congregation in Ashkelon, Kehillat Netzach Israel. Together, the group volunteered with Leket Israel for 2 hours ...

Grapefruit Picking for Leket Israel

In a blog post, the Yunger Family describes their recent gleaning experience: ''Bentzi and the older kids (I stayed home with the ''junior division'') met up in a field near Rechovot, together with a bunch of our other Yunger cousins. The kids had a nice time learning about the mitzvos that Le...

Israel, Anyone?

We hiked through the Negev Desert. Rode camels led by our Bedouin guide...We hiked a very steep Masada that revealed just how out of shape I am. Floated in the Dead Sea, slept in a Kibbutz, and pulled beets on a farm run by Leket Israel, an organization that feeds needy families...'' so says blog...

Best Friends With Broccoli

''I pulled out my first turnip, marveling at how easily it parted from the rich soil. Then I pulled out my second turnip, and was shocked by the size and magnificence of its deep purple hues...The sun soon warmed my back and brightened the green fields. I plodded on, working my row meticulously, ...

Israel Trip - LYA visits Leket Israel

According to anonymous LYA Israeli blogger, ''...LYA students worked hard and picked 400 kilos of oranges. These oranges will make it to 200 families today and provide them with food and vitamin C. It was a great feeling to know that we had helped people in Israel.''

Birmingham Jewish Foundation

The Birmingham Jewish Federation recently held its first Israel-World Jewry Bureau allocations meeting for 2013. The allocations committee comes together to decide which organizations in Israel and elsewhere overseas will receive funding from The BJF Annual Campaign. Leket Israel is a beneficiar...

Birthright Inclusion Program Gleans w...

A recent Taglit-Birthright Israel trip sponsored by Shorashim and KOACH was both a typical Birthright trip and a “uniquely Asperger Syndrome” experience rolled into one. The 21 young adults, ages 18-26 and from all corners of the US, spent ten days over Winter Break taking in many of the importa...

The Face of Hunger

THE FACE OF HUNGER - Jan. 30, 2013. Ray Buchanan of STOP HUNGER NOW, reposted a compelling article on the reasons to end world hunger. The article, by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of the Commonwealth originally appeared in the Times of London. Buchana...

Naming the Change

In a recent blog post to Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills' SYNABLOG, the poster describes how she met a lot of ''committed'' people in Israel during the Hebrew Union College's School of Jewish Nonprofit Management's intensive Israel Seminar over a few weeks. According to the post, ''There were pe...

If we act to eradicate hunger

Rabbi Aaron Goldstein discusses the issue of world hunger in a Tu B'Shevat blog post in the Jewish Chronicle Online. Goldstein cites organizations working to alleviate poverty, including Leket Israel, and leaves off with the words, ''I hope and pray that this Shabbat, this Tu B'Shevat, we may al...

Boston Students Volunteer at Leket

Twenty students from Boston-area campuses visited Haifa, Israel (Boston's ''Sister'' city) this past March, to participate in an ''Alternative Spring Break'' trip. As part of the trip designed to engage the participants in social action projects, students harvested food for Leket, Israel's Nation...

Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a ...

HUFF POST - The BLOG - Jan. 26, 2013. In an inspiring blog post about fighting poverty and hunger, Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks cites a contemporary translation of a biblical imperative - ''Leket (''gleanings''), Israel's national food bank, which rescues surplus food and agricultural produce that wou...

Cooking Outside the Box: Food Rescue...

COOKING OUTSIDE THE BOX blog offers a food waste primer according to Jewish law and then features the work of Leket Israel in combating food waste. ''Unlike other food banks and charities, [Leket Israel] provides nutritional food like fresh produce (not canned and packaged foods) and it helps oth...

Kincaid's make sandwiches with Leket ...

A post titled, ''Making sandwiches for school children in Israel,'' on PCG World Mission's Facebook page recently highlighted a volunteer sandwich making experience by the Kincaid's. ''Leket Israel feeds approximately 8,000 school children each day! Volunteers assist in making and delivering the...

Winter in Israel: The day BEFORE elec...

WINTER IN ISRAEL bloggers, Sandy and Mel, describe their recent visit with Leket picking shamouti oranges, also known as Jaffa oranges. ''The grove had long rows of trees, all about 6 feet tall, heavy with sweet smelling fruit, ready for picking...These oranges as well as other varieties, along w...

Beets, Bullets, and Jerusalem

''We ...make our way to the Kvutzat Shiller farm, where we meet Karen, who tells us a bit about a program started by Joseph Gitler, called Leket Israel.'' The organization was established to rescue left over food and redistribute it to the needy, reports blogger Stefanie Singer. ''We spent an h...

''Corporate Social Change'' Award gra...

As a company that has set corporate responsibility as part of its visionary goals and is working through various channels to help and contribute to the community, we are pleased to share with you the news that an ''Inspiring Corporate Social Change'' Award was granted to Strauss Group by Leket Is...

Israel Provides for Special Needs

EIN NEWS -Jan. 8, 2012. In a widely circulated blog article featuring the great work the Jewish State performs for all of its citizens and for the world at large, Blogger, Michael Ordman highlights Leket Israel who Ordman describes as an organization ''...that supports Israel’s impoverished citi...

Eating Locally in Israel: A Food Diary

GOOD FOOD STORIES - Jan. 7, 2013. Local food advocate, Anabelle Harari, says she learned a few things on a recent visit to Israel. ''First, most supermarkets in Israel have their own farms and regulate the amount of pesticides they spray on their crops. At the local markets, no one is monitoring ...

Temple Emanu-el's Mitzvah Project

Jan. 1, 2013 (Day 9) — According to Temple Emanu-el's Israel Journal blog, ''We took an hour’s bus ride near Rehovot to work on our mitzvah project with Leket Israel. In Leviticus we read that you reap a harvest but not until it is bare; leave some for the poor. (This is called Leket). We picked ...

Leket in the News with ''Pray with Is...

PRAY WITH ISRAEL - Jan. 6, 2013. An article about Leket Israel originally appearing on the JTA news agency's site, was recently featured on ''Pray with Israel's'' newsfeed. The site shares prayers, news, thoughts and insights about Israel, paving the way for Israel to be a positive part of peopl...

Elijah, 5, Donates to Leket Israel

Check out this wonderful letter from Elijah, 5, who decided to share some of his Chanukah gelt (money) with Leket Israel. In Elijah's words, he chose to share his money with Leket Israel because ''I want people to have food and be healthy.'' Elijah's letter continues, ''I really hope this gift ...

Leket Amongst News of Israel's Achiev...

ISRAELSEEN.COM - Dec. 30, 2012. ''Unwanted” food feeds Israeli poor--is the title of an article link listed amongst dozens more on IsraelSeen.com. The article link is referring to Leket Israel, an organization that salvages non-saleable crops from farmers and unused food from caterers and ships...

Leket on Top 10 Posts of 2012

Leket Israel made it onto Repair the World's Top 10 list of favorite posts and interviews from 2012. The world’s most pressing issues change from year to year, and decade to decade. But at the end of the day, helping others and strengthening communities through volunteering is simply timeless. Th...

Birthright at Leket with Shorashim

ISRAELWITHISRAELIS.COM - Taglit-Birthright Israel: Shorashim - Dec. 31, 2012. ''Picking a ton of oranges for poor people at Leket gave us the chance to 'feel' the land,'' so says a recent blog post on the Shorashim: Taglit-Birthright website: israelwithisraelis.com.

Israel Provides for Special Needs

THE JERUSALEM POST - Blogs - Jan. 2, 2013. In a post about the great work the Jewish State performs for all of its citizens and for the world at large, Blogger, Michael Ordman highlights a recent news article that featured Leket Israel, as Ordman describes the organization as one, ''...that suppo...

Stepping out of the American bar mitz...

THE TIMES OF ISRAEL - OPS & BLOGS - Jan. 2, 2013. Blogger, Lori Silberman Brauner, makes the case for spending a meaningful Bar or Bat Mitzvah in Israel. While in the country, she says,''...we also get to participate in a real hands-on chesed or mitzva project...picking fruits and vegetables for...

Rashi 8th Graders Volunteer with Leket

Each year, Rashi School eighth graders volunteer with Leket Israel in Israeli fields and orchards where they harvest fruits and vegetables. Thanks to Leket Israel, Israel's National Food Bank, the Rashi School 8th graders' hard work pays off - with all the food collected going to benefit the poo...

Bat Mitzvah Chesed Project on Leket

Mazal Tov to Rachel and Dr. David Vorchheimer upon the Bat Mitzvah of their daughter, Hannah, on November 10th, at the Jewish Center in Manhattan. She delivered a siyyum on Mishnayot Masechet Pe’ah in conjunction with a chesed project that she performed with Project Leket in Israel during the s...

Jewish Federation works with Leket Is...

ST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT - Dec. 19, 2012. ''No family should go hungry,'' says Diane Katzman, who chairs the Caring for Jews in Need-Overseas subcommittee of the Jewish Federation of St Louis. Thanks to an ongoing partnership between the Federation and Leket Israel, among other activities, 100 Yokn...

Best (political) Blog on Leket Israel

In a recent blog post, Michelle Westmiller explains, ''...we joined Leket Israel, an organization that collects unused food from weddings, events, hotels, etc. to redistribute to poor communities and in food banks. The organization gleans left over food from fields to provide fresh produce which ...

Collecting food for the poor

The Sussman family, ranging in ages from 2 to 69, spent two hours on a recent excursion over Chanukah picking clementines with Leket Israel. According to the family blog, ''We filled two enormous crates with clementines that would soon make it to someone’s table, and we talked to our children ab...

AMIT and Leket Partner to Fight Hunger

Thanks to the cooperation of AMIT and Leket Israel, needy school children in the southern Israeli development towns of Kiryat Malachi and Sderot – two communities that recently suffered continuous rocket attacks – have been receiving nutritious sandwiches for lunch Sunday through Thursday during ...

Leket Israel on MGifts

Joseph Gitler, founder and chairman of Leket Israel: Israel’s National Food Bank, says his NGO is pleased to be a part of the MGifts initiative. “As an organization that is very concerned about unnecessary waste, we support this wonderful project that encourages people to donate to a charity of t...

Israel Solidarity Mission 2012

Blogger, Rabbi Katz, describes his volunteer experience at Leket Israel. ''Leket comes from the word in Leviticus,'' says Rabbi Katz, ''...when we are taught to leave the corners of our fields (pe’ah) and the fallen sheaves of grain or the untrimmed vines for the needy.'' Rabbi Katz and other f...

Challenges and Inspiration

RAVBLOG - Dec. 5, 2012. Rabbi Hara Person writes about his final day with the CCAR Israel trip group including a stop to Leket Israel's logistics center in Ra'anana. Rabbi Person describes how the rabbis donned rubber gloves and got to work, helping to sort surplus vegetables, pack crates, and ...

Midreshet Tzvia: Tiyul to Rechovot

Check out Midreshet Tzvia's photos from an amazing gleaning experience in Rechovot recently where the participants picked over 200 kilograms of clementines for Israel's needy.

Shining Light in the Darkness

HUFF POST - The BLOG by Eitan Press - Dec. 12, 2012. In an inspiring blog post about Chanukah, blogger Eitan Press includes Leket Israel as 1 of 8 organizations that is... ''shining lights of positive change for the Jewish community and the world.'' Press highlights eight organizations as a par...

CCAR Mission Volunteers with Leket Is...

As part of his participation with the CCAR Mission to Israel, Rabbi Danny Burkeman describes the group's visit to Leket Israel: ''We sorted through vegetables (eggplants, lettuce and tomatoes), separated them into boxes and then gathered together the boxes to fulfill the various orders they had r...

Pardes Fellows laud Leket Israel

Pardes Institute Fellows, Katie Greenberg (2011), and Yael Kletter (2010) describe why they chose Leket Israel for their Fellowship project. ''The work that they do is super important. Environmental issues and especially food justice...issues are two of my big passions, and Leket focuses on both....

Life in Israel Blog: Leket Israel Sup...

Life in Israel Blogger recently wrote about what Leket Israel is doing to provide support and respite to families in southern Israel leading up to a cease fire: 1) Supplying 1,400 sandwiches a day to children in shelters throughout Ashkelon, 2) Allocating food vouchers to 400 families in need, 3...

Gleaning with Leket Israel, highlight...

PARTNERSHIP2GETHER - Nov. 8, 2012. The Rubin Israel Experience is a unique 10 day program for 10 young adults between the ages of 27-40 who have never been to Israel before and who are granted the opportunity through a program of the Jewish Federation of Greater St Louis. One of the highlights o...

Supporting Leket Israel on the 6th Ni...

InfoBarrel.com - Nov. 3, 2012. According to a blog post by blogger mommymommymommy, for the 6th night of Hanukkah, families can help teach their children the meaning of mitzvot and tzedakah (good deeds and charitable giving) by not exchanging gifts. Rather, Jews should use the money and donate i...

Warm Home, wholesome food

RASHI FOUNDATION - Newsletter. Leket Israel's certified dietician, Sigal Faran, offered a training workshop to the housemothers of southern shelters for teenage girls recently. The workshop began with an introduction to the principles of proper nutrition, with an emphasis on adolescents, and th...

NOW we’re talkin!

On ''Day 4'' of the St Louis Jewish Federation's Rubin Israel Experience, participant Josh Olmsted volunteered picking turnips along with 9 other young Jews from St Louis. According to Josh's blog entry, ''NOW we're talkin!'', Josh explains how day four of the experience was the best in his opin...

One Family's Israeli Tzedakah Experience

A highlight of the Rappaport family's recent trip to Israel was picking tomatoes with Leket Israel. The volunteer experience was part of the Rappaport children's first trip to the country. According to the Rappaports, ''By the end of our two hour volunteering experience, we had picked 165 lbs of ...

Leket Israel Honors Ethiopian Yokneam...

PARTNERSHIP2GETHER - Oct. 15, 2012. Twenty adults from Yokneam’s Ethiopian community were recently honored by Leket Israel for their ongoing volunteer work. All the volunteers, Ethiopian men and women above the age of 55 (one over 70!), have been working the fields on Leket Israel's farm on Mosha...

Leket Picking in Nahalal

''Israel's Good Name'' blogger, Shem Tov Sasson, writes about his Leket picking experience at Moshav Nahalal, organized by Leket Israel in partnership with Nefesh B'Nefesh (NBN). Sasson was part of a group of new immigrants who spent Isru Chag picking onions for the needy. The NBN group picked an...

Farming for the Poor

In ''Ari's Ancedotes'', blogger and Pardes student Ari Abelman writes about a volunteer experience he recently had with Leket Israel. Ari explains the Biblical principal behind ''Leket'' that required farmers to leave behind any produce they missed during their harvest for the poor. Ari goes on...

Women’s Giving Circle Affects Positiv...

The Jewish Federation Women’s Division Circle of Chai is a local women’s giving circle in Kansas City, made up of 50 women who pool their money and deliberate on where to use their dollars to make an impact. The group has decided to allocate additional funding to Leket Israel's Sandwiches for Ki...

What a b’nai mitzvah fund has meant t...

THE REPORTER GROUP - Jewish Federation of Broome County, Issue 18. Elana Kuppermann is a member of the Federation's Teen Funders Committee and a B'nai Mitzvah Fund Holder. Elana describes how she became involved with teen philanthropy in the Jewish Community and how it positively affected her. Le...

Alleviating Hunger in Israel

The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles recently hosted an event with Paul Leiba, Director of Development for Leket Israel, the country's National Food Bank and largest food rescue network. Leket Israel is working to alleviate the problem of nutritional insecurity among the growing numbers o...

From Mall to Meal

ESRA MAGAZINE - Israel's Community Forum - Issue No. 166. In a blog post entitled ''From Mall to Meal'', Pnina Moed Kass describes how she and her partner Rebecca Kimelman make their weekly rounds rescuing food from Herzliya's Seven Stars Mall. The pair has been volunteering on behalf of Leket ...

A Rosh Hashanah Sermon on Israel

THE JEWISH CHRONICLE ONLINE - Sept. 17, 2012. In a blog post entitled ''A Rosh Hashanah Sermon on Israel'', Rabbi Aaron Goldstein of Northwood and Pinner Liberal Synagogue discusses the ethical statements of the ancient prophets and compares them to progressive Judaism's modern day values. Goldst...

Beth Israel - The West Temple Mission

In Beth Israel's - The West Temple's recent bulletin, congregation member Beryl Palnik recounts a few highlights and unique experiences from the congregation's recent mission to Israel. One of the stops on their trip included tomato picking with Leket Israel to benefit the poor. By picking the...

Temple Chai Mission

Volunteering with Project Leket was one of Temple Chai's social action projects on a recent mission to Israel. Participants picked an amazing 600 kg of clementines, helping to feed well over 300 families that same week. Temple Chai also chose Leket Israel as last month's Tzedakah beneficiary. Th...

ICEJ Volunteers with Leket Israel

ICEJ News - Aug. 23, 2012. Taking time out from visiting Biblical sites, Arise Summer Hands-On Tour participants had a chance to help Israel's needy by volunteering with a variety of hands-on social welfare projects. One of their destinations included Leket Israel, where the group gleaned nearly...

Friend of Zion Podcast

Leket Israel is an organization that “gleans” the modern fields of Israel, literally and figuratively, to provide food for the poor of Israel. A recent broadcast by the Randy White Ministries discussed the vital work of Leket Israel. According to the site, gifts given to ''Friend of Zion'' durin...

From swords into ploughshares

The Kaufman family recently spent a morning picking tomatoes with Leket Israel. The volunteer experience was part of the Kaufman children's first trip to the country. According to the family's ''Israel Adventure'' blog the Kaufman's proudly picked 100 kilos of tomatoes - enough to feed 50 familie...

BakersinIsrael blog shares trip to Leket

The Baker family recently harvested pumpkins with Leket Israel on their first family trip to the country. According to family blogger and father Marc Baker, ''...it was important to us to make this chesed (volunteer) project part of our Israel experience.'' In a recent blog post, a younger Baker ...

Leket - The Power of Giving

In addition to writing about the charitable work of Leket Israel on her blog, freelance writer Liza Rosenberg links the Haaretz article she wrote that resulted from her meeting with Joseph Gitler, President and Founder of the organization. The article appeared in a special Haaretz magazine supp...

Riding to Support Leket Israel

Rabbi Aaron Goldstein of Northwood & Pinner Liberal Synagogue in London recently pedaled hundreds of miles to support Leket Israel. The 3-week long “Rabbi Relay Ride” was organized by the UK’s popular Gefiltefest and involved local Rabbis taking part in the ride, to benefit charities of their cho...

Hillel Day School 8th Graders Harvest...

An article reposted by the ''Jew in the D'' blog, highlights the great work of Hillel Day School 8th graders who harvested over 3,500 lbs of potatoes for the needy on a recent trip to Israel. The volunteer experience was part of an end of year trip, serving as a culmination to all they have stud...

As the sun sets on Tel Aviv

In a blog post by TorahLady, the blogger describes her volunteer experience on a group visit to Leket Israel where she participated in gleaning a tomato field near Rechovot, Israel. Her group worked alongside a Taglit-Birthright group and a teen group, as they all got their hands dirty filling c...

Food to the Rescue

In its July newsletter, learn how IsraelExperts collaborates with Leket Israel to rescue food. As a highly acclaimed tour operator, IsraelExperts involves its groups with vegetable picking through Leket Israel's innovative gleaning initiative. All of the produce picked by the tour groups go for i...

Walking in the Garden of Torah - TBD ...

''Walking in the Garden'' of Torah blogger Rabbi Michael Singer posts about his Temple Beth David (TBD) Israel Trip. On day 3 of his trip he writes, ''This morning we are off to Rehovot to volunteer with Project Leket. Leket comes from the Torah's command to farmers to leave produce in the field...

Farmington Hills School Pitches in to...

Eighth graders from the Hillel Day School traveled to Israel recently as part of an end of year trip, serving as a culmination to all they have studied and explored during their years at the Jewish Day School located in Farmingtion Hills, Michigan. An important highlight of the trip included a vi...

Leket Israel Offering Helps Feed Isra...

For two years, First Baptist Church of Katy has taken a summer Leket offering. Through our partnership with Leket Israel, approximately 6 pounds of food is gleaned from farms or rescued from catering events for every $1 given. This year’s Leket offering is specifically designated to helping elder...

Repair Interview: Leket Israel’s Jose...

In an interview conducted by Repair the World blogger, Leah Koenig, Leket Israel's Founder and CEO, Joseph Gitler, describes his inspiration for starting Leket Israel and the amazing impact the organization has had on Israel's food insecure. In addition, Gitler shares a couple of stories of real...

''The Narrow Door'' blog features: L...

''This organization looks amazing,'' begins a blog post featuring Leket Israel -- Food Bank Program. ''The Narrow Door'' blog, written by blogger ''Gail'', continues: ''I applaud them for what they are doing with getting fresh produce to people and healthy food to poor school children.'' Read m...

June Tzedakah Box Supports Leket Israel

Congregation Beth Am in Los Altos Hills, California, has chosen Leket Israel as their beneficiary for all Tzedakah (charity) collected during the month of June. Donations may be placed in any of the tzedakah boxes on the Beth Am campus or may be mailed to Congregation Beth Am, Attn: Tzedakah Box...

Hillel Day School Feeds the Hungry

Eighth graders from the Hillel Day School traveled to Israel recently as part of an end of year trip, serving as a culmination to all they have studied and explored during their years at the Jewish Day School located in Farmingtion Hills, Michigan. An important highlight of the trip included a vi...

NBN & Leket Israel team up

NBN NEWS - June 2012. In the spirit of Shavuot, the ‘Harvest Festival’, Nefesh B'Nefesh joined up with Leket Israel, The National Food Bank, to pick vegetables for the needy. Seventy volunteers picked 800 kilos of beets, with the harvest going to feed approximately 200 families. Leket Israel t...

D'var Torah - Bemidbar

In a blog post by Rabbi Billy Dreskin, Dreskin writes about his experience volunteering with Leket Israel and the importance of the sacred work the organization carries out on a day to day basis.

Interfaith Journey through Israel

Congregants of Temple Emanu-El and Wilshire Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas recently joined together for a Journey through Israel. Follow them on their trip and see them in action as they glean potatoes with Leket Israel in the field. The group picked enough potatoes to help feed 800 families. ...

Leket: Social Action & the Bible

According to this week’s portion...Any grain dropped by a harvester or fruit left on trees or grapes that fell out of the gatherers basket must be left for the poor to collect. Join in this commandment, make it part of your tour to Israel and work in a field gathering fallen crops to give to tho...

Volunteer Tourism-Experience Israel H...

Tourists in Israel looking for another, hands on way to experience Israel and, at the same time, help feed Israel’s needy can now enjoy a great day out picking fruits and vegetables courtesy of Leket Israel. The free activity is available for groups of all ages, sizes and backgrounds, as part of...

Leket Israel: Fulfilling Biblical Co...

ISRAEL MINISTRY of TOURISM - Christians visiting Israel who are looking for a unique and meaningful experience are encouraged to volunteer for Leket Israel. Providing nourishment for the people is of great concern to G-d, so much so that He commanded in Leviticus: ''And you shall not glean your ...

Huduyou website donates to Leket Israel

A new Israeli company -whose website, ''huduyou,'' allows users to find local service providers recommended by their Facebook friends and neighbors recently announced that it will donate $1 to Leket Israel each time a new user joins the website and $3 each time either an existing or new huduyou u...

Ian Cohen's Bar Mitzvah In Israel

THE NEW MEXICO JEWISH LINK - Feb. 2012. Ian Cohen, grandson of the Jewish Federation of New Mexico Board Member, Roberta Haynes-Sparks, recently celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in Israel. As part of his itinerary Ian picked Kohlrabi on Moshav Nahalal with Leket Israel. The kohlrabi will be sent to ...

Israel Club Honored

Citing front-page coverage afforded to the Greenwich High School’s Israel Club by the Greenwich Time news, ''Teacher Talk'' blogger Charles Costello points out the ''good things taking place in our schools''. As part of a recent 10 day service trip to Israel, sponsored by the United Jewish Appea...