The Jewish Council for Public Affairs sponsored this special Seder to bring attention to issues of hunger in Connecticut, nationally and around the world. Several bills are before the legislature dealing with children's hunger and this was an opportunity to highlight the needs using the ancient Jewish tradition.
Mazon was founded in 1985 as a Jewish response to hunger with the core belief that in a world of plenty, hunger and malnutrition should not exist.
I was invited by Rabbi Stephen Landau of Congregation Tikvoh Chadoshoh in Bloomfield to share in the leadership of the Seder. Because of the work of the Good Samaritain Rebuilding Fund, I was also given the opportunity to explain what we have done in response to the earthquake in Haiti, especially with regards to caring for and feeding for children. I showed some slides and spoke about the plight of Haitians during these post-earthquake days.
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