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Our History

The First Days At Masbia

Masbia of Boro Park started as a grassroots charity to feed the hungry. It began as a simple vision shared by Mordechai Mandelbaum and Alexander Rapaport, a vision of a clean, well-lit and attractive place where poor men, women, and children could eat nourishing kosher meals daily for free. These two men set out to make this vision a reality, and on Sunday, April 3, 2005, Masbia of Boro Park — Brooklyn’s first and only kosher soup kitchen — opened its doors to the public.


Rachmastrivka Rebbe, Rabbi Chai Yitzchok Twersky Affixing the Mezuzah at Masbia of Boro Park


Over the past two decades years since its opening, Masbia of Boro Park has served millions of meals, which means tens of thousands of people (many of them children and elderly) have gone to bed with food in their stomachs, full and content. In the quest to tackle hunger, Masbia of Boro Park is the organization that will always do as much as is possible… and then strive to do even more.


In 2009, the Masbia of Boro Park model was replicated with several major expansions to its operations. From 2009 to 2010, Masbia opened a few new sites — one in Flatbush, one in Williamsburg (now closed), and one in Rego Park, Queens (now in Forest Hills) — in addition to the original site in Boro Park.