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Different Freedom
Child Nutrition Seder puts
a face on childhood hunger.
Danielle DePriest
jewish®edu staff writer
E
ach year in the Haggadah,
we read, "Let all who are
hungry come and eat."
Growing up in this privileged com-
munity, I felt that I might never
know the face of "all who are
hungry."
My wakeup call came in work-
ing with Yad Ezra and the Jewish
Community Relations Council to
plan this year's Child Nutrition
Seder, which took place March 14 at
the kosher food pantry in Berkley.
The 16,000 families Yad Ezra serves
in Metro Detroit on a monthly basis
provided me with a face for hunger
in our community.
A Haggadah provided by
Shira Parshan, 14, of Akiva Hebrew
MAZON: A Jewish Response to
Day School in Southfield at the Child
Hunger was used at the seder to
Nutrition Seder
alert guests — including U.S.
those who live with hunger, every day
Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield
is Egypt. By telling the story of hunger,
Hills, State Rep. Lisa Brown, D-
we bring awareness to the plight of
West Bloomfield, Oakland County
Commissioner Marcia Gershenson, D- our fellow citizens, as we seek to find
and implement solutions?'
Beverly Hills, and MAZON President
"I learned about the reality of hun-
Joel Jacob of West Bloomfield — to
ger and malnutrition in our midst,
our community's support for federal
and was able to meet local activists
child nutrition programs.
who do so much to help those who
The programs, including the
don't know where their next meal is
National School Lunch and School
Breakfast Program and the Emergency coming from," Pinson said.
Opening the eyes of our community
Food Assistance Program, work to
to the hunger crisis facing American
ensure that the more than 17 million
children could not come at a more
children in America suffering from
hunger are able to attain and maintain critical moment. With Passover com-
ing, the Child Nutrition Seder reminds
consistent access to nutritious food.
us that as we gather around our own
At this year's Child Nutrition Seder,
Seder tables to celebrate our freedom
public officials, youth, rabbis and
from slavery in Egypt, there are those
community members came together
in our midst that remain enslaved by
to read from this special Hagaddah
hunger. This Passover, while rejoicing
and address the four questions
in our own freedom, we are faced with
of hunger, the four faces of child-
the unique opportunity to free others
hood hunger and the 10 plagues
from the bonds of hunger.
of American hunger. Rabbi Yisrael
To donate or volunteer, go to www.
Pinson of Friendship House in West
yadezra.org or www.mazon.org . To
Bloomfield led this year's seder.
act: http://engage.jewishpublicaffairs.
A powerful moment came as our
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voices echoed through Yad Ezra's
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stocked warehouse declaring, "For all
Danielle DePriest is a sophomore at the University of Michigan in the
Ford School of Public Policy in Ann Arbor and the MAZON Hunger
Fellow for Metro Detroit.
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