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2011 Activist Award from
the Jewish Community
Relations Council at a special event
in his honor at 7 p.m. Sunday, June
12, at the Jewish Community Center
in West Bloomfield.
An ardent advocate for social jus-
tice, Jacob has made preventing and
alleviating hunger his life's work.
His journey began when he was
15, busing tables at weddings and
bar mitzvahs. Jacob would take the
dishes to those washing dishes in the
kitchen and he observed them eating
the unfinished food off the plates.
Those images of hunger would stay
with him throughout the years as he
became an internationally known
activist on behalf of the hungry.
Today, Jacob is known throughout
America and in Israel for his bound-
less energy and tenacity in working
to end childhood hunger by 2015.
In 2009, he was elected inter-
national chairman of MAZON: A
Jewish Response to Hunger. Now
in its 25th year, MAZON is the only
national Jewish nonprofit organiza-
tion exclusively dedicated to prevent-
ing and alleviating hunger among
people of all faiths and backgrounds.
Jacob travels each week nationally
and globally on behalf of MAZON,
advocating for hungry people who
do not have a voice.
Jacob is the founder and chairman
of the Bottle Crew, a global supplier
of glass and plastic bottles, caps and
sprayers. He has linked his unwaver-
ing dedication to combating hunger
with his company's success.
"God gave us two hands, one to
take care of our customers and our
family, and the other to give back to
the community" he said.
As the Bottle Crew has grown,
Jacob has used his resources and
business relationships to connect
many of his customers in the food
and drug industry to hunger-fighting
organizations to make sure that their
excess products do not go to waste.
Over a 15-year period, Jacob
organized a grassroots effort and
convinced his client, Walmart, the
world's largest company, to make
a $2 billion dollar commitment to
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