Rachel’s Table in the Upper Valley Rachel’s Table, the nearly 30-year-old food rescue and redistribution program of the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts, is expanding its daily program into Hampshire County. Expansion plans include 7 Hampshire County-based drivers, 3 new…
Rachel’s Table Partners With The Food Bank of Western MA for Good Food banks and food pantries provide millions of pounds of food to communities; however, they cannot solve food insecurity on their own. Rachel’s Table (RT) has provided, over…
Partners for Good – A Visual Story https://youtu.be/W5EbSKwK5uw The partnership between Rachel’s Table and the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts are celebrated in this video of Westfield’s Andrea Barouxis, one of RT’s Food Rescue Heroes, delivering food from Big Y,…
Carolyn Fitzgerald -- A Woman of Valor Carolyn Teresa Fitzgerald, a woman of valor, eshet hayil, passed away on September 4th. A Rachel’s Table Board member for 16 years, Carolyn was strong, righteous, and wise. As an indefatigable volunteer, she…
AMAZING FOOD RESCUE HEROES!!! This past month has seen Rachel’s Table’s daily distributions grow – and recently, we’ve had to rent a 16-foot box truck several times to deliver food to our agencies. When this happened, we did what Rachel’s…
Inspirational Leaders – Stepping Up to Give Back Every other year we take stock and honor people and organizations that have supported our mission of food waste reduction and hunger relief. This year, we honor three community guardians who have…
A Visual Story of the Growing Gardens Program https://youtu.be/YAZJjri2jKw Our amazing Teen Board initiated our Growing Gardens program with the donation of 640 starter plants to 7 of our agencies. From here, our program is set to mentor, support and…
Growing Gardens – Planting Food Justice in our Community Evie & Hannah Rachel's Table Teen Board With the recent starter plant donation by Rachel’s Table’s Teen Board, seen in the video in this newsletter and shared by WWLP, Rachel’s Table…
A Day in the Life – with Anti-Hunger Hero and RT Volunteer Steve Lepow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FonSUWWdF24 Follow Steve Lepow, a Rachel’s Table legacy, as he picks up hundreds of pounds of healthy food from C&S Wholesale Grocers in Westfield and delivers…
Christian Castillo, “Hungry for Death”, 1st place winner 2019 Artsfest Artsfest 21! Teen Board more active than ever to fight hunger and change the world! This month the Teen Board sponsored its Artsfest 21, an all-genre, all-age art contest to…
