Rabbi Mark S. Diamond, Milken Community High School’s Wendy Ordower and Los Angeles Federation Diller Teen Lindsy Seidel discuss hunger.

More than 150 Muslim, Christian, Jewish and other faith leaders met Tuesday under a sukkah, a traditional Jewish hut, to vow to work together to put an end to hunger in Los Angeles.

Clergy noted that though the goal of eradicating hunger sounds overwhelming, the collaboration of faith communities can make even the most difficult endeavors attainable.

“All movements – against slavery (and other injustices) – all looked romantic and quixotic – but through sheer hard work, people like you and me transform what was impossible into what is possible,” Shakeel Syed, the Executive Director of the Islamic Shura Council, told the crowd gathered at The Jewish Federation Goldsmith Center in Los Angeles. “Now is the time to end hunger.”

Read more »

Yesterday, October 6, over 150 faith leaders, hunger aficionados, volunteers, and students gathered at the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles to participate in an Interfaith Hunger Summit. Staff & students from Santa Margarita Catholic High School shared their experience with us in the following letter:

Thank you for sponsoring and organizing yesterday’s Interfaith Hunger Summit, as well as for allowing our high school students to participate fully in the Summit’s activities. From the moment you met us at the bus and whisked us into the sukkah, our students felt affirmed as young adult leaders.

Read more »