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MESH Report for May 27, 2025

Sarita Eisenberg and her team – Linda Ariel, Lou Hammerman, Sarah Steindel and Charles Steindel – cooked their last MESH meal of the year.

We changed from our usual menu and instead prepared tilapia with a mustard-mayonnaise topping, roast carrots and broccoli, and rice served with a roll, banana, and oreo cookies.

The meal was prepared and packed in 2 hours. Thank you to Lynne Kurzweil for delivering the food.



About MESH:

The Carol Starr MESH Cafe at Shomrei (Montclair Emergency Services for Hope) is a cooperative effort between the MESH organization and local synagogues and churches.

Volunteer at Shomrei
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Shomrei provides 50 meals to MESH on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month. We need volunteers to help prepare and pack the food.

For those interested in volunteering who are not available on Tuesday afternoons, we are brainstorming different ways to make it work.  Let us know what would work for you.

Additionally, each Monday afternoon, we deliver any usable food leftover from Kiddish to MESH.

Volunteer at the MESH Site
Volunteers are also welcome to help serve food 6 nights a week, Monday through Saturday, 4:30-6:30 pm at the MESH site, 619 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair.
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Monetary Donations
If you can’t help in person, please consider a donation to help fund this important service.
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Questions? Contact Lynne or Aileen:

  • Sarita Eisenberg

    Sarita is co-editor of ShomreiWeek (weekly newsletter) and the Kol Emunah Blog. She holds a Ph.D. in Language Science and is an associate professor in the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders at Montclair State University. She lives in Montclair with her husband Lou Hammerman.

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