{"id":30561,"date":"2018-10-19T03:51:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T10:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=30561"},"modified":"2018-10-18T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T22:50:04","slug":"project-isaiah-food-drive-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2018\/10\/19\/project-isaiah-food-drive-tally\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Isaiah food drive tally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>More than 80 volunteers came together to help Jewish Family Services sort the food on Sept. 26, organizing nearly 1,300 bags of food and toiletries. <em>(photos from <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/JFSVancouver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">facebook.com\/JFSVancouver<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During this year\u2019s Project Isaiah food drive, the Metro Vancouver community donated four months\u2019 worth of provisions for the Jewish Food Bank, which will feed and support the 300 households who turn to the Jewish Food Bank each month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oct-19-FnL.19.Project-Isaiah-2018_bags.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oct-19-FnL.19.Project-Isaiah-2018_bags.jpg\" alt=\"photo - Nearly 1,300 bags of food and toiletries\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oct-19-FnL.19.Project-Isaiah-2018_bags.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oct-19-FnL.19.Project-Isaiah-2018_bags-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/oct-19-FnL.19.Project-Isaiah-2018_bags-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>More than 80 volunteers came together to help Jewish Family Services sort the food on Sept. 26, helping unload, box and organize nearly 1,300 bags of food and toiletries. The collection is a huge effort and JFS could not have done it without all of its partners across the Jewish community, as well as the countless individuals who donated and volunteered, and Vancouver Talmud Torah and Congregation Beth Israel who offered the use of their facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The number of those who rely on the Jewish Food Bank continues to rise. JFS\u2019s services also include home delivery to seniors and people with disabilities, and the recently launched Jewish Food Link program extends the agency\u2019s reach to serve people in the Tri-Cities and Richmond areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 80 volunteers came together to help Jewish Family Services sort the food on Sept. 26, organizing nearly 1,300 bags of food and toiletries. (photos from facebook.com\/JFSVancouver) During this year\u2019s Project Isaiah food drive, the Metro Vancouver community donated four months\u2019 worth of provisions for the Jewish Food Bank, which will feed and support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4384,7703,1191,1959],"class_list":["post-30561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-jewish-food-bank","tag-jfs","tag-project-isaiah","tag-tikkun-olam"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}