Blog – Yad Ezra

Audra’s First Week at Yad Ezra! – 2026

Hello everyone! My name is Audra and today I will be talking about my first week of interning at Yad Ezra! I can’t believe a full week flew by already, but you know what they say – time flies when you’re having fun! In all seriousness, my first week here was wonderful; I learned so […]

First Day of my Internship – 2026 JOIN Intern

Hello! My name is Audra Bergman, and I am a rising junior at Miami University. I am studying Accountancy with a minor in Digital Marketing. I am thrilled to be Yad Ezra’s Administration Intern this summer through the JOIN internship program at Gesher Human Services. I first became interested in the internship program when one […]

My Experience Volunteering – 2025 Join Intern

This weekend I had the opportunity to volunteer at the Sunday serving session with my mom. She had never been to Yad Ezra before, so it was cool to see her experience everything for the first time. Also, this was my first time doing it on my own. I had volunteered during a Monday serving […]

What is Kosher?

Yad Ezra is a kosher supplemental food pantry which means we provide additional food to supplement our clients’ diets. Each client gets an allotted amount of food each month that should last them 4 weeks, but in conjunction with other food they get from somewhere else. So now that we have that part covered, what […]

Non Profits

Around the world, there are many non-profits that help people with many different things, and many people know the more famous ones like Red Cross, Feeding America, and YMCA, but what is a nonprofit? According to Cornell Law School, a non-profit organization is “a group organized for purposes other than generating profit and in which […]

Food Insecurity in 2025

Food insecurity is a substantial problem in the United States and around the world. Around 13.5% of United States households (1in 7) were food insecure at some time during 2024, which is about 18 million households. In terms of individuals, around 47 million people in the United States are food insecure (Feeding America, 2024). Unfortunately, […]

Snap Benefits 2025

Over the last few years prices have been rising due to inflation which can be attributed to many factors, but most stem from the impacts of COVID-19. According to Michael Gapen, head of the US Economic Research at Bank of America, recent inflation has been caused by changing consumer behaviors due to the pandemic. At […]

First Week of my Internship – 2025 JOIN intern

What I learned in Week 1 of my JOIN Internship My first week of my JOIN internship at Yad Ezra has come to an end, which went by insanely fast, and I have learned and seen a lot. My first day consisted of learning about what Yad Ezra does and how they serve their clients. […]

Introduction to 2025 JOIN Intern Amanda

Hi, everyone! This is the first of many blogs through my time as the JOIN intern at Yad Ezra. My name is Amanda Horwitz, and I am a sophomore at the University of Michigan studying political science with minors in Judaic studies and gender, race and nation. When I am not at school, I live […]

COVID-19 Response

COVID-19 affected all of us. We at Yad Ezra felt strongly that our food insecure clients needed to be helped, maybe more than ever, to receive their food and not to have the additional worry of how that would happen during these stressful times. Our small team worked hard to find a way, and so […]