Rotary Club Joins Neshamah Cooking Crew to Feed Neighbors in Need | Neshamah Institute

This month, the Neshamah Cooking Crew looked a little different.

Instead of our usual crew of community members, our kitchen was filled with members of a local Rotary Club, led by Neshamah congregant Robert Slatoff. They shopped for the ingredients. They cooked. They packaged everything up. And then they drove it over to St. Gregory’s Church and delivered it themselves.

On the menu: baked ziti, vegetarian meatballs, and a big, beautiful fruit salad. A full meal, made from scratch, for neighbors experiencing homelessness.

Robert didn’t just show up. He organized. He rallied his Rotary colleagues around a mitzvah and made it happen from start to finish. That is chesed in action – lovingkindness not as a concept, but as a Thursday night in the kitchen.

At Neshamah, we talk a lot about taking Judaism out of the sanctuary and into the real world. The Cooking Crew is one of the clearest expressions of that. The Torah tells us to love our neighbor. The Rotary Club this month showed us exactly what that looks like: groceries, pasta, fruit salad, and a delivery to people who needed it.

We are so grateful to Robert and the whole crew. You fed people. You showed up. And you reminded all of us what this community is capable of when we put our values into practice.

Want to cook with us next month? Reach out to us here. Every pair of hands, every pot of pasta, every piece of fruit in a salad makes a difference.

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