A $1 million federal grant secured by United State Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand was announced. It will support infrastructure improvements at the Patroon Land Farm, which the Food Bank operates and manages.
One of her goals in writing the book, Bakst said, is for people who are not Jewish to read it. “People may have a picture, a fairly stereotypical picture of what a Jewish person is,” she said, “and there’s a whole range of the way it’s expressed.”
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