CBSLA.com
A unique rabbi has turned Tuesdays in Santa Monica’s Ocean Park into something special for the homeless and needy.
For the past three years, Rabbi Boruch S. Cunin of Chabad House in West Lost Angeles has walked the park, giving food to those in need, and offering encouragement.
“What is so important is for everybody to understand: we are all responsible, one for the other,” Rabbi Cunin said. “You see a person hungry, feed them.”
Well-balanced meals, including foods like salmon, dried fruits, beans, and rice, are prepared at the Chabad House kitchen. Rabbi Cunin then personally delivers to the food to a shelter in Santa Monica and to the homeless on the street.
Rabbi Cunin, who is the director of Chabad of the West Coast, delivers the food to many familiar faces on the street, and offers words of encouragement to the needy, such as “G-d bless you” and “Don’t ever lose hope.’
The preparation of the food is heavily supported by donations.
We all love you
G-D BLESS HIM!
what hatered yet what love
after you write a negative comment on any Jew give one dollar to any pushkah either you will stop commenting or you will start giving more tzedakah
win/win
go rabbi cunin
B”H Rabbi Cunin keeps on going! Much Hatzlacha and thanks for being an example of a true Shliach of the Rebbe!
go rabbi cunin! he made me a real jew and my family religious
Wow, what an extraordinary story about an extraordinary person. May Hashem grant him everlasting success in his activities.
How sad that you are so sheltered from the “real world” that you think that people choose to live that way. Have you ever been unemployed, sent out resume after resume and couldn’t get a job. I have. With a college education I was unemployed for 2 years and told if I had a few children there were services available for me, but otherwise, sorry, there was no help ANYWHERE for a single white unemployed woman. Have you ever lost your apartment because you couldn’t pay the rent. It is naive people like you who actually believe there are government… Read more »
You are an angel of g-d Rabbi!
hey #13, r u Gil Locks by any chance? “YEY G-D!”
Anyway, this is a fitting tribute actually to Rabbi Avreml Levitansky A”H, who laid the groundwork in Simcha Monica for decades. Now the koach is there to continue his wonderful middos
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the Levitansky’s doing this for 40 years!!!!
I have notice the boundless ahavas yisroel that Rabbi Cunin and his sons have. They always have a smile and words of encouragement for all kinds of people including the homeless, mentally ill and others that many people tend to shun.
Many homeless are psychologically not able to pull themselves together; many homeless don’t trust the system, programs, and professionals; many shelters are more dangerous than the street. Rabbi Cunin is dealing with reality. Read carefully: Rabbi Cunin goes to both the shelter and to those on the street / in the park. The Prophets are replete with the ideal that Rabbi Cunin is not (only) espousing but actually living. This is real ‘Prophetic Judaism’. See the haphtara for Yom Kippur (Isaiah 58:7 & preceding verses): “Is it not spreading out your bread to the hungry? [not necessarily in a shelter;… Read more »
beautiful!
What a beautiful story! I’ve always said that if you want to help the homeless you should give them something to eat, not money.
Rabbi Cunin is setting an example for us all.
I’msorry if this is going against the “feel-good” sentiment here, but it seems to me that “homeless and hungry” people in America live that way by choice. If people don’t want to live that kind of lifestyle, they don’t have to, because there are all kinds of government programs and private charities to help people get off the streets, if they would only make an effort to get their act together and make some effort. to take advantage of these programs. When people choose instead to live in parks and on the streets and beg for handouts, this is unhealthy… Read more »
A Groyse Yosher Koach to you for your mivzoyim in the 70s. Your mitzvah is even in greater measure as it was done b`seiser, quietly. But it`s nice to see it publicized on today`s media for sure. And it complements the physical needs yesterday`s story of a teenage bochur who laid tefillin on the homeless.
With all due respect, in 1979-1982 I used to hand out “Bum Packs” (small food packs to the homeless) in Simcha Monica and along the coast. Nice to see that the idea finally caught on.
Me thinks that a telethon is coming!
Beautiful, inspiring, and I’m proud.
you are the one rabbi cunin
What a kiddush hashem! Always nice to hear good news reported!
moshiach now
And for this
Notice the windows from 770 in the background
they actually really need more generous donations and are NOT “heavily supported by donations” if you’re in LA you know that. Donate so they can keep it going!
go # 1 you are the one rabbi cunin
A true shaliach of the Rebbe, who cares about people, even though he could easily “assign” this job of feeding the homeless. to others.
That man is an inspiration.
nice commercial