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Jacob Sztokman

May 4, 2025, 10:14 PM

It’s Time to Think Bigger: Solving Global Hunger

As Jews gathered around the Seder table this year—as we have for thousands of years—to recount the story of our liberation from Egypt, one line echoes with timeless urgency: “Let all who are hungry come and eat.” This isn’t...

Dec 9, 2024, 7:46 AM

60 Weeks. 60 Minutes of Silence: A Global Gesture of Shared Humanity

A week after October 7, the 70-member team I work with in India began their Friday morning Zoom assembly with a minute of silence—for the safe return of the Israeli hostages and for peace in the region. They have...

Apr 22, 2016, 6:16 PM

How Passover inspires global Jewish activism

This Passover I‘m thinking about my grandmother. 'Kol dichfin yeitei v’yeichol '- Let all who are hungry, come and eat". My grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was always touched by this line in the Passover Haggadah. My grandmother survived the extermination...

Jan 13, 2016, 8:35 PM

When the Chief Rabbi of UK visited the slums of Mumbai

Running an organization caring for the nutrition, health and education of thousands of children in the slums of Mumbai and underserved rural villages on India is not easy. Trying to make the most impact, with limited resources and in...

About Me

Jacob Sztokman is the founding director of Gabriel Project Mumbai (GPM) an initiative that provides nutrition, education, health care, hygiene and community development in urban slums and underserved rural villages in India. Jacob lives in Modiin, Israel with his wife and four children and five grandchildren.

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