Elderly men, women, and children wait to receive food outside the JDC-sponsored Dreyfus Soup Kitchen in Jerusalem

Hungry people, many of them children, wait for food at the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen, which served about 900 meals a day. Throughout the entire war, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) fed Jerusalem’s hungry through existing facilities, such as the Teresa Dreyfus and Nathan Straus Soup Kitchens, and through newly created kitchens and distribution centers. In 1921, 1,800 poor from all backgrounds were still receiving at least one meal a day at the Dreyfus Soup Kitchen.