{"id":7350,"date":"2025-07-30T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/?p=7350"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:02:11","slug":"bagels-donated-with-love-and-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/bagels-donated-with-love-and-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagels Donated with &#8216;Love and Care&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7350\" class=\"elementor elementor-7350\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3e41f149 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3e41f149\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6820fad4\" data-id=\"6820fad4\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-234a4454 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"234a4454\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Bagels Donated with &#8216;Love and Care&#8217;<\/h2><p>Every week for the last five years, a volunteer group from <a href=\"https:\/\/srlcusa.org\/\"><strong>S<em>hrimad Rajchandra Love and Care<\/em><\/strong><\/a> has dropped off 300-500 bagels to the Mary Brennan INN soup kitchen for guests to enjoy. The mission of the organization falls right in line with The INN\u2019s mission, to bring joy and dignity to marginalized communities. Vikram Gandhi, along with his six other team members on Long Island, travel to different bagel stores in Albertson, Williston Park, Mineola and Plainview weekly to pick up hundreds of bagels left over at the end of the day and deliver them to the soup kitchen.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The guests are very grateful for the donation. \u201cGuests love receiving a bag of bagels when they come for a meal,\u201d said Jean C. Victor, Jr., Director of the soup kitchen. \u201cBagels in New York are a staple for any meal and are always something everyone looks forward to!\u201d Vikram is proud of his team of all ages, (the oldest member is 83!) \u201cOur spiritual leader says you should make a difference in people\u2019s lives,\u201d said Vikram. &#8220;If you have blessings in abundance and you can\u2019t give it to someone else to use, what good is it?&#8221;<\/p><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7350 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/the-inn.org\/bagels-donated-with-love-and-care\/shrimad-rajchandra-bagels2\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shrimad-Rajchandra-bagels2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/the-inn.org\/bagels-donated-with-love-and-care\/shrimad-rajchandra-love-and-care-bagels1\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shrimad-Rajchandra-Love-and-Care-Bagels1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/the-inn.org\/bagels-donated-with-love-and-care\/shrimad-rajchandra-love-and-care3\/'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Shrimad-Rajchandra-Love-and-Care3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bagels Donated with &#8216;Love and Care&#8217; Every week for the last five years, a volunteer group from Shrimad Rajchandra Love and Care has dropped off 300-500 bagels to the Mary <a href=\"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/bagels-donated-with-love-and-care\/\" class=\"excerpt_post_link\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inn-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-inn.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}