• Kosher Food Bank
  JFS offers Kosher food for families who keep a kosher kitchen. Expect to take home about 25 pounds of groceries including perishables. Kosher foods are distributed during our regular food bank hours. While no advance registration is required, contacting the food bank team in advance of your visit is recommended.
• Jewish Holidays

  During both Passover and the High Holidays, special holiday food is available to those who celebrate. If you keep a Kosher kitchen, or have other dietary needs, please let our food bank staff know.

• Frequency of Visits
  Visitors can access our food bank on a one-time per week basis.
• ID/Intake

  All visitors to our food bank will need to complete an intake during their first visit. ID will be requested to expedite the intake process and it is helpful if you come prepared to show your ID, though it is not required at this time.

• Closures

  Jewish Family Service observes all Jewish holidays as well as most federal and state holidays. This means that the agency and the food bank will be closed in observance of those holidays. Every effort is made to give one full month’s notice for a closure by posting our closure dates at the front door of our food bank.

  In the case of inclement weather or a natural disaster, the food bank may be closed. We follow the Seattle Public School’s weather closure schedule, so if schools are closed we will be closed as well. If you need more information, please call (206) 461-3240.

• Food Bank Action Plan

  To improve the health of our community and to help end hunger, we are committed to goals that promote food justice in our community. Read the Polack Food Bank Action Plan.

• Current Facts and Figures

  Learn more about the facts, figures and needs of the Food Bank with this fact sheet.

• United Way & Statistics

  Jewish Family Service of Seattle is a United Way of King County recipient agency. Once a year, we submit statistical information to United Way. This includes results of a customer satisfaction survey. All Food Bank visitors are asked to complete this survey once a year. Each month we are asked to give basic statistical information about Food Bank usage to one of the agencies from which we receive free food and to the city of Seattle. Names are not included with any of this information.

Funding for this program is supported in part by the City of Seattle Sweetened Beverage Tax.