For the past decade, David Levinson and his organization, Big Sunday, person handed retired bags of nutrient connected the Wednesday earlier Thanksgiving. The radical says much than 1,000 volunteers are expected astatine this year’s event, and 15,000 radical volition beryllium eating the nutrient they springiness out. When Levinson started the unpaid enactment successful 1999, the Hollywood screenwriter ne'er thought it would instrumentality disconnected the mode it has.
“I was conscionable a feline astatine the temple dropping his kids disconnected astatine Sunday school,” Levinson recounts. “The rabbi said, ‘The temple would truly similar to bash this, would you similar to tally it?’ And I said yes.”
From that archetypal Sunday lawsuit — successful which 300 members of his temple cleaned the beach, made a repast astatine a shelter, and collected books for the room — sprouted an enactment that facilitates thousands of radical to unpaid astatine galore organizations, crossed antithetic states, and not conscionable connected 1 Sunday of the year.
“It was conscionable a small excessively hard to alteration the name,” Levinson says. “[But] it caught on, and we've conscionable been going large guns ever since.”
Big Sunday hosts a Thanksgiving meal successful 2019. Photo by Bill Devlin.
In those aboriginal days, Levinson was a moving screenwriter “stuck successful improvement hell.” The process of waiting for 1 of his projects to beryllium green-lit grew to yet beryllium demoralizing.
“At first, it's like, ‘Wow, this is truthful cool. The workplace is paying me.’ … But thing comes of this. Then it was little awesome,” Levinson explains. “When you spell and you provender idiosyncratic who doesn't person capable to eat… you don't person to inquire yourself wherefore you're doing it.”
David Levinson, laminitis of Big Sunday, is pictured successful 2015. Photo by Bill Devlin.
For Levinson, this enactment that was calved of vocation “anger, frustration, and depression” has go his life’s work. He reflects backmost connected that rabbi who randomly offered the task to him years ago.
“I person forgiven him,” Levinson jokes.
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