IN BRIEF : $100,000 Kurdish Refugee Relief Grant

Mazon, the Los Angeles-based organization that calls itself “a Jewish response to hunger,” has announced a $100,000 grant for Kurdish refugee relief.

The grant, which will go to Operation USA (also L.A.-based and formerly called Operation California), will go toward purchase of food supplements and vitamins, antibiotics, water purification tablets and oral rehydration packets.

The supplies will go to clinics and camps under construction near the Turkish/Iraqi border, with distribution coordinated by Operation USA and the United Nations Disaster Relief Agency.

Mazon, founded in 1986, raises funds through 660 “congregation partners,” synagogues that call on members to contribute. This is its first emergency relief grant and its largest allocation of funds.

For information or to make contributions, contact Mazon/Kurdish Relief Fund, 2940 Westwood Blvd., Los Angeles 90064, (213) 470 7769; or Operation USA, 7615 1/2 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles 90046. Phone (213) 658-8876.