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Masbia & DoorDash Celebrate 200,000 Deliveries with 2,000 Emergency Food Packages to be Delivered on Reb Shayeleh Kerestirer’s Yahrzeit

Masbia Soup Kitchen Network will be honoring the legacy of Reb Shayeleh Kerestirer Z”L, tomorrow on his 100th Yahrzeit, who is known for his efforts to feed the hungry...

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BORO PARK: Shmira, NYPD Apprehend Serial Burglar Terrorizing Community

Boro Park Shmira volunteers tracked down a serial burglar who committed multiple burglaries in the Boro Park neighborhood...

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Boro Park To Flatbush in 5 Minutes? MTA Plans New Brooklyn/NYC Subway Line

A new light rail line would connect the Jewish communities of Boro Park, Flatbush and Crown Heights in Brooklyn and provide a much-needed connection between Brooklyn and the frum community in Queens...

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Over 10,000 Boro Parkers Enjoy Free Pesach Extravaganza

The free Family Fun Extravaganza during Chol Hamoed Pesach has become an annual tradition in Boro Park and is eagerly anticipated each year by thousands of local residents, young and old...

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Auto Bill Threatens To Shutter New York’s Frum Car Leasing Companies

Frum Car Leasing Companies in NYS may be permanently shut down - A bill passed the New York State legislature, backed by the car dealership lobby, would target car leasing companies, which threatens to put them out of business...

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Op-Ed: New NYC Matzah Bakery Rule Is To Protect Our Environment

This article has caused much conversion and controversy. Many comments are saying that
“common sense states like Florida are not instating laws and regulations like this.”...

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NYC Mayor, NYPD Hosts Jewish Community For Pre-Pesach Security Briefing

The NYPD will deploy an enhanced police presence to all NYC Jewish communities, Mayor Eric Adams announced during a pre-Pesach security briefing for the Jewish Community at One Police Plaza in NYC...

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NYS Senator Bill Weber, Who Sponsored Legislation To Save NY’s Matzah Bakeries, Visits Viznitz Matzah Bakery

Senator Weber argues that this environmental regulation is anti-business & would do little to actually help the fight against pollution, he is further calling for Matzah Bakeries to be excluded from the regulation...

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NY: Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein Introduces Legislation to Halt Sanitation Ticket Barrage During Shabbos

Shabbos DSNY / NYC Sanitation Ticket Blitzes on the Jewish community must Stop!...

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Crown Heights Street Co-Named “Lubavitcher Rebbe Way” In Historic Event

Crown Heights - A special event took place co-naming President Street, the street of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s house “Lubavitcher Rebbe Way.”...

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NYC Mayor Eric Adams Allocates $2 Million Dollars In City Funding For Chasdei Lev To Support Yeshiva Teachers

New York City allocates $2 Million Dollars in city funding for Chasdei Lev to support Yeshiva teachers, Mayor Adams announced...

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Trump’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Rolls-Back Environmental Regulations, NY Matzah Bakeries Not Included

(UPDATED) New York’s controversial environmental regulation and decree targeting all the Jewish community's kosher Matzah bakery’s has gone into effect...

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Israel Heritage Foundation Meets With NYC Mayor Eric Adams Ahead Of Pesach

NYC Mayor Adams assured the Israel Heritage Foundation that an enhanced NYPD presence will be deployed to the NYC Jewish communities for Pesach...

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PSA: Driving With Your Firearm To Florida This Pesach?

This year, many newly concealed carry permit holders will be driving from New York / New Jersey to Florida for Pesach with their firearm...

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NYC Trying To Shutter Jewish Community Matzah Bakeries

As Pesach approaches, a new New York City decree went into affect threatening the closure of Brooklyn's Matzah Bakeries. Askunim from all NYC communities are urgently trying to find a compromise to keep NYC Matzah Bakeries open...

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NY Attorney General Warns of Car Wash Price Gouging Before Pesach

New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a PSA ahead of Pesach: Warning car wash businesses that price gouging and raising their prices for Jewish customers only, seeking cleaning services before Pesach. Is discrimination and il...

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Simcha Felder Wins NYC Boro Park / Flatbush City Council Race in Special Election

NYS Senator Simcha Felder has won the election for NYC 44th City Council district which includes Boro Park and parts of Flatbush...

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Ari Halberstam HY”D Remembered 31 Years Later After Brooklyn Bridge Shooting

The ramp entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge is named "Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp" honoring the memory of Crown Heights bochur Ari Halberstam, HY"D, a 16-year-old talmud who was murdered Al Kiddush Hashem in a terrorist attack in NYC...

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