Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation expanding New York State’s definition of telemarketing to include marketing by text message. New Yorkers have protection against unwanted robocalls under state law, but texting was not previously defined as telemarketing, exempting it from those protections.
A rare opportunity: Chabad Young Professionals, a division of Merkos Suite 302, has launched a special initiative with the assistance of the Meromim Foundation. New grants will become available to finance the departure of new shluchim to Europe focusing on European Jewish young professionals between the ages of 22-39.
A run-down building taking up prime real estate in Crown Heights will finally be demolished, CrownHeights.info has learned, potentially paving the way for a new development.
Anti-Semitic crimes of all kinds are on the rise and Jews are being targeted regularly on the streets of New York. However, bringing criminals to justice has become increasingly challenging.
France’s competition regulator fined Google 500 million euros ($592 million) on Tuesday for failing to negotiate in good faith with French publishers in a dispute over payments for their news.
When the Ukrainian ministry of health was devising the logistics of a massive vaccine distribution for the Dnepropetrovsk region, Healthcare Minister Viktor Liashko and Governor of the Region Valentin Reznichenko turned to the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Ukraine.
The New York State Division of Consumer Protection and the Department of Motor Vehicles today warned New Yorkers of a text message phishing scheme targeting DMV customers.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday announced a new warning for the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, saying the shot has been linked to a serious but rare side effect called Guillain-Barré syndrome, in which the immune system attacks the nerves.
It’s apparently the global monsoon season. While New York City continues to be hit with downpours, flash floods, and thunderstorms, London appears to be dealing with the same. This video shows the Chabad Yeshiva Kingsley Way under inches of water.
Michael and Hannah Mandler, proud first-time parents, had another less common mitzvah to do after circumcising their bundle of joy, whom they had named Zev Mordechai. They had to redeem their firstborn son from a Kohen, in a ceremony known as pidyon haben, or the redemption of the firstborn.
We present a gallery of photos from Gan Yisroel Parksville, where hundreds of boys are hard at work enjoying themselves with sports, friends, and activities.
In the French city of Meaux, approximately 50 kilometers from Paris, a first was accomplished for the city with the inauguration of a Mikveh Tahara.
One of the focuses at the 20th annual Kinus HaMechanchim will be on a mechanech’s executive functioning, making him capable of educating his students.
A woman was rescued by firefighters after her SUV flipped on Empire Blvd in Crown Heights Monday morning. The cause of the overturn has yet to be announced, but the woman appeared to be uninjured.
This past week, hundreds of individuals from our community completed learning Mesichta Yuma and began Mesichta Sukah. This year, as the Siyum was in close proximity to the Nine days in which the Rebbe requests large public Siyumim, the initiative was taken to host a collective Siyum.
A rare, 3,100-year-old inscription was discovered during excavations in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.
New York City will be under storm watch again Monday afternoon, with the National Weather Service announcing a flash flood watch through Tuesday morning.
