MTA Revises Planned Service Cuts

MYFOXNY.COM — After a series of public hearing on proposed service cuts, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority issued Friday a list of revised proposals for service cuts to help close a nearly $800 billion budget gap.

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Israeli Passover Food Distributions Reach Feverish Pitch

By Andrew Friedman for Chabad.org
Colel Chabad officials preside over the distribution of Passover food aid by students at the Charles E. Smith Experimental High School for Boys in Jerusalem.

JERUSALEM – It’s a bright, cool afternoon at Jerusalem’s Charles E. Smith Experimental High School for Boys, known locally simply as “Hartman” after the institute and Jewish think tank that houses it. A group of 10th grade boys are horsing around on the basketball court, careful to avoid the stacks of food parcels that they’ve stayed after school to help distribute to needy residents ahead of the Passover holiday.

Mazal Tov! – 3 Monday Night L’Chaims!

Levi Bronchtain (Crown Heights) and Rivkah Nelken (Montreal, Canada)
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]

Eliyahu Andrusier (Crown Heights) and Chumi Bukiet (Chicago, IL)
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Yosef Yitzchok Schtroks (Morristown, NJ) and Mussi Perl (Crown Heights)
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

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11:21pm: Shabbos Siren Goes off – Apparent Accident

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Just moments ago the Shabbos siren was triggered for no apparent reason prompting an unprecedented amount of calls to our call system, and a crushing amount of traffic to CrownHeights.info.

The Courage to be Free – Special Pre-Passover Web-Event

Just twenty four years ago, a refusenik, jailed by the Soviet communist regime for proudly representing Judaism in a country where Jewish activity was a crime, Natan Sharansky was barred from communicating with his concerned Jewish brothers around the globe. This Sunday (March 21), at 3pm EST, Natan Sharansky, now a powerful figure in Israeli politics and chairman of The Jewish Agency, will address world Jewry in a live pre-Passover webcast entitled “The Courage to be Free.” The event is sponsored by The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and will be hosted on TorahCafe.com

Five Minutes of Mercy for Alternate-Side Parking Takes Effect

NY Daily News

A ticket sits on the windshield of a car parked at a meter.

New Yorkers finally have the one thing they’ve always wanted – more time.

Five minutes more.

As of 12:01 a.m. Sunday morning, a controversial new law grants that extra 300-second cushion to move your car for alternate-side parking or from an expired Muni meter before getting slapped with a ticket.

Morristown Bochurim get Tested on Taaruvos

MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — Bochurim in the Morristown Semicha program got tested last week by Rabbi Dovid Schochet from Toronto on Hilchos Taaruvos. Rabbi Schochet was very impressed with the knowlage the Bochurim displayed.

Bochurim Arrested Shabbos, Walked Down Kingston in Cuffs

Handcuffs. Illustration Photo.

It was a very bizarre scene which unfolded on Kingston Avenue on Shabbos afternoon. As people were heading to Shul for Mincha, 4 Bochurim were being taken by police officers in handcuffs down Kingston and to the police station.