The Masbia Relief Team jumped into action to help the asylum seekers that have been arriving at the Port Authority Midtown Bus Terminal. Asylum seekers have been arriving in New York City in the last few weeks in very distressed conditions. They arrived hungry and barefoot, having lost everything…
When New York City schools open next month, they will have an influx of hundreds of migrant children sent here from Texas with the asylum-seeking families. CBS2’s political reporter Marcia Kramer says the Adams administration unveiled a detailed plan to welcome them. Two busloads of asylum…
On Tuesday night at 10 pm, 12 migrants arrived at the Port Authority Midtown Bus Terminal without shoes. Responding immediately, Masbia Executive Director Alexander Rapaport and two of his workers headed to Walmart where they filled up at least six shopping carts full of sturdy shoes and warm socks…
Local activists say that some of the migrants bussed-in from the Texas border Tuesday night arrived without shoes, or anywhere to go. Volunteers from the Masbia Relief team are at the Port Authority today helping those migrants, along with the Office of Immigrant Affairs and the immigrant workers organization…
While Kentucky’s small Jewish community was not impacted by the flood, Jewish organizations are nevertheless pitching in to help. In addition to Chabad and the Israel consulate, Masbia, a kosher…
Staff of Masbia, a New York-based, Orthodox Jewish-run food network, traveled to Jackson, Kentucky, this week, to assist victims of catastrophic flooding in the area. In addition to their usual role of providing hot meals and groceries in Brooklyn and Queens, Masbia in recent years has traveled to…
As the voter registration deadline for the upcoming primaries rapidly approaches, one community organization in Borough Park is giving out registration forms to those who stop for food. Masbia Soup…
Food prices in the New York area have jumped more than 9% in the last year, according to a new Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, and experts caution that they are unlikely to ease up in the foreseeable future. The price climb, which took place over the 12 months ending in June, is the steepest in the last 40 years, according to the BLS…
The great 16th century Rabbi Yehuda Loew, also known as the Maharal of Prague, in his volume on the Passover Haggadah, explains that while the miracles in the book of Exodus are very epic, the even greater miracle…
On the foothills of the Catskills in Goshen lies a 227-acre farm, where most of the workers speak Yiddish, and organic wheat and spelt for shmura matzah is the main crop. The Yiddish Farm also grows ripe, red tomatoes that…