(New York Jewish Week) — A giant, 50-pound hamantasch (singular of hamantaschen) was unveiled Sunday at Congregation Orach Chaim on the Upper East Side as part of a fundraiser for…
Mr. Gomez, here with his wife and infant son, still relies on meals provided by the city supplemented by occasional visits from nonprofits like Masbia Relief, an affiliate of a…
Hundreds of people helped pack some 2,000 bags of beans, greens and rice for clients of the nonprofit Masbia. CBS New York’s Lisa Rozner reports.
When asked what a typical day in his life is like, Masbia’s executive director, Mr Alexander Rapaport tells me that “if it were typical, it would not be Masbia.” According…
Maria Rodriguez, a Christian native of Venezuela, is standing on a street corner here one recent windy afternoon, eagerly describing the familiar type of chicken she eats regularly seven-tenths of a mile down Coney Island Avenue in a small quasi-restaurant in the heart of Flatbush, a heavily Orthodox…
At least 60 migrants are now sleeping at the Sunset Park Recreation Center in Brooklyn after City officials opened a respite site there on Thursday families were lining up for the pool this morning with towels and floaties as volunteers set up a tent welcoming migrants with food and toiletries. Alexander Rappaport is the executive director of Masbia a non-profit soup kitchen and food pantry…
Outside the sunset park recreational center migrants from Venezuela take in some night air as of this weekend this has become their new Temporary Home inside Sunset Park he says he and these men are glad to be here especially after hearing the horror…
Brooklyn residents are pushing back on the city’s latest effort to house asylum seekers. The city is now allowing room for around 80 migrants in the Sunset Park Recreation Center, as well as the McCarren Recreation Center…
Varias carpas afuera del centro recreativo de Sunset Park fueron traídas al vecindario por voluntarios. La comida y los productos de primera necesidad los trajeron los vecinos al cumplirse un año de la llegada de los primeros buses trayendo…
Neighbors have set up a makeshift welcome center outside the Sunset Park Recreation Center, one of the newest locations housing asylum seekers in New York City. Volunteers on Sunday were distributing clothes and personal care items…