More than 300 Ride-Hail Drivers Marched on City Hall to Protest Disastrous Council Bill Drivers Held Funeral Procession Caravan from Brooklyn to City Hall, Launched Digital Ad Campaign Opposing the Bill Just Hours After Guild’s Protest, de Blasio Administration Announces Opposition […]

Hoagie Definition: (noun) A large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States. Synonyms: […]

Anna Marie Jarvis (1864) Though she never wed or had children herself, Jarvis campaigned tirelessly for the establishment of an annual holiday honoring mothers. She began her campaign after the death of her mother, a social activist who had brought […]

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)

Please join us for our next community event at the Bronx Jewish Center, 1969 Haight Avenue, Bx NY 10461 to be held on Thursday May 3rd, starting at starting at 6:00 PM. The Bronx Jewish Center will be hosting a […]

WASHINGTON – Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has authorized the movement of a modified, non-infectious version of the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) virus from the Plum Island Animal Disease Center to the U.S. mainland for the purposes of continued […]

House Democrats Unveil Legislation to Protect American Workers Against Anti-Competitive Employment Practices (Washington, D.C.) – Today, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY), Ranking Member of the Judiciary Committee Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Co-Chair of the Antitrust Caucus Rep. Keith […]

Interlink Definition: (verb) To link together or join (one) with another. Synonyms: Complect, Interconnect Usage: The policies, through distinct, are interlinked.

Mary II of England (1662) Despite the conversion of her father, King James II, to Roman Catholicism, Mary was raised Protestant, a fact that would become important in her later life. In 1688, English nobles opposed to James’s pro-Catholic policies […]

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. Henry […]

Chairman Crowley Statement Supporting Completion of East Side Access and Penn Station Access Projects (Washington, D.C.) — Congressman Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, issued the following statement calling for full completion of the East […]