Brooklyn politicians announce $1.46 million in funding for Hatzalah ambulances — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and City Councilmember Kalman Yeger announced Thursday that they will allocate nearly $1.5 million in city funding – $575,000 in capital funding from Reynoso and $885,000 in capital funding from Yeger – for Hatzalah to buy five new ambulances, including two all-electric units, according to a press release from Reynoso’s office. “Growing up in Williamsburg, I saw firsthand how Hatzoloh enhances the health of entire neighborhoods,” Reynoso said.

Brooklyn ice cream chain recalls its frozen desserts — Ice Cream House, an ice cream chain in Brooklyn, is voluntarily recalling all of its frozen desserts, reports New York Jewish Week. According to the FDA, the Ice Cream House recall is related to a listeria outbreak in a line of ice cream cups made by Klein’s Real Kosher, which were separately recalled earlier this month. According to an automated voice message, the Boro Park location is closed, while the Williamsburg and Flatbush locations remain open.

Brooklyn politicians meet with Haredi leaders in the Catskills — Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez went to the Catskills last week to visit Haredi camps and bungalow colonies and meet with community leaders, including Gary Schlesinger, CEO of the ParCare Community Health Network, reports Boro Park 24.

Rockland public elementary school to close, amid growing Haredi population — A public elementary school site is closing in Suffern, a Rockland County school district where the Haredi community is growing, according to Lohud. With the Haredi community sending their children to private schools, public school enrollment is shrinking even as the village’s population is growing.

Hasidic lawyer recounts time in Asia, the White House, and Borough Park — Tablet magazine published a profile of Mitchell Silk, who served as assistant secretary of the Treasury for international markets under former president Donald Trump. Now, in addition to reciting Chinese poems and translating Torah commentaries to English, Silk works as pro bono counsel for Agudath Israel and helps lead its ‘Know Us’ messaging campaign in response to  last year’s New York Times investigation of secular education at Haredi schools.

New Jersey township to settle lawsuit alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews — New Jersey’s Jackson Township will settle a state lawsuit alleging that it used local zoning ordinances to discriminate against Orthodox Jews, such as by preventing people from erecting sukkahs and eruvs, reports JTA. The settlement includes $575,000 in penalties and restitution funds to individuals harmed by the townships’s actions. Large numbers of Haredi families have moved to Jackson, which shares a border with the Haredi enclave of Lakewood, New Jersey, in recent years.

Newburgh mayor condemns antisemitic poster — Torrance Harvey, the mayor of Newburgh, a town in upstate New York, recently condemned an antisemitic poster that was created after he met with a group of Hasidic Jewish landlords to discuss their concerns and those of their tenants. The poster claimed the mayor planned “on selling Newburgh to the Jews.” “There is no place for that in our political discourse in Newburgh, there is no place for that in our culture, there is no place for that in our political discourse in the United States of America,” he said, according to MidHudson News.

Brooklyn yeshiva dean dies — Rabbi Aharon Moshe Schechter, the rosh yeshiva, or dean, of the Litvish boys’ school Yeshiva Chaim Berlin, died last Thursday at the age of 95. “The Rosh Yeshivah lived what he was teaching,” his son-in-law said at the funeral in Midwood, according to Hamodia. “It was part of his being, and he connected the upper spheres with the material world.”

Congressman visits Chabad — U.S. Congress member Ritchie Torres recently visited Chabad of South Bronx, according to the Chabad news site COLlive. The site reports that Torres, who is Black, “discussed his recent trip to the holy land of Israel, humorously recounting instances where he was mistaken for an Ethiopian Jew.”