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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference at City Hall this morning where he announced the launch of a new NYPD unit to tackle ethnically and racially motivated crimes. Screenshot/Twitter
December 11, 2019, 4:03 pm
Responding to Jersey City shooting, mayor launches new unit to tackle extremism
Speaking to the press this morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced creation of a new police unit to tackle racially and ethnically motivated extremism
By Shira Hanau
Emergency personnel are shown on the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead on December 10, 2019 in Jersey City, New Jersey. In a raging gun battle that by some accounts lasted in excess of an hour, six people - a Jersey City police officer, three civilians and two suspects - were killed in the Tuesday afternoon standoff and shootout across the Hudson River from Manhattan, according to published reports. Getty Images
December 11, 2019, 3:58 pm
Victims in Jersey City shootout named, include chasidic mother of 3
Reports link at least one of the suspects to the Black Hebrew Israelites cult, which has been defined as a hate group by The Southern Poverty Law Center
By Shira Hanau
Wikimedia Commons/ David Lisbona
October 31, 2018, 4:04 pm
Conservative clergy now permitted to attend intermarriages
Rabbinical Assembly ruling keeps ban on officiating
By Johanna R Ginsberg
From "Budapest Noir"
October 18, 2018, 12:19 pm
Film fest ‘Extras’ on pioneering chasidic women, Budapest mystery
By NJJN Staff
October 15, 2018, 11:12 am
Anti-Semitic and racist KKK fliers dropped in Cherry Hill, New Jersey
By JTA
(Courtesy of Josh Gottheimer)
September 26, 2018, 2:45 pm
Swastika painted on home, campaign sign of NJ Rep. Josh Gottheimer supporters
By JTA
A police motorcycle outside the B’nai Abraham cemetery on Sunday. Courtesy Federation
September 20, 2018, 11:14 am
FBI investigating suspicious object at annual Jewish cemetery visit
Initially considered a hoax, device now believed to be explosive; reward offered for information
By Johanna R Ginsberg
August 30, 2018, 11:55 am
Headstones toppled at NJ Jewish cemetery
By JTA
August 27, 2018, 1:23 pm
Federation looks back at 5778, ahead to ’79
An interview with Keith Krivitzky, CEO of the Jewish Federation in the Heart of New Jersey
By Gabe Kahn
August 27, 2018, 1:18 pm
Reading (in) the room
For some, bolstering High Holy Days reading is a key to having a meaningful new year
By Debra Rubin
Synagogue members tend the Gan Tikvah Community Garden run by Temple Shalom and Temple Beth Ahm in Aberdeen. The garden at Temple Shalom supplies the food pantry at Matawan United Methodist Church. Photo courtesy Temple Beth Ahm
August 27, 2018, 1:10 pm
From diapers to medical equipment to food, giving inspired by new year
Community organizations serve the needy year round
By Debra Rubin
Yvette Schlussel, right, guides Beth Hoffman on the proper technique for making healthy quinoa-filled stuffed cabbage as Vera Galleid looks on at a recent Hadassah cooking demonstration.
August 27, 2018, 1:02 pm
Multi-cultural cuisines take center stage during holidays
Culinary traditions vary from table to table
By Michele Alperin
Rabbi Philip Bazeley of Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple explains the significance of the etrog and lulav to a young congregant. Photo by Ouriel Morgansztern
August 27, 2018, 12:54 pm
Rabbis reach out to engage millennials in community
Employing warmth, innovation, authenticity to meet young Jews’ needs
By Michele Alperin
Rabbi Eliot Malomet: We must be open to the possibility that hope will find us.
August 27, 2018, 12:43 pm
Mindful of political tensions, rabbis navigate narrow path
The challenge is to provide guidance, avoid partisanship
By Elaine Durbach
Cory Booker. Wikimedia Commons
August 15, 2018, 10:48 am
Still in Israel’s corner?
Was Booker showing support for Palestinian activism or was he duped?
By Gabe Kahn
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