Neighbors of one of the suspects in the attack on a Jersey City, New Jersey kosher grocery store told reporters that she was a pleasant and friendly person before she began dating the man who allegedly embarked on the shooting spree with her. Francine Graham worked as a home health aide and lived in the…
Scam artists have set up a number of fake fundraising pages to solicit donations after the tragic shooting in Jersey City last night, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey said in a Wednesday press conference. “They’re creating fake GoFundMe pages to try and solicit donations, purportedly for the families of these…
The two Jewish victims of yesterday’s protracted shootout in Jersey City, N.J. will be buried tomorrow, according to a Hasidic community leader. “They understand the urgency of needing to bury them in a Jewish cemetery as soon as possible,” said Hasidic community leader Yankev Meir during an interview on the Yiddish-language radio/podcast app, Yiddish24 today….
Surveillance footage released Wednesday shows two people with guns leaving their vehicle and entering a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey the day prior. Five people, including the two assailants, were killed in the shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket. A police officer was killed in a shootout with the two alleged perpetrators prior…
This is a developing story. One of the suspects in the Jersey City, N.J. shooting that left six people dead, including five at a kosher grocery store, had written anti-Semitic social media posts, a law enforcement official told The New York Times. Jersey City mayor Steven Fulop wrote on Twitter on Wednesday that the two…
A suspect had published anti-Semitic and anti-police social media posts and camera footage suggests the kosher market was targeted, the New York Times reports. Three members of a small Jewish community and a cherished police officer were killed on Tuesday afternoon in addition to two suspects during a protracted shootout at a kosher supermarket in…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump will sign an executive order recognizing Jewish university students as a class protected from discrimination. The order, to be signed Wednesday, according to The New York Times, leapfrogs bipartisan legislation in Congress that would do the same thing. The signing of the order will coincide with the White House…
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Genesis Prize Foundation has announced that Natan Sharansky, a Jewish Refusenik, prolific leader in the Soviet Jewry emigration movement and former Israeli politician, will be awarded the 2020 Genesis Prize. Natan Sharansky will be honored in Jerusalem on June 18, 2020. The Genesis Prize, dubbed the “Jewish Nobel,” was started in…
(JTA) — A man who was injured in the shooting attack at the Chabad of Poway is suing the Jewish center for not protecting its worshippers. Almog Peretz was shot in the leg in the April 27 attack. His 8-year-old niece also was injured. Peretz was shot while gathering children in the synagogue and ushering…
(JTA) — More than 30 employees of West Virginia’s Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation have been suspended over a photo showing trainees making a Nazi salute. The photo of dozens of participants in a basic training class reads “Hail Byrd!” at the top, a reference to a training instructor for the class. Two correctional academy…
(JTA) — Joe Biden told voters in Iowa that support for withdrawing military aid from Israel over its interactions with the Palestinians is “bizarre.” Biden was attacking Sen. Bernie Sanders, a fellow Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential nomination in 2020, and others. “In terms of Bernie and others who talk about dealing with Zionism,…
