In just over a week, a crowdfunding campaign for the family of Mindel Ferencz, who was shot and killed in the Jersey City kosher grocery shooting, raised over $1.5 million, primarily from Orthodox and Hasidic donors. The show of support has been remarkable even for the Hasidic world, in which the importance of charitable giving…
One of the suspects in the attack on a Jersey City, New Jersey kosher grocery store wrote several Facebook posts demonstrating belief in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, the Anti-Defamation League revealed Tuesday. David Anderson, one of the two suspected shooters in the attack, used the alias Dawad Maccabee on Facebook from July to December 2015, according…
A trustee of the Jersey City Board of Education is being criticized for writing a Facebook message that seemed to blame the Jewish community for the attack on a kosher grocery store last week, the website Insider NJ reported. “Mr. Anderson and Ms. Graham went directly to the Kosher supermarket,” board of education trustee Joan…
The man and woman accused of killing three people in a Jersey City, N.J. kosher grocery store were both found to have keys that could unlock handcuffs — the man’s in his underwear, local news station NBC4 reported Monday, citing law enforcement sources. Police searching through the clothes of David Anderson and Francine Graham, the…
Amid the mourning and sorrow in the aftermath of the attack on a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, some Jews felt something else: The sense that attacks on Orthodox Jews don’t garner as much sympathy from their non-Orthodox brethren. Few seem to care about the attacks on Jews in Brooklyn. Why? The Jews being…
On a Jersey City street, a crowd of men dressed in black hats and coats stand on the sidewalk and flood out into the street. A white bus stamped with “Chaverim of Rockaway” flanks the crowd. Speakers tower over them, projecting a tremulous voice. That voice belongs to Moishe Ferencz, the husband of Mindy Ferencz,…
New Jersey officials believe the two shooters at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City were motivated by bias against Jews and the police. “We believe that the suspects held views that reflected hatred of the Jewish people as well as a hatred of law enforcement,” the state’s attorney general, Gurbir Grewal, said at a news…
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…
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