A Jewish high school student from New Jersey was accused of “bullying” and threatened with expulsion by school administrators for posting anti-Israel Tweets, angering pro-Palestinian groups and free speech advocates. Bethany Koval, 16 of Fair Lawn, New Jersey, known as Benny to her Twitter followers, was summoned to the principal’s office for posting a series…
A piece of civil rights history with a poignant link to a New Jersey Jewish community is going on the auction block. A signed program from a 1963 Shabbat sermon delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Temple Sha’arey Shalom in Springfield, New Jersey is available for sale at Lelands Auction in an online…
A New Jersey synagogue had recently arrived Syrian refugees join them for what has become Jewish tradition on Christmas: Chinese Food. “As Jews, we all come from refugee families and we know in our bones what it’s like to have hateful rhetoric directed toward us,” said Rabbi Tepperman of Montclair N.J.’s Bnai Keshet, whose members…
An Orthodox Jewish nonprofit that purports to help gay men become heterosexual has been ordered to close. Jews Offering New Alternatives for Healing, or JONAH, must cease operations within 30 days, and refrain from therapy, counseling or treatment until that time, the New Jersey Superior Court ordered Friday. The group must liquidate its assets and…
A residence hall at Rowan University in southern New Jersey was vandalized with swastikas and other anti-Semitic grafitti. The Nazi symbols were discovered Thursday and reported to the university administration. The dean of students, Richard Jones, condemned the graffiti in an email Sunday to students, and wrote that police are investigating the incident. “It is…
At 82, Dianne Feinstein is the oldest serving member in the U.S. Senate, but she is showing no sign of slowing down. After forcefully taking on the CIA for its practice of torture and for holding up a congressional attempt to investigate the clandestine service, Feinstein, a security-focused Democrat from California who serves as the…
Arthur Z. Kamin, an immigrant baker’s son who rose to become editor of a New Jersey newspaper and chairman of the Rutgers University board of trustees, died Tuesday, Sept. 22, at a retirement community in Red Bank, N.J. He was 84 years old. The cause of death was Parkinson’s disease and progressive supranuclear palsy, a…
A Reform temple and Conservative synagogue in northern New Jersey will officially merge as of the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Temple Shalom in Franklin, N.J., which is Reform, and the Jewish Center of Sussex County in Newton, N.J., a Conservative congregation, have joined to form B’nai Shalom of Sussex County, the New Jersey Jewish…
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