Mourners bid farewell Sunday to 22-year-old Devorah Stubin, whose body was found in her submerged car in New Jersey’s Passaic River the day before. Details are emerging about the final hours before Stubin, who was known to suffer seizures, vanished. CBS2 in New York reports that she was stopped by cops in Maywood, N.J. around…
A New Jersey husband and wife whose testimony helped convict the leader of a ring that violently pressured husbands to provide Jewish divorces were sentenced for their roles in the ring’s crimes. David and Judy Wax of Lakewood were both sentenced in federal court in Trenton, New Jersey Tuesday for assisting in a kidnapping, the…
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…
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