New Jersey

Love at 88, 96: Rosh Hashanah romance that began at shul

A Rosh Hashanah moment in shul sparked a late-life romance in Jerusalem’s French Hill.

Rabbi Hayyim Halpern and Margie Tutnauer
DEMOCRATIC INCUMBENT Representative Tom Malinowski participates in a get out the vote event ahead of next month’s midterm elections on October 29, 2022 in Rahway, New Jersey.

AIPAC ads against pro-Israel New Jersey candidate open to conditions for US aid backfires

New Jersey Police car.

'Cheap Jew': NJ police officer punished for reporting antisemitism, lawsuit says

A Ukrainian church in Connecticut advertised its 2026 Christmas vertep using a poster featuring a Jewish caricature that has drawn criticism as antisemitic.

NJ church deletes video of antisemitic pageant, says critics took it ‘out of context'


New Jersey high school yearbook ‘error’ deemed not antisemitic after investigation

The controversy at East Brunswick High School was one of several yearbook incidents that had concerned Jewish parents in recent months.

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Mark Levenson emphasizes strong New Jersey-Israel business and cultural ties

Levenson shared his view of New Jersey's strategic role as an ideal hub for Israeli families and enterprises.

Levenso spoke about the deep connections between New Jersey and Israel

Fred Neulander, rabbi serving life sentence, dies in prison at 82

New Jersey Rabbi Fred Neulander, convicted for hiring hit men to kill his wife in 1994, dies in prison at 82.

 The cage bars of a prison cell (Illustrative).

EXCLUSIVE: 'Free hostages' ad denied at spot once hosting pro-Palestinian ad in New Jersey

The advertisement seeking to shed light on the plight of the Gaza hostages was proposed by a New Jersey rabbi, where pro-Palestinian advertisements had previously been approved.

 A billboard in support of hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, is displayed on a building, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 30, 2024.

‘Israelis have been raping Palestinian women,’ University of Illinois prof. claims

Professors critiqued arguments that Hamas persecutes LGBTQ+ in Gaza as "homophobic" during a conference on Palestine and imperialism.

 Rutgers University scene at College Campus, 2013

In New Jersey, a flag-waving Jewish community faces down a pro-Palestinian protest

Hundreds from the local Jewish community came streaming down the mains street of Teaneck, New Jersey, clad in Israeli flags to meet pro-Palestinian protesters.

 Protestors, calling for ceasefire in Gaza, attend a demonstration near Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, in New York City, U.S., March 28, 2024.

Activists protest October 7 first aid, burial group at NJ synagogue

The event had planned to hear first-hand accounts of the ZAKA workers and their search and rescue operations on October 7.

 Zaka personnel work at a field with destroyed cars from the October 7 massacre, near the Israel-Gaza border, January 22, 2024.

Bert Pogrebin, attorney and partner to leading feminist Letty Cottin Pogrebin, dies at 89

Bert and Letty Pogrebin's 60-year marriage embodied support, impactful careers, and family devotion. Bert, a renowned labor lawyer, passed away at 89, leaving a legacy of integrity.

 The Manhattan skyline is pictured from the Summit at One Vanderbilt observatory in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., April 14, 2023.

New Jersey school apologizes for anti-Israel Ramadan letter

The widely circulated note, which offered seemingly innocent information regarding the month of Ramadan, included some anti-Israel comments. 

A 'Welcome to New Jersey' sign

Two arrested as hundreds protest Teaneck Synagogue Israel real estate expo

Teaneck for Palestine organized the protest March against what they said on social media last Friday was the "immoral marketing of stolen Palestinian land."

 Teaneck High School