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On a night when Jews around the world were lighting candles to celebrate the fifth night of Chanukah, state and local leaders gathered in Jersey City with community members to “Shine a Light” on rising antisemitism. “It is a strong statement about unity here that we stand on the city hall steps in the most diverse city in the United States of America and we celebrate our Jewish brothers and sisters here as we have celebrated every other religion here as a symbol of unity,” said Mayor Steve Fulop, who is himself Jewish. “The story of Chanukah is one of light overcoming darkness, and I think the story of Jersey City over the last couple of years embodies that.” The December 2 event, hosted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey and the Israeli American Council (IAC), was a bittersweet for those gathered as they paused to remember the victims of the antisemitic attack at the JC Kosher Supermarket on December 10, 2019, that left four innoc ....
In Jersey City, A Remarkable Kindness Owners of four kosher markets come together to rebuild Moshe Ferencz’s grocery store. I was reading an article the other day and I couldn’t stop crying. It was so moving. You’re probably imagining what it was about – children in trouble or battling a potentially fatal disease or addiction or abuse or all of the above, a Holocaust survivor’s tale or a similar tale of tragedy. But I was actually reading about a grocery store – and it wasn’t the current price of paper towels (exorbitant due to the run on them) that had me in tears. In fairness the story begins with last year’s terrorist attack in Jersey City. And certainly that horrific event is enough to provoke an intense response, but it was the tale of the actual grocery store that captured my imagination and my emotions. In the aftermath of the attack, Moshe Ferencz, the owner of the kosher grocery store, was mourning his wife, Leah Mindel, and his cousin, Mos ....
Jersey City, a Year Later By Debra Rubin | December 16, 2020 A year after what New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal called “the worst act of domestic terrorism in New Jersey history,” he and other leaders of the Jewish and secular communities came together to mourn the four victims killed in the attack on a Jersey City kosher supermarket. Grewal was one of many speakers who appeared December 10 during a virtual memorial program sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey in partnership with Congregation B’nai Jacob, which is located in the Greenville neighborhood where the hours-long shootout with police, in which the two attackers were also killed, took place. ....
323 shares Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) NEW YORK (JTA) When 25,000 Jews marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020, Evan Bernstein felt something he hadn’t experienced in weeks: optimism. Not even a month earlier, he had prayed with the small Orthodox community in Jersey City, New Jersey, next to the spot where shooters had just killed three people at a kosher supermarket after gunning down a police officer. Eighteen days later, when a man with a machete entered a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, and stabbed five people, Bernstein then the New York-New Jersey regional director of the Anti-Defamation League drove up immediately. After staying up half the night checking in on the community and talking to law enforcement and reporters, he slept in his car. Before and after the attacks, he’d been making trips to Brooklyn to res ....
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