New Jersey

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

“We are going to have a focus on stopping candidates who are detractors of Israel or who want to put conditions on aid,” Patrick Dorton, a spokesperson for the United Democracy Project, said.

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.
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'

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop speaks to reporters at the scene of the shooting at a kosher market, Dec. 11, 2019.

Jersey City’s outgoing Jewish mayor signs antisemitism orders as ‘guardrails’ for his successor


Man arrested for throwing rock at school bus, fractured skull of 8-year-old Jewish girl

The 40-year-old was linked to multiple rock-throwing incidents in Bergen County, besides the Wednesday incident against a bus transporting 3rd-grade students from Yeshivat Noam.

  A school bus is seen in Brooklyn in New York, United States of America, on July 4th, 2024.

Winter weather in US Northeast leads to thousands of flight delays, cancellations

People in much of the Northeast were advised to stay off the roads because of treacherous conditions, with states of emergency declared in New York and New Jersey.

A DELTA Air Lines plane prepares to take off during a winter storm at Greater Rochester International Airport in Rochester, New York, US, December 26, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video.

From chants to gunfire: How antisemitism was allowed to grow - opinion

Antisemitism was dismissed as rhetoric. Now Jews are being violently targeted because the world pretended that words don’t matter.

An aerial view of emergency personnel working at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, December 14, 2025, in this screen grab from a video.

Lighting Hanukkah candles with modern day Maccabees - opinion

Hanukkah’s miracle was not the oil alone, but the courage to light it. Today, a new generation keeps that flame alive.

 FRIENDS AND family say goodbye as soldiers enlist in the IDF at the Tel Hashomer induction center.

Harassment is not protest: The law that can protect America’s synagogues - opinion

Protests outside synagogues crossed a legal line, and enforcing the FACE Act could finally protect Jewish worshippers.

A confrontation between pro-Palestinian protestors and Jewish congregants at Congregation Ohr Torah on Nov. 13, 2024

Are mummies responsible for NJ Devils' string of injuries? Archaeologists, players weigh in

The strange tale of two mummies discovered beneath the Prudential Center collides with the Devils’ run of bad injury luck this season.

 A cameraman films the only known example of a pregnant Egyptian mummy, displayed at an exhibition in National Museum in Warsaw, Poland May 4, 2021

New Jersey man’s death tied to meat allergy-causing tick in first-of-its-kind case

The man died four hours after eating a burger, weeks after he developed an allergy to meat as a result of a tick bite.

 Adult deer tick

New Jersey arrests two ISIS-linked terrorists allegedly planning antisemitic attacks

Two men with ties to ISIS were arrested in New Jersey for planning violent antisemitic attacks. The suspects were also tied with the cell behind the Halloween terror plot in Dearborn, Michigan.

A member of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Dearborn, Michigan, October 31, 2025; illustrative.

In NJ governor’s race, Mikie Sherrill fends off GOP candidate whose aide spurned ‘money from Jews’

Mikie Sherrill won New Jersey's governor race, defeating Jack Ciattarelli, whose campaign faced backlash over antisemitic comments despite support from Trump and Orthodox leaders.

A Yiddish-language sign supporting Jack Ciattarelli, GOP candidate for New Jersey governor, in Teaneck, New Jersey, Nov. 4, 2025.

New Jersey A-G temporarily shuts down polling stations following bomb threats

After local law enforcement secured the scenes and conducted sweeps of the locations, New Jersey Lieutenant Governor announced that there are "no credible threats at this time."

Democratic candidate for New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill speaks as she holds a campaign rally in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., November 1, 2025.