New Jersey

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

Fulop said in an interview that he assigned the orders to ensure that the “next administration doesn’t go in a direction that I think is adverse to some of the communities in Jersey City.”

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop speaks to reporters at the scene of the shooting at a kosher market, Dec. 11, 2019.
  A school bus is seen in Brooklyn in New York, United States of America, on July 4th, 2024.

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

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.

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

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.

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


Bomb threat at New Jersey mall forces Black Friday shoppers to evacuate

"The New Jersey State Police is investigating a bomb threat at the American Dream Mall," Governor Murphy said in a post on the X social media network.

 American Dream mall is pictured after New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy closed indoor shopping malls, to avoid the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S., March 18, 2020.

Grenade found strapped to utility pole near synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey

Police continue to investigate the incident although currently no information has been released to the public as to the perpetrators or their intentions.

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Presidential candidate Chris Christie visits Israel, vows to share atrocities witnessed

Christie urged protestors to “come to Israel and see it for yourself.” • “If you don’t understand the stakes after seeing this, then you’re lost.”

 Ruby Chen, the American father of a hostage held by Hamas shows a dog tag with the words "Bring them home" on it to the former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, at Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov) in Tel Aviv, Israel November 12, 2023

US Senator Menendez rejects calls to step down from Congress

Menendez has stepped down temporarily from his role as chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

US Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) questions Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing in Washington, DC, U.S. July 30, 2020

Israeli citizen killed in New Jersey helicopter crash

Local news outlets confirmed the time and location of the crash in South Brunswick, New Jersey.

 Robinson R22 helicopter.

NJ township to pay $575,000 to settle discrimination lawsuit against Orthodox Jews

Jackson is now required to notify the state of any decision or regulation that would affect local religious land use or practice.

 Cassville Crossroads Historic District, Jackson Township, New Jersey, NJ, Sept. 9, 2012

US court rules against woman fired by Catholic school over pregnancy

The art teacher was engaged at the time her pregnancy was announced, leading to the school firing her.

 Pregnant woman suffers from depression (Illustrative)

She stayed in Israel post-gap year and became a voluntary mayor

Racheli Adler: “My family knew that when I came to Israel for a gap year, I wasn’t returning. My parents built their life in a way that as soon as we were all here, they’d be able to come, too.”

 RACHELI FROMOWITZ ADLER, 31 FROM TEANECK, New Jersey, TO TZUR HADASSAH, 2010

WATCH: 'My first exposure to Jazz revealed depths I was unfamiliar with before'

LIVE: Israeli jazz guitarist and composer Inbar Fridman in conversation with jazz journalist Yotam Ziv.

Inbar Fridman

New York crane snaps and crashes into street, injuring six

Multiple civilians and firefighters suffered minor injuries when the crane boom, a 16-ton load of concrete being lifted and debris from the nearby building fell into the street.

Smoke is visible after a construction crane caught fire on a high-rise building in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., July 26, 2023