A Hasidic Jewish family says they were kicked off a flight because they refused to make their 18-month-old baby wear a mask, while passengers claimed Frontier Airlines staff performed celebratory high-fives after the incident. A video of the incident shows the family walking off the plane as other passengers complain, “This is Nazi Germany! “and, […]
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Ben Shahn, the Rockefellers and a town called Roosevelt, New Jersey
Rockefeller Center is a series of buildings situated over 22 acres in mid-Manhattan. Its centerpiece, rising 850 feet into the New York skyline, is 30 Rockefeller Center, also known as 30 Rock. Constructed in the early 1930s, it is an Art Deco showcase both within and without. Outside, an Art Deco bronze statue of Atlas […]
Flagship New Jersey yeshiva cancels Purim celebrations
Haredi Orthodox Jews in Lakewood, New Jersey, are curtailing Purim festivities because of COVID-19. For the first time in 80 years, Beth Medrash Govoha, the yeshiva at the center of the township’s 70,000-strong Orthodox community, won’t host festivities surrounding the holiday, the Asbury Park Press reports. Ocean County health authorities have reported 11,369 COVID-19 cases […]
Neanderthal Interbreeding with Humans Rampant on Jersey?
Modern technology has allowed experts to re-analyze ancient Neanderthal teeth discovered at the start of the 20th century in a Jersey cave. They have been found to share attributes with those of modern humans, which could mean that there was more interbreeding between Neanderthals and modern humans than we previously thought. The 2010 publication of the […]
Hunger Strikes At Three New Jersey Prisons
Above photo: Cars that drove by Bergen County jail honked their horns in support of protesters and detainees on Dec. 1. Rowaida Abdelaziz. The filthy conditions, indefinite incarceration and escalating COVID infections have touched off desperate hunger strikes at three New Jersey county jails. Each jail operates as a prison-for-profit, renting space at $120 a […]
New Jersey adopts new use-of-force policy to focus on de-escalation
Nationwide reckoning: The policy changes come eight months after George Floyd’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis sparked sustained protests in New Jersey and across the U.S. against police brutality and a launched nationwide reckoning with the way law enforcement interacts with Black communities. Grewal said his office “did not begin this hard […]
On First Anniversary of Antisemitic Atrocity at Kosher Market, Jersey City Declares ‘No Place for Hate’
Jersey City residents Gregory Pigford and Joseph Berger converse outside the boarded-up kosher market in the Greenville neighborhood, on the first anniversary of the gun attack on the premises. Photo: Reuters / USA Today Network. Residents of Jersey City, New Jersey, paused on Thursday to commemorate the first anniversary of the deadly antisemitic gun attack […]
Dead pig found outside rabbi’s door in heavily Orthodox New Jersey town
A dead pig’s body was found outside the door of a rabbi in the heavily Orthodox township of Lakewood, New Jersey. The body was found on Shabbat, according to The Lakewood Scoop, and the local police department is treating the incident as a bias crime. Pigs are seen as the quintessentially unkosher animal and have […]
New Jersey rabbi finds pig’s corpse at his doorstep
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Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Bon Jovi Pose for Coronavirus Billboards in New Jersey: ‘Wear a Friggin’ Mask!’
Drivers in New Jersey are receiving a mandatory lecture on the coronavirus thanks to a new series of billboards demanding that everyone wears a mask. The effort comes courtesy of three famous sons of the Garden State — Jon Stewart, Bruce Springsteen, and Jon Bon Jovi. The billboards come as New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy […]
A year ahead of Murphy’s reelection, a détente among New Jersey’s top Democrats
The thawing of tensions is likely a combination of the coronavirus upending politics as usual in Trenton, Murphy’s political popularity skyrocketing in the wake of the pandemic and the increasing independence of Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin and his Middlesex County Democrats from the South Jersey Democrats who helped install him in the leadership post in […]
Vandals Drill into Neolithic Jersey Dolmen Looking for Quartz
A famous dolmen on the Channel Islands has been damaged. Vandals drilled into one of the supporting stones of the 6,000-year-old Stone Age monument. It is believed that they were looking for quartz in the stone. Another prehistoric dolmen was also damaged by vandals who painted graffiti on the prehistoric structure. The Channel Islands are […]
New Jersey: Jewish Hypnotist Arrested for Sexual Assault, Child Endangerment, No Medical License
NY Post: A New Jersey man who touts himself as a “master hypnotist” told clients he needed to give them prostate exams — then sexually assaulted them, prosecutors say. Robert Bruckner, 55, of Randolph was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and practicing medicine without a license after […]
New Jersey’s Challah Back Girls raise dough for racial justice
TEANECK, New Jersey — As the dual crises of COVID-19 and racial violence continue to grip the nation, the Loffman sisters’ need to knead never felt more urgent. Meet Sara, 27; Marni, 24; Hannah, 22; and Eliana, 16, otherwise known as the Challah Back Girls, a literal sisterhood that nourishes souls and stomachs across America […]
Threatening to Call 911 On Minorities Now Illegal In New Jersey
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) signed a law Monday making it illegal for citizens to threaten to call 911 on someone of a different race, ethnicity, religion or gender. Murphy technically just amended a current law “to include false incrimination and filing a false police report as a form of bias intimidation.” “The bill […]
New Jersey Is Becoming The Most Hated State As Households Flee In Record Numbers
A new tax on millionaires, a 22.5% gas tax hike (bringing the total increase to 250% in 4 years), and now a tax on high frequency trades: it is becoming obvious to most – except perhaps the state’s democratic leadership – that New Jersey is now actively trying to drive out its tax-paying population and […]
New Jersey’s Orthodox Jews stall a bill banning child marriages
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New Jersey school eliminates try-outs for cheerleading squad with new “inclusivity” rule that rewards mediocrity
(Natural News) Growing up, those of us who could play a little baseball or football or basketball tried out for the junior high and high school teams and, if we were good enough, we made the team. That didn’t mean you got to actually get on the field or court, mind you, […]
New Jersey banker says Johnson Johnson’s talcum powder gave him cancer… jury awards $37 million in compensatory damages
(Natural News) For many mothers, talc powder is a sign of love. They enjoy its sweet smell on their baby’s soft, sensitive skin, and believe it makes their baby feel fresh and stay free from diaper rash. On the opposite end of the spectrum, adults apply talc on parts of their body […]