A growing list of Republican officials have stepped up in recent days to condemn hateful and antisemtic statements made by GOP members against the Orthodox Jewish community in Jackson Township, New Jersey. But so far no action has been taken to remove party members from their posts. A statement released by RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, NJGOP Chairman Doug Steinhardt, and New Jersey Senator Robert Singer, condemned “hateful rhetoric in the strongest possible terms.” The party leaders added, “There is no place for anti-Semitism in our party.” The joint statement came in response to several social media posts by Jackson GOP chairwoman Clara Glory and Jackson GOP Club President Todd Porter.

Dear YWN readership, I went shopping today in Brooklyn at Bingo, and parked in the Bingo parking lot using a handicapped parking spot with proper identification. I am multiply handicapped and the fact that in Bingo they have handicapped lines that are not dedicated to the handicapped, and that they do not pack for a handicapped person, even when asked, is the subject for another post. As I was packing my car with my many purchases, a car pulled in to the handicapped spot next to mine. The couple got out without placing a handicapped placard in the windshield, and without handicapped plates. They were not elderly, nor did they appear to be infirm. I told them that they were using a handicapped parking spot. The woman responded with an “oh” – and it sounded like she was surprised.

The following is an unedited press release submitted to YWN by the “Socialist Workers Party”, which is known as a communist party: To the Satmar Hasidim and the whole Jewish community, The Socialist Workers Party joins you in condemning the vicious Dec. 10 attack at the Jersey City Kosher Supermarket that killed Leah Mindel Ferencz, Moshe Deutsch, and Douglas Miguel Rodriguez. It’s important to tell the truth. This was murderous Jew hatred. This is not the first anti-Semitic attack over the last several years in the U.S. including the attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh, Penn., and Poway, Calif. At the moment these are acts by isolated individuals. The overwhelming majority of working people of all nationalities and religious beliefs oppose Jew-hatred.

A Boro Park homeowner was terrified to find a man armed with a large knife in his kitchen this past Friday night. Boro Park Shomrim say the incident occurred at around 12:30AM on Friday night / Shabbos morning in the vicinity of 11th Ave and 54th Street. The homeowner was awakened by a noise in his house, and went to see what it was, when he came face-to-face with the man seen in the attached footage. Thankfully, the perpetrator fled the home without harming him. Shomrim has received multiple reports of burglaries in that same area on Friday night. They remind residents to make sure their homes are properly secured and to always report any suspicious activity immediately.

NYC Mayor DeBlasio went to Williamsburg on Sunday morning, and visited the home of the Deutsch family, who is sitting Shiva for their son Moshe Hersh HY”D, one of the victims in the Jersey City terror attack. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A pawn shop owner in Keyport, NJ has been arrested on weapons-related charges after his phone number was found on one of the suspects in the Jersey City shooting, NBC New York reports. Officials are now looking into whether any of the guns used in the shooting came from that Keyport pawn shop, which was full of firearms, including three AR-15-style assault rifles. Prosecutors had previously said they believed some of the guns used in Tuesday’s shootout may have been purchased in Ohio by Francine Graham, one of the two suspects. Ahmed A-Hady, 35, was arrested Saturday morning and faces one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. (AP)

Federal authorities have recovered a van that may be connected to the Jersey City shootings that killed four people and are now being investigated as domestic terrorism, the FBI said Saturday. The white van recovered Saturday morning in Orange, New Jersey, about 11 miles (17 kilometers) northwest of Jersey City, is being examined for any evidence related to the attack, the FBI said in a news release. A man and woman killed a police officer near a cemetery, three people in a kosher supermarket and then died in an hourslong gun battle with police Tuesday, authorities say. It was not clear how the van may be linked to the attack, and authorities did not release further details.

In the wake of the horrible anti-Semitic attack in Jersey City, the kosher community was left without their only supermarket that was decimated in the terrorist attack. Jersey City’s Mayor Steven Fulop knew who to call to get emergency food to his city – Met Council. “We got the call Wednesday night and our immediate response was, ‘of course, we will get your constituents food for Shabbos.’ 24 hours later we delivered and distributed over 10,000 pounds of food – from cholent mix to challah to eggs and even dessert like rugelach. We made sure that these 100 families had everything they needed for Shabbos,” explained David G. Greenfield, Met Council’s CEO.

Just one door away from the JC Kosher Supermarket, the scene of the Jersey City terror attack, is the local Cheder with approximately 50 children. Many were speculating that the terrorists had more than enough ammunition to kill a few people in a supermarket, and feared that the intended target was the school. This fear seems to be turning into a confirmation on Friday morning, as Jersey City mayor Fulop tweeted the following moments ago: “My opinion is that as more info comes out it’ll become increasingly clear that the target was the 50 children at the Yeshiva attached to that store. We will never know 100% but the doorway to the yeshiva was 3 feet away + it seems he goes in that direction 1st.

A new law allowing New Yorkers to get driver’s licenses without having to prove they are in the country legally is set to take effect Monday, though immigrants might still face hurdles in some parts of the state. Some county clerks ideologically opposed to the law have challenged it in court and offered unclear messages this week on whether they’ll be issuing licenses under the new program Monday. Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola, one of several clerks who sued, said that as of Tuesday, his office lacked the training and equipment to properly comply with the law. Barring changes, the Republican clerk said applicants might be directed across the Hudson River to the state-run Department of Motor Vehicles offices in Albany.