In response to the tragic events that took place in Jersey City yesterday afternoon, Police Departments around the tri-State area added heavy security to jewish institutions. The Lakewood Police Department increased both marked and unmarked patrols town wide. Chief Meyer tells YWN that he would to ensure the public that “we will do whatever is […]

Hours after reports of a Jewish-owned grocery store in Jersey City was involved in a shootout with heavily armed criminals, a representative of Americans Against Antisemitism took his camera and went to the scene. What he recorded and encountered when he got there shocked all of us. While it was becoming clear that a terror […]

On Monday night, December 9, a crowd of more than 1,200 gathered at the Marriott Marquis in New York City to celebrate “An Evening for the Kids” at the 2019 Chai Lifeline Gala. A leading children’s health support network, Chai Lifeline provides critical assistance to children with life-threatening or lifelong illnesses and their families through […]

Shooting victim Mrs Leah Mindel Ferencz HY”D, 33-years-old, was one of the victims of the Jersey City shooting attack. Rabbi David Niederman of the UJO in Williamsburg gave YWN the following statement: “Mindel Ferencz HY”D, was a pioneer. She and her husband were of the very first to relocate from Williamsburg, due to the sky-rocketing […]

Rabbi David Niederman, President of the United Jewish Organizations (UJO) of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn delivered the following statement to YWN: The community is saddened and is mourning the loss of two innocent, people, the most-special of our community. Mindel Ferencz may she rest in peace, was a pioneer. She and her husband were of […]

Shooting victim Moshe Hersh Deutsch HY”D. 24-years-old, was one of the victims of the Jersey City shooting attack. He lived in Williamsburg. Chai Lifeline gave YWN the following statement: “We are heartbroken to inform you that one of the victims of yesterday’s horrific attack in Jersey City was our own dedicated volunteer, Moshe Hersh Deutch HY”D. […]

The helicopter company whose doors-off flight crashed in a New York City river last year, trapping all five passengers in their harnesses, exploited a regulatory loophole to avoid stricter safety requirements, federal investigators said Tuesday. FlyNYON operated under the government’s least stringent standards “to the detriment of their customer’s safety” because it described the purpose of its flights as photography, not sightseeing, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said. The company instructed employees to avoid using terms like “air tour” or “sightseeing” so it wouldn’t lose its certification under a photography exception that allowed it to fly under the same regulations as private pilots and hobbyists, investigators said.

A suspect involved in a prolonged firefight in Jersey City, N.J., that left six people dead, including one police officer, had published anti-Semitic and anti-police posts online and investigators believe the attack was motivated by those sentiments, a law enforcement official familiar with the case told the NY Times on Wednesday. Meanwhile, in a press conference held on Wednesday morning, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said surveillance footage indicated that the two shooters had targeted the kosher supermarket where most of the carnage unfolded.

It’s been 20 hours since the horrific moment when two gunmen opened fire on a Kosher grocery in Jersey City, which left three civilians and a police officer dead. The Jersey City Mayor on Monday night tweeted that the store was “targeted”. On Wednesday morning, Mayor Steven Fulop doubled down on his claim and tweeted: “Last night after extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location on MLK Dr – the 2 JCPD officers that were on a foot post one block away immediately responded/engaged and prevented the perpetrators from leaving that location and harming any further civilians.

Violence, under any circumstance, is a painful and troubling event to face. The image of masked shooters, heavily armed, students locked down in a yeshiva, the sound of live ammunition being fired, are circling around us as we try to listen to the news on the street, and we try not to listen to it…. […]