WASHINGTON (JNS) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Thursday falsely blamed “white supremacy” for Tuesday’s shooting at the JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City. Tlaib initiallly shared a tweet mourning the victims from IfNotNow, adding “This is heartbreaking. White supremacy kills.” The controversial congresswoman then deleted the tweet, apparently after realizing the identities of the […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) — Deborah Perruzza, mother of slain Jersey City police officer Joseph Seals experienced a parent’s worst nightmare Tuesday. A son who goes out to work and never comes home. Perruzza recounted what it was like to go in and see her son’s body. “When I saw him yesterday, laying there, it was […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) — A female sergeant displayed incredible heroism during the Jersey City gunfight while pulling a wounded officer to safety. Sergeant Marjorie Jordan of the Jersey City Police Dept. rushed into the line of fire and succeeded in evacuating the officer, who had been shot in the shoulder. Video footage shows Jordan abandoning […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) — The suspects who were behind the Jersey City shooting that left 4 innocent people dead, including 2 Orthodox Jews and a police officer, were a religiously fanatical couple, who lived together inside a van, according to records and neighbors. The killer couple, David N. Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, — […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Detective Joseph Seals 40, a father of five who heroically confronted the criminal suspects in Jersey City and was gunned down by them in cold blood, was the first victim in an attack which ultimately took the lives of three other innocent people, including two Jews. Seals had spent 18 years […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the course of a press conference about the Jersey City shootings attended by the mayors of Jersey City and New York City, a senior member of the Chasidic community, Rabbi David Niederman, the executive director of UJO (United Jewish Organizations),  thanked the mayor of Jersey City for deploying “all that […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) — Leah Minda Ferencz, the co-owner of JC Kosher Supermarket in Jersey City, was named as one of the civilian victims killed in the horrific shootout Tuesday in Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Ferencz had incorporated the store, the only kosher store in the vicinity, together with her husband, Moishe Ferencz, in […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) —  An estimated 100 families from a number of Chasidic sects based in Brooklyn and rarely seen in Jersey City have bought over the last few years a scattering of faded but roomy wood-frame rowhouses whose prices are less than half what homes of similar size would cost in New York — […]

JERSEY CITY (VINnews) — Although the shooting attack taking place in Jersey City has apparently been centered at a local Kosher supermarket and there are Jewish casualties among the dead and wounded, the attack is apparently not intended to specifically target the Jewish community. “At this time, reports indicate this is a criminal incident and […]

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Billionaire philanthropist Ronald Lauder is funding a $25 million campaign against political candidates in the United States who support or normalize anti-Semitism. Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, announced the new campaign, called the Anti-Semitism Accountability Project, or ASAP, on Monday. The effort will include a nonprofit organization and a […]