The police-detective son of former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik helped fatally shoot the cop-killing suspects in Tuesday’s Jersey City rampage, the NY Post reports. Joseph Kerik, a Newark, NJ, officer and member of a federal task force, was among the officers who rolled down a street in the New Jersey city’s Greenville neighborhood in an armored truck as bullets flew, a well-placed source said. The victims of the attack included 33-year-old Mrs. Leah Mindel Ferentz z”l of Jersey City, wife of Reb Moshe Dovid Ferentz, and a daughter of Reb Binyomin Hersh Greenfeld, and habochur Moshe Hersh Deutch z”l, 24, of Williamsburg, son of Reb Shalom Deutch and a cousin of Mrs. Ferenz. A police truck smashed into the front of the bodega ...
THE FOLLOWING IS VIA YWN TRAGIC UPDATE 10:35PM: YWN regrets to inform you that two of the murder victims have been identified and their names are cleared for release: Moshe Hersh Deutch, HY”D, 24-years-old. He is the son of R’ Sholom from Williamsburg., Mrs Leah Mindel Ferentz, HY”D, 33-years-old. She is the wife of R’ Moshe Dovid, and the daughter of Binyomin Hersh Greenfeld. Misaskim is working closely with Federal, Local and state authorities to ensure proper Kavod Hames. Read more at YWN
Baltimore, MD, Dec. 10, 2019 — In response to President Trump's expected Executive Order, which will protect Jews on college campuses as a nationality, Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, made the following statement: President Trump is moving to combat Anti-Semitism in a situation where it is sorely needed. Jews are indeed a nationality, and Jewish students have faced increasingly-obvious bias on campus. The fact that it has been thinly disguised as "anti-Israel" activity is no excuse for bigotry, and adopting the definition of Anti-Semitism used by the State Department is the correct response. The President deserves our thanks for doing what is right and just. The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), the largest rabbinic public policy orga...
An overnight cold front could mean trouble for Wednesday morning commuters. There's a 30% chance of accumulating snow in the Baltimore and Washington metropolitan areas, with up to an inch of accumulation possible on area roads. The highest chances of accumulation are north and west of Interstate 95. WEATHER CONDITIONS | RADAR | CLOSURES AND DELAYS | LATEST WEATHER TALK Snow could begin as soon as 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more at WBAL
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to interpret Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion, a move that the Trump administration believes will fight what they perceive as anti-Semitism on college campuses, a White House official said. The impending order was first reported by The New York Times. It's an order that would allow Trump to take further steps to combat anti-Israel sentiments and divestment movements on college campuses by requiring colleges and universities to treat those movements as discriminatory in order to keep their funding. The Times reported the move would trigger a portion of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 that requires educational institutions receiving federal funding to not discriminate based on n...
JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) — The JC Kosher Supermarket, where at least 2 Jews were killed in a shooting spree that left 3 civilians and 1 officer dead, was a targeted location in the attack. That’s according to Jersey City mayor Steve Fulop, who tweeted, “Based on our initial investigation (which is ongoing) we now believe the active shooters targeted the location they attacked. Due to an excess of caution the community may see additional police resources in the days/weeks ahead. We have no indication there are any further threat”. What’s confirmed:– At least six people confirmed dead – Officer Joe Seals IDed as one of the victims– Police preliminarily identified two male shooters as suspects– The shooting started at a nearby cemetery ...
JERSEY CITY — To the gentrifying stew of bankers, artists and college graduates who are transforming this once blue-collar city across the Hudson River from Manhattan, add an unexpected flavor. In a heavily African-American neighborhood, 62 families from a number of Chasidic sects based in Brooklyn and rarely seen here have bought 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 — roughly $300,000 compared with $800,000. These families are pioneers in a demographic and religious shift that is reshaping communities throughout the region. Skyrocketing real estate prices in Brooklyn and Queens are forcing out young ultra-Orthodox families, which are establishing outposts in unexpected places, l...
JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) — The shooting attack which occurred in Jersey City Tuesday has resulted in 6 deaths, including the death of one police officer and both gunmen involved in the attack. The police officer has been identified as Detective Joseph Seals  a married father of five who was known for getting guns off of the street, according to a press statement by Jersey Police Chief Michael Kelly. Officers were called to the scene of an active shooter situation on Tuesday afternoon at 1:45 p.m. A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tweet reporting an active shooter alerted the media to the existence of the shooter. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office later confirmed that an officer had been shot and killed during the shootout along with five other ...
Ranking House Judiciary member Rep. Doug Collins on what he learned from today’s hearing, while also weighing in on whether there will be another hearing.
UPDATED: Several people, including at least one officer, were killed in Jersey City, N.J., this afternoon after two people opened fire around a frum convenience store, officials said, touching off a firefight involving dozens of law enforcement officers that made the residential area take on the feel of a war zone. The gunfire broke out around 12:30 p.m. The incident – reportedly a drug bust gone bad – began at the Bay View Cemetery before the shooters ran to Jersey City (JC) Kosher Supermarket at 223 Martin Luther King Drive. One police officer was shot and died in the hospital. Another five people – including two shooters – and three civilians – were killed inside the store. A third shooter is said to be in custody. Misaskim and Chesed She...
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 does not appear to be a targeted attack against the Jewish community. We will continue to monitor and update,” The Secure Community Network, a Jewish security organization in North America, tweeted. “According to senior sources I spoke to minutes ago, it feels as if the incident in Jersey City was not a terror attack or a hate crime. However, the event is not over yet, the situation is ongoing and at this stage it is only a...
JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINnews) — An active shooter situation took place in Jersey City on Tuesday afternoon. The story began with a shooting in Bayview Cemetery, with a police officer being shot in the shoulder. The wounded officer was transferred to Jersey City Medical Center where he passed away. At least one of the shooters then fled to a nearby store, from which the shooting continued. According to CBS, the suspects were known to police, and were wanted in other homicides. Watch Live Stream: Multiple sources confirm that the intial shooting in the cemetery involved plainclothes officers. This indicates a possible undercover criminal investigation gone wrong. The storefront from which the shooting continued has been verified to be located at 223 MLK Drive. According to a VIN news ...
President Donald Trump spoke Sunday with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia regarding last week’s deadly shooting at a U.S. Navy base in Florida, which was perpetrated by a Saudi military trainee and has further strained relations between the kingdom and Washington. “The Crown Prince reiterated Saudi Arabia’s commitment to working with the United States to prevent a horrific attack like the Pensacola shooting from ever happening again,” the White House said in a statement. “The President thanked the Crown Prince for Saudi Arabia’s assistance with the investigation and continued partnership.” Trump tweeted Friday that Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the crown prince’s father, had called him “to express his sincer...
Baltimore, MD - Dec. 10,  2019 - BJL wishes a hearty Mazel Tov to Akiva Yisroel and Sara Tova Miller on the birth of a son. Mazel Tov grandparents Rabbi & Mrs. Shmuel Miller and Rabbi & Mrs. Mordechai Snider יה"ר שיזכו לגדל בנם לתורה, לחופה, ולמעשים טובים. אמן
President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are on the verge of announcing a deal on the new North American trade pact, handing the president a major political victory amid impeachment proceedings and giving moderate Democrats a legislative accomplishment they can sell back home. After a series of intense, back-and-forth meetings in Washington over the last two weeks, the U.S. and Mexico reached an agreement on the major points on Saturday and have been working since then to get Democrats on board. Although the deal is widely seen as a crucial pre-election year win for Trump, Pelosi has been emphasizing that passing a new NAFTA goes beyond partisan politics, particularly given Democrats’ long history of criticizing the old pact’s harm on American workers. “Th...
Yisrael Beytenu head Avigdor Liberman on Tuesday said his party has come under unprecedented pressure in recent days to join a right-wing coalition. “We have been offered every possible role in the coalition and in the Knesset — all this, only if we agree to a narrow government, contrary to our promise to voters. Needless to say, we rejected all of these suggestions outright,” Liberman wrote in a Facebook post. Liberman also attacked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, saying any failure to form a government was due to their “egos.” “If a government is not formed in the next 24 hours, it is solely because the leaders of the two major parties, Likud and Blue and White, were unwilling to set aside their egos and coul...
At a Monday evening event organized by the Jewish Labor Committee, Hillary Clinton slammed the Trump administration and spoke of the Jewish concept of tikkun olam. “It’s gonna be a tough election and you need to bring your organizing skills, your shared sense of values, your feeling of empathy and compassion and caring, your deep conviction about justice, because we’re gonna need every single person in this fight,” she said at the event, held at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel.. “At heart of it all is the concept of tikkun olam which says that repairing the world is the responsibility of each and every one of us,” she said of the group’s participation in the event, “or as I learned growing up in the Methodist church, ‘Do...
 
A high school teacher in Belgium shared a video on Facebook of an imam calling for a jihad against Jews and people who “conspire” with them, JTA reported on Friday. Talal Magri, a professor of Islam at the Royal Agri Saint-Georges Athenaeum, 35 miles southeast of Brussels, posted in October a clip of an unidentified man saying in Arabic, “Those who cooperate, work, conspire with the Jews, Allah, take them without delay. Shake their bases and topple their buildings, Allah. Support the jihad fighters, whom some of us find excuses not to join.” Joel Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, called Magri one of many “preachers spreading poison and turning students into time bombs” and Education Ministry officials in Wallonia, the Be...
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