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December 11, 2019 at 12:18 pm
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is considering announcing at the Knesset plenum Wednesday that he intends to waive immunity if a unity government emerges in the final hours before the dissolution of the 22nd Knesset.
Netanyahu may declare that he is giving up immunity only to reveal that the Blue and White Party refuses unity at all costs.
Over the last few hours, the prime minister has held consultations with senior Likud officials, and even with his lawyers. At the end of the meetings, he will decide whether to waive the immunity.
Earlier, the Knesset approved a bill to dissolve the 22nd Knesset and to hold elections for the 23rd Knesset on March 2, 2020.
Blue and White chairman MK Benny Gantz on Wednesday afternoon accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of seeking to force third electio...
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December 11, 2019 at 12:13 pm
NEW YORK (UJO Williamsburg) 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 the very first to relocate from Williamsburg, due to the sky-rocketing prices of housing, to settle in Jersey City. They did not do it for themselves, but to pave the way for a new community that lives harmoniously with their neighbors. She was a caring and nurturing mother for her five children, and at the same time helped her husband who ran the first kosher grocery in the area, to ensure that the community’s families have were to shop and feed their children.
A life of selflessness, and dedication to others, full of love, was cut short by vicious hate-filled murd...
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December 11, 2019 at 12:10 pm
NEW YORK – (NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo) “My heart breaks for the police officer and the three victims killed in yesterday’s attack on a kosher market in Jersey City.
“We now know that this disgusting act of violence was a deliberate attack on the Jewish community in Jersey City. Out of an abundance of caution, I am directing State Police to increase patrols and security around synagogues and Jewish establishments while New Jersey law enforcement further investigates this horrific act.
“Anti-Semitism and violence against the Jewish community are on the rise both in our state and across the nation. We must stand united, be vigilant and stamp out this vile disease of hate wherever we see it. New York is a proud home to the Jewish community and we will continue to rej...
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December 11, 2019 at 12:09 pm
JERSEY CITY, NJ (VINNews) – On Wednesday morning, law enforcement officials revealed that one of the shooters involved in yesterday’s attack which left multiple people dead, had previously posted anti-semitic content online.
Officials did not reveal whether those posts involve general anti-semitic sentiments or if they were targeted specifically towards the ultra Orthodox Jewish community in Jersey City.
Jersey City, located in Hudson County, New Jersey, is home to nearly a quarter of a million people. Over the past few years, a few dozen Orthodox Jewish families from New York City moved into the Greenville neighborhood which was targeted in yesterday’s attack.
A 2017 NY Times article reported this development as a concern for the city as a whole. For example, the Time...
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December 11, 2019 at 12:07 pm
The two suspects who engaged in a deadly, hours-long gun battle with law enforcement at a kosher deli in Jersey City appear to have targeted the grocery store, the city’s mayor said early this morning.
A review of security footage from the store during the Tuesday-afternoon shooting that left five people dead, including the two suspects, made it “clear” that the gunmen chose the Jewish establishment, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop (D) said on Twitter.
“I’m Jewish and proud to live in a community like Jersey City that has always welcomed everyone,” Fulop wrote on Twitter. “It is the home of Ellis Island and has always been the golden door to America. Hate and anti-semitism have never had a place here in JC and will never have a place in our city.&...
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December 11, 2019 at 12:04 pm
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 said today, the NY Times reports.
The attack claimed the lives of two frum Yidden.
The law enforcement official could not provide more details about the suspect’s online posts or where they had been published. He said that investigators were still reviewing that information.
So far, the authorities have not identified the shooters, who were killed in the firefight.
The Jersey City mayor said surveillance footage indicated that the two shooters had targeted the JC kosher supermark...
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December 11, 2019 at 12:03 pm
The two people who stormed a kosher grocery store in Jersey City with rifles, killing three people inside and also murdering a veteran detective, have been identified as David Anderson and Francine Graham, four law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News 4.
Three sources say Anderson was a one-time follower of the group, the Black Hebrew Israelite movement. There was a note with religious writings in the U-Haul he and Graham allegedly drove to the scene. Officials also said there were online postings connected to Anderson’s social page with anti-police and anti-Jewish writings. Investigators are looking to see if Anderson himself posted that material.
The new details came shortly after local authorities announced a review of surveillance video clearly showed the market...
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December 11, 2019 at 12:01 pm
Agudath Israel of America and its constituents were heartbroken and outraged over the murders of three civilians and a police officer yesterday at a kosher market in Jersey City, N.J. We offer our deepest condolences to the families of the innocent people who were killed, and we pray for the speedy recovery of those who were wounded in the brazen attack.
We commend the law enforcement teams that arrived so quickly at the scene of the shooting and whose members put their lives on the line to protect their fellow citizens.
That two of the murdered were Jews, that law enforcement officials have indicated that that the store had been targeted because of its Jewish connection, and that an anti-Semitic, anti-police manifesto was found in the vehicle the murderers had stolen only add to our ang...
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December 11, 2019 at 9:57 am
Jerusalem, Israel - Dec. 11, 2019 - President Reuven Rivlin on, Wednesday, December 11 / 13 Kislev, welcomed a delegation of United Nation ambassadors. Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon is leading the delegation of 22 international ambassadors. American Zionist Movement President Richard Heideman (AZM) and President of International March of the Living Phyllis G. Heideman also participated in the event.
The president welcomed the ambassadors to Israel and to Jerusalem, noting that over the last 72 years, Israel has been transformed from a developing state into a start-up nation and innovation hub. “Israelis see every challenge as an opportunity, and we are ready to share our expertise with all nations, in order to advance the UN’s Sustainable Devel...
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December 11, 2019 at 9:45 am
JERSEY CITY (VINnews) — Leah Minda Ferencz, a'h, H'yd, 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 2017.
Ferencz and her husband were both present in the store Tuesday morning, but Moishe had walked out of the store and stepped into the adjacent shul just prior to the incident.
Chabad Rabbi Moshe Schapiro, who shops at the kosher store and attends the shul next door, said he spoke with the store owner, Moishe Ferencz, who was unaware of what had happened to his wife.
“He told me he had just walked out of the store into the s...
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December 11, 2019 at 9:43 am
The White House Chanuka party Wednesday night will feature a first for America’s chassidishe community — it will mark the first time a chassid will light the menorah at the annual event, Yochonon Donn reports for Boro Park 24.
Mr. Moshe Margareten, who first conceived the idea of prison reform which culminated in President Donald Trump signing the bill into law last year, will be honored with the kindling, although it will be without a bracha, because the White House is hosting the Chanukah party two weeks early due to the year-end vacation season.
“I got a call from the White House a month ago, saying that they’re considering me,” Mr. Margareten said. “They asked for some information. The Secret Service wanted to spe...
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December 11, 2019 at 8:10 am
Local man who responded to shooting in kosher store in Jersey City's small Hasidic community speaks with Arutz Sheva about scene of attack.
One of the first responders from a Jewish organization on the scene of Tuesday’s deadly shooting in a kosher grocery store in Jersey City said authorities had found some 300 rounds of ammunition and three pipe bombs in a van linked to the shooters.
Speaking with Arutz Sheva Wednesday morning, Isaac Wollner, a member of the local Chesed Shel Emes organization, said the shooting took place in the heart of Jersey City’s small Hasidic community, which Wollner said numbers around 80 to 90 families.
"I came here about an hour after the shootout finished. I was one of the first to respond to the command,” said W...
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December 11, 2019 at 8:04 am
The mayor of Jersey City, N.J. said early Wednesday that gunmen likely targeted the kosher market where a deadly shooting occurred on Tuesday.
“After extensive review of our CCTV system it has now become clear from the cameras that these two individuals targeted the Kosher grocery location,” Mayor Steven Fulop tweeted.
He did not elaborate as to why he believed the JC Kosher Supermarket was targeted.
The police shootout with two men armed with high-powered rifles erupted after midday on Tuesday in Jersey City, New Jersey‘s second-largest municipality directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The six dead included three civilians, one police officer and both gunmen, authorities said.
33-year-old Mrs. Leah Mindel Ferentz z”l of Jers...
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December 11, 2019 at 8:03 am
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 ...
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December 10, 2019 at 10:59 pm
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
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December 10, 2019 at 10:59 pm
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...
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December 10, 2019 at 10:44 pm
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.
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Snow could begin as soon as 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more at WBAL
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December 10, 2019 at 10:41 pm
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...
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December 10, 2019 at 10:35 pm
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 ...
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December 10, 2019 at 10:34 pm
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...
