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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 472

Jersey City

Illustrative: Police officers look at bullet holes in the windows of a school across the street from the JC kosher supermarket on December 11, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Rick Loomis/Getty Images/AFP)
December 10, 2020, 4:59 pm
Jersey City to remember victims of anti-Semitic attack on one-year anniversary
Police officer Joseph Seals, along with Mindel Ferencz, Douglas Miguel Rodriguez and Moshe Deutsch, were killed in shooting at Jewish grocery store
By AP
Some of JC Kosher's shelves are fully stocked with staples in its new location two blocks from the original store (Ben Sales)
February 27, 2020, 4:13 am
2 months after deadly shooting, Jersey City kosher supermarket starts to reopen
Store owner, who lost his wife in the attack, has begun rebuilding business in a new location. ‘It’s such a necessity for people over here,’ community member says
By Ben Sales
Det. Joseph Seals was slain by gunmen who went on to attack a Jersey City kosher market on Dec. 10, 2019. (Jersey City Police Officers Benevolent Association via JTA)
February 12, 2020, 11:12 pm
Brooklyn Jewish community gives $48,000 to family of slain Jersey City cop
Over 1,400 donors contribute to campaign for Detective Joseph Seals, killed by shooters who went on to attack kosher supermarket in December
By Marcy Oster
Responders at the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead at a kosher market, December 11, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)
January 13, 2020, 11:46 pm
Jersey City killers planned attack for months, previously shot at Jewish man
CCTV shows duo drove past kosher market twice in week before shootings; gun from attack was used to fire at car with ultra-Orthodox driver a week earlier in unreported assault
By David Porter
Joan Terrell-Paige has come under fire for a social media post expressing sympathy with the Jersey City shooters. (Jersey City Public Schools)
January 7, 2020, 11:06 pm
Why the Jersey City official who called local Jews ‘brutes’ has not resigned
Since expressing sympathy for shooters in attack, Board of Education member Joan Terrell-Paige has received support from local leaders and residents
By Ben Sales
Illustrative: A group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish children cross the street in Monsey, New York, December 30, 2019. (Seth Wenig/AP)
January 3, 2020, 3:19 pm
Anti-Semitism grows in Jewish communities in New York City suburbs
As ultra-Orthodox population is priced out of Brooklyn and moves to city’s outskirts, clashes intensify with those who see the influx as a threat to their way of life
By Mary Esch and RYAN TARINELLI
Illustrative: Rabbi Moshe Schapiro shows a toy to a child during a charity drive in Jersey City, New Jersey, Deember 23, 2019. (Courtesy Benny Polatseck/JTA)
December 25, 2019, 2:13 am
Weeks after deadly attack, Jersey City blacks and Jews unite for charity drive
Some 250 families benefit from holiday effort to collect food and toys for needy as community pulls together to show unity with action
By Ben Sales
The family-owned Buy n Sell pawnshop searched by the FBI over the weekend is seen in Keyport, New Jersey, December 15, 2019. (Ed Murray/NJ Advance Media via AP)
December 18, 2019, 10:02 pm
Man whose number was found on Jersey City gunman accused of selling arms
Prosecutors say they have evidence Ahmed A-Hady was peddling guns from his pawnshop; investigators haven’t determined origin of all weapons used in deadly kosher market shooting
By David Porter
Responders at the scene of a shooting that left multiple people dead at a kosher market, December 11, 2019, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen)
December 18, 2019, 2:49 am
Jersey City shooter called Jews ‘Nazis,’ showed hatred of police in online posts
ADL says it found Facebook page of attacker in which he refers to ‘Synagogue of Satan,’ also makes negative comments about white people, LGBTQ community
By Josefin Dolsten
Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop speaks during a press conference at the scene of the JC Kosher Supermarket shooting, December 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
December 18, 2019, 12:18 am
Jersey City mayor: Schools official who called Jews ‘brutes’ should resign
Education board distances itself from Joan Terrell Paige, who in now deleted Facebook post suggested there was value to message of kosher market attackers
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Pallbearers transport the casket of Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals in to St. Aeden's church for the funeral services in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
December 17, 2019, 10:59 pm
Thousands honor Jersey City cop killed by kosher market assailants
Police officers, ADL chief and Israeli consul among those who pay respects to Joseph Seals, who was shot dead at cemetery before fatal attack on Jewish store
By AP and ToI Staff
Rabbi Capers Funnye of the Beth Shalom B'nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation stands in the sanctuary of the synagogue, September 2, 2008, in the Marquette Park neighborhood of Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
December 17, 2019, 10:36 pm
Black Hebrew Israelite leader condemns ‘heinous’ Jersey City shooting
Distancing himself from the attack, Rabbi Capers Funnye says his organization isn’t ‘some radical fringe group with a false narrative… We are Torah-oriented Jews’
By JTA
File: Semi-automatic rifles fill a wall at a gun shop in Lynnwood, Washington in October 2018 (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
December 15, 2019, 3:40 am
Kosher market shooting shows New Jersey’s gun laws aren’t stopping imports
The state has some of the toughest gun restrictions in the country, but can do little to prevent crime with firearms purchased elsewhere
By MIKE CATALINI
David Lax, a survivor the Jersey City kosher supermarket shooting, speaks with NBC news in an interview broadcast on December 12, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)
December 14, 2019, 5:09 am
Jersey City shooting survivor says attackers looked well-trained, ‘came to kill’
David Lax narrowly escaped gunfire by hiding under kosher store salad bar, pushing female shooter aside: ‘I’m not sure why, but I’m alive’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Douglas Miguel Rodriguez (Courtesy)
December 13, 2019, 7:04 pm
Jersey City market employee was killed after helping save wounded Jewish victim
Report says Douglas Miguel Rodriquez held open back door of kosher shop after shooting began, enabling customer hurt in attack to escape
By JTA
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