New Jersey

January 10, 2019, 10:40 am

To Jewish praise, New Jersey doubles security funding for nonpublic schools

‘This is an enormous win,’ says Orthodox group Teach NJ; Agudath Israel of America also hails law, which was passed with bipartisan support

By Ron Kampeas

Frank Sinatra performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London, September 1, 1980. (David Redfern/Redferns/Getty Images via JTA)

December 28, 2018, 4:50 am

Where did Frank Sinatra get his kippa? It happened in Margate

Sotheby’s auction of skullcap for $10,000 earlier this month sparks memories of a 1981 night when the Rat Pack turned a New Jersey Jewish day school into a swinging club

By Stephen Silver

US President Donald Trump signs a hat while meeting with supporters during a Bikers for Trump event at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey on August 11, 2018. (AFP/Brendan Smialowski)

December 7, 2018, 11:29 am

Trump resort hired undocumented workers to clean his rooms, lawyer says

Two women who worked at New Jersey property say a supervisor hurled racial epithets and threatened them with deportation to get more work out of them

By Bernard Condon

Toras Menachem Jewish elementary school in Lakewood, New Jersey. (Screen capture: Google Street View)

October 31, 2018, 11:14 am

Doll pinned to tree with knife in forehead found near New Jersey Jewish school

Stuffed rag doll wears skirt resembling school uniforms in area populated by Orthodox Jews, days after Pittsburgh shooting

By JTA

October 23, 2018, 9:16 am

US Jewish journalist dies months after alleged racist attack left him in coma

Jerry Wolkowitz, a freelance photographer and paramedic, was brutally assaulted outside his NJ home; suspect told police he attacked him for being white

By TOI staff

New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Murphy speaks to supporters during his election night victory party at the Asbury Park Convention Hall, November 7, 2017, in Asbury Park, New Jersey (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

October 22, 2018, 1:31 pm

New Jersey, Israel sign accord to boost tech, economic cooperation

Ties between the Garden State and the Startup Nation generate over $1 billion in annual revenues; parties hope ‘number will double, if not triple,’ as result of MOU

By Shoshanna Solomon

Graffiti painted on the home of a supporter of New Jersey Congressman Josh Gottheimer, September 2018. (Courtesy)

September 30, 2018, 11:20 pm

Hate messages again painted at home of supporters of Jewish NJ candidate

For third time, campaign signs for Rep. Josh Gottheimer in Hampton Township defaced with anti-Semitic graffiti

By JTA

In this March 12, 2015 file photo, Joe Masteroff attends the opening night performance of Broadway's "On the Twentieth Century" in New York. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

September 30, 2018, 1:52 am

Joe Masteroff, story writer behind musical ‘Cabaret,’ dies

Masteroff, who also wrote Tony Award-winning ‘She Loves You,’ had biggest success with show about Berlin nightclub as Germany careened toward war

By Mark Kennedy

Edward, at left, and Louis Cohen took over the Newark storefront following their fathers’ death and moved it to Livingston in 1968. (Courtesy of Sam’s via JTA)

September 21, 2018, 12:26 pm

NJ store shuts after 100 years of suiting up bar mitzvah boys, and mobsters too

Cousins Maurice and Jeffrey Cohen, the third generation to own and operate Sam’s Fine Men’s Clothing in Livingston, have no regrets about closing; ‘We had a pretty good run’

By Johanna Ginsberg

In this Aug. 5, 2017, file photo, a vehicle drives past polyvinyl chloride piping attached to a utility pole, signifying an outdoor area known as an eruv where Jewish residents observing certain restrictions during the Sabbath are permitted to carry items from home, along Airmount Road in Mahwah, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

September 18, 2018, 9:38 pm

Town accused of bias against Orthodox Jews settles lawsuit

New Jersey town agrees to repeal ordinance that barred out-of-state residents from using its parks; won’t ban Jews from putting up an eruv around the town

By AP

Illustration. Jewish cemetery in the United States. (Andrew Ratto/Flickr/CC BY 2.0)

September 18, 2018, 5:37 pm

Homemade bomb found affixed to headstone in NJ Jewish cemetery

Explosive device, defused by police, was made up of a non-military mortar taped to a container of lubricant

By JTA

Ultra-Orthodox women's sheitels, file (Lara Savage/ Flash 90)

September 10, 2018, 11:49 pm

Ultra-Orthodox women who prefer long locks for their wigs face backlash

The more natural-looking variety of sheitels has grown increasingly popular in the NY area, but many who choose it face accusations of promiscuity

By TOI staff

The entrance to the Congregation Agudath Achim Cemetery in Freehold Township, New Jersey. (Google Maps)

August 30, 2018, 4:37 pm

Tombstones toppled at Jewish cemetery in New Jersey

4 graves knocked over but not significantly damaged, in apparent act of vandalism at graveyard in Freehold Township

By JTA

Buildings in Lower Manhattan provide a backdrop to a statue dedicated to the victims of the Katyn massacre of 1940, on May 4, 2018, in Jersey City, New Jersey. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

July 24, 2018, 8:18 pm

Petition to block move of New Jersey Polish statue falls short

In bid to stop Jersey City relocating the Katyn memorial, more than half the signatures found to be invalid

By AP

Seth Grossman, Jewish Republican congressional candidate for New Jersey’s 2nd District in March 2018. (Screen capture: YouTube)

July 10, 2018, 11:19 pm

Calls for Jewish GOP candidate to withdraw after posting racist propaganda

Party pulls support for NJ congressional candidate Seth Grossman as he posts that black people ‘are a threat to all who cross their paths’

By JTA