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Anti-semitism
Schools
Club Fair Controversy: Bergen County High School Principal Issues Statement
Fair Lawn High School's principal has issued a statement following a news report alleging anti-Semitism at a recent club fair. A report by the NY Post published Sunday, Oct. 6 says that Israeli flags and yellow ribbons representing the Israeli hostages Oct. 7, 2023 were banned at the Wednesday, Oct. 2 club fair, as administrators felt they were "too political." On Monday, Oct. 7, FLHS Principal Paul Gorski issued a statement in response to the report and a similar report by Fox News. "Unfortunately, the article in question is inaccurate - it does not include all of the facts or …
Police & Fire
Youngster Seized For Anti-Semitic Desk Graffiti, Internet Searches In Glen Rock
A student accused of marking a Glen Rock High School desk with anti-Semitic graffiti also conducted troubling online searches, authorities said. District officials “handled the matter by district policy,” Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Borough detectives, meanwhile, have classified the matter as a bias incident, which will affect any delinquency complaints signed against the youngster. In addition to the 9th grade desk graffiti, “the student’s school computer internet search history had also been flagged by the administration due to antisemitic searches,” Ackermann said. Gle…
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Seen
Them
? Two Sought In Anti-Semitic Attack At Starbucks In Glen Rock
Two individuals who were in the area of an anti-Semitic attack on a Starbucks sign in Glen Rock were being sought by the police who turned to the public for help. At this point, both are being characterized as "potential witnesses" to the Feb. 19th bias-related vandalism at the Starbucks in the borough's Central Business District, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. "It is our hope that these two may be able to assist us in our investigation," the chief said. Whoever defaced a sign with red paint at the coffee shop apparently were mimicking similar attacks that have occurred throughout the U…
Police & Fire
Anti-Israel Stickers Were Posted At Starbucks Before Red-Paint Attack, Glen Rock Chief Says
UPDATE: Whoever defaced a sign with red paint at a Starbucks in Glen Rock was apparently mimicking similar attacks that have occurred throughout the U.S. and Canada since the Israel-Hamas war began last October, Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Ackermann also said that stickers bearing hateful messages against Israel that were found with the overnight vandalism on Feb. 19 apparently had been attached sometime before then. "A closer examination of these stickers shows scratches and marks that may indicate they had been on the poles for a few days," the chief said. In an effort to narrow do…
Police & Fire
Anti-Hamas Message On Electronic Billboard Over Route 80 Prompts Hundreds Of Calls To Police
An anti-Hamas message on a billboard overlooking Route 80 triggered hundreds of phone calls to a local police department due to a social media suggestion. "Oh, don't be naive," the electronic message on a hot pink background read. "Hamas would chop your head off too." It was signed "jewbelong." Bogota police fielded more than 100 complaints from callers, Bogota Police Sgt. Geoffrey Cole said late Tuesday, Oct. 17. Some were from people who felt threatened by the message, while others expressed fears over possible violence -- not to mention general outrage from those who felt targeted, t…
Police & Fire
Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Indicted By Federal Grand Jury
A college student from Saudi Arabia who stole a school bus in Livingston, NJ, and drove it nearly 60 miles to Stroudsburg, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury, authorities said. Bader Alzahrani, a 22-year-old divorced sophomore who attends an undisclosed college, broke into a vacant home across the street from a Livingston Board of Education parking lot on Hill Side Avenue where the bus was parked on Jan. 15, the indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Newark says. The district reported the bus stolen two days later. Police found a backpack with a Saudi Arabian passport bea…
News
Sheriff Has Hilarious Response To Capture Of NJ Man Accused Of Threatening To Kill Him (
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A Florida sheriff threatened with death in his fight against anti-Semitism got the last laugh when the 38-year-old suspect was captured by authorities in his mom's New Jersey living room — and it was all caught on bodycam footage. The 25-minute video shows the arrest of Richard Golden, in Monmouth Junction, who had been wanted by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office in Florida for threatening to shoot Volusia Sheriff Mike J. Chitwood in the head, South Brunswick police said. Golden, charged with making a written threat to kill or cause injury, posted the threat in a 4chan chat on Feb. 2…
News
Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Kept Anti-Semitic Journals: Feds
A college student from Saudi Arabia who stole a school bus in Livingston, NJ, and drove it nearly 60 miles to Stroudsburg, PA, kept anti-Semitic journals, federal authorities said. Bader Alzahrani, a 22-year-old divorced sophomore who attends an undisclosed college, is accused of first breaking into a vacant home across the street from a Livingston Board of Education parking lot on Hill Side Avenue where the bus was parked. The district reported the bus stolen on Jan. 17, two days after the residential break-in, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Police found a backpack…
News
Nets Suspend NJ's Kyrie Irving
It wasn't until New Jersey native Kyrie Irving was suspended by the Brooklyn Nets that he showed any remorse. The 30-year-old athlete with West Orange roots retweeted a link to an anti-Semitic movie last week, and refused to apologize media session on Thursday, Nov. 3. Irving grew up playing basketball around North Jersey, particularly in West Orange, which has a thriving Jewish community and JCC, where Irving had been known to frequent. The Nets that day announced his five-game suspension, noting he is "currently unfit to be associated with the Brooklyn Nets." About four hours l…
News
'Cowards Who Hate Themselves' Left Swastikas, Racial Slurs At William Paterson, President Says
Campus police at William Paterson University were trying to determine who scrawled swastikas and a racial epithet on the walls of a residence hall, the school president said. The vandalism discovered by a resident assistant at Hillside Hall on Pompton Road in Wayne early on Friday, Feb. 18 was a "repugnant and cowardly act of hate on our campus," WPU President Richard J. Helldobler wrote in a letter to the community. Maintenance staff "quickly cleaned and painted the walls," he noted. In addition to a campus police investigation, Helldobler said the incident was "referred to the campus Bia…
News
Anti-Semite Refused Medical Care Because EMTs Were Jewish: Report (
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A video showing a Lakewood resident refusing to accept medical care because the volunteer first responders from Lakewood EMS were Jewish, Yeshiva World News reports. "She don't want to talk to you guys," the woman's husband is heard telling the EMTs. "No judio." "If she doesn't feel well you have to get medical help," an EMT can be heard saying. Paramedics were then called to help the women, but they also were Jewish, the outlet said. Eventually, the woman was treated and taken to an area hospital by the Jewish first responders — "but not before she threw a fit," YWN says. Earlier …
News
Police In Maryland Investigate Fliers Blaming Jewish People For
Covid-
19
Police in Montgomery County, MD say someone in Silver Spring was spreading Anti-Semitic fliers reportedly blaming Jewish people for COVID-19 and they're trying to find out who is responsible. Investigators say on Dec. 19, at around 9:40 a.m. officers responded to the 1900 block of Brisbone Street on the report of a bias related incident. When they arrived, they observed literature containing Anti-Semitic language. A witness says they saw an unknown male in a Volkswagen Jetta throw the literature from his car window at around 12:45 a.m. Numerous fliers containing…
Police & Fire
'Hitler Was Right': Anti-Semitic Graffiti Scrawled On NJ School Bathroom Stall, Police Say
An investigation is underway after anti-Semitic drawings and comments were discovered on the bathroom stalls of a South Jersey middle school, authorities said. A swastika and a comment about Adolf Hitler were found Thursday and Friday on a boys' bathroom stall door at Marlton Middle School, Evesham Township police said on Facebook. The words, “H*tler was right,” were scrawled on the door, according to a tweet from Stop Antisemitsim.org. Nauseating - “H*tler was right” graffiti, a swastika and a stick figure labeled “Jew” were found at a New Jersey area Middle School (Marlton). — StopAn…
Schools
North Jersey HS Principal Addresses Recent Slew Of Hateful Comments Made By Students
A North Jersey high school principal has issued a letter to parents addressing a recent slew of “homophobic, transphobic, anti-Semitic, and racist” comments that were made by its student community. While administrators did not disclose specific details or comments, Jonathan L. Tallamy, Principal of High Point Regional High School in Sussex, cited a number of “very serious student reports” in a letter sent to the High Point community this week. “Similar to our larger world, nation and state, High Point is currently facing profoundly difficult challenges that are having an impact on our schoo…
News
Fort Lee High-Rise Tenant Charged With Bias Abuse Of Asian Woman
An Albanian man from Fort Lee was arrested after police said he repeatedly screamed "biased derogatory remarks” at an Asian woman in a high rise near the George Washington Bridge. The two were sharing an elevator at the Mediterranean Towers when Afrim Haxhaj, 31, began harassing the 41-year-old victim, Fort Lee Police Capt. Edward Young said. “The profane bias derogatory remarks directed towards her continued as she exited the elevator,” the captain said. Police arrested Haxhaj, charged him with two counts of bias intimidation and sent him to the Bergen County Jail following last Monday’s …
News
Rabbi Says Anti-Semitic Airline Booted 18 NY, NJ Jewish Girls From 2 Flights
A rabbi suspects anti-Semitism after 18 Jewish girls from New York and New Jersey were kicked off two flights from Europe to the US last week, Fox News and COLlive report. The group of 55 girls were on a two-week trip to see ancient Jewish sites in Ukraine and on the first KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight home Aug. 5, when the trouble apparently began, according to Yisroel Kahan, a rabbi in Monsey and executive director of the Oizrim Jewish Council. Flight attendants told the girls to fix their mask if the tip of their nose was sticking out, and told them they couldn't eat if it wasn't meal …
News
'Taste Of Your Own Medicine': Caller Threatens Rape, Bombing At Palestinian Center In Clifton
VIDEO: Clifton police provided extra security while investigating a deluge of threatening phone calls Tuesday to the Palestinian American Community Center. “Is this the terrorist community center?” the caller asked during one of more than 30 exchanges with staff that began before noon and continued until nearly 6 p.m. Referring to himself as “Jebediah,” the caller said he lived “next to” the Lakeview Avenue center and was going to “beat your f*****g ass.” “You Palestinians blow up children and behead them,” he said at one point. “I'm going to come rape you and give you a taste of your own …
News
Tenafly 5th Grader Dresses As Hitler For Class Project: ‘Pretty Great Wasn’t I?'
As Memorial Day approached, a fifth-grade student at a Tenafly school dressed as Adolph Hitler and handwrote a list of “accomplishments” in an essay that was hung in a hallway among those about historical figures, outraged parents said Monday. Tenafly Schools Supt. Shauna DeMarco told them that she’s investigating the incident at the Ralph S. Maugham School. "We are on top of this at multiple levels and will determine proper actions once due process has been afforded to all involved parties and a full investigation has been completed," the superintendent wrote in an email to parents. ****…
News
Rutgers Admins' Apology For Condemning Anti-Semitism Causes Controversy On Campus
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is causing tension at Rutgers University. A day after administrators sent an email out condemning anti-Semitism, they issued a second email apologizing for the first. Particularly, for not being more inclusive. Rutgers University-New Brunswick chancellor Christopher Molloy and provost Francine Conway sent the first email Wednesday, speaking out against the rise in anti-Semitic acts experienced in the U.S. stemming from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On Thursday, the university's Students for the Justice of Palestine organization released a statement "e…
Police & Fire
Anti-Semitic Symbols On Bay View Cemetery Headstone Send Shockwaves Through Jersey City
Anti-Semitic symbols scrawled on a headstone in a Jersey City cemetery are sending shockwaves through the community. Swastikas and SS bolts can be seen painted on the headstone of a man named Isaac B. Culver in the Bay View Cemetery. Cemetery officials were apparently reviewing surveillance tapes to help identify the suspect, though it was not immediately clear if police were probing the incident. Lifelong Jersey City resident Pamela Roundtree snapped the photo of the headstone last week when she went to visit her uncle's gravesite. "When I first saw it I was like, 'Am I really seeing thi…
Schools
Vandals Egg Rutgers AEPi House During Holocaust Remembrance Event
Police are seeking the vandals responsible for egging the Rutgers University Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house during a somber Holocaust remembrance event last week. The Jewish fraternity was holding the annual 24-hour reading of the names of Holocaust victims at the Sicard Street house on April 7 and 8 when the egging occurred, university officials said. Rutgers chancellor Chris Molly condemned the "act of ignorance" in a statement "All members of our campus community deserve to learn and work in an environment in which they feel fully safe, valued and respected, free from anti-Semitism, …
News
NJ Releases Hate Crime Totals By Town, Race, More: Guess Which County Had The Most
Nearly 40% of all hate crimes reported in New Jersey last year were against Blacks, more than the combined total against whites, Jews, Latinos and Muslims, according to State Police crime figures released Tuesday. The town with the most reported bias incidents in 2020 was Lakewood, the figures show. More than half of all reported bias incidents in New Jersey last year involved straight harassment, as opposed to vandalism and other related crimes. More than 13% occurred at schools, parks or playgrounds. The county with the most, overall, was Monmouth. The preliminary data released Tuesday…
News
NJ Neo-Nazi Admits Masterminding Nationwide ‘Kristallnacht’ Attack On Blacks, Jews
A New Jersey member of a hardcore neo-Nazi group admitted Friday that he convinced two fellow white supremacists to vandalize property owned by Blacks and Jews. Richard Tobin, 19, of Brooklawn, dubbed the nationwide campaign “Operation Kristallnacht,” after a 1938 pogrom in which German Nazis slaughtered more than 90 Jews and burned their homes, synagogues, stores and schools, Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Rachael A. Honig said. Tobin told a federal judge via video conference Friday that he “implored” two other members of “The Base” to break windows and slash tires, among other destru…
Police & Fire
US Government Sues Jersey Shore Town For Discriminating Against Orthodox Schools
Jackson Township is discriminating against Orthodox Jews through zoning ordinances that “intentionally restrict the operation of religious schools and housing associated with such schools,” including yeshivas, the U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday. The ordinances were enacted and used “against a backdrop of extreme [animosity] by Jackson residents and township decision makers toward the Orthodox Jewish community and a movement by residents to keep Orthodox Jewish community members from settling in Jackson,” the government contends in a lawsuit. Jackson’s planning board applied a pair o…
Police & Fire
Lakewood Couple Who Partied Amid
Covid-
19 Outbreak Charged With Child Endangerment
A Lakewood couple endangered five children by hosting a party that violated a state emergency ban on large gathering amid the COVID-19 outbreak, authorities charged. Police broke up a crowd of 40 to 50 people, including children, who were gathered Sunday on the front lawn of an Alamitos Drive home, they said. They charged the property owners -- Eliezer Silber, 37, and Miriam Silber, 34, -- with five counts of child endangerment (one for each minor), while issuing summonses for violating Gov. Phil Murphy's executive order banning large geaetherings, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley …
Police & Fire
Swastikas, 'White Power' Painted On Jewish-Owned Jersey Shore Businesses
Jewish owners of a Howell business showed up at work to find swastikas painted on dumpsters, trash cans and utility poles -- days after a similar incident in Jackson, reports say. Police in Jackson were investigating a large blue swastika and the words "white power" spray-painted on a commercial property on Progress Place near Route 195. A few days later in Howell, someone spray-painted a swastika and other graffiti near a another Jewish-owned business. Swastikas were found on a utility pole, trash cans and along a fence, The Lakewood Scoop reported. On Thursday, Gov. Phil Murphy tweeted:…
Police & Fire
Facebook Kills Anti-Semitic 'Rise Up Ocean County' Page
Facebook has removed a page originating in Ocean County following complaints from Gov. Phil Murphy and Attorney General Grewal that it promoted anti-Semitism. Facebook's decision to unpublish "Rise Up Ocean County," comes about 10 months after Rachel Wainer Apter, director of the state's Division on Civil Rights, sent the social media giant a letter expressing concerns about racist and anti-Semitic statements on the page. The Facebook page, and its 19,000 likes, went silent on Wednesday morning. Rise Up Ocean County administrators posted Facebook's notification on a separ…
News
'Dozens If Not More Lives Saved' By Slain Jersey City Detective, Federal Authorities Say
Slain veteran Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals likely prevented dozens of other deaths that day, authorities said Monday. Seals, 40, of Lyndhurst, was investigating the death of a livery driver in Bayonne when David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, shot him in the Bayview Cemetery just before 12:30 p.m. Dec. 10, and drove off, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. They were killed in a gunfight with police, but not after killing three other people. Based on the arsenal of guns and a viable bomb found in their U-Haul truck, as well as Google searches and more, authorities beli…
Police & Fire
Hitler 'Had A Point': Outrage Grows Over Monmouth Pizza Manager's Alleged Anti-Semitic Texts
The story of a Monmouth County teenage pizza delivery driver who accused his boss of an anti-Semitic texting tirade continued to spread Friday, with many expressing outrage and no response yet from the business owner. Nicholas Bogan, 17, told ABC7 on Thursday that he’d only begun working part-time at Maurizio’s Pizzeria & Italian Ristorante in Eatentown a little over a week earlier when he asked on Sept. 20 for the first night of Rosh Hashanah off. In response, he said, he got a series of offensive messages from his manager, Francesco Scotto Di Rinaldi, that he said were shared with two…
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: State Officials Address Deadly Jersey City Shooting
State officials gathered Wednesday afternoon to address Tuesday's deadly Jersey City shooting that left a police detective, three civilians and the two gunmen dead. Governor Phil Murphy assured the public that there is no ongoing security concern, noting the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is working with Jewish and other communities of faith to address their concerns during a press conference at the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in Jersey City. "We saw the very worst of humanity," New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. "But in the response… we also saw the very best.…
Police & Fire
Bergen Sheriff Boosts Patrols At Temples, Surrounding Areas
Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton boosted patrols at synagogues and surrounding areas Wednesday in response to the Jersey City gun battle a day earlier that took the lives of a hero police officer and three innocent civilians. "While there is no specific or credible threat at this time," Cureton said, his staff is "operating on heightened alert and is working cooperatively with local law enforcement to ensure the safety of Bergen County residents. "The men and women of the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office express our deepest condolences to the Jersey City Police Department on the loss of …
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