Save Your Frustration For Your Legislator

Posted on: February 17th, 2012

One thing that I consistently encounter when discussing affordable Jewish education is frustration and blame. The frustration comes from parents and others intimately involved in Jewish education.

Oprah Winfrey Impressed by Religious Jews

Posted on: February 9th, 2012

After a day with Lubavitch Hasidim, Oprah Winfrey says Jewish Life offers a wealth of lessons for the world.

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Teen Synagogue Firebomber Charged With Another Attempt

Posted on: January 29th, 2012

The teen loner awaiting trial for the firebombings of two northern New Jersey synagogues has been charged with an additional arson attempt at the Jewish Community Center of Paramus.

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Arrest Made in North Jersey Synagogue Attacks

Posted on: January 25th, 2012

A 19 year-old from Lodi, New Jersey has been arrested and charged with attempted murder for anti-Semitic firebombings of 2 Bergen County synagogues.

No Politician Cares About Funding Private Schools

Posted on: January 20th, 2012

There are two types of politicians we encounter when advocating to relieve our community’s tuition burden through the use of government funding: those who claim to be 100 percent behind us, and those who claim to be 100 percent against us. What’s interesting is that politicians in both categories do not seem to understand what “100 percent” means.

Heightened Security at New Jersey Synagogues

Posted on: January 18th, 2012

Heightened caution comes after a month of increasingly worrisome attacks against synagogues in Bergen County, an affluent part of New York City’s suburbs with a sizable Jewish population.

Attack on N.J. Synagogue Being Treated as Murder Attempt

Posted on: January 11th, 2012

An explosive thrown through the window of a New Jersey synagogue and residence is being treated as attempted murder, according to the prosecutor of Bergen County.

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Syrian Community Members contest Synagogue’s Expansion Plan

Posted on: January 4th, 2012

In response to community objections, a prominent Brooklyn synagogue will not proceed, for the moment, with the construction of a 65-foot annex to its main building, according to several members of the Syrian Orthodox community in Brooklyn who asked not to be named. However, they will most probably not permanently shelve the project altogether.

School Excitement Vs. Parental Excitement

Posted on: December 26th, 2011

It can’t be emphasized enough how important grassroots involvement is to political action. Serious unified support can impact the tuition crisis by making our community and its school choice allies an impenetrable voting bloc that must be listened to and that demands consistent results. How we get to “unified” is a challenge.

Jewish Businesses Attacked in Highland Park, Man Arrested

Posted on: December 1st, 2011

A frightened Highland Park, New Jersey Jewish community rested a little easier Thursday, after a suspect in an attack on five Jewish businesses was put under arrest on Wednesday.

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UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People Celebrated in NY

Posted on: November 30th, 2011

The United Nations Headquarters in New York convened the 34th annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Tuesday, holding events and welcoming international dignitaries. The day coincides with the UN General Assembly resolution ending the British Mandate and adopting the partition plan to create a Jewish state.

“Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing” Ad Ditched

Posted on: November 24th, 2011

A New York City billboard advertising “Christmas Quality” vodka at “Hanukkah Pricing” will be taken down by the company, after it received numerous complaints that its pitch portrayed Jews as cheap and associated with poor quality.

Al-Qaida Sympathizer Plotting Terror Arrested Near Yeshiva U

Posted on: November 21st, 2011

A 27 year old Al-Qaida sympathizer planning a terror attack on New York City law enforcement and US soldiers was arrested on Saturday, just blocks away from Yeshiva University.

Newborn Baby Brother of “Adolf Hitler” Taken Into Custody

Posted on: November 20th, 2011

The newborn son of a New Jersey couple who named their eldest child “Adolf Hitler” was taken into custody Thursday night, when the doctor who delivered the baby called local authorities.

Anti-Semitic Vandalism Under Investigation in Brooklyn

Posted on: November 13th, 2011

Police are lifting the fingerprints from 27 empty Corona beer bottles found in a park in Midwood, Brooklyn, in the hopes of locating a group of anti-Semitic vandals.  On Friday, a day after the anniversary of the violent pogrom known as Kristallnacht, which took place in Germany in 1938 leading up to the Holocaust and [...]

Revealed: Khaddafi’s Secret Relationship With U.S. Jewish Leaders

Posted on: October 26th, 2011

WASHINGTON – Now it can be told: For the last decade or so, the pro-Israel community had secret back channels to Muammar Khaddafi.