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Tel Aviv-based food journalist Janna Gur explains her holiday preference for savory beet-potato latkes over sweet “sufganiyot.” (Recipe included!)
The fund will help Moshe Ferencz, Mindel’s husband, with his reported deep debt from operating the kosher supermarket, while the majority of it will be reserved for rent, tuition bills for the couple’s three children and the costs of therapy for the family.
Joan Terrell exhibited hate-filled sentiment on Facebook in response to a Dec. 14 column titled “Faith and Hope to Fight Hate.”
Israeli Lihi Aharon encouraged Americans to stand up to anti-Semitism when they see it. “People, please do not be quiet. Please speak up. Please do something.”
“This act of savagery was to profane the holy. They just stepped into a kosher market, a place of service and faith. I have not seen that many bullet holes since I left Iraq,” said Elan Carr, the Trump administration’s Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism.
There’s more to baking than just measuring and mixing—health, science, math, nutrition and even family history are involved.
N.J. State Attorney Gen. Gurbir Grewal, whose office is overseeing the case, said he’s investigating the case as an act of “domestic terror.”
“We need to take a moment and recognize the sacrifices that law-enforcement professionals are making all across the country to secure our shuls, our synagogues, our JCCs, our yeshivahs, our day schools,” said Chaskel Bennett, a co-founder of the civic and political group Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition.
One of the two suspects in the killing at the kosher supermarket was linked to the anti-Semitic Black Hebrew Israelite movement.
“We never had a shooting like this until they came,” say some area residents in the aftermath of kosher market shooting.
“We are absolutely devastated by the loss of life and stand side by side with the Jewish community, as well as law enforcement, who are mourning the loss of one of their own,” said the Anti-Defamation League in a statement.
Jersey City Councilman Jermaine Robinson said the gunfire was unlike anything he had ever heard before, the shots “going and going and going without a pause.”