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      <title>NJ man who tried to kill Orthodox Jews pleads guilty in federal court</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dion Marsh faces life in prison and $1.5 million in fines for driving a car he stole from one Orthodox Jew into four others, one of whom he stabbed.]]></description>
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      <title>Jackson, NJ lowers required minimum land plot size for houses of worship</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Synagogues in the town, with a growing Orthodox population, now need just one acre, not two.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:09:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Man brandishes machete near New Jersey shul, no evidence Jews were target</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, “his menacing behavior caused fear of imminent injury or harm,” according to a captain in the Lakewood Police Department.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:41:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Jersey police launch investigation into driver who plowed snow on Orthodox Jews</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In a video, driver Donny Klarmann and his friend, Brandon Ebbs, can be heard laughing as the snowplow is turned in the direction of two Jewish men walking during Shabbat.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:24:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Justice Department reaches agreement with New Jersey town after accusations of religious zoning bias</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Toms River, which was accused of placing unreasonable burdens on its growing Orthodox population, will modify its zoning code to reduce the “minimum acreage” for a house of worship from 10 acres to two.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 23:09:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>In hard-hit New Jersey, Jewish group seeks to boost small businesses</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of participants took part in an outdoor expo in Lakewood, hosted by the Orthodox Jewish Chamber of Commerce, to provide new opportunities for businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2020 15:41:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Jersey man pleads guilty to threatening to assault Jews with baseball bat</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The threats came less than four months after the deadly attacks on Jews in Jersey City, N.J., and in Monsey, N.Y., in December 2019, and during a time of significant uptick in anti-Semitic activity online.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:45:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rise of coronavirus correlates to rise in anti-Semitism, especially in heavily Jewish areas of New York and New Jersey</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It “seems to be part of a broader trend in this instance. The ‘anti-other’—anti-Semitic, anti-Chinese, racist, xenophobic—rhetoric is everywhere,” says Jennifer Rich, executive director of the Rowan Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in New Jersey.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:07:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>NJ officials scrap small-scale Jewish weddings in Lakewood during coronavirus shutdown</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy slammed the plan, saying, “Listen, I want to gather as much as the next guy, but we can’t allow that to happen.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2020 18:51:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Security officials give defense primer to Jewish business leaders in Lakewood, NJ</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The security summit took place as anti-Semitic incidents and vandalism continue to be reported in Ocean County, N.J., particularly in the towns of Lakewood and Jackson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2020 21:41:59 GMT</pubDate>
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