By Debra Rubin | February 24, 2021
Ben, a religious Jew living in Ocean County, watched coverage of rioters storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, as the Senate prepared to confirm the Electoral College vote naming Joe Biden as president, and immediately thought: was Timothy Hale-Cusanelli there?
Hale-Cusanelli of Colts Neck, in Monmouth County, has been a contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle, also in Colts Neck, with secret security clearance and a human resource specialist in the 174th Infantry Brigade, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in the Reserves.
Hale-Cusanelli is also charged with six counts resulting from his actions in the riot that left five people dead including Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, a native of South River in Middlesex County, and 140 police officers injured. Hale-Cusanelli was arrested at his home Jan. 15.
Jersey City, a Year Later By Debra Rubin | December 16, 2020
A year after what New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal called “the worst act of domestic terrorism in New Jersey history,” he and other leaders of the Jewish and secular communities came together to mourn the four victims killed in the attack on a Jersey City kosher supermarket.
Grewal was one of many speakers who appeared December 10 during a virtual memorial program sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey in partnership with Congregation B’nai Jacob, which is located in the Greenville neighborhood where the hours-long shootout with police, in which the two attackers were also killed, took place.