In Jersey City, A Remarkable Kindness
Owners of four kosher markets come together to rebuild Moshe Ferencz’s grocery store.
I was reading an article the other day and I couldn’t stop crying. It was so moving.
You’re probably imagining what it was about – children in trouble or battling a potentially fatal disease or addiction or abuse or all of the above, a Holocaust survivor’s tale or a similar tale of tragedy.
But I was actually reading about a grocery store – and it wasn’t the current price of paper towels (exorbitant due to the run on them) that had me in tears. In fairness the story begins with last year’s terrorist attack in Jersey City. And certainly that horrific event is enough to provoke an intense response, but it was the tale of the actual grocery store that captured my imagination and my emotions. In the aftermath of the attack, Moshe Ferencz, the owner of the kosher grocery store, was mourning his wife, Leah Mindel, and his cousin, Moshe Deutsch, who
Temple mourns, says we must continue to honor memory of Jersey City shooting victims
Updated Dec 11, 2020;
Posted Dec 11, 2020
2019 Jersey City shooting victims (left to right): Moshe Deutsch, 24, ; Leah Minda Ferencz, 33; Detective Joseph Seals, 40, of North Arlington and Miguel Douglas, also known as Douglas Rodriguez. Michael Rumberger, a 34-year-old father of two, who drove a cab, is also suspected of being killed by the same gunmen.
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A year to the day of a deadly shooting in Jersey City, and on the first day of Hanukkah, Rabbi Bronwen Mullin told the few gathered inside Congregation B’nai Jacob, and all those watching online, about miracles.