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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. ....
NorthJersey.com JERSEY CITY Three years ago, when Yossi Berger joined other ultra-Orthodox Jews moving into the predominantly Black neighborhood of Greenville, the cultural divide was clear. Everyone lived in their own bubble and didn t talk much, he said. For better or worse, that began to change a year ago, after a hate-fueled shooting spree targeted the sole kosher grocery here and turned a mixed community of homes, shops and schools into a bloody war zone. I returned home that day and found my African American neighbors standing outside of my house, recalled Berger, who used to shop and meet with friends at the JC Kosher Supermarket. They all asked how they could help. ....