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JACKSON-Jackson Township Council President Ken Bressi who has a reputation of being boisterous and sometimes violent during his many tenures in public office lashed out Tuesday night at an Orthodox Jewish man who challenged the Vietnam veteran on an ordinance that blocked the construction of an eruv. Each meeting, Bressi starts his council meetings by […]

A Westchester County, New York, man was arrested for allegedly sending an anti-Semitic email to a town supervisor who had been pushing to remove a monument to Confederate soldiers in a private cemetery. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up Timothy Goetze of White

A new survey of U.S. Jews offers a breakdown of the Jewish vote in favor of President Donald Trump and suggests those divisions — among the major streams of Judaism — remain fairly constant nine months later. Though the majority of Jews did not vote for Trump, exit polls showed, those who identify as Orthodox

A school district in a suburb of St. Louis changed the graduation date of two high schools from a Saturday after complaints from Jewish families with students in the schools. Get The Times of Israel’s Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories Free Sign Up The Parkway School Board voted unanimously on

A family alleged their 8-year-old biracial son was hanged by teenagers in New Hampshire Aug. 28 because of his race. The teens reportedly shouted racial epithets and attacked him with projectiles. The boy’s uncle, Lyrik Merlin, posted pictures of his nephew’s neck lacerations, which some people on the internet referred to as a “lynching.” The

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — As hundreds of thousands remain without power in the wake of Hurricane Irma, a South Florida community on Wednesday awoke to devastating news of an increased death toll. Eight people died at a nursing home in Hollywood that had limited power, according to local officials. They gave no immediate details on the

SEATTLE — Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell took the oath of office to become mayor on Wednesday, as Ed Murray, disgraced by allegations of child sexual abuse, ended his time at City Hall. The moment was bittersweet for Harrell, a Seattle native who advanced from Garfield High School to the University of Washington football

JACKSON-The Jackson Township council on Tuesday night met to discuss an ordinance that will effectively block the construction of a public eruv utilizing existing utility poles and wires across some neighborhoods in the town. The action was unanimously supported by the five member body. An antiquated ordinance on the books in the town would have

Edith Windsor, whose watershed legal case resulted in US federal recognition of same-sex married couples for the first time, died Tuesday, her lawyer told AFP. She was 88 years old. The gay rights champion’s historic case led the US Supreme Court in 2013 to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denied federal