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| Orthodox Jewish men carry the casket of Mindel Ferencz, co-owner of the grocery store, outside a Brooklyn synagogue. Photo: Mark Lennihan/AP |
"An assailant involved in the prolonged firefight in Jersey City, N.J., that left six people dead, including one police officer, was linked on Wednesday to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, and had published anti-Semitic posts online," report the N.Y. Times' Michael Gold and Ali Watkins.
- "The Black Hebrew Israelites, which has no connection with mainstream Judaism, has been described as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center."
"There is no question that this is a hate crime," Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop told reporters. "And anti-Semitism should be called out aggressively and firmly — immediately — for what it is."
