Jersey City will commemorate the third anniversary of the Dec. 10, 2019 mass shooting at a kosher deli with a rally against hate and antisemitism Thursday evening at City Hall.
The event, called “A Night of Remembrance, Three Years Since the Jersey City Shooting,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. on the City Hall steps and will include the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey, the Israeli American Council, New Jersey First Lady Tammy Murphy, state Attorney General Matthew Platkin, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop and elected officials.
Four people, including Jersey City Detective Joseph Seals, were shot dead that day by a man and woman who eventually were killed by police after an hours-long standoff.
Seals was fatally shot when he confronted David Anderson and Francine Graham in their stolen U-Haul van in Bayview Cemetery. Anderson and Graham then drove to Martin Luther King Drive and parked the van directly across the street from the JC Kosher Supermarket at 223 Martin Luther King Dr.
Dressed in black and carrying long guns into the supermarket, the pair opened fire, killing Moshe Deutsch, 24, Leah Minda Ferencz, 33, and Douglas Miguel Rodriguez, 49, of Jersey City.
Antisemitic incidents in the U.S. reached an all-time high in 2021, an increase of 34% from 2020, the ADL reported earlier this year. A total of 2,717 incidents of assault, harassment and were vandalism reported to ADL, with 370 of those reported in New Jersey.
The states with the highest number of incidents were New York (416), New Jersey, California (367), Florida (190), Michigan (112) and Texas (112). Combined, these states accounted for 58 percent of the total incidents.
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