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Palestinian and Israeli Americans in the Tri-State Area are eagerly awaiting word that the Israel-Hamas ceasefire will begin Sunday.

There is a sense of optimism among members of the Palestinian community in New Jersey that a peace settlement will begin this weekend, despite delays to the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas.

We also want to caution that diplomacy doesn't end with the signing of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, said a member of J Street.

A federal prosecutor said that Karrem Nasr was inspired by Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks to pursue “death and destruction.”

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Attorneys general from 22 states have sued to block President Donald Trump’s move to end a century-old immigration policy known as birthright citizenship guaranteeing that U.S.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s (D-NJ) gubernatorial campaign accepted an endorsement from Patricia Campos-Medina, a progressive organizer and former Senate candidate who has called to end U.S. aid to Israel and expressed support for anti-Israel campus protests.

A high school swim team star from New Jersey, Edan Alexander has piercing eyes and a smile his father has said was popular with girls. He chose to spend his gap year before college serving in Israel's military when he was kidnapped. Hamas released a video ...

President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.

Mohammed Abu Warda, convicted in the 1996 bombing that killed Teaneck's Sara Duker and boyfriend Matthew Eisenfeld, could be released in the deal.

A longtime New Jersey senator swimming against the current is getting panned by progressives for his comments on trans athletes in women's sports.