Prior to the passage of the 1968 Fair Housing Act, Jewish people were excluded from living in many white Christian neighborhoods throughout New Jersey due to the use of restrictive covenants and quotas.
[1] In 1956, the Anti-Defamation League issued a "call to action" to end ethnic and religious discrimination in real estate that excluded Jews as well as Catholics of Irish and Italian descent from owning houses in white Protestant neighborhoods.
[2] In March, 1967, the Appellate Division of the New Jersey State Superior Court ruled that a country club in Wayne Township was violating the law by using restrictive covenants to exclude Jews and African-Americans.
[4] In October, 1930, Jewish students called attention to a numerus clausus at Rutgers University that limited the number of Jews.
[8] In 2023, a state lawsuit against Jackson Township was settled alleging discrimination against Orthodox Jews.