[1][2] Larry Gordon, publisher of the Five Towns Jewish Times (another New York-based newspaper) claimed that FJJ was modelled after his own publication.
[3] The newspaper is closely associated with Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish advocacy organization.
[7] FJJ publishes ongoing Torah content by several well-known rabbis; Artscroll books are serialized.
[12] Since 2013 the newspaper has featured advertisements from an anonymous source aimed to reduce chatter during Jewish religious services headlined "Stop the Talking in Shul!".
[13] The letter pages[14] were, for ten years, the source of material for Rocky Zweig's submissions, whose presence was described by a larger Orthodox newspaper as "a weekly column.