History of the Jews in New Jersey

These early settlers held clandestine meetings, holidays, worship, and burial arrangements near, and on, what is now Newark’s Prince Street named for one of those original families.

[7] For example, the city of Woodbine was founded in 1903 as the first "the first self-governing Jewish community since the fall of Jerusalem" by the New Jersey state legislature.

[9][10] Other agricultural communities founded during this period include Alliance, Brotmanville, Carmel, Rosenhayn, Six Points, Norma and Garton Road.

The Paris-based Alliance Israélite Universelle worked in tandem with the de Hirsch Fund to introduce professional administration and crop techniques to the newly resettled immigrants.

Author Philip Roth incorporated his experiences growing up in Newark's Weequahic neighborhood in many of his novels, such as Portnoy's Complaint and The Plot Against America.

However, due to suburbanization and the 1967 Newark riots, most of the city's Jewish population left in the 1970s for other towns in Essex County, like Livingston, Millburn and South Orange.

bill, which allowed returning World War II veterans to go to college, most Jewish farmers had abandoned agriculture by the 1970s.

[18] On a state-wide level, the Jewish population of New Jersey has continued to grow, reflecting migration from New York City to suburbs in the northern half of the state.

[citation needed] In 2019, a shooting was perpetrated by Black Hebrew Israelites in a kosher grocery store in Jersey City.

[22] Rutgers is home to a Jewish Studies department, a Hillel International center with a kosher cafe and a Chabad Lubavitch house.