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It’s no surprise that the road into Deal, New Jersey, the predominantly Syrian Jewish enclave tucked along the Jersey Shore about an hour south of New York City, was littered this morning—like most roads in the state—with campaign signs for today’s gubernatorial election, a high-profile neck-and-neck race between Republican Chris Christie and the Democratic incumbent, ...

Solomon Dwek, who helped federal authorities in New Jersey build a wide-ranging corruption investigation that ensnared the chief rabbi of the Syrian Jewish community and a clutch of local politicians, is expected to plead guilty today to federal fraud charges, according to NJ.com.
Dwek, the son of a prominent Syrian rabbi, was arrested in May 2006 ...

Wherever Rabbi Saul Kassin expected to be yesterday, it probably wasn’t in a federal booking room in Newark, New Jersey. Whether at his home in Gravesend, Brooklyn, or at his son’s palatial summer estate in Deal, New Jersey, Kassin was likely scheduled to spend the day receiving visitors, eating, and praying; instead, he wound up ...

FBI agents this morning raided 54 homes and offices in New Jersey and New York and arrested a total of 44 people, including five Syrian Jewish rabbis, three mayors, a state assemblyman, and an array of other political officials and people from the Syrian and ultra-Orthodox communities on an array of charges ranging from extortion ...