Jordan Thomas ’18 and Sen. Cory Booker David Kelly Crow When Jordan Thomas ’18 met with Sen. Cory Booker after Booker’s Class Day address, the two had plenty in common to talk about. By W. Raymond Ollwerther Princeton Alumni Weekly Jordan Thomas ’18 and Sen. Cory Booker David Kelly Crow When Jordan Thomas ’18 met with Sen. Cory Booker after Booker’s Class Day address, the two had plenty in common to talk about. For starters, both are Rhodes scholars. Booker received an honors degree in U.S. history at Oxford in 1994, and Thomas will pursue two master’s degrees there: in evidence-based social ..read more

By Rebecca Panico NEWARK, NJ – Peter Oates was working as a private nurse for Princess Diana’s father in England, but left when he was offered a job in the 1980s at San Francisco General Hospital’s slated AIDS unit. “They offered me a job, but I couldn’t be hired because Medicaid and Medicare had withdrawn benefits for the AIDS hospital,” Oates, 66, recalled. Instead, Oates, who lives in South Orange, took a position in Newark. Today, he leads the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center Health Care Services’ clinical program at Rutgers – Newark for HIV family care. He’s also working to provid ..read more

NEWARK, N.J., July 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Chairman and CEO of Rafael Holdings, Inc., (NYSE American: RFL), Howard Jonas, will ring the NYSE Opening Bell® on behalf of the Company at 9:30 this morning, Friday, July 6th.  Rafael Holdings was spun-off from IDT Corporation and listed on the NYSE American exchange earlier this year. “We are delighted to celebrate the spin-off and listing of Rafael Holdings by ringing the NYSE Opening Bell,” said Mr. Jonas.  “Since the spin-off, the Company has been pursuing strategies to realize the value of ..read more

Mayor Ras J. Baraka and Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose announce that beginning today, Friday, July 6th 2018 through Labor Day, Monday, September 3rd, 2018, the City of Newark will enforce its Summer Juvenile Curfew Initiative. The initiative has been established to safeguard juveniles by ensuring that they remain under the supervision of a parent or guardian at night during the summer months. While parents have the primary responsibility to provide for the safety and welfare of their children, the City of Newark is committed to preserving the safety of its children and preventing j ..read more

By Karen Yi The Newark homeless shelter that shut its doors on Monday has reopened thanks to funding from private donors that will allow the facility to operate through the end of the month, city officials said. The announcement comes days after the facility on 224 Sussex Avenue closed as temperatures swelled to the 90s and the state remained on an excessive heat warning. About 180 residents were inside and some told NJ Advance Media on Monday they had nowhere to go. A few of the residents sat on plastic crates in the park across the street as passers-by donated wat ..read more

Apply Here www.state.nj.us/csc until the end of August The post Become a Newark FireFighter appeared first on NEWARK SPEAKS ..read more

By Jared Kofsky When most Newarkers think of an ice rink in their city, the Prudential Center comes to mind. Built in 2007, the arena in Downtown Newark is home to the New Jersey Devils hockey team and is among the only venues of its kind that is currently in operation in New Jersey. However, the state’s largest city is home to another rink that is less than two miles away from the Prudential Center. Located at 226 Rome Street, the Ironbound Ice Rink is housed within the Newark Department of Recreation, Cultural Affairs & Senior Services’ Ironbound Recreation Center. Yet although the ..read more

Roger León, the ultimate Brick City insider, gets chance to chart course for school district as era of state control has ended Credit: Chalkbeat/Patrick Wall Newark’s new superintendent, Roger León, at a graduation ceremony in June At the start of the school year in 1983, a student named Roger León sat with the other ninth-graders at Science High School waiting for the principal of Newark’s premier magnet school to arrive and welcome them. Finally, León, the child of Cuban immigrants whose mother spoke only Spanish at home, grew tired of waiting for an adult to take charge. “Roger, God bless h ..read more

By Rebecca Panico NEWARK, NJ – Essex County College was taken off probation by the region’s higher education accrediting agency. The community college was put on probation last year by Middle States Commission of Higher Education for failing to meet guidelines pertaining to institutional resources and governance. Middle States also warned the college it was in jeopardy of losing accreditation in 2016 because of an additional issue with student admissions and retention, according to the agency. Essex County College President Anthony Munroe called the late June decision “fantastic news” and ..read more

BY Steve Lubetkin The Newark data infrastructure now is the envy of many locations around the country, featuring 10 gigabit-per-second speed, one of the fastest urban data networks. NEWARK, NJ—If someone asked you to identify the hub of the Internet, you might be surprised to know that one answer might be Newark, NJ. New Jersey’s largest city, known as the “Brick City,” is undergoing a redevelopment of both office and residential properties. It’s one of 20 cities competing as finalists for the Amazon HQ2 office development that could bring thousands of new jobs to the city (w ..read more