Op-ed

'Real Housewives of the Shore': Reality bites

Wednesday, 28 July 2010 17:19 Renee Antonelli Valente

JOURNEYS: New Jersey sure is seeing its share of “reality TV,” to use the term loosely. Between “Jersey Shore,” with its exaggerated 80’s-era Long Island wannabes, and “Real Housewives of New Jersey” 's uptight, mentally-challenged, plastic-surgered shriekers, our state’s image has actually hit a new low, if you can imagine that.

Orthodox face 'double trauma' in reporting child sex abuse

Friday, 23 July 2010 19:17 Asher Lipner

OPINION: An Orthodox couple from Lakewood are very special and heroic people. When they found out that their son was molested by a rabbi, they confronted the rabbi and got him to admit it.

A long-ago love pops up, but I have a life now

Thursday, 22 July 2010 22:06 Norma Garcia

I'm not sure what made me click on Kevin's profile. Could it just be curiosity -- curiosity stemming from the fact that there was a woman standing with him in his picture? OK, I have to be honest: That's what made me look. But not because I have feelings for him anymore.

ROCCO MAZZA: Taking a bite out of taxpayer muggings

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 04:58 Jerry DeMarco

Gov. Chris Christie was once the top federal prosecutor in the state, so he knows a crime when he sees one. And this one's been happening for decades: Every three months, a broad range of New Jerseyans, rich and poor, young and old, are attacked through the mail by property tax bills.

An elder's decision, a loved one lost. Why?

Tuesday, 06 July 2010 10:24 Anna Aranda

My mother-in-law was outside the Stanley Theater for a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses, waiting to reunite with friends who'd been searching for her all the way from Texas. Instead of a warm embrace, she was mowed down by a car driven by an elderly man picking up his wife. Seems he hit the gas instead of the brake. She died of her injuries months later.