A massive fire ripped through a strip mall on Fair Lawn Avenue in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, overnight on Friday, causing heavy damage to a number of Jewish businesses.
The blaze was first reported at approximately 2:30 a.m. and tore through the complex, which houses Roadhouse (a fleishig restaurant), Mashu Mashu Sushi (located inside Roadhouse), Green Dragon restaurant, Dream on Lash salon, Regency Cleaners and Zadies Kosher Bake Shop, which is will known for supplying challah to many tri-state groceries.
Zadies Kosher Bake Shop announced on social media that the fire has forced them to close “for an undetermined amount of time.” The bake shop noted earlier this month that July marks the five-year anniversary of a car crashing into their store – as was reported by YWN in 2019.
The extent of the damage to the businesses is currently unknown, and officials have not yet released information on the cause of the fire or the full impact on the affected establishments.
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14 Responses
Hopefully it didn’t start as a result of the bakery: that would lead to additional שנאת ישראל
I have to surmize, that Mashu Mashu Sushi so deeply regrets its very recent relocation from Morlot Avenue to this new complex:- Their old store front s still available, if they wish to move back.
I hope the government thoroughly investigates this. It’s very unusual for a Kosher bakery to burn down this time of year. It usually “happens” around Pesach when the owner can file the largest insurance claim possible.
We’re in the middle of the Three Weeks. Can’t we all try harder NOT to bad mouth our brothers and sisters, outrightly or by implication?
We need HKBH’s rachamim now, in eretz yisrael and around the world. Shouldn’t expect it if our behavior/speech is such that we may not deserve it.
Kuvult, what a horrible comment, baseless! Can u name me 2 chometz bakeries that burned pesach time in the past ten years, ??
The comments here are beyond apalling.
The fire actually started in the non-kosher Chinese restaurant 2 doors down.
In response to kuvult… the bakery was just recently sold to Zomicks (the second time this owner sold his business to Zomicks the first time was over 20 yrs ago) . But reportedly the fire started in a different store so I’m sure there’s nothing to see here.
The fire started in the chinese place
I don’t think it’s humorous to accuse the owner of the Jewish business of committing arson for insurance money.
You neglected to mention a car accidentally crashed into the adjacent Chinese restaurant last year. This poor reporting is how misinformation spreads.
The bigger question is why YWN allows such baseless loshon hora motzee shem rah comments in the first place
It might be a good idea for the owners of this loshon horah filled site to disable all comments during the 3 weeks
But hey, the dollar signs and clicks are more important to them than sholom in klal yisroel
For shame
It’s horrifying how multiple yidden just lost their parnassah and the first few comments are so disgusting
Please relax!
This type of humor was invented by Jews, is still carried on by (mostly) Jews & appreciated by the larger world.
Reminds me of 3 Jews sitting on the boardwalk in Florida discussing how they got there.
The 1st one says, “I had a successful business until a fire destroyed it so I took the insurance money & retired.”
The 2nd man says, “I too had a successful business until a flood destroyed it so I took the insurance money & retired.”
The 3rd one says, “I also had a successful business until a tornado came through & destroyed it so I took the insurance money & retired.”
The other 2 ask, “How did you pull off a tornado?”
I don’t know about others but in my life experience in the weeks leading up to Pesach we’d make jokes about abducting a Christian child so we’d be able to bake Matzahs
As the saying goes, “If you don’t laugh you cry.”
Let’s not become so “Woke” that we lose one of our greatest survival tools.
The comments here are disgusting. If you can’t appreciate another yid’s suffering, then you need some suffering of your own.