The security of our Jewish community is one of our top priorities. Your Federation is proud to ensure we can all attend services, visit the JCC and seek help at JFS in safety. This is made possible by Jewish Federations of North America’s LiveSecure grant funding, state and federal non-profit security grants and private donors.
A Commitment to Community Security
Incidents of antisemitism and hate speech have increased drastically over the last several years, particularly since October 7, 2023. The Jewish Federation of West-Central New Jersey is dedicated to ensuring that our community in Somerset, Hunterdon & Warren Counties is a place for Jews to live safely and proudly, and participate in activities and events at the Jewish Federation, our agencies, and area synagogues.
We are stronger together, and JFed Security is committed to ensuring our community’s safety.
Jfed Security
Learn more about JFed Security!
Who We Are:
The JFed Security team is comprised of highly-trained full-time professionals and is supported by over 50 part-time armed security guards who are all retired law enforcement officers. Our extremely qualified and experienced guards are deployed at Jewish organizations around our community. JFed Security constantly monitors open-source information to keep a careful eye on extremist rhetoric and activity, anti-Israel or antisemitic rhetoric or ideologies, social media commentary and suspicious activity or behavior that may impact our local community.
Meet Sean Redmond, Deputy Director North Region, JFed Security
Sean is a retired police officer with the township of Cherry Hill, who retired at the rank of Lieutenant in charge of the training unit. This unit was responsible for the training, instructing, and monitoring of 140 officers and assisting in their development as police officers. Sean was also responsible for the leadership and functioning of the Special Operations Group within the Cherry Hill Police Department. These units consisted of a SWAT team, rifle team, K-9 unit, and negotiation unit which were all divisions within the police department structure.
JFed Security offers the following trainings and opportunities:
Situational Awareness Training
Active Threat Training
Stop the Bleed Training
Scenarios Training
Threat and Vulnerability Risk Assessments (TVRA)
Access to Intelligence Briefs
Using Our Security Services
For more information on using JFed Security at your location contact Sean Redmond at [email protected]
Report an Antisemtic Incident
You can report a threat, incident or suspicious activity related to our Jewish organizations, facilities or community members through our Incident Report Form.
