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ABDELHAK v. JEWISH PRESS INC.

No. A-2023-08T3

985 A.2d 197 (2009)

411 N.J. Super. 211

Yaakov ABDELHAK, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The JEWISH PRESS INC., Oleg Rivkin, Richard I. Scharlat and Gabrielle Tito, Defendants-Respondents, and Oleg Rivkin, Defendant/Third Party Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Zalman Levine, Rachelle Mandelbaum and Allan Cohen, Third-Party Defendants-Respondents.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided December 31, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Coughlin Duffy, LLP, attorneys for appellant (Daniel F. Markham, New York, NY, of the New York bar, admitted pro hac vice, of counsel and on the brief; Deborah A. Kelly, Morristown, on the brief).

Daly, Lamastra & Cunningham, attorneys for respondent Oleg Rivkin (Olivier J. Kirmser, Warren, on the brief).

White and Williams, LLP, attorneys for respondent Richard I. Scharlat (Michael O. Kassak, Cherry Hill, of counsel and on the brief; Kim Kocher, Philadelphia, PA, on the brief).

Bashwiner and Deer, LLC, attorneys for respondent Gabrielle Tito (Joseph A. Deer, on the brief).

Law Offices of Bruce Egert, Jonathan S. Konovitch (Moskowitz Book & Walsh, LLP) of the New York bar, admitted pro hac vice, and Chaim B. Book, New York, NY (Moskowitz Book & Walsh, LLP) of the New York bar, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys for respondent The Jewish Press, Inc., join in the briefs of respondents Richard Scharlat, Gabrielle Tito and Oleg Rivkin.

Respondents Zalman Levine, Rachelle Mandelbaum and Allan Cohen have not filed a brief.

Before Judges BAXTER, ALVAREZ and COBURN.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BAXTER, J.A.D.

Plaintiff Yaakov Abdelhak appeals from a Law Division order that dismissed his defamation complaint against defendants, The Jewish Press, Inc., Oleg Rivkin, Richard Scharlat and Gabrielle Tito, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, pursuant to Rule 4:6-2(a). The judge concluded that plaintiff's claims could not be resolved without excessive entanglement by the court and jury in issues of religious...

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