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- Sign the petition save Alta's life HERE
- The new Bennet- Lapid government passed with the support of 60 MKs, while 59 opposed it.
- Netanyahu who is now opposition leader tells followers not to let their spirits down the TV studios are rejoicing but it is a sad night for millions of Israeli citizens says we will return sooner than you expect.
- Yartzeit of Harav Shneur Kotler Zatzal shiur klali in Yesjiva Bais Medrash Govoha by Harav Malkiel Kotler shlita Hespesim at 6:20 pm. Harav Elya Brudny shlita will say divrei zikaron
- Satmar rebbe Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum shlita will be in Lakewood today to attend a chumash seuda at the satmar mosdos in Rockwell development 12:30 pm
- Gimmel Tamuz yartzeit farbrengen at 1285 Rolls ct Toms River 9:00 pm speaking R' Moshe Gourarie R' Shmuel Naparstak R' Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin
- Six Flags Great Adventure announced the Jersey Devil Coaster will open to the public today June 13. It will rank as the world’s tallest, fastest and longest single-rail coaster.
- Hachnosas sefer Torah Pine River Village shul 2:00pm
- Hachnosas Sefer Torah at Skulen B"M of Lakewood procession leaving from 365 E 7th street 6:00 pm
-New government to be voted on today in Israel to replace Netanyahu. Ra’am MK Saeed Alharomi threatened Sunday morning that he will not support the new coalition unless a clause in the coalition agreement regarding illegal construction in the Negev be cancelled in return for his support.
- Food distribution: LNN reports According to newly released guidelines, it appears that all USDA lunch and supper weekend and holiday boxes will be discontinued once school resumes in the fall.
- Housing crisis Youngeleit looking to establish new affordable makom torah for info email: affordablemakomtora@gmail.com(TVOL)
- Gathering for women and post high school girls "A Diamond thats yours' at Orchos Chaim hall 410 Oberlin 8:30 pm Guest speaker Reb. Rina Tarshish divrei bracha Harav Forcheimer
- Gofundme page set up for Lakewood man killed in a car accident on Friday
- Adelphia yeshiva alumni breakfast at Eagle Ridge
A new city for bnei Torah has to be organized by the olam themselves otherwise jt is just more investors and opportunists who look out for themselves and defeats the purpose
ReplyDeleteYou can't build without a builder. Someone will always take advantage. The only way to keep costs low is to spread out to established places like Cleveland, Detroit and others..
DeleteIf we want to be spoiled and live together close to family and friends, it will cost. There are just a lot of people and demand will always be bigger than supply.
Besides the fact that in other communities life costs less and you get more benefits.
What did our grandparents do in Europe? Didn't they live spread out?
Our grandparents in Europe got killed every few generations. We didn't have these problems, life expectancy was shorter & families had fewer children (due to sickness & poverty)
DeleteTrue, but they still lived in small villages very spread out.
Delete1,000's of small villages had Jewish residents. Some didn't even have minyan all week.
to: Anonymous June 13, at 11:01 AM
Deletethat's the stuff of the רשעים the like's of gretz and his lackeys, the old perverters of history
we were actually far safer and better off in the olden days then today, [and btw their hasn't yet been a few generations in America]
in germany for instance a yehudi lived safer then the goyim from the time of my grandfather המקובל מהור"ר יוזלין מרוסהיים זצ"ל till the 2ww. there was only one small instance of רשעות והריגות during the hep hep riot's of 5579 (imagine the crown heights riots) [and פורים פפד"מ in 5375 but then no one was killed and the yehudim ended up better then before].
the יוסף אומץ write in his times during the 30 years war the goyim use to deposit their valuables by the yehudim for safe keeping as the marauding armies would not attack the yehudim. all in all over 4 centuries where collectively less yehudim were killed in those 4+ centuries than in our own lifetime alone in just america or eretz yisroel. we could speak about the earlier times too but no time now but have a look at לקט יושר wher he states the reason התורה מקויימת בארץ אשכנז יותר משאר הארצות because they lend to the גוים ברבית [and just sat and learnt the whole year]
as for the size of the families' that's also a mendacity as many many families had a double digit number of children who lived. just check family trees and the gov doc as it's mostly all recorded
poverty to just did not exist in אשכנז והוללאנד, sure לא יחדל אביון מקרב הארץ but the wealth was even more than it is today, and generally speaking all were well off. go read ספר יש מנחילין what he complains about the loss of wealth, in his generation, by the gedoly torah
ok granted eastern europe was different from after the חורבן of the ישיבות after ת"ח ות"ט ותט"ו, but again that's the main point: no torah no yeshivos = no ברכה
מרבה תורה = מרבה חיים in אשכנז where there were more ישיבות proportionally then there are even today in was not so
Besides for the general narishkeit, look at how this guy casually refers to the hep hep riots, with all the death and destruction it brought, as "one small instance" comparable to the crown heights riots (!!) just because it fits his silly narrative. My goodness.
DeleteMike, maybe I am not understanding not which era you are referring to, but the crusades came from Ashkenaz, as well as numerous expulsions, taxations and blood libels. Yehudim moved to Poland in the 14-1500's to escape these persecutions.
DeleteFunny how you promote usary loans when your own zeida reb yossele fought very hard against it and held it was the source of antisemitism
DeleteJUST TRUST IN HA-SHEM
DeleteDave June 13, 7:17 PM:
Deleteif i'm not mistaken 3 yehudim were killed during the hep hep riot's. as terrible as that is it is totally incomparable to our times where many years in the usa, and almost every few months in eretz yisroel that many are killed.
Anonymous June 13, at 8:00 PM:
while yes i am referring to a later time, as in that specific time of 5109 until at least the נס גדול of the אווזים in the times of the מהרי"ל (when they fasted 3 days and nights) their survival was precarious. but even then not the whole time as it was on and off. poland by contrast during that time and after till ת"ח ות"ט was a very safe and was becoming a great and immense מקום תורה
nonetheless when viewing the whole picture ones is forced to admit that without a shadow of a doubt the times of the reshonim were incomparably safer then today. sure you had terrible things like the first crusades and the rindfleisch massacre's and גזירות ק"ט and too many others to mention. my own grandparents were זוכה to be נהרג על קידוש ה' in some of those גזירות. but that was over a very, very, long period of time.
look back at the past 150 years year by year and you'll come to realize that all those totally pale in comparison (and as surprising as it may seem to some that's even without ww2!)
I don't know where you're getting your facts from but I'm pretty sure numerous Jews were killed and an enormous amount of property was destroyed. It was a series of pogroms in a number of towns and you foolishly compare it to crown heights. The narrative is a powerful drug, isn't it.
DeleteBe careful with the guy who keeps pushing a new city. He's an investor himself who plans on making millions off the bnei Torah.
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DeleteThe articles and so called "letters" in the voice seem like one big infomercial for a planned community or building townhouses typical marketing
ReplyDeleteReceived an automated call with msg that rav brudny won't be speaking at bmg. Please correct the post
ReplyDeleteThere will always be investors and after a few years our brothers will take it over just like BP and Lakewood.
ReplyDeleteMove en masse to Waterbury, or Cleveland or Baltimore. Spread the wealth of the Lakewood community and enrich new communities or bring new blood into existing communities.
ReplyDeleteHoping that the "bnei Torah" are wildly successful in moving to a new town. Maybe then I can get my child on to school.
ReplyDeleteMaybe ask your wife to stop wearing pants.
DeleteThey love to rip off the Lakewood oilum big time;
ReplyDeleteThe simonim are;
1-Deposit gets released to the builder-Never use a builder where the monies are not kept in escrow and release as the house is built.
2-Every slightest change, they rip you off big time.It should be at cost, with proof of bills.
3- A non-frum builder will charge you less per sq ft than the frum one. If it's not built timely, there shall be penalties.
4- They should let one purchase a lot and get their own builder.
5- The best route is pre-fabs.
4- The purchaser should pick the bais-din for disputes, not the builder.
Honestly the only way not to fall victim to investors or not let them control the markets is to simply move to an already established community, like Boston, for example. Basically a place where neighborhoods and houses are already well established. Otherwise it’s a lost cause. The only reason why they did so well in Lakewood is because up until recently (last 20 yrs) it was a massive piece of farmland without proper neighborhoods or infrastructure.
ReplyDeleteAside for Boston not being a major Mokom Torah or conducive to starting one, it is also from the most expensive cities in the US to live in.
Deletehttps://www.change.org/p/the-high-court-support-the-right-of-appeal-to-save-a-life
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nj.com/news/2021/06/real-estate-is-skyrocketing-at-the-jersey-shore-see-the-median-sales-price-in-20-towns.html?outputType=amp
ReplyDeleteThis is not a Lakewood nor chasidish issue.
Move to New Egypt
ReplyDeleteAnd Plumstead Township
Population less than 4000 and land wise almost double the size of Lakewood
Every place is high but Lakewood was crazy high even before all other places went up and Lakewood is much worse.
ReplyDeleteMaybe in other places Shuls will be allowed to be built
DeleteLakewood may soon be as Expensive as Flatbush Boro Park and Wiliamsburg
ReplyDeleteOr you can move to north Florida where the real estate is cheap, lifestyle is a mechaya, they have an elementary school, they are opening a high school, there is mikveh a choshuveh kollel and to top it off - a delicious fleishig restaurant downtown!
ReplyDeleteCheck out Jacksonville florida!
For a large family that wants to have a 5 bedroom 3200 sf even basic house it would cost close to 375,000 to 400,000 to build after builders cost, soft costs, construction interest and a basic builders profit. That's without the cost of land. So even if you moved somewhere where the lot costs only 40,000 instead of 400,000 , the house will still cost you close to 400,000 . The value of a basement rental at today's interest rates is close to 275,000 to 300,000. So if a new duplex costs 750,000 then the basement covers at least 275,000 of the mortgage, so the effective cost of the duplex is 475,000 . Even if your out of town house is 375,000 , which a new house will not be , your difference is effectively only 100,000 on the mortgage which amounts to 450 dollars a month . Even assuming real estate taxes here are are 400 a month higher that still is only 850 a month more . The income your wife will make our of town is a lot less than the 850 a month . So its not so simple. Unless you want to live with 10 kids in a much smaller 2000 sf 3 bedroom 70 year old house which you might get for 275,000 or 300,000. Then it might be worth it
ReplyDeleteMaybe it’s time to move back to NY. Now prices there are dropping as they all come here. Will they follow us back there?
ReplyDeletewhatever happened to the community near Lakehurst that Gutfruend wanted to develop. He is not a developer and was doing it l'shma.
ReplyDeleteRight lishma of course
ReplyDeleteheard he spoke to a developer and the developer stole the deal from him. ended up in din torah
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