Weather: Cloudy skies early will become partly cloudy later in the day. High around 90F.
- Food distribution:
- Correction (6:00 pm Mekor Hatorah is Tomorrow 180 Sims)
- Yeshiva Chemdas Hatorah 950 Massachusetts 5:00 pm
- Chai4ever breakfast/dinner food box distribution today 2313 County rt 547 Lakehurst, NJ 08733 in the parking lot next to Alba's Pub at 5:00 pm
- 9 new covid cases in Lakewood since friday, totals 13827/310
in Ocean county a total of 184 new covid cases over the weekend
- Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles government officials and community leaders are working very hard to increase COVID-19 vaccine coverage ... slowly but surely, it is working.
“It’s not a public-relations campaign anymore, it’s not television ads, or newspaper ads. It really comes down to personal relationships,” Coles said. (Njspotlight)
- "We are down to personal responsibility with regards to masking in schools". - Judy Persicilli
- Murphy critic Woke Zombie "At the end of his press conference, Murphy says if you had covid, "the fact of the matter is the science is EXTREMELY incomplete on that, you should get vaccinated." Provides no basis, no science, no justification. Talking gasbag".
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announces vaccine mandate for 115,000 healthcare workers, becoming the first federal agency to make such a requirement (NYT).
--Data released by the Health Ministry on Thursday suggested that people vaccinated in January were said to have just 16% protection against infection now, while in those vaccinated in April the effectiveness was at 75% (Times of Israel)
- NYC Mayor de Blasio is mandating COVID-19 vaccines for city workers on September 13th, urging private employers to set vaccine mandates as well. Unvaccinated city employees must wear a mask and be tested. On 8/2, the city will debut an app showing vax/test status.
- Second half of camp begins today for the girls
-150 -200 high school girls still not accepted for the upcoming year no communication issued over last week
- IRS is sending out child tax credit payments even to those that are NOT eligible. These funds may have to be returned and paid back. For example People who file taxes as non residents are not eligible yet some have received the payments. If you receive the payments make sure you are eligible before spending it because it will have to be paid back.
-Lakewood Zoning Board meeting today in person 7:00 pm see Agenda Here Livestream info not posted yet on the township website. On the agenda a communications cell tower at 655 Squankum Road, Block 172 Lot 7, B-4 zone. Construction of a 145 foot monopole with 12 antennas and related equipment.
- Aisle One, the new kosher supermarket that will anchor Brook Haven Mall in Passaic is now open more
- Israeli Health Ministry says government is considering imposing a new lockdown during holiday season as covid19 spikes with over 11,000 active cases.
- There have been 49 fully vaccinated people in New Jersey who have died from the coronavirus through July 12, state health officials told NJ Advance Media on Wednesday. More than half of those who died had at least one underlying medical condition
- Planning board approved shopping plaza despite objection from neighbors
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Which vaccine did they get? Pfizer, Moderna, or J&J?
ReplyDeleteWe never hear of a breakdown by vaccine type which could be important. Moderna says the it's vaccine has testrd in the lab as being fully resistant to the Delta strain so it's important to get the actual breakdown by vaccine.
We are all used to this story, how a couple of weeks before school starts, there are children without a school. Blame starts flying back and forth, and everyone becomes a keyboard warrior or the instrangient one at the bus stop while waiting for the bus to camp.
ReplyDeleteWe all desperately need someone to blame for this situation. Because when the blame is passed to the parents who are holding out for a certain school, the menahalim who are worried about their image, the other parents who prevent the school from doing the right thing, or the fluoride in the water, we can go back to our lives of mi ke'amcha yisroel and 'do you know how much food Bikur Cholim distributed?'
We seem to be lacking the healthy self-esteem that allows us to look at ourselves with eyes of truth, warts and all. If we were to admit that there is a serious endemic flaw that needs repairing, we think that we will be undermining the entire house of cards on which our society lives. We need to be the 'ihr hatorah', which is כולך יפה רעייתי, with the biggest talmidei chachamim, the most kosher hechsher, the best pizza, and the best mechanic in the world. We cannot see things for what they are; somewhat good, somewhat bad and somewhat mediocre.
If each year we have these huge numbers of lost girls, we collectively have a problem. We need to know why it is like that, how many different factors are manifest in this phenomena, without a priori ignoring any of them. We need to know how we can fix this, because we need to improve, not cover up and deny problems.
We have no accurate numbers, how many of the children of the 30 classes in the primary of 13 years ago are still in the system? How many left along the way? Was there any common experience that the dropouts had? How can we fix this?
When we know the answers, we can work on ourselves and actually solve the issues and deserve our accolades of ישראל אשר בך אתפאר.
Nice axe you've got there that you found a convenient cause to grind.
DeleteOne question: Which Lakewood high schools have fewer that 30 girls per class? It's clearly a numbers problem - of not enough high schools - and has nothing to do with your axe.
Perhaps you explain to me my axe, because I don't know what it is.
DeleteMy only point is that we should tell the truth about our society, not ignoring the distasteful side, and not playing it up. We shouldn't be so scared of criticism. A healthy society is fine with criticism, only one that is unsure of itself needs to shut down anything negative.
I think possibly the 200 girls' parents could get together and open a school? It's not so reasonable to expect the overstretched schools we already have to just expand and expand
ReplyDeleteEverywhere else in America this is seen as a klal issue and not on individual parents to solve. The issue is that in Lakewood schooling is viewed as an issue of the yachid whether parents or that term that literally does not exist and has never existed in the world of chinuch school"owners".
DeleteChinuch habanos was shtelled avek as a tzorech tzibbur and klal issue and until Lakewood figures out a way to make it that way this problem will persist.
You hit the nail on the head. The roshei yeshivas have ceded control of the yiddishkeit in this town. It's controlled by those with various financial interests. This applies to kashrus, schools, real estate, mikvaos, dayanim, shuls, etc. This is not a Yiddish town anymore. And we wonder why so many of our kids go OTD. It's time for other Rabbanim in town to step up. Unfortunately it won't happen, and the only ones making improvements are the chasidim. They don't have the issues on the same scale. They will eventually take over kashrus too, like they did in Brooklyn.
DeleteThe cell tower on Squankum has been up for a while is there any record of radiation
ReplyDelete5G nanobot vaccines
DeleteHere is the link to yesterday's special shiur about "THE HIDDEN SECRETS OF TU be'AV" by RAV
ReplyDeleteMichoel Sorotzkin Shlit"a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luHmzJyoFws
I know someone who wants to help and is looking to start a new girl high school maybe email
ReplyDeleteBaisYakovCJ@gmail.com-- BaisYakovCJ (central Jersey ) its a random name for now
There are Billions of Dollars in Bank accounts there are 100s of not Thousands of Askonim
ReplyDeleteThere are Tens of thousands of Talmidei Chachochomim and Women who have Graduated High school and Seminary all of whom are able of Running and Staffing Bais Yackov elementary and High schools
So there is no excuse why in the year 2021 in Lakewood the center of the Torah world in. America that more schools cannot be opened
Absolutely correct. By chasidim , all the gevirim give almost all of their tzedokoh money to their kehila and the kehila uses that to make and fund schools . There is so much money being made in our kehila , there would be plenty to make new schools but its going mostly to out of town causes . The other problem is that because of lack of funding and low high school tuitions as compared to out of town , the high school teachers are not getting paid enough and within a few more years the ladies will mostly be working in non teaching jobs that pay better. So you won't find quality teachers anymore .
DeleteYes. We would really have the same problem with mesivtas where Rebbeim are in many cases paid very little Except for the fact that there are so many Rebeim who want to be marbitz Torah, they will literally work almost for nothing. But ladies will stop teaching and go to work in businesses. So if parents don't see the problem and realize that tuitions need to be increased , they will wake up one morning and find their daughters being taught by a few young seminary girls with absolutely no skills ,because all the skilled teachers left the teaching field. And then parents who can't get their daughters into school will cry ,why there are not enough schools and how terrible all the schools are. .
DeleteNo food box distribution at Mekor Hatorah
ReplyDeleteOnce again false info. No boxes today at Mekor Hatorah
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting. Everybody blames somebody else for the lack of schools. Why not blame yourself. As you say ,this should be a klal problem and you are part of the klal. I know of several capable people who have offered to make klal schools. Not to take large salaries. and allow the community to decide who should be accepted. All they asked for was that the askonim of the community take responsibility for funding the shortfall after tuition . They were laughed at andt told that if you make a school,it's your responsibility to fund it. So they went away. Why is there so much money in Lakewood for the most megushemdige stores and eateries and no funds to make a klal school where the community and rosh yeshivas would decide who to accept.?
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