- 6:45 pm Tornado warning issued in the Lakewood area extended until 8:30 pm
NWS: Tornado has touched down in Trenton, NJ. Take shelter
- 7:20 pm Tornado touches down in Bensalem, PA rips down trees buildings damaged car dealership destroyed reports of people trapped under debris.
8:00PM - 8:25 pm Thunderstorm warning 60MPH winds Hail Lakewood/Howell/Jackson/Toms River
8:30 reports of a Tornado touchdown near Lakehurst and at the Whitesville rt 9 area of Toms River
Photo online of Bensalem Tornado aftermath
- Food distributions:
Bnos Yaakov at pine park 2:00 pm-
Boxes at 420 Cross st 7:00 pm
- Meor Hatorah 720 Massachusetts 8:00 pm
- Chemdas Hatorah 950 Massachusetts 3:30 pm
- 3 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 13852/311
- The National Weather Service has issued a Tornado Watch for Ocean County. Will remain in effect until 9pm.
- Biden to allow eviction moratorium to expire Saturday
- NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to Jewish New Yorkers: If you want to be fully vaccinated by Rosh Hashanah, you need to get your first Pfizer shot by Monday.
- BMG Enrollment growth: Despite shutdowns and hybrid learning throughout the pandemic, Lakewood's Beth Medrash Govoha has continued to see enrollment growth, defying trends across higher education. This past fall, undergraduate enrollment at the yeshiva grew by 10%, from 2,732 to 3,004 students, while graduate enrollment increased 2%, from 4,048 to 4,147 students, (APP)
- Israel: 7,700 new cases of COVID since May, Of those, just 72 (1%) in people known to have had COVID before, but more than 3,000 new cases (40% of the total) in people who had been vaccinated. (INN)
- According to the CDC data as of Thursday, 62.7 percent of Ocean County residents 18 and older have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccines, and 55 percent are fully vaccinated. For those age 65 and older 81.7 percent have received at least one dose and 73.2 percent are fully vaccinated.
- Today: Hachnosas Sefer Torah will take place Thursday 7/29 Liluy nishmas Hayeled Eliyohu z"l ben R" Aaron Baruch Gruskin commemorating the first yartzeit כ''א אב תשפ''א The procession will start at 6:30 pm from the corner of Park Ave and Ocean Ave(Rt 88) to Minyan Shelanu 145 Ocean Ave
- 100 covid cases in Lakewood in the last 2 weeks since July 14
- Caution: Prospect street restriped there is no shoulder on either side as road side parking is removed to add turning lane. The north side has no sidewalk or room for bikers.
- James st shut grom Rt 9 to Sunset untill after shabbos
- Mir yeshiva Yerushalayim orders all bochurim to return home from the kivrei tzadikim trip in Ukraine after 3 bochurim were niftar in a plane crash R"L. A levaya was held in Ukraine today and Rav Meir Elchadad who lost 2 sons in the Miron tragedy was there to be maspid and give chizuk.
- Lakewood residents vacationing in Arizona and other locations after hotel Airbnb prices in traditional vacation spots went up to astronomical prices due to covid. In certain parts of Florida car rentals are booked up and no available cars.
-R' Aaron Lang : "Lakewood elected officials effectively increased taxes $71 million this year, $54 last year, $36, $28, $8 and $4.5 million. You do not see it now but YOU WILL PAY all that money back unless we win in court. Yet they still oppose us. Who needs them?"
- R' Yidel Brill father of one of the bochurim killed in the Ukraine plane crash reacts to the news with divrei chizuk
The loans are advanced state aid. It is deducted over ten years from the time of the loan.
ReplyDeleteThis year we are paying back $20 million. That means that we have lost almost all of our state aid for 2021-22. Next year we will get none.
The monitor will order local taxes to increase to the fullest extent of the law to make up for the lost state aid. This will continue and eventually the legislature will authorize even larger increases in Lakewood taxes to make up for the lost state aid.
This loss of all out future state aid is the fruit of Lkwd leaders who said for two decades, "We're working with Trenton." Not a one of them has cooperated, replied to my emails or publicly shown any support.
Wake up askanmim! The governor does not have the power to forgive the loans and no one in the legislature wants to lift a finger for Lakewood, unless it is to raise more taxes.
Say, if my case brings an extra $100 million a year and repayments are $100 million, they cancel.
And your BOE wanted to delay the case another two years for a remand to the lower court. For what reason? To prove that the state IS providing a constitutional education in Lakewood. So go figure, because I do not understand. Anyway, their motion lost. They still will be a thorn in the side as we make our way to the NJ Supreme Court.
A Lang
We are with you Reb Aaron thank you for fighting on behalf of all of Lakewood's children. Ashrecha
DeleteAre these the last food boxes of this pandemic? Will we have to wait for another one to get some free pizza bagels and chopped carrots?
ReplyDeleteWhy are there multiple Arrows painted on Prospect Street Leading into the trees ??
ReplyDeleteIs this a mistake ??
Who can we contact about this ?
The arrows in the center lane are not there to direct people to specific turns. They are to designate the center lane for left turns only. That is the standard way to paint such a lane.
DeleteWhy is Rabbi Lang a lone fighter? Why aren't we all joining hands with him as a group to fight this terrible injustice??
ReplyDeleteThe same reason you are anonymous here. Look at what happened to him. He was demoted and fought the whole way. If anyone joins, their kids will be threatened to be kicked out of school and will be labeled a "Moiser". That happens even if you are only fighting development in your neighborhood!
DeleteI disagree. Who ate being a moiser on by agreeing with him ? No school will bother you or your kids. Just organize a public debate between him and the ones opposing him let the public ask questions and make up their minds
DeleteNo reason for a debate because the opposition has not articulated any reason.
DeleteIt is all for one man and his megalomania. He has to control. The sad part is that can't litigate the case.
When the judge called the funding a "Ponzi" scheme, MI went on TLS gloating over it, but the next day he asked the judge to recuse herself. When I had a business question for Mr. Finger, who testified and was always more than happy to help me out, during a recess on the last day of the trial, MI shouted at him not to talk to me. I just never understood the opposition other than as resentment for the fact that it is not his case.
All this is about one man.
If anyone can offer ANY reason why it is so important to derail the case and say that the state is providing T & E in Lakewood, do explain. We have provided SO MUCH evidence to the contrary, and even if there was an improvement in education, it is so slight it would not be worth jettisoning a billion dollars over the safek.
Prospect has now become very dangerous for pedestrians why is there no sidewalk
ReplyDeleteHit will become even more dangerous with the new 1200 student school and another hige wedding hall with nit enough parking.
DeleteOh.. I forgot about the newly approved 73 duplexes on Massachusetts right near Prospect.
Density itself isn't dangerous if there would be actual sidewalks. For example, Manhattan isn't dangerous.
Deletewhy in the world doesn't finchley blvd have a right/left lane turning on to route 9 instead of bushes?!?!?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteIs it the fault of the state again that forced them to have bushes and grass while everyone has to sit in their car scratching their heads all day??
Nobody cares anymore. We've grown used to it. So will you.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s the latest with the WG shul? The hachnasas orchim is almost done now we need shuls.
ReplyDeleteThe latest update is that if we do serious Teshuva together as a nation from the coronavirus mageifa, Meron and Curbside etc.... All sent directly from Hashem then we won't need the use of the guesthouse and more Shuls with the coming of Mashiach if we show Hashem serious Teshuva and Achdus ASAP
DeleteNobody cares
ReplyDeleteI don't live in WG. But disgusting comment. Talk for yourself. Obviously there is an issue some people are upset about. I don't know the facts but to Mach it avek like that is wrong.
DeleteNobody I know cares. Obviously I’m only talking about people I know. Btw you clearly live in WG.
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