weather: Mostly cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 81F.
Food Distributions
Boxes at 420 Cross st 7:00 pm
- Meor Hatorah 720 Massachusetts 6:00 pm
- (Chemdas Hatorah 950 Massachusetts 3:30 pm)
- 7 new covid cases in Lakewood totals
13907/312
- Politico scoop New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will mandate masks in schools, POLITICO has confirmed. Details to come tomorrow.
-- Quebec announced today it will introduce a vaccine passport, the first province in Canada to do so. PM Trudeau backed the move.
- Tehillim Rav Shmuel Feivelsohn senior Rav of Tzfas in his 90's infected with coronavirus in critical condition Shmuel Avigdor ben Ettel
- Dr. Kobi Haviv, CEO of Jerusalem Herzog medical center "95% of the severe patients are vaccinated". "85-90% of the hospitalizations are in Fully vaccinated people." "The effectiveness of the vaccine is waning/fading out"
- Chemed responds to citation that it failed to protect nurses of safety procedures that put its staff at risk of contracting the coronavirus, Patch reports "This is an unresolved matter that is still in process at the moment so we don't have any comment," a woman in the business office at CHEMED said Thursday. The report says they are contesting the citation and a possible $273,064 fine for failing to make sure required N95 masks fit the nurses properly. (Patch)
- Bochurim back home from camp the zman starts next week
-Minyanim for Yom Kippur Kpton Mukdam Erev Rosh chodesh Elul will take place at BMG Botei medrashim 1:45 pm and 6:30 pm
-Sadigur Rebbe of Bnei Brak will be coming to Lakewood after Sukkos for a chanukas Habayis of the new Sadigura bais medrash in Lakewood
- Lakewood township committee virtual meeting today 5:30 pm
- Moderna: COVID19 vaccine: Third "booster" dose will likely be necessary prior to the winter season.
- Levaya and hespedim for Rav Osher Ehrenreich ZT"L Here
front page of Yated
Sadigur yerushlayim, where is the Lakewood BM?
ReplyDeleteWhere East 5th meets holly st
DeleteYom Kippur koton Tefilos for ladies in Yoshon BMG 7:00. Please note change of time
ReplyDeleteI heard that meor hatorah dist is at 6pm. Can anyone verify? Thank you
ReplyDeleteRe: Chemed
ReplyDeleteWhen will we learn that if Jews take money from the government they will be targeted? No exceptions.
I sent this to the Municipal Manager and Committeemen today. In a subsequent comment I will again publish the questions for the BOE.
ReplyDeleteDear Township Leaders,
Just to be clear, the state cannot eliminate the bussing in Lakewood without violating the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The legislature would have to eliminate it throughout the state.
The nonpublic bussing statute, NJSA 18A:39-1, is almost 100 years old.* It even went to the US Supreme Court when Justice Frankfurter was on it in Everson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing 330 US 1 (1947).
As for the special education services, look at paragraphs 78 until the end of the original petition.
http://lakewoodlaworg.ipage.com/documents/Amended%20Petition.pdf
78) The legislature cannot constitutionally remedy the deficiency of T & E in Lakewood by simply eliminating its mandate for remote transportation without having a disparate impact, if not disparate treatment, toward a protected class of citizens. Nor is it rational to deprive families that send their children to nonpublic schools in Lakewood of the same services such as remote bussing offered to families similarly situated in other areas in the state in which they are less concentrated.
79) The argument that families that generally send their children to nonpublic schools should forfeit the right to FAPE for their most needy children is repugnant to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The argument that the Board of Education should not provide nonpublic children with remote transportation to and from school is not only unrealistic and contrary to the statute, but “it has never been judicially suggested that the exercise of the basic right to forgo a public education in favor of equivalent instruction precludes a person of availing himself of any state supported educational service or facility.” Alpert v. Wachtung, 13 N.J.A.R 110, 117 (1986). It is counter-intuitive and irrational that a municipality that saves the state over $400 million dollars a year in equalization aid should be forced to abandon “any state supported educational service or facility” for 25,000 of its children because the legislature inadequately performs its constitutional duty of providing a T & E for 5,500 children.
WHEREBY Plaintiffs petition the Commissioner for a declaratory ruling that all of Lakewood students are entitled to the same services for which students similarly situated elsewhere in New Jersey are entitled and to foreclose the possibility of a remedy that disparately impacts the children of Lakewood or that forces them to forego their rights and privileges under the current law.
Does the following APP article shed light upon why the BOE is now opposing me?
https://www.app.com/story/news/education/in-our-schools/2019/08/14/lakewood-nj-school-lawyers-salary-outrageous-top-nj-lawmaker-says/1996293001/
"[A] $600,000 deal — with anyone — likely won't be allowed if Lakewood expects to get more aid from the state, Sweeney said."
Public opinion in Lakewood matters. Inaction and the inability to take a stance is deleterious to the future of this town.
Aaron Lang
*Whenever in any district there are elementary school pupils who live more than two miles from their public school of attendance or secondary school pupils who live more than 2 1/2 miles from their public school of attendance, the district shall provide transportation to and from school for these pupils.
When any school district provides any transportation for public school pupils to and from school pursuant to this section, transportation shall be supplied to school pupils residing in such school district in going to and from any remote school other than a public school.
Please be advised that the state argued time after time, and presented witnesses, that our tax rates are lower than any large town in NJ and that the problem is not with state funding but our unwillingness to raise taxes. You can see this from the ALJ decision.
ReplyDeleteLook at Mr. Forney's testimony starting on page 32 using this link: http://lakewoodlaworg.ipage.com/documents/EA.0723.pdf
The state is shifting their share of school funding to Lakewood taxpayers.
The state has a good thing going for itself and you have been the chumps.
If you include the advanced state aid our levy is approaching $200 million this year but our local fair share is around $130 million. So instead of $70 million in equalization aid (adequate budget minus local fair share), we pay the $70 million, which comes out of the future aid that we will have to replace with taxes
Those of you that think this will go on forever, think again. Besides our own representatives, legislators do not need Lakewood votes. I do not see why the tax cap will not be removed for Lakewood eventually and instead of borrowing, we will be hit with unheard of tax increases to the point that no one will afford to live here.
A Lang
A Lang you are an impostor
ReplyDeleteI do not understand. Who am I claiming to be that I am not? See all my court papers at lakewoodlaw.org
DeleteAnd what are you
DeleteLone Texas Ranger, one riot, one ranger. New Jersey Robert Moses, the builder of great cities. Slayer of Monsters that devour them (not Munsters).
DeleteReally though, just a regular yeshiva guy.
A Lang is a good and honest man who is trying to repair a broken system and hasn’t been respected and appreciated as he should !!
DeleteKol Hakavod for trying ! It’s appreciated
Dovid Goldman
I'm no doctor, but The fact that must serious patients in Israel were vaccinated doesn't prove in a way the vaccine isnt working,
ReplyDeletesince the number of serious cases are so much less then they were before they had the vaccine, obviously it does for the most part help. No?!