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- Food Distribution info for today Here
- 19 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 13900/312
- Minyanim for yom kippur koton tomorrow erev rosh chodesh Elul mukdam at BMG botei medrashim 1:45 pm and 6:30 pm
- Pfizer COVID19 vaccine linked to rare cases of eye inflammation, according to a multi-center Israeli study published by the peer-reviewed ophthalmology journal Retina (JPost)
- Askanim reached out to local assemblymen and politicians after Kimball, Toms River & Monmouth hospitals mandate COVID Vaccination for all team members, which will result in nurses from the Greater Lakewood area going to lose their job because they won't want to be vaccinated. They asked the politicians to send a clear message that due to their draconian policies they will not receive any support from you or your constituents.
- 90 girls still not accepted into high school for this coming school year some fear placement wont happen untill after sukkos as schools first start a week before rosh Hashana
- 42nd Yartzeit of the Satmar rebbe zatzal today כ''ו אב thousands flocking to Monroe to daven at the kever
- Gov. Phil Murphy has said he's "open-minded" to coronavirus vaccine passports in New Jersey but did not give any details. NJ officials said 50 fully vaccinated people have died as of July 19 but only 195 fully vaccinated were hospitalized
- Kosher Steakhouse Opening in Lakewood Area: Lamppost Bistro Bar & Lounge The neighborhood dubbed “South Toms River” will soon house the upscale kosher restaurant Lamppost Bistro Bar & Lounge: an old fashioned steakhouse with a modern twist. Manning the kitchen is Chef Goldberger, until now a Lakewood caterer. Lamppost Bistro can seat over 100 people in the restaurant. The bistro plans to open within the month Menu items at Lamppost include high end delicacies like aged prime rib, salmon carpaccio, and sea bass.. Diners can select from Lamppost’s extensive drink menu to create the perfect dinner and drinks combo. Lamppost Bistro will be located at 276 Atlantic City Blvd, Pine Beach, NJ. It is kosher certified by Tartikov Kashrus. More
- The Gerer rebbe from Eretz Yisrael is on his way to the US to attend the wedding of his grandson that will take place in 2 weeks the 9th of Elul at Bellworks Holmdel, NJ. The rebbe is staying in the Monsey area.
- Hatzolah of South Florida issues advisory the community is experiencing a high rate of covid infections with patients requiring hospitalizations, the overwhelming majority of severe cases are patients who are unvaccinated.
- Rocket launched from Lebenon on Israels northern border landing in Kiryat shmona the IDF retaliated with artillery fire along the border
Hafgana against the construction for light rail train on Bar Ilan street in Yerushalayim with Lelover Rebbe shlita
https://youtu.be/ATgjgIb2X8Q
ReplyDeleteLampost location is interesting.
ReplyDeleteDO NOT GO TO KIMBALL:
ReplyDeletehttps://jnews.us/rwj-barnabas-health-mandates-covid-vaccination-for-all-team-members/
"nurses from the Greater Lakewood area going to lose their job because they won't want to be vaccinated"
ReplyDeleteWhy on earth would a nurse not be vaccinated. It's pashut that no nurse or doctor or any medical worker should be allowed anywhere near patients or coworkers without being vaccinated.
If your following the mews tucker had interview that vaccinated people are now infecting the unvaccinated with Delta variant since they are carrying the virus and spreading it
DeleteRemember its "DARCONIAN" to be vaccinated !!!!
DeleteWith that type of attitude what other "DARCONIAN" methods do they apply to patients????
They should not be a nurse or ANY medical Professional (non professional would be the more correct adjective) EVER.
Tucker is not news he’s a propagandist.
Delete“Askanim reached out...” who’s these self appointed askanim? Of course nurses should vaccinate. It’s the overwhelming consensus of the medical world that vaccines work, notwithstanding the communities’ obsession with tucker and the rest of Fox News meshugoim.
Hospitalizations are up and it’s overwhelmingly the unvaccinated. Why can’t the facts be facts.
It’s the overwhelming consensus of the medical world that unless you are at significant risk, taking any medicine that is not FDA approved is not advisable.
DeleteOk so when the fda approves it in a couple of weeks you will please post a comment pro vaccination, thank you. Yeh right
DeleteStrange. The same pro vax nuts are the same guys that had a problem with people davening on porches 50 feet away from their neighbors.
DeleteCan someone please explain this coincidence.
I was the one who organized the Minyan on my block, yet I think those that won't take this vaccine are a bunch of basket cases, ignorant dangerous morons.
DeleteCoincidence? I don't think so. Medical advice from the experts that researched it is the way to go.
as a nurse from the "greater lakewood area" speaking on behalf of myself and my colleagues who work in hospitals in lakewood, monmouth and tom's river, I would like to know who these "askonim think they are representing. We are begging people to get vaccinated as if the covid wards fill up again and we go back to working 4 or 5 12 hour shifts in a row doing the best that we can yet watching people die anyways, we will burn out and quit. Out of the hundreds of nurses I know through my years in the field, I can count on one hand the number who are not already vaccinated. Please show your support for the tired and weary healthcare community as well as a modicum of concern for your own health and well being and get VACCINATED. BTW I am vaccinated and have not yet mutated into a giant green frog. Not that that means anything, it can still happen in a year of two
DeleteWith 90 girls looking for a school its the perfect opportunity for some 'wanna be' Rebbitzin to open a school with 3 parallel classes and actually be a real Rebbitzin.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the truth is that most of these 90 girls are NOT looking for a school they are looking to join their dream club AKA this and that specific school ONLY.
The days of people just being to open high schools at will ,are over. Women are not willing to work for less than they can get in businesses. And the businesses in Lakewood are making so much money ,they are willing to pay very high salaries just to find women workers. The only reason we have mesivtas is that the men want to be marbitz Torah at any cost and will work almost for free just to get a shtelle. It is not possible any more to open girls high schools and attract the talent necessary to have a good school , with the relatively low tuitions being paid in Lakewood high schools .
DeleteIs BY of Ocean County out?
ReplyDeleteThe John Street Tumah converted to school is listed For Sale again
I wonder what would happen if they stipulate that the $1000 Kollel checks are only for those that vaccinate.
ReplyDeleteTime to mandate vaccinations as this is the only wat to make progress.
How many stories does one have too see of non vaccinated people severly ill wishing they took the vaccine - please do not be the next victim.
Hello
DeleteHalf of Lakewood has natural immunity from getting covid
If you can have natural immunity + vaccine immunity, why wouldn't you want to? Why stop at half measures?
DeleteR' Chaim shlit"a shot paskened that everyone should vaccinate.
ReplyDeleteThe hesitancy in this shtut is shocking. We should all be singing and dancing in the day to get the vaccine, since we are being mikayem the words of our Gedoylim!!!!!
Because evry fetach in the coffee room feels he knows better than Rav Chaim and Rav Gershon. When did Klay Yisroel fall away from being an עם נבון וחכם?
DeleteEMES - the 'anti vax' ruach around here is disturbing.
DeleteNews flash
DeleteReb Chaim did not take the covid shot himself he had covid and has natural immunity so does half of Lakewood
Enough with the fear mongering
RCK - "Everyone must be vaccinated, don't be afraid!" and "those who are vaccinated will be blessed by heaven."
Deletesounds pretty clear to me, no qualifiers there
RCK did not get the vaccine
DeleteWe have people who claim to know what they are talking about, giving opinions about medicine and halacha when they know nothing about either. They get themselves some power and attention, but those who learn Torah know that they are am ha'aratzim, and they don't manage to cover it up in any way.
DeleteYou have no clue
DeleteI sent in three questions for the BOE meeting tonight:
ReplyDelete1) Given that it is at the least debatable that the state has not provided a thorough and efficient education in Lakewood from the time I filed Alcantara in 2014 until 2019 when the record was closed and given that a T & E claim is the only cause of action that the NJ Supreme Court has recognized in a school funding case, why is the BOE opposing the necessary element in proving my case?
2) What will the BOE say to our children who will likely not be able to afford a home in Lakewood because of the BOE's mounting debt, which the statute requires to be repaid out of future state aid, essentially shifting the state's share of school funding to Lakewood taxpayers unless a court unless we win? (The state has got a good thing going.)
3) When you speak about going to Trenton have you considered that we have heard for two decades that our local leaders are working with Trenton, and have you discounted the likely scenario that the legislature is not exactly inclined to help Lakewood and perhaps will eventually remove the two percent tax increase cap from towns owning more that $50 million in debt or some amount to make sure that Lakewood pays?
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He said that for EY
ReplyDeleteAnd he didn’t say that for those with antibodies
ReplyDeleteYou guys want to mandate vaccines. When you allow the government to start mandating everything it is a very slippery slope. Do you want the government involved in every part of your life?
ReplyDeleteAnything that is relevant to the public, should be mandated by the public. People shouldn't have the right or freedom to affect the public with their own ideas.
DeleteThis slippery slope started already when they made speed limits on roads.
@ why can’t facts be facts?
ReplyDeleteWhat makes your opinion fact and mine propaganda? Mandating vaccines is very much in line with communism, do you support that form of government?
You seem to know nothing about communism or vaccine mandates.
DeleteThey have no connection.
Unless you associate beekeeping with Nazism, because both are perpetrated by homo sapiens.
Facts are when same doctors and fda and experts that say we chas veshalom need a surgery We go under the knife. They are all (ruba druba) saying to take the vaccine.
DeleteMandating vaccines is communism bla bla. What about mandating speed limits. And no drinking and driving. And smoke detectors. And no screaming fire in a crowded theater. Also communism??
Facts are when same doctors and fda and experts that say we chas veshalom need a surgery We go under the knife. They are all (ruba druba) saying to take the vaccine.
DeleteMandating vaccines is communism bla bla. What about mandating speed limits. And no drinking and driving. And smoke detectors. And no screaming fire in a crowded theater. Also communism??
Gov Murphy's covid policy led to the murder of 10000 nursing home patients he supports full term abortion killing babies in their womb
ReplyDeleteDO WE TRUST HIM TO CARE ABOUT LIFE?
DO WE TRUST HIM OR THE CDC WITH VACCINES?
How did you jump to the CDC? They didn't kill nursing home residents, why are they responsible for that?
DeleteHow many of those 90 girls have applied to all the high schools and indicated that they are willing to attend any frum high school in Lakewood. Or are some or most only willing to attend very specific schools that are full already? And even those that might now be more willing to attend other schools ,were they willing to do that several months ago when the schools were filling up and now the schools are full ? Just some interesting questions .
ReplyDeletehttps://www.app.com/story/news/health/2021/08/04/chemed-lakewood-allegedly-skipped-steps-protect-staff-covid/5484482001/
ReplyDeleteSome girls applied to ALL high schools and even deal high school and were not accepted to even one. Stop blaming the kids for the mechanchim's shuttering the doors of mosdos chinuch, often for bogus or ridiculous reasons.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I have heard, this us true every year fir a small number of girls. But the vast majority ,did not apply to every school and most would have gotten into a school had they applied everywhere . Yes there will always be a handful with issues that need to he placed but that becomes difficult when there are 60 out of 80 who really didn't need the placement had they been willing to go to other schools
DeleteCould somebody give us a real number of how many girls there are whose parents were willing to be open minded and attend ANY of the frum high schools during the acceptance process months ago ,and still did not manage to get into any school at all. And how many schools are there that have less than 35 girls in a class that could possibly take more girls ?
ReplyDeleteI am not very open minded I don't want my daughter to go to a school were they teach in yiddush(since she does not speak yiddush)I mostly cover my hair with a scarf so I don't want her to go to a school that wants the mother to were a wig. So yes I am being very picky and closed minded.
DeleteEvery girl has a right to want to go to the schools her and her parents think fit best obviously within reason. To tell a girl she has to be willing to go to any Jewish school is ludicrous and you big talker would never do the same with your own children. There are many different types of schools and you wouldn’t send to all either so don’t expect that from my daughter.
ReplyDeleteI really understand. So you are saying that you have the right to force any school that is full with 40 or more kids in a class to take your daughter and to hire extra teachers that they cant afford and make more classes that they cant afford and spend millions of dollars that they don't have , in order to build more classrooms that they don't have room for ,so that you daughter ,can go to that school instead of another school that already has empty desks . I'm sure that makes a lot of sense to most of the readers here . I'm also sure that you will be the first to raise the funds necessary to make that all happen .
DeleteYou are not making much sense. I didn’t say the school is forced to accept my daughter but neither can you force me to go to a school I don’t want to and is not the standards I want for my daughter. Would you tell a yeshivish girl she has to go to a chassidish school or vice versa? Just because there is a problem that there is not enough room in the schools doesn’t mean I have to send my daughter to whatever school and you wouldn’t either so don’t mandate it on me. Btw I don’t have any daughters going to high next year.
DeleteLakewood once had a group of askanim that helped children who couldn't find a school, or get into one. They would meet the parents and try and find the best solution. The schools knew that they had to meet them and find a way to help them, and that was how it was.
DeleteOne day, the schools realized that they could control these askanim more than the askanim could control them. They persuaded them to make a rule that each girl needs to take multiple entrance exams and apply to multiple schools, and they schools decide between them 'who is in and who is out'. If you didn't listen, the askanim couldn't help. If a non-approved askan calls a school, the menahalim can say 'we don't deal with you', because they only deal with 'approved' askanim.
So instead of the askanim working to help children and their parents, they now work to help schools.
And we wonder why disasters happen.............
Im not sure how you are making sense . You agree that the schools that are overfull can not be forced to take your daughter. You say that you do not want to send your daughter to any other schools because its not for her . You have not offered to donate millions of dollars to create new schools that might be exactly to your liking . You are calling the administrators of the schools bad names because they are full and shutting their doors to your daughter who only wants or needs to go to their full over capacity schools . So what exactly are you suggesting other than blogging online ?
DeleteWho exactly is forcing you to send your daughter to a school that you feel is not for her. By all means try to send her where you feel she belongs . But if those schools you want are full , then don't tell the whole town to shut down and keep schools closed because your daughter is out if school. You can keep trying to get her in wherever you want but the whole town doesn’t have to shut down their schools while you are trying .
DeleteI didn’t call anyone bad names
DeleteIm sorry. I was referring to the poster who complained about mechanchim "shuttering their doors for bogus reasons " . I assume he meant that having more than 35 to 40 in a class is a bogus reason . In any event , according to your logic even making more schools is not the solution. Because who says that the new schools will be to your liking ? Maybe you will feel that the new school is too modern or too frum or too chasidush or too heimish for your daughter or too scholastic or too little scholastic, or too with it type of kids or too nebby type of kids. I think everybody rational agrees that not every one of the 1500 new 9th graders can physically fit into the 2 or 3 schools that you think are the most fitting for your daughter . So other than accepting a 2nd or 3rd or 4th choice ,what is your solution ? Especially when the older established, in demand schools are 90 per cent full with siblings before they can even consider any new girls.
DeleteWith all due respect, a hospital can mandate whatever they want. If they say their staff has to be vaccinated then they should be vaccinated. If the hospital would be saying patients can come which are not vaccinated that would be something else.
ReplyDeleteFor all these employees which are working in hospitals, just curious which rabbi did they call before going to all these courses.
Don't play frum here.
For the record I am not pro vaccinations, however being in a hospital setting things are very different you are dealing with compromised patients.
I'll bet 90% of the staff working in the hospitals would not want their parent treated by an unvaccinated staff.
Vaccinated people can still spread covid, so the only person to protect when vaccinating, is the person themselves. So why don't I have that choice once it's no longer a public health issue, it's a private issue, at my own risk.
ReplyDeleteI am not an anti vaxxer but did not get the COVID vaccine and don’t plan on. Number one I Bh have antibodies, number two I am not convinced that these vaccines are safe and there have been concerning stories with them, number 3 recent studies show that vaccinated people are losing their immunity over time so this needs more development. Don’t start hocking about protecting others because you have no proof that me getting the vaccine makes you any more safe.
ReplyDeleteThe issue is that the vaccines don't seem to actually work longer than a couple of months, so why the push to make everyone take it. Furthermore, it has not been tested for side effects for longer than about a year. Historically the average vaccines is tested 10-15 years prior to becoming publicly available.
ReplyDeleteI personally take all vaccines as do my children but for now I am staying on the sidelines, call me in 2025 and I may reassess.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/08/04/rabbis-adl-combat-antisemitism/
ReplyDeleteHow many thousands of dollars do you expect parents to pay in non-refundable application fees for all these high schools?
ReplyDeleteThe Application fees for the local high schools are about 25 or 30 dollars at most so even if you apply to 6 or 7 high schools its between 150 and 210 dollars . Not thousands. I'm quite sure that if there are a few parents that can't afford that ,then the vaad will subsidize that . Every single one of these parents have no problem spending 300 dollars per school to apply to a bunch of seminaries but somehow for high school ,then 25 or 30 dollars becomes exorbitant .
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