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- 111 new covid cases in Lakewood +2 deaths totals 22713/339
- 61 new cases in Jackson +2 deaths totals 11745/132
- 108 new cases in Toms River totals +6 deaths 19875/382
Murphy -Rain and snow tonight into tomorrow will impact tomorrow morning’s commute. Please exercise caution on the roads and take it slow. New Jersey State offices will will have a delayed start time of 11:00 AM.
- Governor Phil Murphy- "I’ve been briefed on the brush fire near Exit 91 of the GSParkway Please avoid the area as poor road visibility is resulting in large traffic backups".
-6:00 pm - The Garden State Parkway is closed in both directions Wednesday night in the area of Exit 91 in Lakewood because of a brush fire, the state Department of Transportation said.
.- Biden says he believes Putin and Russia will move in on Ukraine; warns of heavy human losses for Russia if it invades Ukraine.
-Starbucks is no longer requiring its U.S. workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, reversing a policy it announced earlier this month.
- CDC posts Study People with natural immunity from covid are better protected against the Delta variant than those who were vaccinated alone, California and New York health officials reported on Wednesday.
- A snowstorm Thursday morning with snowfall totals of 1 to 3 inches for much of the New Jersey with lesser amounts in the southeastern counties closer to the Jersey Shore.
- Gov. Phil Murphy announced new vaccine requirements for health care, long-term care and other residential facilities would be required to be vaccinated and boosted with no option for weekly testing instead.
-Last night the planning board approved a dormitory for Yeshiva Toras Chaim (R' Slomowitz) neighbors objected to the initial plan but after making changes it was approved with conditions. Mr. Moshe Neiman chaired the meeting, instead of Mr. Yechiel Herzl
- Camp Ruach Hatorah for boys in Lakewood announced it will not open for this year. The reason given is that the building they plan on using will be under construction. Other camps have made the same claim but it seems that this is not the only reason. Lately camps are having a hard time recruiting staff as bochurim have other summer options. The costs went up in many areas making it not as financially viable. Another camp is reportedly for sale and may not reopen this year. yesterday camp Yachad announced on their website "We are truly sorry! Due to construction in our building, we are unable to open for 2022. We wish you the best and will miss you on the Planet!
- Continued tefillos for Pinya Gittel bas Rachel Shaindel who was hit by a car in Lakewood. her situation has stabilized but she is in need of refuah veyeshuah.
- Israel reports over 72,000 new positive covid cases 533 in serious condition 104 on respirators. 10% are reinfections.
-An alleged drunk driver crashed into two parked vehicles late last night on Spruce Street. The driver was arrested. (LNN)
- Several international Airlines suspend US flights in response to 5G deployment near airports
- Britain has announced that they are scrapping the vaccine passports and people will no longer be required to wear face masks.
- Mayor Coles said at MUA meeting If we could get a list of anybody who is in arrears on their water bills, there is a very good possibility we can get them paid in full through the rescue fund monies
- Lakewood MUA gave a 3% increase to employees base salaries just as the township did, and a one time cost of living adjustment of 2.9%, so that is not added to the base, it’s just additional pay. Senator Singer said the 2.9% might come out of covid money because we are all essential workers. We don’t know that for sure so we have funded it but we may be able to recoup some or all of that money.
Camps have to lower the trips and expensive entertainment. And the schools and mosdos must give free rent or cost price to use the buildings. These schools were paid for with tzedaka money and it is a chiyuv on the community to make sure there is camping available and not have the boys roam the streets. If the camps wont have to pay crazy rent prices we would not see them shut down.
ReplyDeleteAre the people running mosdos who are renting out their buildings to day camps using the money to vacation in Florida or is it subsidizing their tuition costs?
DeleteAfter the added wear and tear, insurance and utility expenses for having day camps in the buildings how much profit do you think they are making anyway?
The cost of rent over the general costs of running a building doesn't seem to be a major factor in day camp costs. Mosdos that run day camps in buildings that they own anyway have zero rent expense but they aren't known to be cheaper than the privately owned day camps who rent buildings. (although I'm guessing that day camps owned by mosdos give tuition breaks whereas private day camps don't)
DeleteThe new slomowitz dormitory is a four (4) floor 41,300 square foot monstrosity very close to the property line which will provide easy access to hundreds of teenage boys to stare directly into people's homes and backyards. Privacy issues were disregarded.
ReplyDeleteNoise issues from the dorm nightlife which keep children and their parents up at night were disregarded. Students parking their cars all over the two neighboring developments (because officially they can't bring their cars to school) and using up the already tight parking situation was also disregarded. The applicant admitted that although he testified the school would never grow past a maximum size, he doubled it anyway.
The school might be giving a great education, but it's clear that it has outgrown its current location and should relocate to a different appropriately sized venue instead of trying to be tzaddikim on someone's else's cheshbon. לא זו הדרך.
When a small family grows and gets more kids, they sell their small car and buy a bigger one that will fit everyone. Another small family can then buy and use the smaller car.
DeleteSame here. slomowitz yeshiva decided to grow themselves past the capacity of this area and in violation of their original testimony given under oath. They should sell the lot to a smaller yeshiva and move to a larger area where they are not infringing on other mishpachos. Screaming torah torah is never a recognized excuse to violate another's rights. It is in fact nothing less than being מגלה פנים בתורה שלא כהלכה.
You have a right to yell as loud as you want on your property. But you have no right to force the neighbor to lose his sleep or suffer in any other way because you want to do whatever you want. You don't need to look in a mussar sefer to know this. It is what the Halacha and the law require.
They should also get real about many of their bachurim driving cars and build themselves a much larger parking lot. This way their talmidim won't have to regularly take away the much-needed parking spots from the many neighbors which have been living there BEFORE the yeshiva building was built.
His yekkish grandparents must be turning over in the graves
DeleteIt is all about who you know if you are hooked up u get approved if not you get denied.
ReplyDeleteWhat’s with the shul in westgate? Was it approved yet or are they not connected to the right big shots?
ReplyDeleteThey made sure it wont get approved by shlepping it out
DeleteWith the current board in place, any shul will get approved without a doubt! Westgate should get their lawyer ready to go because worry about wetlands is a thing of the past. Progress calls for new measures. Everything goes now!
DeleteWhat is the point of having a dormitory? Why can't the boys sleep at home? Are their fathers, many of whom still learn in kollel, not Yeshivish enough and will have a bad influence on their sons.
ReplyDeleteAt what about mishkav zachar? It is rare, but it does happen every so often. Dormitories are Chazer Treif.
A bochur needs to leave home to learn. Someone who stays home until he goes to Eretz Yisroel will be both emotionally stunted as well as never become a true Yeshivaman.
DeleteWe see in Lakewood bochurim who have never been קבוע davening in a Yeshiva, they daven in shtieblach all of their lives. They don't know what davening is. Bochurim whose mothers have done their laundry until age 20. Bochurim who never lived in Yeshiva and made that their lives. It is a shanda. We need more dormitories, more out of town Yeshivos and more הוי גולה למקום תורה.
So let them live in a stansya (i.e., board by a local family). Why do they need to go to a dormitory?
DeleteBesides, לא כל הרוצה לעשות עצמו יחיד עושה. Yes, for some yechidim, they gain from a dormitory. See, the Ksav Sofer at the very end of parshas Vayeira.
Whichever anonymous made this comment has never experienced being in Yeshiva. Living in Yeshiva, is not the same as showing up for class.
DeleteThe issue is net the importance of dormitories, but the area where they chose to build it
The verse says, "So a man should leave his parents and cling to his wife." It doesn't say anything about dormitories between leaving one's parents and getting married.
DeleteDormitories are almost certainly in violation of Hilchos Yichud. The Shulchan Aruch says that in a country where mishkav zachar is common, yichud applies between men as well. Let's say Biden says, "From now on, all dormitories must be co-ed," would you be OK with Yeshivas still having dormitories? Or would you agree that despite the lack of "experiencing being in Yeshiva" the dangers of a coed dormitory simply aren't worth the risks? The Shulchan Aruch considers all of our contemporary dormitories as equivalent to coed dormitories.
A dorm on Lakewood - you get the worst of both worlds - An oot yeshiva is where a bochur CAN shteig! Not in a dorm - A dorm is where you get to sneak in some movies stay up untill the wee hours of the morning, miss shachris, and have fights, learn about the outside world etc. And than you get the "benefit" of being in Lakewood where you get to run around to every restaurant, wedding, or anything else that is going on in this town, and you won't be missing anything going on by your family of course! The benefit of a dorm in Lakewood probably does more damage than good for most - not Worth it
Deletethe guy who keeps talking about mishchav zachar obviously has his own issues. adam roeh kol negaim...the baal shem tov's pshat vechu vechu...
DeleteAnon 7:41 - I feel bad for you that your Yeshiva experience was so negative. Indeed, if a dorm means 'sneak in some movies', you need help. Where I learned, if a bochur would have 'sneaked in some movies', the other bochurim would have rejected him. The Yeshiva atmosphere did not allow such things. Yes, sometimes people stayed up later than they should due to the dorm life, but that is a part of growing up. When I realized the price of staying up late, I learned the value of getting up early. I would not have learned that if I had stayed at home.
DeleteAnd to the Mishkav Zachar guy - do you honestly think you have discovered a new planet? No Yeshiva has two people to a room, there is no problem of yichud in a dorm. And the Shulchan Aruch has nothing to do with your politics. Our society is not plagued by mishkav zachar and our bochurim are not chashud on it.
In general, I see a thread of sin'as hatorah masquerading as complaints about privacy and mishkav zachar. This seems to be coming from people that עיניהם צרה בתלמידי חכמים.
Anonymous 6:17pm I wish you weren't anonymous, so I would know to keep children away from you.
DeleteAnon 8:50
DeleteWell put - unfortunately
Be that as it may, these dorms and those who they serve regularly pay miniscule heed to the rights and feelings and couldn't care less regarding
Violating their neighbors'
Privacy, decency, and beyond.
And these boys are supposed to be respected upholders of the community in years to come
Some people still pretend they are doing Torah
Let me put it this way: If the percentage of boys who engage in kreiva lizachar due to dormitories (which is yeherog v'ahl yaavor) would instead be the percentage of boys who lose a pinky-finger due to dormitories, you would not have a SINGLE parent willing to send their son to a dormitory yeshiva.
DeleteI had very a bad experiences having gone to an OOT Yeshiva thirty years ago when doing so was the really in thing to do and I would almost never allow my son to go OOT and am vehemently against dorms. Even so I never saw or heard about any hint of miskav zocher r'l in all the time I was there. If that is your reason for being against dorms you should be against camps as well. There is no Yichud or privacy in any dorm I have been in. Let alone a dorm that has more than two bochurim per room.
DeleteIt is true that dormitories have three per room. However, there are two issues. First, practically speaking, since bochurim are dorming a few hundred days PER YEAR, it is inevitable that some nights there will only be two per room (in BMG, we had four per room, but two of the guys would come back only sunday morning).
DeleteThen there is the practical issue. Even if it isn't technically yichud (which it is, see above). If we have system which WE KNOW causes a very small yet very significant percentage to do aveiros chamuros, how on earth can we tolerate such a system?! Is everything a game? Then you guys engage in irrelevant ad hominem attacks, claiming that I have a mishkav zachar problem or than I don't like talmidie chachamim. How is that relevant to the conversation?
Shulchan Aruch Even Haezer 24:
Deleteואם נתרחק אפי' מיחוד זכר ובהמה הרי זה משובח וגדולי החכמים היו מרחיקין הבהמה כדי שלא יתייחדו עמהם ובדורות הללו שרבו הפריצים יש להתרחק מלהתייחד עם הזכר
AnonymousJanuary 20, 2022 at 8:18 AM
DeleteIf someone has such a tremendous Yetzer Horah for Miskav Zocher that the rare night one of his roommates is away he will convince his roommate to engage in it then he probably would find a way to do it even out of a dorm. Being that I've had the distinct displeasure of being in dorms for about ten years but never seen a hint of such things I'm not running to accept that it is a problem that dorms cause.
anon 215
DeleteNice try - I stayed in town.. the other bochurim in yeshiva "rejecting him" so it did happen? So you were good with shachris and going to sleep - does that mean everyone else was? the point is a dorm in lakewood is not what we call an oot yeshiva where a bochur shteigs.. and for those that feel you are emotionally stunted if you never go oot until e.y. its complete garbage I've seen many guys that went to a dorm their whole life and met them in E.Y. and they can use some serious help!
If there's any institution where these happenings have occur, especially if they reach the level of three chamuros and the staff doesn't have the gumption, to deal with it firmly,harshly with immediacy should have their yarmulkas removed from the heads - and be so treated accordingly
DeleteMr. Yechiel Herzl Resigned due to firing of Hasidic Board Member
ReplyDeleteNo one was fired! That's ridiculous!
DeleteSable sent a letter that he cant be on the board thats it
Deletewhich camp is for sale - I will buy!
ReplyDeleteCamp blueclaws? Singer will give it to you for $26m
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