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OCHD updated covid cases 7/6/22 - 7/19/22
- 142 new covid cases + 2 deaths in Lakewood totals 25398/379
- 149 new covid cases + 1 death in Jackson totals 13992/149
- 260 new covid cases + 1 death in Toms River totals 23826/456
- Mega millions jackpot drawing tonight $660 Million
- First half of girls day camps is over today
- Firefighters are battling a large brushfire on Route 70 in Lakewood, NJ just off the Garden State Parkway expect delays in the area.
- Levaya of Harav Shlomo Carlebach ZT"L 9:30 am at 7th street chapel in Lakewood.
- Tefillos for Rav Gershon Eidelstein who is hospitalized over shabbos for observation. Doctors are discussing if he will need a heart procedure. Name for tehillim ירחמיאל גרשון בן מרים
- School vouchers: A meeting took place recently in Lakewood with the participation of the OU and other lay leaders to advocate and lobby for make tuition vouchers in NJ for private school students bringing tuition relief for parents.
- Egg prices are rising due to a smaller workforce and process and delivery costs. In Lakewood at NPGS A dozen eggs is $4.19
- Tuition increases: More schools in Lakewood have raised their tuition as receive the contracts for next year. Elementary girls schools went up by $500 - $1200 boys school up by $1000 and a new girls high school is charging $12,000 for this coming year.
- Continued tefillos for the Gaavad Yerushalayim Yitzchok Tuvia Ben Rikel in need of Rachael shamayim.
With Lakewood being unaffordable to live in and rental prices sky rocketing there's talk again of forming communities to areas 30 - 45 minutes away. In Hamilton area and Burlington areas of Browns Mills.
Where are those talks regarding housing 30 min away
ReplyDeleteIn the coffee room that's were all great movements and ideas originate
DeleteIn the voice? Or bmgs?
DeleteThe question is what is meant by "forming communities". Open mikvaos, yeshivos, schools, and the people will come. But if "forming communities " is code for greedy developers razing huge plots of land to build cramped housing -- well, all that's going to do is attract the hostility of the non Jewish neighbors.
ReplyDeleteSCK owns lots of houses and land in Hamilton where his yeshiva is already located. Follow the money.
DeleteWhat's the link for the levaya
ReplyDelete"tuition relief for parents"
ReplyDeleteRight cus we all believe that if the state gives money towards tuition the rosh mosdos will deduct that amount from tuition. LOL!! That is hysterical! I cant I cant...get me out of here. I cant.. LOL!!!
Don't hold your breath. NJEA is enormously powerful and I don't see vouchers happening anytime soon.
Deletehere we go again with the rosh mosod bashing.
DeleteIf everyone thinks that rosh mosdos are making tons money under the table why isnt everyone running to open a mosod?
Before you accuse please think of the facts!!
Anon - 10:57 - the reason people aren't running to open Mosdos is because most people have consciences. It takes a lot to remove people's consciences and sometimes people aren't successful.
DeleteAre you suggesting the rosh mosdos dont have a conscious?
Deletea person without a conscious in medical terms is called a psychopath.
If someone pockets money and they think no one chaps, that means they are a psychopath??!
It's conscience
DeleteAnd you have no idea what you are talking about
Advice for any new out of town community development - don't allow townhouses. Respect zoning law as they are for your benefit and quality of life. A community can begin piggybacking off Lakewood in the begining and then slowly open Schools etc.
ReplyDeleteEven with raising Kollel checks etc. etc. which should all be commended anyone who is not here for a while and has already purchased a home will find it difficult to keep up with Lakewood prices. If I was a little younger I would move out in a second.
+5
DeleteThere are currently plenty of townhouse communities in Burlington County, this isn't a Jewish invention.
DeleteYeah, bit I haven't seen townhouses In closed in cul de sac developments anywhere outside Lakewood
DeleteSo the OU is now leading the charge on school vouchers wasn't that always Aguda's claim to fame?
ReplyDeleteAguda claim to fame is the food boxes they are taking credit for it
DeleteBoth feed off each other
DeleteEggs in Aldi still under 2.50 per dozen
ReplyDelete"Aguda claim to fame is the food boxes they are taking credit for it"
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the $2500 per family tuition money Aguda said they got??
Did anyone get anything?
Al I saw was nonstop PR...
can someone PLEASE PUBLICIZE so everyone can see what Aguda NJ did with the money that were earmarked for Lakewood residents tuition
DeleteHonestly people got money from the grant but Agudah didn't disclose how much money was actually given
DeleteHow much money they spent on PR and advertising
How much they received to "administer" the funds.
Agudah also was able to do good with all the frum newspapers and websites but blowing advertising money for PR which they get good coverage in the future
I for one didn't receive. I know of others that also got nothing
DeleteRoshei mosdos should open their books. If they want to raise tuition parents should have a right to demand full transparency and see how much money is coming in and how it is spent. What kinda real estate and fancy buildings they are putting up etc..
ReplyDeleteThe LAST thing will do is open the books. Even the bookkeepers arent allowed to know everything
DeleteKeep your eyes on Passaic. They're looking to turn it into what happened to Lakewood in record time! The developers are rumored to have aided pet projects of some of the YUish rabbis, so that they won't oppose them. Everyone else seems to be blissfully unaware, until it's too late. The 'frum' politicians who everyone relies upon and votes for are not raising alarms either.
ReplyDeleteIt’s hard to replicate the corruption we see in Lakewood. Unfortunately for Lakewood it’s also nearly impossible to undo the terrible damage they have done to this town. They are asidin litein es hadin.
ReplyDelete"thinks that rosh mosdos are making tons money under the table why isnt everyone running to open a mosod"
ReplyDeleteThey would. But they are too ehrliche
Planty of communities in NJ alraedy have School Vouchers , Linden for exemple Etc.
ReplyDeleteI love how anonymous posters on hefkervelt know so many secrets about everything, and the rest of us are just supposed to accept it. I for one don't believe anything you say until I see the proof.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous July 23, 2022 at 11:08 PM
Deleteplease specify which anonymous posters your referring to, and please let the rest of us anonymous posters know who you are and how we can go about sending you proof.
The answer to the tuition crisis in not vouchers. The only reason why we have a right to nonpublic education is because of Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925). Otherwise everyone would be required to go to public school. Read my dogma at: http://www.lakewoodlaw.org/Public%20Schools%20.html
ReplyDeleteIn 2011 I wrote a paper explaining how the district can pay for nonpublic school teachers without violating Lemon v. Kutzman (1971) by way of Option Two. The advantage of this plan was that it did not need state approval since it was already in the administrative code.
I now have a better plan. The state provided $400,000 for public school STEM teachers in nonpublic schools. Under current law, this violates the Lemon case if the teacher stands alone because the teacher cannot be monitored.
The solution is easy. We have the capability today to monitor the public school teacher by requiring him to record the lesson on his cellphone onto a server. Hence there will be no entanglement between state and religion.
I think the Court will overturn Lemon anyway but no one wants to give me the test case. They are cowards, like so many people in this town, and don't want the attention. A bigger problem is that English is assur in Lakewood but I am ready and willing.
Aaron Lang
Typo in first sentence of second paragraph. "the district can pay for public school teachers in nonpublic schools etc."
ReplyDeleteYou got to be blind what's going on wit private schools. You open a school after 2 years you start building a magnificent building taking parents hard earned money to pay for building fund so the ceo from the school should be well off financially 10 years later when the board decides this mossed can't continue under a leadership that's only thinking how to milk another dollar from parents making ends meet. While not providing important things for the education of the children.. So this tzadik walks away with 5 million USD blood money,
ReplyDeleteThis problem is all over Lakewood. Where I came from, a pharmacist owned a pharmacy, a doctor ran a nursing home, a chef owned a restaurant, an engineer owned a construction company and an educator ran school. This is why Lakewood is umhafek hu. Sixth grade dropouts are sho'lait over professionals. And worse of all, there is no compunction about hiring unskilled illegal aliens to do the work that the owner of the business should be doing.
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