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- Satmar Rebbe Rav Aaron shlita tested positive for covid and is feeling weak אהרן בן פעסיל לאה
- Hatzolah of South Florida, Orlando, Baltimore and other locations are headed to areas with frum communities affected by hurricanes Ian
- The Lakewood Development Corporation voted today to revise the Lakewood Urban Enterprise Zone map. This will soon enable many new businesses in town to provide a half-off discount of sales tax. (Faanews)
- Hurricane Ian: The death toll was at least 12, according to police departments, but was expected to rise, with President Biden fearing Ian “could be the deadliest hurricane in Florida’s history.
- Response to the NYT article about chasidishe schools education by R' Aaron Kotler excerpts from a email sent:
I am sure you have seen the incredible growth of business and social and economic success in Lakewood, with tens of thousands of high paying jobs, millions of square feet of Class A office built, filled and staffed by Orthodox. This is a social success by any measure and outcomes that exceed that of South Jersey by far. It has lifted the economic boat of the entire Ocean County region. Somehow the Times appears to many to be grinding an ideological axe. It has a long history of missing the mark: The Times has been cited for playing up Stalin and Communism as great advancements for humanity, to downplaying the Holocaust and humanizing Hitler and the SS. ...
On another point, The Times should be ashamed of how it positioned this article: The inference of Jews and money is an old one, and common in media, the APP once ran a series called “Cheated” that implied that the Jews are cheating the public schools. Shame on them.
Accusations of bias has led to many folks losing trust in old media and the rise of groups like MAGA and others. It’s sad and predictable. Aaron Kotler
- Lakewood school district spent $109 million of covid funds $23.5 million on bussing, the district also had a 400-student drop in enrollment this year and a $20 million increase in annual operating costs from last year to this year. Charter school tuition is $9 million while the districts still has a outstanding loan to the state of $135 million( NJreport)
מי במים Hurricane Ian updates: Florida sheriff says 'fatalities are in the hundreds' after monster storm. 2.5 million without power.
- Secure your Sukkah: Winds along the Jersey Shore could gust as high as 40 to 45 mph New Jersey will begin to see rain and wind from the remnants of Ian as soon as late Friday night, forecasters say.Rain will be heavy at times on Saturday and continue periodically through the weekend with 1 to 4 inches possible. The heaviest rain is likely to fall in a 12-hour span beginning at 2 a.m. Saturday, the weather service said in its morning forecast discussion. Winds along the Jersey Shore could gust as high as 40 to 45 mph with minor coastal flooding also a possibility.
- Campaign launched Keren Zichron Zev after the petirah of R' Zev Cohen Z"L. R' Zev was a familiar and friendly face to many in Lakewood. He was niftar on Rosh Hashana and left a grief stricken family- his almana with 10 children at home. Donate HERE
- BDE: Petirah of habachur Aharon Egert Z"L son of R' Zev and Miriam Egert shlita of Lakewood , he was 30 years old, was sick for a number of years R"L.The Levaya will take place at the Lakewood chapel on 7th street at 11:00am with kevurah at the bais olam.
- CHS has notified participants that it is counting the scholarship kollel stipend as income. Those who are currently on but over the limit won't get thrown off until June at which they can reapply if there is a change of income etc.
- Peta activists were at kaparos locations around Lakewood with signs about animal cruelty and playing loud music to disturb. In response there were counter signs that read "its that time of year again when all those who support killing babies run around saving chickens."
SORRY, we do not want to be taught how to hold a chicken - by a BABY KILLER!
ReplyDeleteBaby Killers don't have the right to lecture us on what's considered 'humane' treatment of chickens!
ReplyDeleteOkay I'll let them know that you said that.
DeleteWe shouldn’t be basing our standards off of petas ethics. We should judge it objectively. And objectively most of us would agree that it doesn’t exactly feel compassionate to the chicken (yes I know you’re gonna say that neither does slaughter which is obviously very different) nor does the idea of having a stand in for our sins ie an animal taking the fall (yes I know you’re gonna protest with azazel which again is obviously very different) feel like the right way to be approaching Yom Kippur. It’s a minhag of dubious origin the value of which should be reconsidered in light of the real potential for tzar baalei chaim, it being theologically problematic vis a vis vicarious atonement and above all the chillul HaShem involved that people think that this rite is part and parcel of traditional Judaism when in truth no one seems to know where it’s even originated from. Ok, let the hate begin
ReplyDeleteSo presumably we should eat Kitniyos because we don't know where the custom originated.
DeleteThere is no צער בעלי חיים when the animal is used for a purpose, and a Minhag is also a 'purpose'.
Objectively, we should and can continue the Minhag, and people like you can stream their hate online (while blaming others for the same).
purpose doesn't matter, you still need to make sure it's done in a way that conforms with the halacha of tzar balei chaim - if it does, then great! If not, it's something that should be fixed, not because PETA or anyone is telling us to do so but because that's the halacha
DeleteBefore they tell us about chickens they should tell all the lobster eaters not to boil the lobster ALIVE. Or to put them in a oven and bake them ALIVE.
ReplyDeletePeta are the biggest hypocrites ever.
https://headlines.peta.org/help-crabs-lobsters-take-action-for-crustaceans/
DeleteThey DO tell that to the lobster eaters. They are NOT the biggest hypocrites.
DeleteIts a good line, but its not the truth. They don't really condone killing babies, just fetuses.
ReplyDeleteWill be bad optics for them to say it for now at this juncture but enough of them do. They call it 4th trimester abortion or similar.
DeleteWe on the other hand have to be careful of our own optics. Kapparos must be done the most humane way possible if done with chickens!?
DeleteThe last time my family went for kaparos (2yrs ago) we witnessed a huge pile (hundreds) of "kapparad" chickens that were lying dead. It's kind of ridiculous. It's supposed to go to anyyim....
ReplyDeleteI think PETA has trolls posting on Hefkervelt
ReplyDeleteIs Peta against fishing?
ReplyDeleteUm right but fetuses are not objects. They are live human beings and killing them is no different than murdering a man of color.
ReplyDeleteDo you need info about PETA?
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Where is the response to the NYT hit piece published?
ReplyDeleteSince when is MAGA a dangerous group and most of Lakewood voted for Trump and will do so again.
ReplyDeleteIf u like to have a seal skin coat because it looks nice, u r allowed to bash a baby seals head in to not ruin the skin for your coat. And it is NOT tzarbe lechayim
ReplyDeleteSo what AK is saying is that the NY Times story is true but it should not be reported because Jewish people are stereotyped to love money, and it should not be reported by the NY Times because of something almost a hundred years ago. But isn't that part of the point of the story, that the schools are getting state money but not learning American history? BTW That is why we are seeing MAGA. Because we have put too much emphasis on math and English and learning American history, the source of patriotism, has be neglected. It's not just the press that these Commie Pinko Putin lovers want to destroy, but it is the authority of Congress, our traditions and our institutions. They have resorted to mob rule and intimidation.
ReplyDeleteWell put in theory. In practice it is so improbable to teach it's incorrect. That is although the text curriculum have been liberal left color for so long they have gone beyond recently to Woke .Done in such subtle ways that however only a real mumcha will sift and catch
DeleteWhat is it with our community and PETA? No one in America cares about them. It is like that Intafadatifa thing they keep talking about, or the commie lady from the Bronx in Congress. They even gave her three letters AOC, as if they wanted her to be president, since presidents have three letter. PETA, the Intafadatif and this commie lady are nobodies and no one cares about them.
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