- Agudah will host a Shabbos Maamad event at Prudential stadium with over 20,000 men women and children to celebrate the Matanah Tovah Hashem has gifted us - Shabbos. it will take place Monday March 27 tickets on sale Here There will be inspirational speeches Singing and dancing a maamad that will impart the joy and kedusha of shabbos.
- Kashrus alert: Landau Panko Crumbs (Plain) and Kemach Vegetable Soup with Mushrooms have been recalled due to bug infestation
- Tenka Rebbe will spend shabbos in Lakewood at K;hal Shemen Lmincha in brokhill
- Wooridge rebbe will spend shabbos in Lakewood at B"M Michtav Sofer 1051 W County Line
- Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to resume diplomatic relations after secret talks in Beijing mediated by the Chinese government, the two countries announced on Friday. This can be a blow to the Israeli govt who was working on warming relations with Saudi Arabia to counter Iran.
- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said Thursday that he would question the TSA after a woman posted reports of repeated antisemitic discrimination at JFK airport on social media. Liz Mair, a British-American political strategist, alleged that everyone she saw at the airport on a recent trip who was visibly Jewish was forced to undergo more extensive screening, and one Orthodox woman was asked to remove her sheitel.
- R' Aaron Lang comments on local media not reporting about court case. "TLS would take my press release. Maybe there simply was not enough room for the story on the TLS website given all the important local matters. The Lakewood court case story is not just local but national news. It will significantly affect other districts and its outcome might become a model for all districts with large numbers of nonpublic students. As it turned out, lack of newsworthiness was not the reason. TLS replied to my email, "We generally don’t post things sent out all over." I guess they wanted an exclusive. You can't own news. TLS does not have a monopoly over the news. The First Amendment is the property of all Americans, not that of one organization.
Does anyone know if Bais Faiga hosts Takanah Purim parties?
ReplyDeletei am not a gevir but i feel left out and looked down upon by my young rich neighbors if i didnt rent out a hall and have a seudas achasveirosh! i just hope i can still get a singer; they all seem to be booked that night. also, if anyone knows which caterers take food stamps, that would be very helpful!!
Of course, that's a typo.
ReplyDeleteTLS would NOT take my press release.
I really don't understand why TLS has a news blackout on the Lang court victory. It seems like the powers that be do not support his case. Why?
ReplyDeleteI was quiet for eight years after a May 15, 2014, political meeting with 100 Igud members, Township Committeemen, and BOE members in attendance. I announced that I was going to file my case. One girls' school boss arrogantly stood up and shouted at me twice, "No one writes the commissioner without our permission!" No one protested. I turned all white and sat down.
DeleteBOE members then snickered at me whispering, "You see, no one holds of you." Then, at the end of the meeting, rather than thanking me for, then in 2014, six years of research and advocacy, going to law school and seeking out Professor Tractenberg who was instrumental in winning, right in front of my eyes, the Igud took $40,000 in pledges to hire an unnamed attorney. I already said I would do the litigation for free as part of my job in the district. Their case was dismissed with prejudice in January 2015. So was their federal case in 2019. They were requesting arguing the same exact remedy.
Instead of working with me, they irresponsibly encumbered the taxpayers with over a hundred million dollars of debt and it would be about $300 million if not for the use of federal Covid money the last two years.
I asked Rav Elyahu Levin to speak to BOE President Zlatkin. He told him, "He does not trust me." I never met the guy but he does not trust me. I heard that nonsense about trust before from the previous BOE president when I asked him to make Mr. Andersen superintendent. Andersen was the most respected educator we had but the BOE "did not trust him."
I don't get it. What does "trust" mean? That I would steal, lie or cheat? I would not be loyal. Isn't the purpose of an organization the bottom line. Where does trust come in? And how do they have a right to say they don't trust me, or the aforementioned person?
As the years passed and I won the first motion to dismiss in 2015, and then the second motion to dismiss in 2018, and then got the prized ruling out of OAL that the state is not providing T&E in Lakewood,. The bosses stood by and did nothing to protest the district's actions against me even though they ordered the BOE to hire MI.
I not only didn't move up in the district but was demoted, my overall pay was reduced, and I lost all possibility of an overdue promotion to an administrative position in the district, even though I am the most senior member of the faculty. Not to mention the district's inexplicable exceptions to the OAL ruling claiming the state IS providing T & E. There is no cause of action in NJ or almost any other state for unfair funding or unfair taxation in a town, just the claim that the state is not providing a thorough and efficient education. That is the jurisdictional hook and the BOE opposed it.
I'm not quite sure why anyone looks at them as a media source. It's a clickbait site woth a special focus on police graduations and car accidents.
DeleteOh! And every once in a while post a stupid video of someone doing something they shouldn't be. Regular Mesirah, I heard from someone in the PD, that they had to give the fellow a serious ticket because it was on the snoop and social media. Even though they admitted it was an honest mistake in that story.
The Law Office of Jan Meyer Esq. and Associates has once again prevailed against the Lakewood Planning Board.
ReplyDeleteOcean County Superior Court Assignment Judge Francis Hodgson today denied Yeshiva Toras Chaim's Motion for Reconsideration which sought to reverse Judge Marlene Ford's earlier ruling overturning the Lakewood Township Planning Board's approval of the yeshiva's dormitory expansion on the basis that the Township Committee has not deemed dormitories to be a permitted use in the residential zoning district and therefore the Board lacked jurisdiction to approve the non-permitted use.
At today's court hearing, Planning Board Attorney John Jackson told Judge Hodgson that he has recently been pushing the Planning Board to ignore Judge Ford's ruling and continue to approve dormitory applications because "the Township governing body wants the Planning Board to still have jurisdiction to approve dormitories as an accessory use."
https://www.faanews.com/2023/03/breaking-this-is-developing-story-and.html
What is this Shabbos event? On a Monday? For what purpose? Why not just stay home?
ReplyDeleteSounds like some people are desperate for events, Citifield, anti-Zionist events, Adirei Hatorah, and now Shabbos.
Who has time before pesach to go for a agudah PR photo op. This is very strange that they feel a pressing need to do this
DeleteThe treatment of Reb Arthur Lang by the leadership is a black stain and kitrug on the shtut.
ReplyDeleteThey scream hakoras hatov to support the biggest menuvalim and mushchasim but for one of our own who fought with mesiras nefesh on behalf of thr klal they ignore and demote.
This proves that all they care about is themselves and their pocket$.
We won't forget this next time they post videos asking the olam for votes or pretending to be such tzadikim who are working lishma on behalf of the klal
Can Mr Lang please run for township commitee? Take over the vacant seat.. PLEASE
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