- Food boxes for summer have yet to be approved.While the covid funds are no longer available the regular summer lunch program is administered on location in schools and camps. Last year the gor allowed vendors and the schools to give the summer lunch program in a box instead of getting it inside. For this coming year there no word yet if same can be done again this year.
--Brooklyn liquor store purchases liquor license in Toms River A company that runs a kosher liquor store in New York City has purchased a liquor distribution license in Toms River for a record-breaking $1.6 million. The Township Council awarded the license to MB Vineyards, which operates a discount liquor store on Avenue J in Brooklyn. The license is a new one; the township was allowed to sell one new distribution license and two new consumption licenses after Toms River's population increased in the 2020 U.S. Census.(App)
- The Ocean County Board of Commissioners debate preserving a Lakewood farm and buying it for $6 million even as the township has zoned the land for a future housing development. The parcel is an 11 acre property on Drake road that was designated as farmland a video of the meeting posted by APP show officials arguing if Lakewood will need it to fill a housing shortage while others countered there's no housing shortage but more of an affordable housing shortage. Other officials said there's plenty of room to build in Jackson. (APP)
-A house in Lakewood that sold for $1.5 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales in the Lakewood area between May 1 and May 8. In total, 30 residential real estate sales were recorded in the area during the past week, with an average price of $411,737. The average price per square foot ended up at $296. NJ
- Lakewood Caffoteria cafe makes list of best cafeterias in each state. Cafeterias are synonymous with comfort food, so why not consider getting lunch at Cafotteria Modern Eatery, a Kosher Dairy restaurant with a sophisticated cafeteria layout in Lakewood, New Jersey? The stylish dining room is a great place to enjoy a meal whether it be a straightforward breakfast of an omelet and potato hash or a sushi-grade poké bowl. Prices will be steeper here than at other cafeterias (it's New Jersey), but it doesn't skimp on creativity — dessert picks include an oven-fired s'mores pizza. source
I'll be honest I think the food boxes shouldn't be approved. All it does is cause a massive Chillul HaShem. It drives the food prices up in our local groceries. Also the amount of traffic it causes for a few gross items. Most of us don't eat half of the hechsherim. The milk sits out in the sun for hours. We don't need it.
ReplyDeleteThe food boxes are there to make a few people rich. It does nothing for us simple folk. Same is with the grants to the childcare facilities, just causes prices to rise.
DeleteThe food boxes should come back as prices are unaffordable at least let the middle class save some money on groceries
ReplyDeleteThe food boxes have helped me for the most part. Though there are some items I can do without.
DeleteIt's not saving the middle class.
DeleteIt's not even making rich those middle men.
It's a quick buck for these companies who wait for opportunities to make a quick buck on analogies.
This quick buck is at tge expense of all tax paying citizens.
These boxes are the stupidest things ever 20 percent goes to the garbage 30 percent is cakes that I would never feed my kids another 20 percent are just expensive items that become a staple, and my wife starts buying them year round at inflatable prices, and for 30 percent it's just not worth it
ReplyDeleteThere are plenty of places in Lakewood that would take what you throw out from the food boxes and plenty of people who would take it. Don't complain about what gets thrown out because you don't want to do chesed with it
ReplyDeleteGiving stuff to hoarders when they don't need it, is not chesed. I have seen people sit in traffic and drive across town for a "free" bag of frozen berries. The time and cost doesn't make sense. It's a sickness.
DeleteFood boxes are one of the causes of inflation. So you save a couple of dollars in the summer, and pay way more throughout the rest of the year. Typical thought process for some people.
ReplyDeleteHow do food boxes cause inflation??
DeleteThey inflate your stomach
DeleteBecause the kosher manufacturers and distributors are selling millions of dollars worth of kosher food to the schools for the boxes, supplies become scarce for the regular grocery stores, and prices will go up. (Which creates a cycle of food inflation - prices don't just suddenly come down after the summer)
DeleteSOURCE: I work in a grocery store
PS I personally don't care, more food boxes equals more million$ for certain Yidden and Yiddishe schools. More food inflation equals more million$ for the grocery stores in terms of higher prices and more profit$. Its the little guy that loses out when food prices go up across the board. Mi k'amcha Yisroel
Just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you
ReplyDeleteWhat an embarrassment that the developers and investors brought hundreds of families to live here in Lakewood who never heard of BMG and could not find it if they looked for it. How nice, that now they're getting tours.
ReplyDeleteThe irony. I remember when Oak&Vine parcels were zoned and sold for cheap, with the reasoning being we need more properties for the just married in BMG. If you want to know why BMG is building apartments, it's because the yungeleit got messed over many times by developers and investors.
DeleteThey should give vouchers that you can use in grocery stores.
ReplyDeleteNot a smart idea to alienate your base by pricing them out from buying tickets while at the same time courting the chasidim. Just say it's about raising funds and not about putting the olam on a pedestal
ReplyDeleteThere are enough gullible sincere people around.
Delete"A sucker is born every.."
Why is adirei charging for tickets in the first place they should let everyone go for free
ReplyDeleteWhy should a father with 3 boys have to pay 600 dollars to go
Who says you have to go
DeleteThey charge to keep the jerks like you out. They don't want your type with all your negativity and they know that you think everything is coming to you so by charging, you won't show and it'll be a win for all involved.
Deletewhat have we come to, giving chasidim tours of BMG, seriously??? this is so off on many levels, i don't know where to begin...
ReplyDeleteexplain yourself , begin!
DeleteIt’s very simple nobody should go. You save money and time.
ReplyDeleteLakewood is now full of people who never set foot in BMG that is the new reality so for them it is an attraction and the tours will become a weekly event to raise money for yeshiva
ReplyDeleteRebbee Hill's tours
DeleteIt’s ossur to listen to the radio. It’s especially ossur to listen to Mark Levin.
ReplyDeleteIt's ossur to listen to our Wise leaders telling us to vote for Woke,left wing politicos
ReplyDeleteThat was so last season
DeleteNow we have to dance to their drum
Haha what’s assur about listening to the radio? What’s wrong with Mark Levin?
ReplyDeleteBy Hv censoring comments they are no better than TLS and the rest. What a disgrace.
ReplyDeleteLike Russian collusion
ReplyDelete"are being phased out of electric vehicles due to interference issues " Ostensibly
Did BMG serve tuna bagels to the tuna bagels on the tour?
ReplyDeleteNo they get the fancy supper by adirei hatorah. The yungeleit who we’re putting on a pedestal will be lucky to get a packaged danish.
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