Friday, June 23, 2023 / ד׳ תמוז תשפ״ג ערב שבת פרשת קרח
Candle lighting 8:11 pm
Shkiah/sunset 8:29:46
Weather today: Hi 76° thunderstorms arriving for the afternoon. Chance of rain 50%.
Friday night:Low 68° cloudy with thunderstorms likely Chance of rain 60%.
Shabbos day: 81° Scattered thunderstorms Chance of rain 80%.
- First mens mikva opens in the Pak and Vine neighborhood
-Update: Media reports that Wagner group mobilizing heading to Moscow. Russian military on high alert protecting important positions.
Wagner group leader Prigozhin “Declares War” on Russian Military. Head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group is being investigated for inciting mutiny after accusing the Russian military of a launching a deadly missile strike on his troops. Yevgeny Prigozhin said the "evil" in the military leadership must be stopped and vowed to "march for justice".Russia denied the strike.
- Missionary book sent out by mail to thousands in frum areas of NY the book called Ashers Hashgacha pratis has been mailed out to thousands of frum homes in Brooklyn/Monsey and possibly communities in the NJ area it should be discarded immediately
- AG Garland: "Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy... Nothing could be further from the truth."
- New wedding trend: Singers at chasunas remove their shoes on stage and perform a dance.
- Asifa for heimish mosdos next Monday at Lakewood high school will discuss the dangers of technology
-Tefillos for the R"Y of Denver Rav Yisrael Meir Kagan shlita in need of rachmei shamayim name is Yisrael Meir ben Devorah
-Yahrzeit of Rav Shneur Kotler zatzal a siyum hashas will take place at the BMG Beren hall during Shalosh Seudos Rav Dovid schustal shlita will say the Hadran followed by divrei Zikarin from Rav Henoch Shachar shlita
-Off shabbos and no elementary schools has less traffic in Lakewood this morning also people are up in the catskills
- Lakewood Township giving away more of our money to BOE at the meeting Wednesday the Lakewood BOE formally accepted $100,000 from the Lakewood township committee for the district’s summer program open for all public-school students grades K-5. The Township is not required at all to send this money. This comes after the township raised taxes by over 3 million.
- R' Aaron Lang on Twitter about the BOE: "It is a slap-in-the-face to renew superintendent contract for retaliating against me and to renew lawyer's contract for his pleadings against public interest. Does public opinion count for anything in Lakewood?
- The 33-year-old man charged in an antisemitic crime spree in Manchester earlier this month told police he set a house on fire because he was “saving the neighborhood” from Jewish people moving into the area.(Nj.com)
-Road rage leads to shooting in Lakewood on Cross street and Massachusetts
LPD statement: Around 11:15pm last night, Officer Daniel DeBartolomeis responded to the area of Cross Street and Massachusetts Avenue to meet with the victim of a reported road rage incident. Upon arrival he met with a 22 year old Lakewood man who stated that the incident started at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Rt 70 after he accidentally cut the other driver off. As the two continued traveling north on Massachusetts Avenue the unidentified suspect fired one round into the victim's vehicle. The bullet entered through the rear drivers side door and lodged into the unoccupied front passenger seat. At this time the incident is under investigation and anyone with information is urged to contact Detective Austin Letts at 732-363-0200.
Are good middos about perfecting ones character or about doing good to others (b'shitas haRambam)? https://musingsonthetorah.blogspot.com/2023/05/virtue-internalized.html
ReplyDeletei wish they removed their socks too
ReplyDeleteDo the kohanim take off their socks when they duchen in your shul?
DeleteRe: Does public opinion count for anything in Lakewood?
ReplyDeleteHa!!! When was the last you even saw a Lakewood politician bother to campaign?!
My co-counsel in 2015 to 2018, who was not from Lakewood, said two things about Lakewood. 1) It does not matter what the newspapers say, and 2) public opinion does not matter.
DeleteThe man was very smart. He said that you must present your case working backwards. Start with the order, verdict or whatever you want, then work your way backwards. When I look at my 2014 petition today and compare it to the amended version in 2018, you can see that wisdom of that advise. The 2018 pleadings were clear about what we wanted the judge to do and the facts and law provided the path for what we wanted from her (and it was easy at that point because we already presented our witnesses and already knew exactly where the road lead). One of the biggest problems of pro se or clients is that they have no clear vision of what the judge should do. They just want justice or to be vindicated. Judges don't solve problems. They hear two solutions, one from each side, and decide upon the solution that was able to best apply the facts to the law. Many of John Marshall's great opinions that created the America economy and way of life came from s'varos argued by (Senator) Daniel Webster, the lawyer in many of those cases. Gibbons (free trade), McCollough (sovereignty of US government), Dartmouth (birth of the modern corporation free from government control).
no but they also don't dance.
ReplyDeletematerialistic Jewish singers dancing barefoot is what the Jewish nation needs badly.
The BOE doesn't understand their folly this year in denying me the summer school job that I had for almost two decades. I only get the biggest and most difficult legal work which by nature only comes in spurts. When it comes, like the federal case I just got, there are long intervals of time between work. Having a steady pay in the district, even as low as $50 an hour in the summer, does wonders to pacify resentment. By way of their illegal job retaliation, particularly when someone depends on the paltry pay, they gave me all day to drum up support against them, their boss, and the whole system of governance in Lakewood. Seems like everyone is on my side, including power brokers, but they can't do anything against the BOE, because of achdus and shalom, and the only way the relatively insignificant job action (a $50 an hour position?) might be remedied is by imploding the whole system.
DeleteAmerica is a rough and individualistic country. Achdus, may be necessary in a minority kehilla, but not for majority group in large US city. It is counterproductive of the competition of leadership and ideas necessary for a dynamic large city to thrive.
Lakewood is no less rough and individualistic as anywhere else in America. The way people compete in business, s'varos, money, hiring/firing, is the same if not more competitive. The only difference is, in the one area that needs the most competition, politics. But in politics, we're told to have achdus and to show ha'karos ha'tov to incumbents. And the only way anything can changed or any problem can be properly addressed, is if every power broker agrees, which is near impossible in such with so many competing groups jealous of their own turf.
And in my case, when it seems that there are no losers, not the state, not other districts, not the kids, not the mosdos, not the politicians, not the taxpayers, not anyone; if Lakewood power brokers can't come together for consensus, because it means someone else is doing the job, then achdus was an illusion to begin with.
Achdus,who are they kidding
DeleteA superb euphemism for that everyone remain convinced their gan Eden is based upon if they kowtow to our oligopoly
Proof:it works
No surprise so many youth turned against religion (similar to the yevsekstia)
Achdus = Democratic Republic (of North Korea)
DeleteAaron,the Fineshmeckers in town don't like your,Honesty Selflessness and Integrity,it's simply not their Derech,they want the Corruption to Flourish
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