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- Frum heimish community in Tampa awaits Hurricane Idalia. Kol Mevaser reports they are not expected to get more than 30- 40 mph winds but are preparing to help the community one hour north in Citrus County who are in the eye of the storm. They stocked up on water energy bars non perishables and flashlights.
- 30 girls still not accepted to high school with school starting next week
- Cost of frum living for middle class family in NY/NJ area is at 175k just for basics based on analysis by a Brooklyn CPA see photo below
- Road crew are installing new traffic lights at the intersection of PIne and 9 pushing them further back as they continuously get knocked down by trucks
- Bais Yaakov High School is seeking to expand their existing campus at 277 James Street Street.
This expansion is planned to be a 2-story expansion to the existing school as well as a new driveway access. full story at faanews https://www.faanews.com/2023/08/bais-yaakov-high-school-in-lakewood.html
- Tax dollars: Lakewood Schools Superintendent Laura Winters will see her salary increase by more than $22,000 this year as part of a contract extension approved last week that keeps her on the job through June 2028. Her paycheck increase by nearly 30% in the past six years, up from $167,500 in 2017 to $215,362 for the 2022-2023 school year. Winters was set to receive $220,746 in 2023-2024 under her previous five-year contract that would have ended in 2027. APP
- Today us the 4th Yartzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Gissinger ztl
- Lakewood-based Paramount Realty, in partnership with Cayre Equities of New York City, purchased the Bey Lea Plaza shopping center on Hooper Avenue across from Ocean County Mall in Toms River for $8.75 million.
- LPD safety tip: Do not block or park in crosswalks. They’re pedestrian safety zones. Drive safely, Lakewood.
- Idalia strengthened into a hurricane early this morning and could become a category 3 by the time it makes landfall tomorrow with devastating winds and up to 12 feet of storm surge in some areas of the state's Gulf Coast.
Video: protest in Lakewood about parental alienation
From Yechiel Steinberg CPA Brooklyn 
Health insurance was left off the expense list. Add that and you’re deep under water….
ReplyDeleteCleaning help was not included either. That's needed if both parents are working.
DeleteAnd clothing for $6,000?
I'm bh a family of 8 and my expenses are about half on every single item.
DeletePlease post source for a car for 10.000.00
ReplyDeleteIf both parents are working, then they probably need 2 cars. If they have 6 kids, then they need a minivan which even if you finance a used van will cost about $400 a month, plus gas/tolls, and insurance. Your total will be above 10k.
DeletePer year?
DeleteYes. 400*12= 4800 add in a 2nd car of 300*12= 3600 add in insurance 300*12=3600 then there is gas (or electric) and tolls and you are closer to 15k a year.
DeleteIs the school of their choice not accepting (and they won't budge to another school)? or all schools won't accept them (Hard to believe) ?
ReplyDeleteWhat about Ricci ties and Gucci shoes and Hermes belts? In Lakewood those are must haves
ReplyDeleteThat's your problem, don't blame the town. Plenty people in this town have their heads screwed on straight and aren't held hostage by their children.
DeleteJust a reminder you're meant to educate your children not have your children educate you. And yes that goes no matter where you bring up your children even in Lakewood.
Delete7 kids in school we pay close to 100k, 48,000 is way lowballed that means you have no boys in dorm yeshiva. Health, dental adds another 20k. These numbers are unrealistic.
ReplyDeleteIf you have seven kids in Yeshiva in Lakewood, you should not be paying $100,000 per year. No Cheder charges more than $10,000, and at most places you can receive a discount. Girls' schools charge closer to $5,000. This is full tuition.
DeleteI send to a dorm Yeshiva and it is about $7,000 per year.
Also, 'full tuition' is an arbitrary number. It is probably much less.
we can shut down the comment section now. 12:44 has shared their experience with us and no one can possibly have a different set of circumstances.
Deleteno girl school in Lakewood charges more than 5K. this commenter sends to a dorm and only pays 7K a year so everyone elses tuition bill is just FAKE NEWS!
I don't know about everyone else, but his experience is very similar to mine. I don't have that many kids in school now, but I pay 7,500 for my son in mesivta with a dorm, and 5,500 for my kids in elementary. Regular mainstream schools and I don't qualify for many breaks. Not sure how he's paying 100k for seven kids. That sounds like a lot unless he has two in seminary and is paying more than full for the others. It's possible, but a bit tough to believe.
DeleteWhich local dorm yeshiva is $7k??? I pay double.
ReplyDeleteAgree. he's the מועט
DeleteWho said 'local'?
DeleteThe reason local places charge more, is because they are Beis Hamedrash's and they charge the government for the Pell Grants.
I have three boys in dorm yeshivas mesivta thru Bais midrash some in Lakewood some out of Lakewood. and it’s 20k each kid! (We pay full) also my boys elementary school is above 8,000 already, they’ve been going up every year. And girls high school is mis 7’s. So we are at 92k and that is without the Chavrusa’s for the boys.
Delete$175+ does not qualify for Pell Grants.
DeleteThanks to Torah Umesorah our tuitions went up significantly and parents cant make ends meet while roshei mosdos are flying off to Florida and go for sukkos in Eretz Yisroel
ReplyDeleteMaybe the authors uncle owns Kayco... (distributors of gefen, Haddar etc...) with yomim tovim and everyday food spending, my bill is definitely 50K a year. Probably substantially higher.
ReplyDelete1:32 1244 has no right to voice an opinion ? I guess because it doesn't shtim with your narrative of pity which you are trying to push.
ReplyDeleteThe eitza is not to ketch. Get your act together and go for Financial Counseling / Therapy.
ReplyDeleteWe as a community can learn a thing or two of living within our means.
If you don't have you don't spend.
Financial counseling won't help when you have expenses that can not be cut, and somehow the CPA left out health insurance which is 20k per year plus dental.
DeleteThat "protest" against parental alienation is hysterical. Two guys with a sign and a mic don't a protest make.
ReplyDeleteSo far the movement about parental alienation has managed to alienate just about every sane person I know.
I have no idea whether their cause is real or not, but they're not doing a good job of convincing anyone. If it's a real problem, they need to find a better mode of messaging.
Adirei hatorah donation was also left out as was chasdei lev to help our poor rebbeim and yungeleit who get one handout after another besides food stamps, hud, wic you name it.
ReplyDeleteI don't hate Talmidei Chachamim, but.................................
DeleteAlways the refuge of שונאי תורה around the world. Watch the responses to this for more examples.
We must take action against the kosher food industry who are a monopoly and raised prices that are way out of line. It's time to boycott. Mo one should eat any fleishigs or expensive foods. Eat simple bread and macaroni for a few weeks let the industry feel the pinch that their price increased will not be tolerated.
ReplyDeleteIt can only work if we are all in it together bachdus be noise Beol with fellow yiddin who can't afford this.
Next demand all yeshivos that raised tuition to open their books to the parents with an independent outside auditor.
Time to follow the chasidim and open new communities away from the population centers like Lakewood that are not affordable anymore for housing and young couples
Follow the chassidim?!
DeleteThey followed us. We built a town, and they came and used the infrastructure that we built.
I fargin them, why not allow a Yid to enjoy the fruits of our labors? We are all one family. But they weren't the Nachshons here.
Monsey
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Who is gonna be the "We"
ReplyDeleteMe and you
ReplyDeleteI think we should boycott the schools until they lower tuition.
ReplyDeleteRabosai! Past storms have seen casualties from our Kehilla. Take the time to say a kappitel for the Yidden in Florida, Georgia and other places in the path of the storm, that they not suffer at all, not physical or financial harm.
ReplyDelete"Out of towner" here, where the cost of living is supposed to be lower. Not so. Full tuition is around 13k for boys elementary and 15k for girls. Mesivta/High school with dorm is 22k. Seminary and post-seminary Degree is 25k + per year. We make about 260k gross, and I feel like we're just getting by.
ReplyDeleteYou’re living in the wrong out of town. Go to the place that has free tuition and housing for pennies.
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