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- BOE Politics: Reporr- "R' Aron (Arthur) Lang, who has spent nearly a decade fighting the State of New Jersey for adequate funding for bussing for Lakewood's students, has been retaliated against after tweeting out calls for action to get new candidates to run for membership on the Lakewood Board of Education, FAA News has shockingly learned (see letter sent to Lakewood leaders Here)
Faanews reports: Subsequently, he submitted a request to the Board of Education requesting a promotion. In his letter, he emphasized that, over a number of years, instead of getting at least a "thank you" for his tireless efforts on behalf of all students in Lakewood, he has repeatedly been retaliated against. The letter, in part, states: "It is a bizayon that I have to run around asking for help, to appear before the Roshei Yeshiva as a victim, when I am fighting the full might and power of the State of NJ on behalf of Lakewood and Lakewood cannot do anything against you. A hundred years from now no one is going to care that I had no parnasa, or perhaps they will care and cast those responsible as villains, but they will certainly will care if the school formula is fixed. SEE full story HERE
- The New York Times collaborated with the New York State government to produce its now-infamous series of stories targeting Orthodox Jewish schools, and intentionally ommited information according to over 800 pages of emails obtained by Breitbart News. here
- Update: Refoel ben Rivka Chana who was injured in a accident inbItaly, surgery BH went well he was taken off the vent and B"H breathing on his own still in serious condition please continue to daven. His wife is undergoing surgery today name is Devorah Adina bas Chana Avigail
- Patis bakery and Cafe open in Lakewood at 1700 Madison Avenue at Gourmet Glatt Plaza under the hashgacha of the OU
- Lakewood township giving the BOE $3.4 Million of taxpayer dollars for non mandated transportation and other services for the public school while non mandated yeshiva parents must pay out of pocket. On the agenda for the BOE meeting tonight the board will accept $3,430,000 from the Township of Lakewood for LSTA in the amount of $1,200,000.
Hazardous, Non-Mandated Public School Busing for 2021/2022 in the amount of $800,000 from, Hazardous, Non-mandated Public School Busing for 2022/2023 in the amount of $1,200,000, Trash pickup for 2022/2023 in the amount of $130,000, Summer Recreation Program for 2022 in the amount of $100,000
- Jackson appoints frum resident to the zoning board The Jackson Township Council on Tuesday evening appointed Shira Parnes and Rob Hudak to fill Zoning Board vacancies. faanews
- Yellow trucking declares bankruptcy can cause supply chain issues and a price increase on merchandise and food items. The company has a truck depot in Lakewood at the industrial park
- Bingo rib eye steaks with HIsachdus hashgocha for $9.99 a LB, XL eggs 3dozwn for $3
- Bike4chai fundraiser riders head out on bike tour team Lakewood raised $2,531,407.12
- US and Saudi Arabia have agreed on the broad terms of a deal for Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel in exchange for concessions to the Palestinians, US security guarantees and civilian nuclear help, WSJ reports,
- The House Oversight Committee has identified over $20 million in payments "from foreign sources" to the Bidens and their associates.
- One winning mega millions ticket was purchased in Neptune Beach, Florida
- Harav Baruch Weissbekker shlita Rosh Yeshiva Bais Mattis in EY visits Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yeruchom Olshin shlita,they spoke in learning for over an hour
Bezoyen to eat at a restaurant with only a ou hechsher
ReplyDeleteלהיכן הגענו?
DeleteWe are not 5 towns or Teaneck etc.
This is a charedi yeshiva torahdig town and it truly is a בזיון!
Finally we got a reliable hashgacha in town. BH. Now at least we can call 1 place safe to eat. OU doesn’t take garbage from anyone.
DeleteBezoyan is a term
Deleteused for things that can't be explained
I personally would not trust the OU hashgacha for restaurants.
DeleteKCL needs some competition from an organization with real standards. While those standards maybe considered lower, at least they hold firm to them.
DeleteOU restaurants are known to have the strictest standards of all restaurants. Their products may have some kulos that others don't rely on, but their hashgacha is impeccable.
DeleteI would sooner complain about the Hisachdus establishments in town, which is an objectively much lower standard. That's the true Bizayon.
No problem. Don't eat there. I don't eat in restaurant s either way but I eat enough other OU certified products that I can't have an issue with anyone relying on their hecsher.
DeleteThe Kashrus standards in this town are a Shanda for town that professes to be a Chareidi town anything is better than what we have now
DeleteHisachdus Is on one store and they keep on doing things kcl wouldn't dream of, kashrus wise
DeleteIm not affiliated with kcl. They are just facts
Yellow has a depot in Lakewood ?? As far as I heard they are located in Trenton.
ReplyDeleteyes, at 105 Lehigh Ave, Lakewood, NJ 08701. Last I heard you think you know it all, but don't.
DeleteNo they don't, that's Estes trucking on Lehigh Ave
DeleteYRC is there as well
DeleteExplain in detail why the KCL is a better hechsher than the OU.
ReplyDeleteThe whole vort is just to NOT rely on the hechsher that they use "in the 5 towns and Teaneck." That way we can feel extra holy for just a little bit of effort. It doesn't matter if it's a good hechsher.
DeleteIt clearly isn't
DeleteIs Lakewood still ideal for a ben Torah to raise a family with all the gashmiyus and pritzus in public. Yes it is disgusting how ladies are dressing now walking around without any shame barely covering themselves this was never how they dressed in Brooklyn
ReplyDeleteThere a total lack of sensitivity
they left their yiras shamayim in Brooklyn and came here to be poirek oil
DeleteFunny, I never see this. When I walk and see a woman, I look away. No time to assess her clothing.
DeleteIs Patis “pas yisroel”?
ReplyDeleteyes Patis is pas yisroel
Deletehttps://daastorah.substack.com/p/its-time-for-frum-jews-to-leave-the
ReplyDeleteSo what is the alternative, to embrace the antisemitic radical Democrat party?
DeleteWho hate Jews and Israel and love the Arabs who murder Jews are they who we should join?
The ones who support killing babies and pro toeva lifestyles bringing dor hamabul back.
No thanks
I'm no Trump supporter and only vote Republican as the lesser of the two evils but this article is nonsense. Among many things the Democrats are openly trying very hard to radicalize the Republican party for their own purposes. Small example. The DNC spent tens of millions of dollars last election promoting radical right candidates in the Republican primaries while the Republicans that amount opposing them. So the Democrats are responsible for the radicalization in BOTH parties
DeleteI read the article and right away was able to tell what type of guy I'm dealing with. His other posts confirm it. One of those guys who think that because they are anti-establishment they are so smart and know everything. A guy who spent too much time in the blog world and too little in the Beis Medrash. etci. I know you are going to say that I'm attacking the messenger. But this is an important point about those type of people. They all have a remarkably similar thought patter yet consider themselves so open minded. They all give you (at most) half a story and pretend to be giving the "real" story etc. They aren't people to take seriously or to waste time responding to.
DeleteThe DNC is responsible for the radicalization of both parties? Republican voters don't beat any responsibility? No personal responsibility: Sounds like the argument of a true liberal right there.
DeleteOf course there is &was a reaction.What alternatives were able?
DeleteLove how Hunter Biden becomes 'the Biden family' in order to spin matters. The Trump family received billions from the Saudis, yet nobody is complaining.
ReplyDeleteYou can be sure that if the Trump family received billions from the Saudis illegally it would be the front page dominant headline news for weeks.. Every adult member of the Trump family was viciously attacked by the Democrats over the years. Even if they did not do anything illegal like Hunter Biden.
DeleteYou missed the part where Hunter gives 10% to the big guy.
DeleteAre you getting paid to write against Trump or are you just crazy obsessed with him? Where does he come in on a Lakewood focused blog that didn't mention him today? Are you incapable of hearing House Oversight Committee accusations against the Biden family without mentioning conspiracy theories about the Trump family?
DeleteOh, now it's a conspiracy theory that Kushner got 2 billion from the Saudis?
DeleteIt's a conspiracy theory that Kushner got 2 billion from the Saudis illegally. In reality they invested that money with his investment firm. I'm no Trump supporter but only an absolute fool can believe that Kushner would be able to get 2 billion from the Saudis illegally and it would get ignored by law enforcement and most of the Trump hating media
DeleteSure, the Saudis gave Kushner 2 billion for his business acumen.
DeleteIllegally? No, but ethically? Surely not.
DeleteOU has the best standards for restaurants the question is why is KcL allowing outdoor seating in some establishments with customers eating in public for all too see
ReplyDeleteWha? ‘Eating in public’? What on earth are you talking about?
DeleteLook at the Cafes with outdoor seating people fressing like oichel bashuk
DeleteAnd non tznius ladies sitting in shopping centers for all to see eating with a kcl hechsher
Anon 619pm
DeleteNot sure where your heilige sensitivity about tznius and oichel beshuk hagdoros come to hashgocho.
If the roshei hayeshiva and rabonim make a takono then maybe something can be done.
But it's not a pesul on the KCL hashgocho
Your ignorance is astounding. A Shuk in the olden days was a central market where throngs of people congregated. Even in such cases the Urim v’Tumim says that if a person is kovea a makom in the shul to eat he’s not posul l’edus. Tables outside of a cafe are certainly kovua, and the area around them ( a sidewalk and parking lot, usually) are not early as exposed and public as a Shuk was in olden times. While a Talmid Chochom would ideally not eat there regular people certainly can.
DeleteCheck out www.patis.com
ReplyDeleteCertified Cholov Yisrael, Pas Yisrael and Kemach Yoshon. Both Pareve and Dairy products are available.
Does anyone know an ou product.(besides cholov Stam)
ReplyDeletethat the kcl doesn't approve of?
Huh?
Delete
DeleteOn their new website: Whenever possible, ingredients must have a heimishe hechsher.
https://www.kclkashrus.org/kashrus-criteria/
So they lost their nemanos by saying heimish hechsher. They could say only approved hechser. But seriously all “heimish” hechserim are good? What a joke
DeleteHeimishe hechsher sometimes means der masgiach bliebt in zayn heim. The OU is definitely more reliable than many of the heimishe hechsherim. The OU had a lot fewer scandals over the past thirty five years than some of the heimishe hechsherim
DeleteWhat’s wrong with outdoor seating? You would rather the not tznius ladies inside?
ReplyDeleteWith R Belsky gone how could anyone trust OU? It is headed by a talmid of the Klipsch from Brisk Dr YB, and he if the head of the most crooked yeshiva ever to come to the US, YU were unllike reform & conservitive who r stam porkey ole, YU lets one be a menuval bershoos HaTorah with all kinds of twisted blondes & sevaros.
ReplyDeleteI’m amazed at how easily you’re able to give up your Olam Haba. If you would live a thousand years you would not begin to approach the tzidkus and yoisher of the YU Rosh Yeshiva Rav Soloveichik z’l - and the same is true of his gadlus in limud haTorah. Additionally,YU today is far different than it was 50 years ago. It’s probably superior to many ‘yeshivos’ in Lakewood and elsewhere. I’m not saying it’s Brisk or BMG but it is a genuine makom Torah with a packed Beis Medrash. It would do you good to go there instead of relying on your outdated and hateful misinformation.
DeleteAgree with the former.
DeleteThere were others endowed with similar personal private attributes.
(They instead chose to sacrifice them the sake of the community.)
In totality it's a fair debate whether he caused more damage than good.
He himself began to retract in his later stage.
As for the institution what makes it better than previously?
Ad Masai atem poseach Al shnei..
You are not called upon to judge anyone, let alone a person whose gadlus in Torah was legendary from a young age and praised by Geonei Olam. You ought to remain silent - the zechus of Torah is meigin, and criticising someone , even an ordinary person, comes with huge avaira potential. Let the RBS’O decide these things- not you, me , or anyone else.
DeleteThe town is also paying for non-mandated non public students.
ReplyDeleteIt cost about $900 a kid for busing and the parents only pay $280 so the town has been giving the LSTA a few million a year to cover the short fall
Misinformed - Actually the LSTA was formed so they can pool all the money they get from the mandated students and use the extra money to cover the non mandated students.
DeleteIn a new report, the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services (OLS) is recommending that the Lakewood Public School District be considered a district confronted by severe financial distress, which would allow for the district to receive additional stabilization aid from the state.
ReplyDeleteThe report also states, the Lakewood Public School district, which is severely underfunded, would benefit greatly from additional aid, similar to what the state Legislature did for Atlantic City.
The report goes on to say that the district could benefit from an increase in stabilization aid
This is a product of 20-plus years of work by state Senator Bob Singer (R-Lakewood), the Lakewood Township Committee, Superintendent Laura Winters and the Board of Education, Ahron Kotler and the Vaad, Board of Education attorney Michael Inzelbuch told TLS.
Quoted from the Scoop. The people who disturbed Mr. Lang's lawsuit are now taking credit for his work.
But if there’s not enough for the mandated students then there is no extra. That’s why they “said” LSTA was formed but with Lakewood style corruption it was more likely a way for some in power to make more money. Btw the year of Covid we didn’t get any money back, I wonder why.
ReplyDeleteAny idea on how to reach Aron Lang? Email or phone?
ReplyDeleteArthur Lang
Deleteis that his email?
DeleteIndeed, YU untill today started by the Klipah Dr JB is the biggest umglick for Yiddishkiet in America. Much worse than reform & conservative
ReplyDeleteYour comment borders on kefira because it is implying (actually explicitly saying) that those who don't believe in Torah M'Sinia or in the case of Reform even a borey olam are less of a tragedy to Yiddishkiet than those who do say they believe in 13 Ikerim and keeping all halacha.
DeleteI apologise for my previous response where I said if you lived for a thousand years you would not come close to the tzidkus and yoisher of Rabbi J. B. Soliveichik. I was wrong. The truth actually is, in light of your repeated comment, that if you lived for a million years you would not approach his tzidkus and yoisher.
DeleteHmm
DeleteAre you in the wrong community by accident or were you sent as a saboteur
I understand that YU today is pro mishkav zachor RL
ReplyDeleteThey are still mealy mouthed about it
DeleteThey weaken everybody else with their deceit
Well you understand wrong and probably know next to nothing about YU other than what people who oppose YU but also know next to nothing about have told you.
DeleteMr cohen wow it’s been a long time since we heard from you. So good to see you back!!
ReplyDeleteMy closest colleagues are YU alumni
ReplyDeleteMy comments according to them are too mild
Where's your info coming from?
They should all be zoiche to do yeshiva and become shomrey Torah v Mitzvos
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