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- Tropical Storm Lee is likely to intensify into a major hurricane The National Hurricane Center issued an advisory for the Atlantic as forecasters expect it to develop quickly into a major hurricane by early Saturday, with wind speeds as strong as 150 mph. It’s too soon to know the exact path. The storm will likely create strong surf and dangerous rip currents along the U.S. East Coast
- Back to school girls elementary schools, playgroup moras heavy traffic.
- As of last might there were still girls not accepted to school for this year
- The Amshinov rebbe of Boro Park will be starting a weekly shiur in Lakewood on Tanya it will take place tonight at B"M Yagdil Torah 910 E. Kennedy Blvd following the 10:00 pm Maariv
- Lakewood township officials pulp back on $250,000 trash compactors after receiving complaints from many downtown business owners more here
- Social media influencers and podcast hosts get push back online after claiming that the Ishay Ribo concert was a kiddush Hashem and a sign of Mashiach
- Campaign in frum communities to have grocery stores show prices continue with signs showing which stores are complying and those that are making progress
- Scientists at the Weitzman institute in Israel have grown an entity that closely resembles an early human embryo, without using sperm, eggs or a womb. The Weizmann Institute team say their "embryo model", made using stem cells, looks like a textbook example of a real 14-day-old embryo.
- Some local stores are charging $1 to customers for the white milk box that they send for delivery. in other news Monmouth Poll released today finds Most New Jerseyans still back the ban on single-use plastic bags but remain opposed to a ban on supermarkets providing paper bags, Support for a ban on single-use plastic bags is at 56%-42% (down from 61% -37% In 2022)
- A letter circulating from 1979 shows the Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Rav Shneur Kotler and mashgiach Rav Nosson Wachtfogel with a group of talmidim were mekabel to learn two halachos of Chofetz Chaim each day as a zechus for one of the chaburah
Supermarkets pushed for the ban on paper bags as a compromise for the plastic bag ban - so they wouldn’t be stuck supplying customers with the more expensive paper bags.
ReplyDeleteWhy weren’t the supporters of the ban (56 Percent of NJ shoppers) using reusable bags before the ban took effect?
Obviously, it is much easier to dump your garbage in front of your store than to take it down the block… Once the money is spent - maybe we should at least use the compactors during the winter months when the odor would be less?
ReplyDeleteThey should repeal the ban. The reusable bags also go into the garbage just like the disposable ones. It's just a waste of our money to have to buy grocery hags
ReplyDeleteAs of last night , there were still a few girls schools with empty desks.
ReplyDeleteThe girls don't want those desks, they want to get into where there's no desk.
DeleteThe girls need to go to the school that would be best for them.
DeleteAnd what if that school that is best for them is totally full with siblings ? And the newer schools dont have siblings and have room .
DeleteSounds like you believe that if a school is full and there are girls that might benefit from going to that school , then the school needs to provide millions of dollrs to build an extension and hire new principals and teachers to accomodate whatever amount of girls could henefit ftom thrir school and we shoukd also leave the other schools empty .
DeleteThis is a terribly painful subject. Wherever one stands on the issue, keep in mind that people are trying hard to address it, people are in pain, and we need Moshiach now to help us avoid this sort of Tzaar. No one should take the pain of yiddishe neshamos lightly.
DeleteThere’s probably a reason those desks are empty
ReplyDeleteHaRav Yitzchok Sorotzkin shlita to Speak at Yeshiva Gedolah of South Lakewood Before Slichoes This Motzai Shabbos
ReplyDeleteThis Motzoei Shabbos, Parshas Netzavim -Vayelech HaRav Yitzchok Sorotzkin, rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Telshe and Mesivta of Lakewood, will deliver a sichah before Selichos at Yeshiva Gedolah of South Lakewood, which is led by its rosh yeshiva, HaRav Yosef Dovid Korbman.
The yeshiva is located at 715 Marlin Avenue, off of Oak Street. The sichah will begin at 12:10 a.m., followed by Selichos immediately at the conclusion of the sichah.
Are the grocery stores directly profiting on the reusable bags/boxes no one reuses?
ReplyDelete.20 a bag is at least double the cost from the store. $1 a box is way more than double the cost.
DeleteWho's stopping you from reusing them?
Delete"were mekabel to learn two halachos of Chofetz Chaim each day as a zechus for one of the chaburah"
ReplyDeleteHowever upon closer examination, the kabalah was
שעל ידי זה נזכה לעזר השם יתברך שיהי' הדיבור כדין