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Erev Tu Bshvat 5784 local stores have special Tu Bshvat sections some fruits are cheaper at the box stores
- The terrorist who terrorized thr Jewish community o Lakewood and Jackson last year Dion Marsh, 28, of Manchester, pled guilty today to a single count of Terrorism over his attacks including stabing and car rammings. At the time of his sentencing on March 22, 2024, the State will be seeking a term of 30 years New Jersey State Prison without the possibility of parole.
- First Lady of New Jersey and senate candidate Tammy Murphy was in Lakewood today for a meet and greet accompanied by Democrat assemblyman Avi Schnall. She took a tour of the Bikur cholim headquarters and a tour of BMG bais Yitzchok.
- BMG freezer opens tonight
- Midwinter break some girls high schools forbid the students from flying to Florida and other destinations. Some families will be cutting down from their usual vacation style due to the matzav in eretz yisroel.
- The Skulener rebbe shlita of Lakewood will conduct a Tu Bshvat tish tonight 9:00pm at his Bais Medrash on Park Ave
- A Atzeres tefilah will take place tonight at Lutzk B"M due to the matzav in E"Y and sinas Yisrael all over the world. Maariv 8:00pm divrei Hisoirerus 8:15pm by Rav Yitzchock Sorotzkin shlita Tehillim 8:30
Yeshiva Mekor Hachinuch Lakewood fundraing campaign donate Here
- Trump: I don’t need any advice from RINO Kayleigh McEnany on Fox. Just had a GIANT VICTORY over a badly failing candidate, “Birdbrain,” and she’s telling me what I can do better. Save your advice for Nikki!
- President Trump breaks record for most votes ever received in NH primary a⁷nd first candidate to win both Iowa and New Hampshire in modern history
- Lakewood Township's Planning Board already voted to approve Sunset Road Sefardic Congregation's Site Plan application. However, facing continued concerns from the neighbors, who are represented by Teaneck Attorney Jan Meyer Esq., the Board tonight held off from voting on the resolution of approval, demanding to first "see the hardware." Faanews
- Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik fatally shot himself Tuesday afternoon inside a Clifton restaurant, multiple sources and officials confirmed. The incident happened Toros Restaurant, a Turkish restaurant on Hazel Street, they said.
- R' Lang on article about prof Paul Tractenberg:
Lakewood is zoche to have him advocating on behalf of our kids and our viability as a home to the multitude. Lakewood kids have the right to a thorough and efficient education. They will not get one until the formula is fixed. You cannot efficiently plan, remediate learning deficiencies, or build an infrastructure if funding is depends on the discretion of Trenton. Funding has to be formulaic and certain.
Our teachers and kids should not have worry every year that they won't be paid and schools will close. Our citizens should not have to run to the state capital every year with palms open to beg the governor to do us a favor by loaning us money to keep our schools open, thereby encumbering future generations with debt and financial insolvency. A Lang
Sunday's Star Ledger feature article on Prof. Tractenberg and his efforts to fix the school funding formula as applied to Lakewood: "The state most recently loaned the district $50 million, though it had requested $93 million.That latest IOU will bring the district’s total indebtedness to $156.4 million, according to figures provided in December by a Department of Education spokesman.
Lang and Tractenberg maintain that the state is not interested in resolving the funding imbalance in Lakewood now, but in delaying the issue until after Gov. Phil Murphy leaves office in two years. It is what Tractenberg calls “a breathtaking default of responsibility.”
Honest question what does it mean “some girls high schools forbid the students from flying to Florida..”
ReplyDeleteHow and why is this enforced? If the families are the type to go what is the schools perspective to “forbid” this..
It means they sent out letters to the parents reiterating the rule. In most cases it's not enforced. As for the right to forbid it, it's a schools job to be concerned about the girls' ruchniyos and they feel this is a breach. Not sure what the problem is with girls going with their parent to Florida - but apparently the schools feel that many girls go on their own, and that is truly not appropriate.
DeleteThanks AB. I hear the point about the girls going alone. Good call
DeleteWhen talmidim and talmidos go on a vacation such as Florida in middle of the school year, there is a tremendous pullback. If parents would realize what it does to their teenagers, they would never do it.
DeleteA Mechanech.
They might meet their teachers there.
DeleteYes, next year they're going to be going on their own to Israel, crashing in in who knows whom's home (no, they're not going to their sister's or aunt's homes all the time.)
DeleteBut they can't go to Florida on their own.
And the year after, they're going to live with a husband who's supposedly been checked out.
Talk about enforcing immaturity.
Pullback or pushback
DeleteAgree mechanech.. just sounds interesting the way it’s worded. Sounds like the parents need a good schmooze :)
DeleteThe main purpose of midwinter vacation for some schools is so they can threaten poor parents not to send their kids to school before paying up tuition so the owners can afford vacation time to
Deletehttps://yated.com/tombstone-legislation/
ReplyDeleteShame that there's midwinter vacation with no feeling to what is happening in israel
ReplyDeleteif midwinter vacation is a bad thing then it should never be allowed. if it is a good thing, it should be allowed this year too. what is happening in israel is irrelevant to this.
DeleteIt's a concession to your baser desires.Nu,nu.Can't forever avoid that.But now? Where's your nosei b'ol
DeleteThere are feelings for the matzav in EY. They are stressed out and need a break. Don’t be so judgmental
ReplyDeleteThey're stressed out because they're each trying to outdo their friends in how exotic their vacations are.
DeleteIts more than just the ruchniyus. Its the peer pressure. High school girls are stressed for months before mid winter about where they're gonna go. Nobody wants a nebby mid winter because they will look like a neb to their friends. The whole midwinter fiasco should be banned and girls shouldn't be allowed to leave NY/NJ during midwinter. That will save a lot of stress for many girls and their mothers.
ReplyDeleteTHey don't need midwinter all these kids especially the girls had a 3 month long summer from beginning of June to beginning of September. They get off every sunday as well and last Friday they had off of snow. And Last Tuesday they had a late start
ReplyDeleteSo abortion loving radical lefty Tammy Murphy who is only holding the spot for Phil is now getting paraded around lakewood and pushed on the community to vote for her potentially keeping the US senate in democratic control only because a few well connected asskanim want some gelt and grants.
ReplyDeleteThe olam better not get schnalled again
It doesn’t matter who runs, a Democrat will be elected because the vast majority of NJ votes Democrat. If every registered Frum voter in Lakewood, Jackson and Howell voted for the Republican senate candidate the Democrat will still win by a landslide. Chris Christie tried to get around that fact and moved the special election apart from the general election that elected Corey Booker to get around that and Booker still won by a landslide.
DeleteWrong..
DeleteWe count way,way,above our proportion of our actual % of pop.
Everybody except Jews seem to fully get that for better or for worse.When we desire something;if we desire it badly enough; in any sphere,it Will happen.Sp boomerang it back on yourselves-how important is it?
How come we manage to knock away anti-israel discourse if we are so small & feeble % ?
Finally, Citiarelli came within a hair of winning [ insiders are aware the final stats were meaningless]
Why was there no atzeres for all the sinas Yisroel caused in Jackson and Howell why is that not just as important
ReplyDeletebecause there is no sinas yisroel in Jackson. It was a figment of the Agudah's imagination.
DeleteThe lawsuits caused the sinas yisroel
DeleteVoting out a friendly incumbent and putting a rabbi in public office who pushed the lawsuits with hisgaarus b"umos causes sinas yisroel
rabbi?? shaitel macher
DeleteWhy was Tammy Murphy allowed into bmg but when ciattarelli came there was a machaah
ReplyDeleteWhat credentials does Tammy Murphy have that she's running for senate the average resident in Lakewood won't get a penny or a better quality of life if she's elected besides CHEMED or others that get the grants coming to Lakewood nothing ever spills over to the taxpayers. All the moolah gets stuck in the hands and pockets of those who sit at the cookie jar using our votes to sit in high positions
ReplyDeleteI said in November that there is some kind of deal between the Vaad and Murphy. Murphy expressed his opposition to our litigation and the Vaad endorsed the incumbents who have opposed me without convening a quorum or allowing me to appear before the Vaad as promised by their vide-president (their president did not even know about the perfidy), hide the endorsement from me for a week or two, and did not tell me about the governor's shake-down of them until another week. Had I at least been consulted, I would have recommended to play hard ball and explain why he should settle.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, pushing off the litigation is risky (Murphy lost with our motion in aid of litigants' rights and the Court order his commissioner to report by April 1). His opposition is harming his chances for Secretary of Education or whatever may be his political aspirations.
We need the loans to be forgiven and a change in the formula. This was salutary neglect by the Vaad of the highest order. Aaron Lang