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- Tonight The Lakewood Republican Club endorsed Deputy Mayor Menashe Miller and Moshe Raitzik as the party-line candidates for the upcoming June primary. The Club’s president, Craig Theibault, resigned after moving out of Lakewood to Wall twsp.
- A $1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx by Dr. Ruth Gottesman, a longtime professor at the College this donation is making free tuition available to all students going forward. Her late husband was an investor with Warren Buffet and left her a will to do something with the money.
- Jackson, 4,893 students who currently attend non-public schools would qualify for transportation through the Lakewood Student Transportation Authority, according to Jackson School District spokeswoman Allison Erwin. Some of Jackson's private school students do not qualify, because they live within two miles of their elementary and middle schools or 2.5 miles from their high school.(App)
- Donald Trump on Monday appealed a judge's decision to impose $354.9 million in penalties.
- Giyus update: The Bagatz is currently listening to arguments again on a potential draft bill that will enlist charedim to the IDF. A group of demonstrators blocked traffic and the light rail on Monday during a protest in Yerushalayim against the draft into the IDF,
- A special review of the Lakewood Public School District presented by last week's Boe meeting by an independent audit says the district's fiscal oversight is “excellent” but the inadequate state aid funding formula makes it “a little tricky,” due to the state loans of over $120 million according to a report in the APP.
- The Biden administration is sending $19 million to some of New Jersey’s largest districts to put more electric school buses on the roads. the funds going toward new busses in five districts: Union City, Elizabeth, Newark, Bloomfield and Lakewood. The grant was awarded to Van-Con, Inc., which serves those districts and will use the money to purchase 42 new electric school buses and 28 bus chargers.
- Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva and Rav Moshe Heineman shlita release letter about a serious breach in yuchsin that took place
What's with FAA? Hasn't posted in a while . .
ReplyDeleteFAA is entitled to a short vacation.
DeleteLetter would be more effective if it mentioned the initial bais havaad bais din
ReplyDeleteWill they take me from BMG to med school?
ReplyDeletePut on a white coat,tell them you research old texts of Jewish medicine
DeletePutting aside the halacha for the moment. Think about the injustice done to the boy himself by those pushing for the heter, besides the alienation from his family his own friends won't marry his children. It will never be proven beyond doubt in any case that he is not a cohain Even according to those who are pushing the heter, so his children will always be possible challalim. He is probably too young to realize but those pushing should have more sense. A bchiyah ledoros!
ReplyDeletehuh! he got a psak and someone decided to make a tumult and destroy his psak if there is anyone that caused an injustice to that boy its people going around and destroying a rovs psak - which btw many of them had a vendetta against the posek long he came with this particular psak
DeleteSo you'll have no problem your children marrying his children right?
DeleteAnon 3:38
DeleteHe got an psak which many consider incorrect. People including SOME OF HIS RELATIVES tried to save him and his future children but seemingly ultimately failed. A psak is not a be all end all, the halacha is.
Not that I am a bar plugta of this rav [who paskened without knowing all the details] but there are plenty of others; more learned than you and I; who are bar plugtas who were cholek and outlined their positions clearly and logically.
I am not a cohen. Nor are most people.
DeleteDo you want your grandaughters asur to marry kohanim?
DeleteAs a Levi, I have no problem whatsoever marrying any of his children. I don’t see why a bas kohen would have any issue either. As far as a ben kohen marrying his daughter - as long as there’s a psak from a reliable posek that would be good enough.
DeleteWho do you think you are to make a bogus claim that those Rabbonim don’t know all the details. Of course they do.
It’s the objectors which have their negius and emotional sensitivities that they cannot control which are running around and stating half-truths to other rabbonim to which they’re related and not allowing them to hear the other side which are making this into a scandal which it really isn’t.
Most likely, the basherte shidduchim for the eventual children won’t even be kohanim anyways, so this whole to-do is about nothing. These busy-bodies which are putting out fake teshuvos and kuntreisim filled with manipulated information, instead of the reine emes, should get themselves a life and just move on.
Not one letter of the 'osrim' has the facts correct.
DeleteThis letter, as well as the one from Reb Reuven Feinstein, states clearly that they don't know the facts.
All male descendants and their desendant's descendants will always be challalim. He is better off if he only has girls.
DeleteWe should move to the Bronx continue learning with their free support & pretend we r in law school
ReplyDeleteOr maybe get off your behind and get in touch with Mrs Gotesman and ask her to support Lakewood.
DeleteThat's Cardozo.
DeleteWe have a strong burgeoning town & adjuncts elsewhere today because they turned easier those options down.Many before you were offered various versions of such an option.
With reality check-The chiefs then were at the forefront turning those offers away. Now by contrast they welcome other variations of those options with cosmetic changes on a silver platter.
So basically, this letter says that even if the Halacha was right, this is a pirtza.
ReplyDeleteHow desperate can they get?
Do you pay the heating bill in the shul you dropped into for maariv? You thought it was a little stuffy, so you opened the windows wide. How thoughtful. Did you close the windows when you left?
ReplyDeleteDo you ever leave your car running to keep it warm while you go shopping or do errands?
Then it's a waste of money and gas, correct?
who are you talking to?
DeleteWhy, are you feeling guilty?
DeleteNo I dont pay - but do everyone a favor and shut off the heat stop wasting money if you are a bit cold put on a sweater - save the money for the ac!
DeleteReminds me of what Americans used to say about the Soviets clearing land mines untrained soldiers. Now they just pour men into danger for the slightest advantage. Kind of like a Pickett's Charge barbarian style.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/world/europe/russia-deaths-avdiivka-strategy.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk0.hP3v.DbxDM9YhJDHu&smid=url-share
My father z"l almost never discussed his experience during Holocaust.
DeleteHe did say that he was in the munkataba -- work camps in Hungary.
Na zis used him to clear land mines.
munkatabor
DeleteRussia is Child's shpiel compared with the Chinese & the asians
DeleteAll Hungarians I know pronounce it munkataba
DeleteRussia and America can blow up the world dozens of times over. Russia may have just put a nuclear device in space. Russia still has the Soviet institutions. schools, knowhow, and industry. They might be falling apart today, but they will rebuild. By contract, China has to build from scratch. Sure, the are stronger than Russia in a land war, but their navy is not very advanced, unlike the Soviets, and they likely will not drag us into a war. The Russians, like the Germans, will drag us into a European War.
DeleteXi says China will catch up to the US by 2050 but he knows it won't happen. China has a labor shortage because the people only had one child for over half a century and no one immigrates there as they do in America.
In 1931, the slogan of the German Communist Party became: ‘After Hitler, our turn.’ This kind of wishful thinking is making a comeback in contemporary America. Prominent Democrats and the ‘progressive’ apparat of the Biden administration see the nomination of Donald Trump – their version of Hitler – as the best way to mobilise their shaky coalition and to keep hold of power.
ReplyDeleteBiden’s supporters believe Trump is so odious that the American people will accept anyone – even someone as obviously mediocre as Joe Biden – to keep him out of power. This worked back in 2020, when Trump’s bungling of Covid-19, his chaotic management style and his consistently vile – though clearly not fascist – persona allowed Biden to gain the White House.
This assumption also proved correct in the 2022 Midterms. Democrats bankrolled numerous unelectable Trumpistas in congressional and state races, a cynical gambit they are repeating again this year. This helped them dodge a potential wipeout at the polls. The seemingly inevitable nomination of Trump by the Republicans looks perfectly suited to a repeat performance in the 2024 presidential election.
Yet as the German Communists learned in 1933, sometimes getting what you want does not always work out so well. Biden might be heralded as the second coming of FDR in the mainstream press, but most Americans have clearly had enough of him. A recent poll puts him at a dismal 37 per cent. As things stand, he is now slated to lose to Trump, particularly in key swing states. Some surveys suggest Trump is even gaining among independents and is pulling some suburban professionals back into his camp. As former presidential candidate Andrew Yang puts it, Biden’s shaky performance could be about to deliver ‘Trump, the sequel’.
So why is Biden so unpopular? This is partly down to inflation – undoubtedly made worse by Biden’s economic agenda. But it is also due to his pandering to the so-called progressives on just about everything – from the border and climate change to LGBT issues. According to longtime Democratic analyst Ruy Teixeira, Biden seems incapable of shifting to where the voters are. For Democratic senator Joe Manchin, much of the problem stems from the fact that the president has surrounded himself with ‘far, far-left liberals’.
These leftist staff and associated pressure groups have managed to undermine the ‘regular guy’ image Biden has tried so hard to cultivate. In office, he has relentlessly championed transgender issues, despite trans people accounting for less than two per cent of the US population. Most ordinary Americans don’t even believe it is possible to have a gender identity that doesn’t match your @#~. So for Biden to have the Department of Education investigate the incorrect use of pronouns comes across as tremendously out of touch.
..The Biden who was elected as a sensible, moderate counterweight to Trump is long gone, it seems. As an acolyte of the progressive left, Biden has shown the very same disregard for due process and democratic norms that he rightfully lays at the door of Trump. He has unilaterally cancelled student debt, pursued a phaseout of petrol cars and imposed vaccine mandates – all without congressional approval. The façade of Bidenesque moderation, so critical to his election in 2020, has fallen with a thud.
I says Biden will be reelected as a regular moderate, national security president, who also wants to keep America ahead in industry. Look at how other countries are just starting their space programs, where we were in the 1950s, and America alreay has private industry launching manned mission.
ReplyDeleteAs for the progressive left, who few Democrats seem to care about today, has not the extreme right done more damage to Trump, on top of all the damage he has done himself? You can go down the list. Human homicide at conception (traditionally, a human in being in King's realm), supporting Russia, weakening NATO, attacking the sovereign US Congress, trying to federalize their positions to the detriment of states' rights.
As for inflation, it is mostly from all those handouts we got during Coivd. Production was down and M1 and M2 increased. Duh! Of course you have inflation. And the Inflation Reduction Act is keeping us ahead of the world in cutting edge technology. BTW All our top corporations and trying out their AI in Ukraine. This real war experience will keep America ahead for years.
Biden is not mediocre. He is one the best presidents we had, maybe not like you said, since FDR. I see him as a Kennedy.
Seems like you are desperate for your own Editorial column however this is a comments section not a thesis section.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. All of a sudden this delusional anti Trump pro confusion fellow starts posting theses long rants. It is making this site unappealing.
DeleteRabbi Circle, you are on my non reply list for saying I am "delusional" and "pro confusion." I have a degree in government and took courses in foreign affairs. You can disagree, perhaps say, "keep comments to one paragraph," but do not use adjectives to describe me or call me names. Anyway, the person at 6:40 was referring to someone else. However, you can redeem yourself by posting respectfully next time.
DeleteDr. Anonymous, with all the delusional dribble your are espousing, your BA in government is painfully obvious. Only those with that type of (dis)education can form such destructive and delusionary opinions.
DeleteRabbi Y Cohen, you should see this recent article about Kissinger:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/kissinger-and-true-meaning-detente?utm_medium=newsletters&utm_source=fatoday&utm_campaign=Kissinger%20and%20the%20True%20Meaning%20of%20D%C3%A9tente&utm_content=20240227&utm_term=FA%20Today%20-%20112017
I think Biden has Kissinger in his mirror.
That's funny.Where's the big red nose?
ReplyDeleteDuring last campaign a insider commentator noted wryly Biden had been wrong on every national security or foreign policy issue the previous few decades
A couple examples:
Biden vocally opposed voting against Desert Shield & Desert Storm under Bush Sr.
He admitted to have been mistaken a couple years later
He opposed the Petraeus surge under Bush Jr.
I also did not like Biden after he stoped Reagan's appointment of Bork. Nonetheless, he is getting everything right as President.
ReplyDeleteHe is a colossal failure who is destroying the world!
DeleteEven were he to be decent on foreign affairs as you claim in spite of Afghanistan
ReplyDeleteWe’re turning away from his/your crowd & inward here temporarily, not unlike the Romanoff reforms of a century ago…internal domestic reforms summon us.
That’s it.It’s not worst case scenario happening.
Even were he to be decent on foreign affairs as you claim in spite of Afghanistan
ReplyDeleteWe’re turning away from his/your crowd & inward here temporarily, not unlike the Romanoff reforms of a century ago…internal domestic reforms summon us.
That’s it.It’s not worst case scenario happening.
All my references are to American history. America is exceptional. With that said, what was wrong with the infrastructure act and the inflation reduction act. Didn't it incentivize the electric car market? We want to lead in that, and in renewable energy, do we not? These laws require manufacturing in the US. What about student debt? Isn't that domestic? Climate smart farming? You might not think climate and renewable power is important, but we need to lead the world in these new industries.
ReplyDeleteAgain, results are the guide, not ideology. The people today do not approve of Biden, not because of ideology, but results. Yes, I think he has done many things but somehow it is lost upon most people.
I do think we are at an inflection point. Even though we will be the number one power probably for another century, that does not mean that we should abandon our international commitments. As I have said many times, either we lead to prevent war, or we follow into a war. The 20th century taught us that the oceans will not protect us from European conflicts, or Asian for that matter, but I am confident that someone, or more people, like Kissinger will arise to fix our China policy. It just does not make sense to go to war with China. Kissinger said, "Look at a map of the world. China is bordered by 14 countries. How many of them can China count on as stalwart friends? [none] How much energy does China have left to spend on managing global affairs after coping with its neighbors? [little] The United States, by contrast, has only two."