Friday, March 15, 2024 / ה׳ אדר-ב תשפ״ד
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- Not only rayze it campaigns but now the phone calls are coming in from the yeshiva bochurim who are launching their annual Purim campaign
- Lakewood in the news: New Jersey’s fastest growing town is also its youngest. The population of Lakewood in Ocean County has a median age of just 18.4 among its nearly 134,000 residents. No other town comes close, recently released Census data shows. More than 1 in 10 residents in Lakewood are under the age of 5 and the median age is more than 46 years younger than the state’s oldest town, Weymouth Township in Atlantic County. (NJ)
- Mumps in NJ: Director of Pediatric at Chemed South Dr. Gollub said that there has also been an uptick and several cases in the Lakewood area community Dr. Golub advises that infected children and young adults should be excluded from activities for five days from the onset of parotid gland swelling to prevent further spread. (LNN)
-Republican senate candidate Albert Herhshaw who will be on the June primary ballot will be campaigning in Lakewood this Sunday at the public Library at 3pm
- Chaplain Yaakov Wenger will be running as a republican for the lakewood township committee, the republican club already endorsed Menashe miller and Moshe Raitzik for the 2 slots. In this week's Lakewood shopper the cover story is about the local Lakewood committee as most Lakewood residents disapprove of the current politicians and dont feel they are helping or looking out for the community at all.
- Kollel cheshek shlomo pulls the application for the housing complex but will present the daycare application separately at the upcoming planing board meeting; APP reports from the kollel “The reason we were doing the housing first was because it was a much better model, it made more sense,” said Rabbi Avrohom Appel, school administrator. “But when a few neighbors started fighting with us, we decided to do it later. It is definitely tougher on the neighbors this way. We tried. “
- Frum newspapers in Eretz Yisrael featured a picture of Rav Tzvi Kushelevsky and his newborn baby. the shalom zachor will take place at the yeshiva in Har nof tonight with thousands expected to participate , Theres already a halachic debate over the boys Bar mitzva as his birthday was on 30 Adar 1 which there wont be a date like that in 13 years from now since it will not be a leap year whic hputs in question what is the exact date of the bar mitzva,
- New Jersey legislative leaders hit the brakes Thursday on a fast-moving bill that would have overhauled the state's open records law, following an outpouring of opposition claimimng it was an attempt to curtail information from the public and will be less transparent, sponsors said, the measure to update the bill is to block commercial businesses seeking records from towns across the state, clogging clerk's workloads and costing taxpayers.
- Gov. Phil Murphy and Attorney General Matt Platkin are urging New Jersey business owners to create thousands of new 'gun free zones.' by not allowing the public to carry in their estalishments. Murphy and Platkin have been working hard to undermine the so-called Bruen decision that lifted most restrictions surrounding an individual's right to carry a firearm.
- Adirei Hatorah held a Parlor meeting event last night at the Coventry club house for the coventry community.
The moving story of The Telz (Telshe) Yeshiva from the period of its inception by Rav Eliezer Gordon zt"l , throughout the period of Rav Yosef Leib Bloch zt"l and his sons, Rav Zalman Shmuel and Rav Avrohom Yitzchok HY"D until the post war period of Rav Eliyahu Meir Bloch, Rav Chaim Mordechai Katz, Rav Boruch Sorotzkin and Rav Mordechai Gifter zt"l
ReplyDeleteThe speech was just said by Rav Michoel Sorotzkin at the inauguration of the new book בנות עמי מטלז written by the famous Holocaust researcher Rebbetzin Ester Farbstein the wife of Rav Moshe Mordechai Farbstein Rosh Yeshivas Chevron
https://youtu.be/Slc4urB33vs
So Chris Smith is giving a well connected askan 3 million for a senior center while Lakewood population is the youngest in the state and kids have no playgrounds
ReplyDeleteChris Smith has been doing favors for those in power by giving grants that help their projects. A even bigger chutzpah is the slap in the face to the community howvthey pretend that these grants will fix traffic and help other social issues while there is no traffic fix when close to 7 million is going to a infrastructure in a project t that hasn't been built yet adding 600 homes to an already conjested area.
Deletethe actual voters get nothing it is time that he gets voted out
And let all future politicians know they must meet the community directly and not hold VIP meetings with self appointed askanim who claim to represent the community and divert all funds to themselves
The senior center will be well appreciated by several thousand adults in our community. It's our turn to relax.
DeleteNice to educate the low information voters in Lakewood about how the town is controlled by the committeemen. But if he really cared - he had this paper for 20 years why is he only now trying to educate the people?
DeleteHow does one get grants from Chris Smith is there a public meeting where everyone can pitch their proposal or is this all done in private with sticky fingered askanim getting their hands on the dough before it even enters the cookie jar
DeleteThere's a children's playground four blocks from the "senior center" in a more protected, residential neighborhood.
DeleteUS Navy veteran Albert E. Harshaw is having a rally and petition signature event at the meeting room in the Lakewood library from 1PM through 3PM this Sunday, March 17th. He is the only candidate who has attempted to do outreach to the Orthodox Jewish community from all the Republican candidates vying to be the Republican candidate for US Senate in New Jersey this November.
ReplyDeleteI get a bit cynical when it comes to bachurim collecting before Purim for their yeshiva. I think the money is going to pay for the entertainment at their Purim Mesibah for which they need the top chassidisheh singer and OMB costing many thousands of dollars! I would rather my money go the Rabbeim.
ReplyDeleteI thought they were doing the housing with the daycare because the daycare was for their students and it was not going to cause any traffic! - now we get to see how that was a lie.. the fact is there was no 400 kids coming from 52 houses especially if you have newly weds in the basement...
ReplyDeleteI wonder where the obviously young and inexperienced rosh kollel is getting his advice from.. His entire bully approach and negative marketing is frankly very offensive and out of line with how any observer would expect a supposed makom torah to behave.
DeleteNebach.
Tzedakah, is year round not special to Purim, matonos levyonim ( the mechaber says even aniyim not as pittyful as evyoinim).
ReplyDeleteMaking the poor happy on Purim is chovas hayom. Giving yeshivos bochurim fundraising competition is all year round, if you have the money.
Maaser ksofim according to Ahavas chesed is to go to aniyim oimlei Torah .One should give their tzedakah & maaser as early as possible not wait for Purim.
BTW their is a list in hilchos tzedakah who comes first. Matonois lovyonim is kol haposhet yodo.
So if you delayed until Purim with Tzedakah, & your father or brother (min Haov) is hungry, they come first. If they are omlei torah Alachas Kamo vekamo. there are opinions that giving someone later on the list is gezel from the earlier one. be careful.