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- NBC News reports that Donald Trump 'eyes' Senator Marco Rubio as a 'potential VP pick'
- Toys for thought is officially relocating. After pesach they will be moving out of the downtown area. They are asking everyone that has gift certificates or any credits or coins to redeem them before Pesach. Credits and gift certificates will not be guaranteed afterwards.
- Toms River evening of Achdus tonight at 2030 Whitseville rd 8:15 pm
Guest speakers Reb Chaim Weg and
Reb Shloime Schwartzberg, Kumzitz with Betzalel Levin, Full Fleishig Buffet.
to benefit the Whiteville community kollel HERE under the leadership of Rabbi Yisroel Brotsky
- BMG Purim mesiba will have a special Amiras Tehillim at 11:15 pm on Motzei shabbos before the start of the purim tish, for the matzav in eretz yisroel. It will take place in Bais Aron
- A chizuk gathering for ladies and girls will take place tonight on the eve of Taanis esther with a recital of tefilas esther at the Lakewood high school 7th and Somerset 8:00pm organized by Chesed of Lakewood
- Fast day of Taanis Esther will begin tomorrow at 5:37am and end at 7:51pm
- Levaya for Rav Yehuda Levin ZTL will take place in Netanya at 1:30pm est.
- Girls' schools will have off tomorrow Thursday through Monday, longer than midwinter break.
-Due to the war in Eretz Yisrael the large yeshivos will be altering their usual Purim schedules. Chevron has cancelled the annual Purim mesiba, Ponovizz will have a seder limud with 2000 talmidim, Mir will have a 3 hour seder after krias megilah
- Rav Dov Landau calls on yeshiva bochurim hat collect on purim to only do so in the heavily populated charedi areas, and to be mechazek in Torah learning
- NJ republicans congratulate Congrats to Senator Bob Singer who was honored by the Lakewood Square for his support of senior citizens in his district.
- Allergy sufferers in New Jersey and many other eastern states may want to stock up on tissues and antihistamines. This could be a rough year, with very high pollen levels during two of the three main phases of allergy season, according to forecasters from AccuWeather.
- Vinyard in Lakewood will have IV drips at their locations for post purim detox on Monday morning with 50% off for early sign up
- TeachNJ coalition of Modern Orthodox schools released a statement about the Tuition relief thanking the bills primary sponsors but no mention of 30th district Assemblyman Avi Schnall. “New Jersey Student Support Act (A4144/S3035),” this bill marks a monumental step towards making education affordable and accessible for New Jersey’s families. This isn’t just any bill; it’s a beacon of hope, meticulously pioneered by the dedicated team at Teach NJ, aiming to transform the landscape of educational opportunities within our community. We’re not just talking about change; we’re making it happen. But this journey isn’t one we can embark on alone... Let’s band together to spread the word, advocate passionately, and ensure that every family can embrace the dream of affordable education for their children. Your involvement is key to turning this vision into a tangible reality. "
- The once grand Nevele Resort in the upstate town of Ellenville went up in flames last night, The historic site which dates back to the early 1900's, was sold to developers in September for $5M to make way for a new hotel and a 126-unit housing development.(kol haolam)
-Tehillim and kinus hisoirerus tonight ahead of the draft law in EY 10:30pm at 308 Dewy Ave Lakewood divrei chizuk by Rav Avigdor Arieli shlita Rosh Yeshiva Birchas Yisrael, Yerushalayim
Is the Lakewood Squate senior center getting the 3 million dollars from Chris Smith or is there another senior center opening.
ReplyDeleteHope not, they had a rayze it and collected over 300k from the community
DeleteHow are they suppose to build with only 300,000? Just the land cost much more.
DeleteThe seniors could have converted the existing community center on east 4th to become a senior center. But I just remembered that they can't because our committeemen sold it and all its surrounding property to the owner of Regency Development for one dollar. Never mind that that property was assessed at 2 million dollars. And never mind that the agreement required the developer to build another community center before removing even one brick from the existing building, which of course never happened. None of this is a problem, because nothing should stand in the way of friends which always take care of each other..
DeleteChris Smith must be held accountable for only delivering grants to well connected askanim
ReplyDeleteYou can make a reasonable campaign donation, and the congressman will be beholden to you.
DeleteOnly fair.
Is there a phone number to call in to the womens asifa?
ReplyDeleteThose Nevele developers just saved millions with that meoiray hooaish. Now there will be a huge development without a hotel.
ReplyDeleteWho has stocks with them ????
Truth is, it's too far off the 17-86.
DeleteNot worth much, unless they had *insurance*
Maybe some kehilla wants to build there, but that's not worth much.
If course, there's always some real estate yokul who'll build for speculation.
If a person bought a gift certificate to Toys for Thought, the store is obligated to honor it.
ReplyDeleteThey have no right to demand that people redeem them now or else.
Someone give them the message.
Maybe it's new ownership or something similar. Pretend they closed down and reopened.
DeleteIf a store closes they might have to redeem the certificate but good luck getting them to.
DeleteWhat's this Tehillim business on Purim night?
ReplyDeletePurim is not a day of Tefilla, it is a day of משתה ושמחה.
Taanis Esther is the day for דברי הצומות וזעקתם. Purim is a day of happiness.
This newfangled idea of using Purim for 'yeshuos' runs contrary to the essence of Purim, and is geared to undermine the שמחה למעלה מטעם ודעת that Purim symbolizes. Gedolei Yisroel did not spend Purim saying Tehillim, Reb Moshe Feinstein knew the Zohar as well as the do-gooders of Lakewood. As did the Satmar Rav, the Chazon Ish, and the Chafetz Chaim.
Stop the perversion of Purim. Now!
This perversion takes advantage of suffering people, removing their one day of happiness a year, guilting them into doing something that their hearts tells them is inappropriate.
DeleteHaven't they suffered enough? Every older single, family member of a cancer patient, and parent of a struggling child is told that their Purim has to be canceled.
I don’t believe for one second that any of the gedolim who you mention would have opposed if not supported saying Tehilim on Purim during an eis tzorah. One of Rav Moshe Feinstein’s most famous teshuvos says it was written on Purim. What Torah were you ever mechadash on Purim? And Rav Moshe clearly hadn’t drunk even a reve’is when he wrote the teshuva or he wouldn’t have been able to write it.
DeletePlease remove the above comment it's really uncalled for and very insensitive to the matzav and just plain wrong. Thank you
DeleteBeen saying this for years - they are always looking to make programs for the time that isn't meant to learn daven etc. while leaving the times meant to learn and daven by the wayside! Erev shabbos you should be helping at home with the last minute preparations not running off to learn leaving the woman (As R Chaim Pinchos Scheinberg writes in the book.....) or motzei yom kippur a time to start with your sukka etc - no lets have a seder limud as if getting ready for sukkos which is brought down in halacha is wrong..
DeleteWork on the current sedorim stop finding a new niche!
It happens to be this year with the war in EY I happen to not find these sedorim so bothersome...
Rabosai - is the oilam this dumb??????
DeleteThe purpose of saying Tehilim before the Mesiba in BMG is not because of the segulos of Purim. Its to show sensitivity to Yidden who are in a tremendous Eis Tzarah - the hostages, the families of the soldiers and the soldiers themselves who are in a Makom Sakanah Mamash.
As we are about to get shikur and serve Hashem with tremendous Simcha, it behooves us to show that we are sensitive to the plight of those who are unable to share in the Simcha of Purim. So we say Tehilim for them, and then we continue with our Avodas Hayom of Simchas Purim.
I'm surprised that the choshuve oilam of Bnei Torah on Hefkervelt couldn't figure t his out on their own and instead needed this Baalhabos (a baal kishron, I'll admit), to help them understand poshute pshat.
The same is true in Eretz Yisroel. Maran R' Dov Landau instructed Israeli Yeshiva Bochrim to only dance in the streets in CHAREIDI AREAS, because in non-chareidi areas it would show insensitivity to the families of soldiers who are in harm's way.
Showing sensitivity to others is a good thing. It doesn't take away from our Simchas Purim, but it makes us into a mentsch.
I have a link to a Kuntres about this topic, taking apart all of the proofs the assifa organizers bring https://forum.otzar.org/download/file.php?id=115910
DeleteAnon 5:05
DeleteThe olam is trying to be truthful
In Yerushalayim now most shuls are not saying tehillim after davening anymore you wouldn't know there's a war going on. Even in America we rattle off a kapital tillim after davening with no hergesh abi yoitzeh tzu zein.
Who are we fooling if we are not sincere??
If we wanted to show sensitivity to the hostages we should have joined their movements of protesting or going to a washington.
Why are we suddenly insecure about the mitzva of Purim to be besimcha even during an es tzoroh
Have we cut down our over the top gashmiyus lifestyle to be sensitive to the war?
We have to be honest and truthful about our approach
Faults are allowed to have a limit
DeleteAnon 5:05 PM
DeleteYou make a lot of sense
I don't know why you call yourself a balabus
you sound like a choshuve ben torah yourself
kol hakuvid
It comes from the Breslov BS promoters, who love to twist R Nachmans Torah to there liking, as there is no Rebbe to set them straight
ReplyDeleteThe chizuk meeting for woman has a very inappropriate poster they are sending around that had a picture of woman in it! Givalt?
ReplyDeleteStop the nonsense!
DeleteThere is nothing wrong with a picture of a woman, like there is nothing wrong with women.
Stop calling tznius pritzus!
Both of you are wrong-it depends
DeleteDo you really care? Or are you trying to stir up something?
DeleteIt's all chassidishe influence. Nonsense. Not having pictures of tznius women in a mag. is rediclous. The Jewish Observer had them too, and b'h Artscroll didn't fall for this nonsense. I see holocaust pictures with the women airbrushed out, like we're trying to finish the job Hitler couldn't do, depriving people of their last dignity. An article on an ehrliche woman like Sarah Shnirer or the like can't have a pic of her, but pictures of Hitler or Chmelnitzki, reshaim gemurim whom it's assur to look at, is ok. Insanity
Delete6:35 it depends which RY had it written
DeleteIt's intersting that R Y Sorotzkin will take part in a ladies gathering which is followed by a ladies kumzits. Is this our mesorah???
ReplyDeleteHow stupid can a person be?
DeleteDo you think he won't leave after his speech? Why would anyone look to find problems like this?
I guess our mesorah is to be as ungerzets as possible.
DeleteTo "stop the nonsense " , so go get a subscription to PB magazine!
ReplyDeleteDo you honestly not know the difference between tznius and pritzus? Does it have to be spelled out?
DeleteA picture of a woman who is fully dressed is not pritzus.
Stop the nonsense!
Any picture of any woman, even the most tzniusdig is not tzanua. It is pritzus. More than just literall translation.
DeleteAnd that's with the MOST tzniusdig, any iota less than that is not even worth discussing.
Fully dressed females in a movie poster isn't pritzus?!Really?!
DeleteNo, a picture of a woman is not pritzus at all.
DeleteUntil the early eighties, nobody even made this suggestion. From Der Yid to the Jewish Observer, pictures of women were published with no problem. The Munkatcher Rav, the Minchas Elazar, sent a picture of the Kallah to the newspaper to publish.
Complete willful fraud or you regurgitate bites from modox blogs.Nobody published colored pics of women..Only stodgy Black & whites.
DeleteTo them colored pics were epitome of the influence of treife Paris.& treife America. It was mi'us to that generation. It was a sign of those going badly modern. A step almost towards mixed swimming
& even the stodgy black & whites when they were allowed wouldn't have dared tolerate females of any age attractively sauntering/posing/flaunting as happens about weekly now.
Delete& mainly since people have gotten intimidated further & then further.By those with azus such as fake "stop the nonsense"
DeleteOh, so the issur isn't pictures, it's colored pictures.
DeleteGot it.
Remember, when the b/w pictures of women were published, the pictures of men that were published were also b/w. There was never an issue of any difference between the two.
& It's also your attitude
DeleteSo?! Is that your fallback retort once you're ilk are finally beaten?
Delete..The "ilk" that foists neverending pritzus
DeleteNo it's not, but to look at it is! That's why pictures of woman should not be randomly sent out to promote a chizuk asifa. You will cause men to see a picture of woman which for him is pritzus. And therefore it is pritzus to send it around. Got it?
ReplyDeleteA couple decades ago or less it was taken as given by most here that having women on public colored pics was an element of pritzus
ReplyDeleteSome harry crowds eg Baltimore found such nuances difficult.
Just as they found other nuances beyond their ken.Their influences has seeped in unfortunately.
Where are they going to try to take us next??
ReplyDeleteA month or so ago Mishpacha mag. had an hotel ad with a girl at the pool in wet outfit.
I didn't notice. Why did you notice?
DeleteIirc happen to notice it a few weeks afterward
DeleteNo need to have a subscription to PB magazine ad there are many copies floating around in the dorm
ReplyDeleteStupid politicians
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