Friday, April 12, 2024 / ד׳ ניסן תשפ״ד ערב שבת פרשת תזריע
Candle lighting 7:14
Shkiah/Sunset 7:32
-Weather: 64° Periods of rain. Becoming windy in the afternoon. High 64F. Chance of rain 90%. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph. Shabbos day 56 overcast with 40 mph winds
- Belz rebbe tells His followers to deliver the shabbos hahadol drashos this week since shabbos hagadol comes out close to erev pesach with not enough time to learn the halachos
- Heavy traffic and road closures on busy Friday at Cedarbridge Arlington Vine area due to construction
- Despite many things going on in Lakewood from home invasions, traffic, accidents, school funding, pesach, there was no comment from any committee members at the once a month 10 minute virtual meeting.
- Chometz products not available anymore or hard to find in some stores as they turned over for Pesach
- BDE: petirah of Mrs. Shoshana Gelb a”h, wife of Rav Yosef Gelb zt”l, who was a talmid chochom, mechaber seforim one of the early talmidim of Rav Shneur kotler and a long time rosh Chaburah in BMG. Rav Shneur The levaya is this morning 10:00 am at the 7th Street Chapel. she is survived by here sons, Avrohom Gershon, Elchonon, Yeruchom, Aaron, Menachem and daughters Mrs, Goldberg, Charloff, Lieb, Tichy'
- This week’s Haftorah is rarely read, as Parshas Tazria is generally read as part of the double parsha of Tazria-Metzora. Even when it is read, the Haftorah is often Parshas HaChodesh. The last time this Haftorah was read was in 2003 and the next time will be in 2040.
- Jackson schools has $30 million budget gap and won't get much help from the state The district, which serves about 7,500 students, could also be forced to shut down its band programs, increase classes sizes up to 40 students, and eliminate all courtesy busing, according to district officials.
The problem, they said, is a $30 million budget gap left by years of cumulative state aid cuts and the recent announcement from officials in Trenton that Jackson School District would not be receiving a loan.(APP)
- Melava malka this motzei Shabbos at Strulovitz bais medrash in Lakewood commemorating the yartzeit of the founder Rav Chaim Moshe Strulowitz ztl.
- Albert shul will host a kiddush this shabbos by hatzolah of central Jersey thanking the neighborhood for the dedication of an ambulance to Hatzolah.
- The Biden administration will forgive $7.4 billion in student debt, the WhiteHousesaid in a statement today
- Lakewood officials say they are in touch with county state and sherif regarding the burlaries in Lakewood and are doing all they can to track the criminals down, at the same time residents should take preventative measures by locking their doors and windows.
- Giyus Update:The Hamodia newspaper in E"Y printed the letter from Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman, calling for no compromises and mesiras nefesh while the Hebrew Yated Neeman that was founded by Rav Shach refused to publish it
- At the township committee meeting last night a resident submitted a comment read by the mayor that called out the Comittemen that they don't even bother to attend the monthly 10 minute virtual meeting, the committee does not advocate for the taxpayers in Lakewood, they TL the governor and look how he laughs at us with school choice and a failing school district. The mayor said he doesn't know what that TL means.
See https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/publications/budget/governors-budget/2025/doe_analysis_2025.pdf page 34.
ReplyDeleteHow far we have come since the governor tried, but failed, to get Lakewood $30 million in 2019? Instead of fixing the formula, it seems the bigger concern is to have enough in the state budget just to lend the money.
"In FY 2024 to date, about $33.3 million in State aid advance payments were
provided through the School District Deficit Relief Account to the Lakewood
Township School District. Of this amount: $18.7 million was supported by
repayments of previously provided State aid advance payments; $7.7 million was
supported by transfers made into the account; and $6.9 million was supported by
unexpended balances from FY 2023. The adopted school year 2023-2024 budget
by the Lakewood Township School District suggests that it may need an additional
State Aid advance this fiscal year."
Talk about Ponzi scheme that will come crashing down on our children, if not beforehand! And all you worry about is the same old stupid small town, junior leaguer politics. Lakewood is hefker and always was, from the days of the chicken farmers running the town, to the days on the sixth grade English dropouts. Just let all your decisions be made in secret by a bunch of cowardly chickens. You won't even have a town soon because payment of your debt will be more than all appropriations!
Lakewood planning is Chelm
ReplyDeleteWhere is the brains to shut down streets Friday morning
The same chelmer that vacated every needed paper street to squeeze in one more house instead of having parallel streets to route 9 and all other major streets
ReplyDeleteYou're correct about the last time this week's Haftora was read. However it is read again in 5787 - three years from now
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