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- 23rd Yartzeit of Rav Lazer Shach ZTL see below video from the younger years
- Senator John Thune: If the ICC international court in the Hague and its prosecutor do not reverse their outrageous and unlawful actions to pursue arrest warrants against Israeli officials, the Senate should immediately pass sanctions legislation, as the House has already done on a bipartisan basis. If Majority Leader Schumer does not act, the Senate Republican majority will stand with our key ally Israel and make this – and other supportive legislation – a top priority in the next Congress.
- The CDC says 2 people from New Jersey are among 39 nationwide who have been infected by an E. Coli outbreak linked to organic and baby carrots sold by Grimmway Farms.
The product is no longer on store shelves but may be inside homes.(Sschorr)
- Trump Jr: The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives. Gotta lock in those $Trillions.
- Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch tells yeshiva bochurim it is a mitzva to be a draft dodger since the only survival of EY is with kedusha by the Torah learning of bnei yeshiva. If the gov wants to take them away from learning it is a mitzva for them not to oblige.
- Putin: The use of Western long-range weapons to strike Russia means the direct participation of NATO countries in the conflict.
- Biden authorized Ukraine to attack with long range missiles deep in Russian territory NYT
- Genazym judaica live auction today the Toporovitch collection watch Here
- Hatzolah global conference and expo taking place today at the NJ convention center in Edison,NJ
- Nj gubernatorial race, the Orthodox Jewish community of New Jersey will be very sought after by all candidates ahead of the primary election as the margins are close and the Orthodox vote can deliver a favorable outcome. Political analysis say candidates will be promising the world in order to get the vote.
A respomse on LinkedIn to the Lakewood vaad member who posted about Lakewood traffic:
"I’m sorry, but I never heard of something so ridiculous in my life. Do you think that the people wasting literally hours of their lives each week are happy about the extremely poor developmental design of Lakewood, for which you surely have had some degree of influence from your position? I’m wondering how many people would agree with your sentiment were you to actually take a poll of Lakewood residents and drivers. Your statement reeks of complete disconnect at best, and of elite condescension at worst. Just remember that an election was just won by a landslide over those who tried to gaslight the masses into believing that everything bad for them was good and vice versa. People are smarter than you think."
- Hachnosas Sefer Torah and Yattzeit commemoration of Rav Chaim Pinto ZTL at Kollel Orot Chaim VMoshe of Toms River with the presence of Rabbi Dovid Chanina Pinto shlita at the Kollel 1060 Church rd, Toms River 11:30am
- Bingo black Friday mega sale starts today through 11/30 deals on electronics toys furniture appliances judaica jewelry clothing and more
- Giyus update: IDF sends out first wave of draft notices after new defense Minister approved sending 7000 to be sent to yeshiva bochurim. Gedolei yisroel today issued a call to not report to the draft offices at all not even for the initial summons.
- Levaya of Rav Yehoshua Kalischbztl Watch livestream Here 11am
- Toms River: Today a Anchor rebate application event will take place in Yiddish at the Westwood lobby (former Ramada) 1001 Rt 70 from 12:30pm - 3:30pm arranged by CARES
- Ruby shoe sale this Sunday $30 a pair sizes 19-42 at Esther Gerber Hall 1pm - 7 pm
- eCore - Executive Conference on real estate gets underway today in Miami for 2 days.
- BDE: Petira of Reb Dovid Pitterman Z”L of Mir yeshiva Flatbush He was 75. Levaya today in BP at Shomrei Hadas 12:00pm
- Whitesville Road in Jackson will be closed to all traffic starting Monday, November 18, 2024, for extensive roadwork in the area, with the closure expected to last approximately 30 days. Alternate routes will be posted for area residents
- Lakewood residents retain attorney to oppose application seeking to build 66 homes on prospect street Here
- A book arrived last week at Mesameiach headquarters, signed by president Donald J. Trump,after mesameach presented the book anout the new building to Don Jr at a Pennsylvania rally right before the election with a promise that the president will autograph it
- Sources on Capitol Hill say that Nancy Pelosi has confided to Democratic colleagues that she deeply regrets her role in the coup that replaced Joe Biden with Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee. She expressed that she should have trusted her political instincts, which told her that Harris was too weak a candidate to face Donald Trump.
- Iowa pollster Ann Selzer retires from polling.
Her final Iowa poll was Harris+3 and she tried to justify it. The final result was Trump+13 - an error of 16 points. The Selzer poll was previously the “gold standard” of polling.
Video Rav Shach in the early days
As AK once said, "the view from the top is lonely"
ReplyDeleteBecause nobody wants to get anywhere near you
I don't think AK ever said that. not his type of quote.
DeleteThat is a very old non-Jewish quote and the way it actually goes is “It might be lonely at the top; but the view is Amazing.” If AK ever quoted it he must have meant it in the context of quoting any other famous expression or quote.
DeleteSadly the vaad did a good job manipulating public opinion especially those without access to social media and that's how they win elections using the threat of daas Torah and targeting clueless bochurim and youngeleit.
ReplyDeleteLast year they managed to get 12000 votes for a Mexican lady on to the township committee who no one In Lakewood even knows her name
She hasn't even shown up at all and some committee members and askanim have privately spoken about their dissatisfaction with her
this is how the self appointed vaad keep on playing games and fooling the tzibbur
Shame on us that we allow this to go on
To add insult to injury the no show committeewoman gets an annual salary of approx 80-90K plus benefits. What is she even doing to earn half of that??
DeleteCouncil members do not get 80-90k salary the get around 13k before posting your stupidity with such confidence do a simple google search
DeleteHaha jokes on you as you obviously are ignorant of what the Lakewood committee members are getting
Deletego Google it and you will see they are getting upwards of 74k
https://lakewood.novusagenda.com/agendapublic/CoverSheet.aspx?ItemID=5138&MeetingID=188
anon 12:26, sorry but you're the one confidently posting stupidity without doing a Google search. anon 11:43 is correct.
Deleteyou could have just searched Hefkervelt and found this
https://hefkervelt.blogspot.com/2023/12/lakewood-township-committee-to-increase.html
Anon 12:26, You’re behind times.
DeleteThe 5 committees men used to get approx 13K + benefits till not that long ago. But they decided to perform a service (“l’toeles harabim” of course) by voting themselves huge salary raises and bigger benefits over each of the previous few years.
There is no other town committee in the entire region that rewards themselves with anywhere near the salary level our asskanim gave themselves.
I guess they feel that they’re mamesh oisek betzarchei tzibbur with such trust and emunah that they actually deserve such a big chunk of our tzibbur’s property tax dues.
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M&M are such big tzaddikim that they haven’t already awarded themselves a salary of 150K. They’re doing us all a gigantic favor by not ripping us off even more than they are.
DeleteThis sounds just like the Democrat Governor of NY explaining how much of a tzadeikes she is by only forcing NJ commuters to pay a new and outrageous $9 congestion fee for the privilege of driving in Manhattan, because the mechasheifa could’ve decided to charge us $15!!
BD"E: Petira of Reb Arnold Berkovits Z"l of Lakewood. Formerly from woodmere, he relocated to Lakewood a few years ago. He leaves behind his wife Ruth and three children.
ReplyDeleteHis children in Lakewood are Harav Zeev Berkovits Shlit"a and Mrs Judy Wax. His daughter Rachel lives in Eretz Yisrael.
What a loss. He was a very special person. He lived in Deerfield Beach Florida and was a prominent member of the Young Israel there.
DeleteHe was a real yid. I would see him by his son on James. He brought up a chashuv family
DeleteWait so you are denying the fact that the mashgich zatzal created the Vaad?
ReplyDeleteno he didn't. what are you talking about?
DeleteAre you denying the fact that the mashgiach zatzal created the vaad.
ReplyDeleteIn that case shame on you.
Shame on you for trying to justify the rishus or perpetuating corruption ruining the town by using the name of the mashgiach to something that is totally irrelevant to what the vaad has become while it was the vaad in self admission that they were no longer respected or trusted by people in Lakewood
DeleteSo your agreeing that their not self appointed.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
Not at all, a vaad that represents a town must be chosen and elected by the people according to shulchan aruch
DeleteWas there a public vote by the mashgiach appointing these individuals?
Who were they appointed to represent?
Mordechai Levy the gabbai was the representative of thousands of kollel guys yet not one youngeman voted for him
A website owner was appointed by the self appointed vaad to join them does that make any sense??
This vaad is self appointed and never elected by the people who pay taxes
vaad members never publicly disclosed their financial dealings with the township when leaving phone calls telling taxpayers who to vote for.
The vaad was for the Yeshiva not for the town
The only thing they can do is resign in shame
And BTW why don't they listen to the roshei yeshiva in regard to Chemed
They only play daas Torah when is suits them??
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DeleteAre Reform Temples ok too? Many Reform Temples were originally started by orthodox rabbis
The shtik shown by saying 'Mashgiach zatzal' is well-spun.
ReplyDeleteThis 'mashgiach zatzal' could be Reb Yeruchem Levovitz, Reb Nosson Wachtfogel, Reb Yehuda Jacobs, or Reb Matisyahu Salomon. Then again, it could be Reb Hersh Feldman, Reb Elya Goldschmidt, or Reb Yankel Cohen.
The word 'created' is another meaningless word. What did this nameless mashgiach do? How does that make their actions his decisions?
And was it done בהסכמת חכמי העיר? Were the great Talmidei Chachamim of town consulted? If not, why should we care for any of these mashgichim?
All part ofa day's propaganda.
Agree with you, except for the last paragraph.That was chutzpah.
DeleteLooks like the vaad paid trolls are back with spin
ReplyDeleteI don't care if it was moshe rabbenu who created the vaad. The question is whether their endorsements are ltoeles hatzibur or not. As they are not everything else, including if they were originally or currently backed by "daas torah" is irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteWhy was a three way stop sign installed on Ridge and Shemen? Thousand of cars on Ridge traveling and I dont recall any traffic in the Shmen? Interesting.
ReplyDeleteSometimes it's one big honcho that gets the committee to do it
DeleteVery related to this conversation is an article by Yaakov Wenger in this past week's Lakewood Shopper, where he stands up for the kavod of the Lakewood Rabbonim, who have not endorsed or been involved in the selection of the candidates that the Vaad told the entire Lakewood to vote for, but their name is being used as if they have given an endorsement.
ReplyDeleteI cannot agree more with his article. I wish there was a way to help the broader Lakewood community get the real truth on the Vaad's independent endorsement of candidates.
We are paying way too high property taxes, which does end up also causing higher rentals for young couples (and their parents that support them!), and inflation of prices in many local businesses due to their increases taxes and rentals.
Which Rav would not want to support those new BOE candidates and Reb Aaron Lang who is working tirelessly to help Lakewood get its fair share of funding to lower all our taxes?
I also question which Rabbonim are actually aware of the lack of governance in this town, where the roads are a mess and we are missing so many basic side streets that cause way way too much traffic on the main roads and so much wasted time. The zoning laws are not enforced, paper streets are discarded, and the planning board is run by friends of the developers that help them build with waivers such as narrower streets, less parking, less thru streets etc, saving the developers' money at Lakewood's long term expenses. Which sensible Rav isn't open to bringing in new voices and ideas into the Lakewood community given the many issues in this town!
It was completely misleading and lack of ehrlichkeit (maybe sheker!) for the Vaad to send out a mailing to the Lakewood community as well as to all students of Lakewood schools to vote in the incumbents saying that they are giving over the daas torah of the Lakewood rabbonim on who we should vote for. Most of the Lakewood community blindly voted for whomever was on that paper, as I saw many people bring it with them to the polls. They simply have no idea.
I blame you.... for not getting the word out.
DeleteYou forgot to mention all the "tax abatements" given to connected individuals....
DeleteI dont have the money or means to get the word out. But if someone else does, or has pull with a local publication like the Shopper or the Voice, PLEASE go ahead ltoeles harabim!
DeleteIf they aren't "aware" perhaps they shouldn't have much of an opinion whether in person or on paper
DeleteBut the bleeting herd disagree
If tge Jewish community is so sought after, why don't i hear any movement on tuition tax rebates?
ReplyDeleteOr are teacher's unions still sought after?
Why cant both be true?
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