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-Damascus falls: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flees Damascus as rebels move into country’s capital
- Assad planes disappeared from radar speculation of a crash or emergency landing
- Melava malka and Siyum tonight in BMG for the Yartzeit of Rav Aharon Kotler and Rav Nosson Wachtfogel. Shiur by Rav Motel Dick shlita divrei zikaron by Rav Yaakov Landesman shlita 9:00pm at BMG Beren Hall
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-Update: He is B"H Talking clearly.. resting in hospital.
Tehillim for Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn, the renowned maggid, and author who was taken to the hospital as Shabbos began due to a stroke.
Rabbi Krohn was at the Agudah convention at the Armon Hotel and Conference in Stamford, Connecticut, when the incident occurred.
Hatzolah immediately responded and transported him to a local Stamford hospital, where he is currently receiving treatment.
Name is Paysach Yosef ben Hinda.
- Tehillim for Rav Asher Deutsch shlita in EY who is in serious condition thousands gathered Tonight at the kosel to Daven for Asher ben Leah.
- Lakewood Ihr HaTorah V'chasidus
Thousands in Lakewood attended various Tishen as several chasidishe rebbes came for shabbos. The Vizhnitzer rebbe R' Mendele of Bnei Brak conducted a shabbos at Bais Faiga the Friday night Tisha held in the Bais Onya gym had a few thousand people attend throughout.
At Rachmastrivka B"M omn E County line crowds packed the shul for the tish as there were many Rebbes attending a shabbos Sheva Brachos
In Brookhill Rav shlomo Zalman Phillip shlita the satmar dayan was at B"M shemen L'Mincha where a large crowd of Chasidim joined in over shabbos
The Sadigura rebbe from Bnei Brak is currently in Lakewood for a family simcha and hundreds packed the shul in Lakewood for Tish and tefillos over shabbos.
- Ocean county officials say drone Sightings have been made across Ocean, including in Toms River, Manchester, and Jackson, as well as across portions of Monmouth County. Anyone concerned about a potentially suspicious drone sighting should call the non-emergency line of their local police department to report it. The FBI’s Newark Office and the New Jersey State Police are investigating similar reports in NJ
- The situation in Syria is looking catastrophic for Bashar al-Assad's regime. A few hours ago, CNN reported that American intelligence estimates that the regime will fall in the coming days. Iran, Russia, and the Iraqi militias are in the process of (or already have) withdrawing all of their military forces from the country.
Three Israeli security officials told Axios that as far as Israel knows, at the moment Bashar al-Assad is still in Damascus. However, he has not been seen anywhere in the city and his entire family is believed to have already fled to Russia or Iran.
The few cannot make decisions for the many. You can’t have a group of high-net-worth individuals sitting around a table deciding if Shabbos food package recipients would rather get chicken tops or bottoms.
ReplyDeleteA friend once described sitting with a tuition committee, negotiating the terms for a new school year. They were suggesting a ten percent increase over the year before, while he felt it should not be ten percent, but twenty, and not an increase, but a decrease.
He explained the reasons: He had not changed jobs, but a child who needed a particular kind of therapy had drained his income, and a badly needed basement remodeling had forced him into debt. He shared this personal information uneasily and looked around at the faces of the men across from him. One was a successful real estate syndicator who had built himself up from nothing and had no sympathy for anyone who didn’t match his ambition and drive. One was a professional yoreish, who had never filled out a form in his life because his father still paid tuition for all the eineklach. And one was clearly somewhere else, still tanned from a quick visit to Turks and Caicos and deeply immersed in planning a getaway to Panama, because “it’s so important to make time for a marriage.”
My friend, to whom making time for his marriage means an occasional walk around the block with his wife, made a respectful point.
“You would not sit on a beis din and pasken sh’eilos about hilchos yuchsin, because you don’t know it, right?” he challenged them. “So why do you think it’s okay for you to sit here and pasken sh’eilos in hilchos ‘making ends meet,’ casting judgment on whether or not sending my son to camp for one month is appropriate or my wife should be driving a Kia instead of an Odyssey? The struggles of the middle class is not your sugya.”
The word bubble-ized in the quoted article resonated, because the danger exists in our camp too, this party called the Torah community. Our wealthy class is doing so much, but if we want our every organization and institution to be relevant, then we have to make sure that regular guys are getting air time at board meetings, too.
Some words change their meaning over time. Askan used to mean a person who was oseik, involved and devoted to the needs of the community. Then it started to be seen as another word for a person of prominence, and then it became stale, so naggid came back into use, a code word for rich respectable. You need neggidim to get things done, because money is important, and you need askanim, because so is dynamism and efficiency. But make sure your board has one regular guy (loosely defined as someone who still relies on credit cards, somewhat, has never flown private or sat in a stadium box, and knows when the Charles Tyrwhitt sale is).
Ayyy, you’ll ask me, the regular guys have to do that work thing, like with bosses and schedules, so when will they have time to askan-ize? It’s a fair question, so how about this: At least bring in board members who were once regular and can remember it, or at the very least, who associate with regular people.
The askan/nadvan/lay leader class is doing so much, giving heart and soul, resources and energy. If you’re around that table, make one more investment and try to make time to listen to the people you aim to serve.
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That is Article in this week's mishpacha
DeleteThe schools will never allow a simple guy on the tuition committee it's only the powerful rich guys that squeeze the parents
It's actually linked
DeleteGreat article
DeleteThis does not describe anything close to my experiences in Lakewood.
DeleteMaybe in Day Schools this happens. Not chadarim in Lakewood.
i don't think any school in lakewood has a tuition committee. it's all decided by one guy in the school or they outsource it to a company that does it for numerous schools.
DeleteThey're running away as far far from any possible shred evidence of their clay feet. They've all had parents who were just 'regular' guys
DeleteHave you ever tried saying Aleinu inside from your siddur? How about for 30 days in a row?
ReplyDeleteHow loud are you supposed to daven shmonesrei?
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