Friday, January 31, 2025 / ב׳ שבט תשפ״ה
ערב שבת פרשת בא
Candle lighting 4:57 pm
Shkiah/sunset 5:15 pm
Weather: today: 49° Chance of rain 90%.
Friday night °37 Rain 100% up to a inch
Shabbos day hi of °40 clear
Mid winter break elementary boys schools and girls elementary & high schools off today.
-Trump Officially Announces 25% Tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and 10% Tariffs on China.
- White House Press Secretary Leavitt confirms that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China.
- Mesivta update: At least 2 established mesivtos did not get a 9th grade class for next year as of now due to the chaos. Another new mesivta opening for this coming year wasn't able to put a class together .
- Trump administration orders federal employees to remove pronouns from their email signatures today.
- The Federal Aviation Administration is significantly restricting helicopter traffic in the immediate vicinity of Washington Reagan National Airport, according to an official briefed on the matter.
- The New Jersey Appellate Division has just overturned Jackson Mayor Mike Reina's land swap with Mordechai Eichorn, FAA News has learned.
- Judge denies motion by Lakewood BOE to join in Lang Lawsuit to fix funding formula
The litigation in this matter has ensued for more than a decade. Lakewood Board of Education has never been a party in the administrative proceedings in the first appeal before this court. The briefing has been completed for five months and the case is awaiting an oral argument date. The addition of a party at this late date will cause further delay in concluding these protracted proceedings. In addition, petitioner represents the interests of the children (and their parents) who attend the Lakewood schools. See Rules 4:33-1 and -2
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- Mid winter ice skating for boys and girls friday 10:30 - 11:45 $35 pp proceeds to TAG
Winding River Ice ring 1211 Whitseville rd Toms River 2 separate rinks.
- Hachtara for Rav Eliyohu Meir Keller rav Glen Arden Howell this sunday night at TBY Lakewood off Oak st.
-The Blackhawk helicopter was flying too high, by a lot. It was far above the 200 foot limit. That’s not really too complicated to understand, is it??? Donald Trump Truth Social Post 08:14 AM
-Monmouth and Ocean County towns reached a deadline Friday to opt into a program that spells out their affordable housing obligations for the next decade. about two-thirds of towns at the Shore had agreed to participate, even as some planned to challenge the number of affordable units determined by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs.
- Lakewood school district may run out of Money by Feb 22 in state does not provide loan of $104 million. Busing will shut down including LSTA busing to yeshivos. The only thing that could help us is winning the lottery like someone did in Jackson yesterday,” Inzelbuch told the board last week,. “We are not making light of it.
- Jersey shore hospital will drop Horizon insurance if theres no deal by June.1 2025 including all hospitals affiliated with meridian network
- Somerset Development has purchased the Commvault building in Tinton Falls and will bring it under its Bell Works brand, with plans to turn it into an engaging place where the community can work, play and gather.
Commvault's headquarters in Tinton Falls, a 276,900-square-foot building off Hope Road, is a centerpiece in the redevelopment of the former Fort Monmouth.
Can someone from a mesivta write a coherent article addressing the issues, we don't want to hear or read about it from newspaper editors or 3rd party ppl with no experience in this field.
ReplyDeletehow about a zev brenner show on the mesivta situation
ReplyDeleteYou'll never get a Mesivta owner to come on the air. Or a RY for that matter (the CEO came on once, but nothing special at the time. Though he was evasive of the "you will die in bed" story.)
DeleteSo the VAAD wakes up when it is time to vote to let you know who to vote for, who will NOT represent us the taxpayer and hamon am. When there is a mesivta acceptance circus not one word from anybody. When the BOE is going broke and soon there wont be any transportation not a word. The emporer has no cloth. We need asap an orginazation that will represent the oilam.
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly do you want the vaad to do about mesivtas. Lobby phil murphy? Ray coles? Schnall? Speak to their business associates? I am as anti vaad as you are but that doesn't make them the source of every issue under the sun.
DeleteYou are wrong. Don't ever speak kindly about the deep state in Lakewood. A L
DeleteRE: Somerset Development --Gr8!! Lakewood needs more dating spots!! Go Ralph!
ReplyDeleteThere is no reason to keep Mesivtos open besides the needs of the bochurim. If there were boys who were left stuck, that would be a problem. Are there any? How many? Why can't they attend these 'established' institutions?
ReplyDeleteMesivta Chillul Hashem - for Dummies.
ReplyDeleteit’s very simple. 2 Chosheva Roshei Yeshiva whose sons opened mesivtas in the last few years would call up parents and eighth grade Rabbeim and Menahalim , twisting their arm to send them their sons and students. Situation was getting more and more aggressive with each year. This year was especially aggressive.
Another Mesivta who also opened up fairly recently with a promenet Rov at the helm, Decided that they to will join the fray and start grabbing boys. Once that happened a few other mesivtas that knew about it l, also started taking boys ahead of the Takans.. hence the snowball effect. The “Vaad” for mesivtas published rules which other mesivtas were following…and those who were following the rules got burnt :-). Nice guy finish last!!
You have retired mechanchim with experience moving to Lakewood and putting their names on new mesivtos all these new ones are knocking off the established ones that were catering to local boys
ReplyDeleteWe have enough of these young inexperienced Ruv's in Lakewood who are making a churvah in town by overstepping their boundaries and advising in areas way beyond them, and cause young couples to alienate there parents, maror Shalom Bayis issues etc etc
ReplyDeleteToo bad for the old established mesivtas, perhaps this will teach them a lesson for excluding boys who were begging to come but whose parents didn't have the money the mesivtas greedly demanded
ReplyDeleteTag has mixed ice skating??
ReplyDeleteSeparate rinks.
DeleteSeparate rinks, but mixed ice cream
DeleteThis Mesivta messup is Trump's fault.
ReplyDeleteIt never happened under Biden.
But maybe the boys and girls mingled outside of the rinks RL?
ReplyDeleteOne cannot doubt daas Torah if they say black is white then black is white and if you question this you are a kofer bikur
ReplyDeleteIf you don't question it, you are a kofer
DeleteAs a member of the Mesivta staff, I need to express my frustration. I invested hundreds of hours reaching out to schools, parents, and Rabbeim in anticipation of farhers—a process I assumed I had three more weeks to complete. Then, motzei Shabbos, came the phone call: “It’s over—we need to have farhers tomorrow.” We immediately shifted into high gear and scheduled all of our farhers. The result was a disaster. We ended up with boys who, under normal circumstances, would have been in a “better mesivta” because their parents panicked, and many boys who should have come to us ended up in mesivtas that provided answers before Shabbos. It’s a shame that people are not realizing that many of these boys ended up in yeshivas that are not the best fit for them, pressured into decisions which were not in their best interest. In short, all that hard work went down the drain, and the cheaters won.
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