Weather: 34° Sunny and windy. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
Light snow with a coating to an inch of accumulation is expected from late Friday night to Saturday morning as a major storm blasting the southern United States all but misses New Jersey.
Asara Bteves tomorrow fast starts at 5:52 am or 6:06am.
- Trump: "I'm going to give you a report on drones about one day into the administration because I think it's ridiculous that they're not telling you about what's going on with the drones."
- New brush fire breaks out in the West Hills area, evacuations underway
- U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision rejects Trump's last ditch attempt to halt Friday's sentencing in hush money case.
-The US Senate voted, 84-9, towards advancing the Laken Riley Act, proposing that the DHS detain undocumented immigrants who are charged with theft-related crimes.NJ senators Booker and Kim were part of 9 democrats who voted against it.
- Dips of Brooklyn soft opening leil shishi located Chestnut and Rt 9 at former crunchtime location. Grand opening in the next few weeks.
- Jimmy Carter funeral today No USPS mail got offices closed. Trump and Obama sat next to each other and talking at the funeral.
- Yeshiva Toras Emes in LA canceled school today due to the close proximity to the fires and smoke conditions Further says 60 mph wind gusts will arrive later today.
LADF Fire update Pacific Palisades fire is at zero percent containment. 5 confirmed death and number expected to rise.
Chabad shliach from west hollywood hills on Kol Mevaser says that the Hollywood hills fire may have started from Arson the area is under a black out
- Trump: One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground. It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!
-Giyus: Starting in 2026, the Israeli government has informed the High Court of Justice, the IDF will be able to enlist an unlimited number of Chareidi men, with no restrictions on the number it can absorb. The state told this to the High Court of Justice on Wednesday. As of the upcoming 2024 enlistment year, the IDF expects to have room for 4,800 Chareidi recruits, with the capacity rising to approximately 5,700 in 2025
Peleg yerushalmi protesting today in response to the draft.
- Mesivta farhers: Local Lakewood chadorim representatives have called upon all mesivtos to adhere to the takona, of not giving any farhers before the agreed upon start date the week of Tu Bshvat. Unfortunately, last year some mesivtos broke the rule which caused others to do the same and caused a stressful and chaotic farher season.
- Lakewood some residents want to hold a watch party in town hall to be physically present in the building during the virtual meetings while elected officials hide behind their screens.
- New Jersey achieved historic reductions in gun violence and auto thefts in 2024. The state recorded 778 shooting victims, marking a 16% decrease from 2023 since tracking began in 2009. Fatalities from gun violence also dropped by 20%, with 152 deaths in 2024. Auto thefts similarly declined by 11%, with 14,755 vehicles stolen statewide compared to 16,694 in 2023.
- Tax dollars the Lakewood Industrial
Commission approved the 2025 budget of $712,950.00 they have a revenue of
$1,432,777.39. Included in the budget is $9000 yearly allowance for the directors car and $24,000 for marketing on PR articles.
- Since January 2021, the month Joe Biden was sworn in as president, the state of New Jersey saw a net gain of just nine (9) new registered Democrats. Nine.Republicans, however, have added a net 184,026 new voters over the last four years. Democrats still maintain a nearly 900,000 registered voter advantage over Republicans.(NJ Globe)
- Newly elected Lakewood BOE member Shraga Gold who was endorsed by the alakewood Vaad did not show up to be sworn in last night at the reorganization meeting, The BOE is looking to fill the vacant slot on the board. The boe website says Anyone interested in submitting their written request and resume should mail or e-mail those items by Friday, January 17, 2025
- The writer Ruthie Kepler, daughter of Maran Rosh Yeshiva Shaul Alter, was stabbed in Yerushalayim on rechov Rashi The stabber is mentally unstable non-religious who quarreled a lot with the residents of the area she was taken to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in good condition. BH
-App reports on Gourmet Glatt, which has two stores in Lakewood, will take over the 67,000-square-foot former Stop & Shop supermarket space at Bennetts Mills Plaza, according to Brixmor Property Group, the center's landlord. An opening is anticipated in late 2025.
- At the jackson township zoning board meeting last night the board voted on replacing the lawyer but a zoning board member abstained thinking that it wont affect the outcome which ended up rehiring the lawyer for another year upon realizing her mistake she asked to change it to a no vote which was denied. News reports that the attorney sent a letter before the meeting accused the board of engaging in a “political” effort to remove him and warned of legal actions, including subpoenaing board members if necessary.
Chevra,
ReplyDeleteVoting has consequences. Look what's going on in LA, because they voted for a moron.
And not voting is also just as bad.
Fast starts 5:52
ReplyDeleteSo did The Lakewood vaad put a placeholder candidate for BOE just to not have other candidates elected? There were 3 strong Boe candidates endorsed by Lakewoods leading talmidei chachomim who were gonna fight for the funding formula, instead the vaad pushes a no name candidate who dosent show up at the end. It may have been personal or other reasons but now let's have one of those 3 candidates elected to the boe.
ReplyDeleteI believe almost all rabbi's hold that the first zman for alos is the correct one (5:52 am) and the 2nd zman makes no sense. אין כאן מקום להאריך
ReplyDeleteIf I remember correctly R' Yisroel Reisman in his sefer/book says the ikar lehalacha is 72 minutes.
DeleteA Lang
ReplyDeleteAlthough I plan to finish my litigation, I have determined not to pay much attention to, and to publicly comment less often about, Lakewood. I no longer work for your district and it makes no difference to me professionally if the organization goes under. I do care about education but I now another school district in northern NJ lays claim to my kochos, a district to which my co-counsel brought billions of dollars by way of the Abbott litigation.
Here is what I have to say:
The one state monitor that has remained in Lakewood is the first monitor, since the beginning in 2014, that has taken the position that Lakewood DOES NOT need more funding. The formula IS NOT deficient. By contrast, my adversaries, every commissioner of education since we began litigation in 2014, has opposed the need for more state aid and held that any deficiency is due to insufficient local taxation and because of BOE incompetence. The commissioner now finally has a man in the trenches on his side. The other state monitor resigned because he held, like every monitor before him, that the district needs more funding.
So sorry Lakewood. Your press that thought it worthwhile to report the fire commissioner election but not that of the BOE, your leaders betrayed me and the cause, and secretly engaged in imprudent horse trading; your BOE acted, or I should say in-acted, because they do nothing, deleteriously to the public interest; the electorate just ignorantly takes its marching orders, which is contrary to the fundamental driving priniciple of any republic, virtue, the duty of the citizen to engage in public affairs; and the bosses failed to promote the education of our youth, and protect both yiddishe and goyishe momon and property.
I am happy that I never climbed up the corporate ladder in the district organization. It is no longer my employer.