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- Public meeting tonight for Redevelopment of Lakewood E County line and E. Kennedy Blvd, officials are proposing a roundabout at the intersection with Squankum rd and to have traffic going one way down E Kennedy.
- Trump: Big News Conference tomorrow morning at 10:00 A.M., The Oval Office, concerning a MAJOR TRADE DEAL WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY. THE FIRST OF MANY!!!
- Medical Aid in Dying Act advances through New York Assembly committees
The Medical Aid in Dying Act (A.136/S.138) would allow terminally ill, mentally capable adults with six months or less to live to request a prescription for medication they could take to die peacefully. Today a group of 30 yidden gathered in Albany to protest against the bill. People are urged to call law makers and ask them to opppse as the bill heads to the state senate.
- Trump: I am pleased to announce that I’ve just signed a Proclamation officially designating tomorrow, May 8th as VICTORY DAY FOR WORLD WAR II
- Republican gubernatorial frontrunner Jack Ciattarelli made a visit to Linden, New Jersey, where he met with members of the Orthodox Jewish community. Ciattarelli listened to residents’ concerns, especially regarding discriminatory zoning policies that community members say have unfairly targeted the growing Jewish population.
-REAL ID is now required for air travel in America. State-issued driver’s licenses and IDs that are not REAL ID compliant are no longer accepted as valid forms of identification at airports,” the Transportation Security Administration explained. However, if passengers show up Wednesday without a REAL ID, they will still be able to fly but “may” face additional screening, officials said this week. And air travelers can show alternative forms of ID, including a passport, a Veteran Health Identification Card, and other items.
- Netanyahu threatened the ultra-Orthodox parties in his coalition that he’ll go to elections, after they threatened to leave the coalition over draft exemptions for Yeshiva students.(Amit Segal)
- Today at the township public is invited to discuss the County Line and Kennedy BLvd Road improvements as officials are seeking public input as they plan traffic and safety improvements lakewood town hall 3rd and Clifton 6-8 pm
- Adirei hatorah signs go up around yeshiva ahead of the event after shavuos it will take place at the Wells Fargo center in Philadelphia. organizers are currently in Eretz yisroel meeting with gedolim for brachos and possibly invite them to attend the maamad.
- Last night at the planning board an application for the Chazon Ovadia shul was heard the proposed site is on the corner of Pine street and Vine street the shul requested to have an opening on Pine as it would take too long to get a CAFRA permit for access from Vine ave. Neighbors on Pine street spoke up about safety concerns this will have for children and pedestrians on Pine street and asked that only an opening on Vine street be allowed. The boared approved a motion allowing the shul with only a access from Vine street with no opening to PIne street.
Committeman Isaac Akerman sat as an alternative on the board in order to have quaram.
-On Monday night, the Zoning Board unanimously granted Conditional Use Variance relief to permit multi-family housing on only 4.429 acres of land at 1000 Route 70. see more on FAA
-Satmar Kiryas Yoel: 100,000 people expected this year at the KJ Bonfire Lag B'omer celebration with Satmar Grand Rebbe Aron in the Town of Palm Tree, Kiryas Joel in Orange County. The largest such celebration outside of Meron celebrating the life and teachings of the sage Rashbi.
- Giyus: Chief of Staff's announcement, the IDF is preparing to issue 60,000 draft orders to young ultra-Orthodox men.
A senior member of Degel HaTorah: "This move will turn Torah scholars in the Jewish state into criminals. Zamir is entering the political arena, and even if he doesn't intend to, he could lead to the dissolution of the government.
coalition's ultra-Orthodox parties said they would boycott votes on coalition legislation on Wednesday, in protest of the government’s failure to pass a law exempting yeshiva students from military service.
-Trump: Our Court System is not letting me do the job I was Elected to do. Activist judges must let the Trump Administration deport murderers, and other criminals who have come into our Country illegally, WITHOUT DELAY!!!
-Five shack-like apartments that were evacuated by a fire last month on e county line were illegally built and rented out, according to township officials last year the property had received township approval to build nine new homes on the property. App
- FAA is implementing immediate and long-term measures to stabilize operations at Newark. On May 6, the agency announced plans to bring in air traffic control supervisors from across the country to bolster staffing at Philadelphia TRACON. The FAA is also working to establish “a more resilient and redundant configuration” for telecommunications equipment in the New York area, prioritizing upgrades to prevent future outages.
- Hatzolah of central jersey launches $1.6 million raize it campaign Here
- FBI Director Kash Patel announces that federal law enforcement has made 205 arrests of child predators this week alone.
I love how the so called "ultra orthodox parties" who have sold their souls for a few shekels are now cought without the ability to stop the shmad
ReplyDeleteWhat Shmad? It's cowardice, nothing more nothing less.
DeleteReally interesting So now Netanyahu threatening The religious parties That he will drop them So it's really The religious parties Who are dying to stay in the government despite the fact They cannot further their agenda Regarding the draft. For the last while they were putting on a show of threatening him that they will leave now he called their Bluff. They will hold on As long as they get money. So basically they have no other agenda but money says a lot!
DeleteShechter is referring to R Malkiel as a RY that's not so learned? Chutzpah! If you perhaps know Kol HaTorah Kilo but are KRUM like Shechter it's all worthless
ReplyDeleteWell, if the shoe fits....................
DeleteThe idea that someone can call someone else krum to negate his respect as a talmid chacham is straight out of the chassidishe playbook.
DeleteIt is just your garden variety שנאת עם הארץ לת"ח, which has people ignoring others' knowledge of Torah. All those people care about is how much real estate you own. Rabbi Shachter owns nothing, but Rebbes own tons. Daas Baalebatim at its best.
May I know if the YU Roshei Yeshiva were ever called names by other gedolim? Look around and you'll find may gedolim when they have a strong disagreement they tend to call the other view Am Haaretz etc. it is nothing new.
DeleteRav Shechter can put R Malkiel in his back pocket, and he's a great lamdan and posek as well
DeleteThere are ZERO appointments in the entire state to turn your license into REAL ID
ReplyDeleteShechter, celebrated the hey Iyar change, holds married women do not have to cover your hair, do not have to cover below their elbows, women can get Aliyahs in Shule, dance w/o a machitza , wears the fake YU " techeles", etc etc. Don't need to be a genius to realize that him and his ilk are KRUM. They are worse than conservative and reform!!
ReplyDeleteRidiculous.You can correctly challenge him, castigate him, & many of the things he stands for but he ain't anything like Conservative or Reform
DeleteWhen RNZ Finkel needed to go to a Din
Torah here in the US he chose RHS
He "holds married women do not have to cover your hair, do not have to cover below their elbows, women can get Aliyahs in Shule, dance w/o a machitza ?" Where'd you get this nonsense from?
Delete2:12
DeleteYou sound like you are oozing yiras shomayim.
Actually he threw out a talmid from the yeshiva cause his wife (not the talmid) went to such a minyan.
DeleteAnd he had another woman formerly man (before he she b came a BT) thrown out of a independent neighborhood minyan located in YU-owned building.
Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Rav Elya Ber, Rav Meir Mazuz and Rav Moshe Sternbuch all wear the techeiles.
DeleteI'm sure they will discuss connecting and.finishing Kennedy boulevard behind the Wawa the way it is on paper and that way we have two roads going the length not just county line and everybody from Kennedy has to go on to county line. Like never .
ReplyDeleteShoutout to our hardworking sanitation crew — once again, they came through and left our block looking like a trash can obstacle course. Cans everywhere, blocking the road, tipped over like every week. And yes, this is what our tax dollars pay for... Unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteDoes this happen everywhere in lakewood??
I know R' Hershel Schechter personally and have been reading criticism of this great, humble gadol with much disappointment. But @2:12 PM has stooped to a new low of plain outright lies. It's scary to think of what can happen to such a person. One can disagree with someone respectfully and truthfully, but this spewing of lies about an Adom Gadol is despicable!
ReplyDeleteI'm not defending @2:12.
DeleteBut we have a situation where a YU Rosh Yeshivah called his ideological opponents amaratzim. I don't think that in all the years of criticizing YU did anyone call their RYs amaratzim. It was always about the ideology
He also repeated a conspiracy theory which really dumb.
Because YU's RY are not am haaratzim. יחי ההבדל הגדול
Delete942 -- when Rav Elya Svei did, the Jewish Observer (Agudah) made sure to publicize it
DeleteNobody in the yeshivish community called Rav Svei out on it.
Reb Elya Svei said nothing about the Roshei Yeshiva in YU. He protested a statement made by the provost.
Deleteיחי ההבדל הגדול
I don't have an ax to grind. Just wondering why we care if the NY Legislature passes a law to allow assisted suicide for a terminal ill patient with less than 6 months. Like, why can't we just mind our own business? Why should it bother us what they do?
ReplyDeleteI'm not trying to defend the law or go against any gedolim. I just don't understand why we should care.
Rephrase:Why should Murder bother us?
DeleteThe Cons and Reform admit that they feel they can change the Torah as times change RL, Nu Nu a bunch of shmegegies, but YU , Shechter and the like prove their krume shitad through lomdus! That is the real sakanah for Yoddishkiet
ReplyDeleteAnyone who looked into the sugya ( rather than just playing he says, he does etc) are quickly aware that the murex " techeles " is a scam started by 2 former YU nikd. It is NOT based on Torah, or even science as they claim, they simply found a few archioligical sites where argamon was made out of the murex, then they found a way how to change the purple argamon into blue and then called it techeles by making it blue . To do so they had to refute Torah that per idef them, including being kofer in the Ramban and other Chazal that refute this idea
ReplyDeleteYou don't know what you are talking about. I don't wear the techelis but anyone who thinks those who wear techelis do so because of what you write does not know what they are talking about.
DeleteInteresting. Radziner Rebbe went to YU.
DeleteTogether with Rav Gifter, Rav Avigdor Miller, Rav Gorelick, Rav Wachtfogel, even Rav Aharon gave shiur there twice before he started BMG. Rav Simon Shkopp was a RY, succeeded by the Mezeritcher Ilui Rav Polachek. (All true, except Rav Leiner.)
It was a bizion when the Agudah had a clip of Shechter from YU speaking in one of the movies shown at the Siyum Hashas. Shechter represents everything against our mesorah and Roshey Yeshiva. Another typical trick of the Agudah to make us all feel like brothers behind our backs
ReplyDeletemesorah - the code word for am haaratzus.
DeleteAnon at 8:07: You're right about that, because Rav Shechter represents kol hatorah kulah, something quite foreign to anyone in Lakewood
DeleteThere is even someone on staff in BMG who is fooled to go around with the YU fake " techeles"
ReplyDeleteEveryone is uptight about WZO that they are Tzionim, how can true Bnai Torah sympathetic to YU and Shechter who KRUM AND TZIONIM. Although the Tzionim in EY have wrong Tzionim hashkafah, most though are quite frum, not crooked to the core like YU
ReplyDelete"Lo Sa'amod All Dam Rei'echa" (Kedoshim 19:16)
ReplyDeleteRe: Stop Assisted Suicide S138 in NY Senate, ASAP
To All New Yorkers, and anyone else in contact with them:
Rav Shamshon R. Hirsch (d. 1888 CE) ZY"A taught us: The Truth never lost due to its opposition. The only times Truth has lost beyond recall were when its' advocates failed to properly articulate it and fight for it (see Collected Writings, vol.6, p.104).] One relevant example is lethal "Assisted Suicide" legislation, which preventably passed in NJ about seven years ago - by one single vote in each house of the Legislature.
This bill, S138, would enable doctors to give poison to "terminally" ill people who allegedly want to kill themselves. This is state-sanctioned shefichus domim - downright murder. It would also invariably result in many others being killed as well.
Passage of this bill would ultimately result in the killing of many people who never wanted to die, including those incapable of making such decisions.
Urge all state senators that you can to actively expose the deceptive deadliness of this bill -- even according to the wicked standards of those who support helping kill people who truly wish to kill themselves.
Do not be sidetracked by claims of various flimsy protections in the bill. All of them can be removed quietly within a few years. In fact, their presence in the bill actually makes it easier to pass it, R"L.
As Reb Chaim Kaniyevsky said, we do not have arvus for those who weren't with us at arvos mo'av.
ReplyDeleteR' Ahron Feldman stated at 2020 Agudah Convention that if these issues come into the Nursing Homes the only acceptable solution is for the operators to sell
DeleteR Yaakov Kamenetsky strongly refuted that. He was pained and troubled when after Roe v Wade, an abortion clinic was opened near Monsey. He overheard some yidden in shul making a little gelechte over the current events that was irrelevant to them. He exclaimed How could they treat this so lightly? We're talking about human life. A human life.
DeleteSo Arvus is using a totally false term
Even for narrow small people like you: Rav Lazer Shach zatzal printed in שמושה של תורה - משלחנו של רבינו a sefer every liberal law passed in America will find its way to eretz Yisrael
HE therefore instructed Mr.Loebenstein,Councillor of Hackney,London that it is incumbent on all jews there involved to fight at these at the source
Rav Shach did not print that sefer.
DeleteAnd your trip from America to Israel made a stop in England on the way?
1. I didn't realize that only non jews live in NY good to know.
Delete2. There was no arvus until we went into EY, yet we sure were punished for other peoples actions in the midbar (meaning there are other accountabilities besides arvus)
3. Chilul/kiddush Hashem means nothing ?
4. think only non Jews are going to get murdered?
5. would you want to go to a doctor who murdered the patient before you and is planning to murder the patient after you?
Too close to shabbos to list more reasons why your APPLICATION of what R Chaim Kaniyevsky is foolishness to APPLY here. it is about as relevant as his shitah about locusts.
The problem with one word answers is fools will take your statement and apply them to foolshness
I’m announcing a new crisis and thing to complain about and criticize. There is a serious choley nefesh crises among those who consider themselves “us Lakewood Bnei Torah” and post here. Real Lakewood Bnei Torah , of course, are spending their time in Beis Medrash or at least not whining online. The people who post here claiming that title, however, are so farbissen, so full of anger and so not happy that they really need help. Yes, they have their whipping boys, Zionists , Eretz Hakodesh, YU, tuna bagels etc. and claim it is all L’Shem Shomayim. But as one gadol once put it “when all you to offer is criticism of others, you are bankrupt” These people are clearly in the desperate need of something more productive to occupy themselves with. Refuah Shleima and hatzlacha to all of them!
ReplyDeleteBravo! Truest and best statement today.
DeleteEssentially there are three groups,1) lomdei Torah are those who sit and learn. 2)Ehrliche yidden who earn a living. 3)The "yeshivermann" a new entity specific to our society, who neither works or learns prefers to associate himself with those who learn or those who are very successful in business and buy association with those who are productive and successful considers himself productive. Similar to a sports fan who feels success when his team wins, despite the fact that the team is not even aware that he exists and he has nothing to do with the teams success.
ReplyDelete#1 can't operate in a vacuum. They need to #2 to be their broadcasters
ReplyDeleteMistake. #3 to be their broadcasters
DeleteSeptember 19, 2018
ReplyDeletePalliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act (PCHETA), S. 693 / H.R. 1676
Dear Senators,
We write today in opposition to the Palliative Care and Hospice Education Training Act, S. 693 and the companion bill, H.R. 1676, passed by the House and now before the Senate HELP Committee.
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a national organization representing physicians in all specialties, founded in 1943. Our motto, omnia pro aegroto, means “all for the patient.”
While there is a place for hospice care, it is improper to dedicate $100 million in additional taxpayer dollars to persuade patients to forgo treatment that might prolong life. To the contrary, Congress should consider rolling back existing policies that perpetuate a culture of hastening death at the expense of increasing patient access to life-saving or potentially curative treatment.
For example: Medicare payment arrangements, like Accountable Care Organizations, “have a strong incentive to adopt advance care planning for long term success,” explains a prominent health industry consulting firm. Participants in Medicare’s “Patient Centered Medical Homes” are also required to maintain advance directives.
In addition, in 2016 Medicare began paying physicians (and “non-physician practitioners”) for “end-of-life counseling.” Medicare paid out $43 million in 2016 and $70 million in 2017, to convince seniors to forgo treatment that might prolong life. Further subsidies would be inimical to the best interests of patients.
Another problematic aspect of H.R. 1676 / S. 693 is that it appears to support increased intervention in the patient-physician relationship by outsiders whose interests might not be aligned with a goal of prioritizing patient care. Furthermore, “palliative” care should not be a whole separate specialty. All physicians should be skilled in relieving symptoms in all patients, not just dying ones, and provisions in this bill would exacerbate fragmentation that is harmful to patient care.
We also summarily object to “retraining” physicians to violate the Hippocratic tradition of “do no harm.” Such a policy is indefensible on its face. No taxpayer dollars should be allocated for this unsound purpose.
Instead of passing this harmful legislation, we encourage Congress to seek solutions that will truly empower patients and their families, in consultation with physicians of their choosing, to control decisions about appropriate care without interference from politicians or policymakers in Washington, DC, or others who should not be intervening in the patient-physician relationship.
Thank you for this opportunity to communicate our concerns. Please vote “no” on S. 693 or H.R. 1676.
Sincerely
ReplyDeleteThe chiyuv (Torah injunction) of “Lo sa'amod al dam re’echa”, obligates everyone to do what he or she can, to help
prevent assisted suicide and/or euthanasia.
Allowing the legalization of “assisted suicide”, even if this particular law in practice would only result in assisting a
suicide and not euthanasia, is to allow shefichas-domim (bloodshed). Furthermore even rendering such actions not
being subject to prosecution, is allowing shefichas-domim (bloodshed), al achas kama vekama (how much more
so), in cases of assisted suicide leading to euthanasia.
Voting on the basis of this issue. This obligation would include:
1) Thus, when voting for any public official, this issue must be considered as top priority, certainly overriding
financial considerations, government programs, etc. By voting for people who support these laws, we
become accountable for their actions. This ruling would still apply even if these laws were to be passed, we
would still be forbidden to vote for legislators who voted for these laws. This is the most important way to
fulfill our obligation.
2) Urging one’s legislators to vote against these bills, if and when they arise[1]
and to urge the governor to
veto such bill, were it to pass the legislature.
3) Helping in efforts to repeal such laws, in areas[2] where such legislation was already passed.
Even a few votes can make a major difference, both by legislators and the public—sometimes the vote of a single
legislator can decide the fate of these laws—as is evidenced by the recent vote in the New Jersey State Assembly
(in November 2014), where an assisted suicide bill was passed by just one vote. We have seen in several recent
races in Jewish neighborhoods, that even a handful of votes can make the difference in the outcome of the
election[3]
. Furthermore, some legislators keep track of the calls that are made to their offices on particular
controversial issues, and vote according to their results.
May the Creator of all life grace us with the merit to save innocent lives, fulfilling our role as an or legoyim (light
unto the nations). In that merit, may we help usher in the Final Redemption by Moshiach Tzidkeinu.
Rabbonim are listed alphabetically.
Mordechai Chaim Auerbach Zalman Leib Hollander Dovid Ribiat
Eliyahu Ben-Haim Shmuel Kamenetsky Yosef Yitzchok Rosenfeld
Haim Benoliel Yosef Meir Kantor Chaim Schabes
Gad Bouskila Elya Nota Katz Dovid Schustal
Yitzchok M. Braun Eliezer Langer Yaakov Shulman
Shlomo Breslauer Yeshaye Gedalye Kaufman Moshe Silberberg
Eliyahu Brog Amram Klein Moshe Soloveitchik
Simcha Bunim Cohen Shloime Ben Zion Kokis Yitzchok Sorotzkin
Yitzchok Cohen Grainom Lazewnik Tzvi Steinberg
Moshe Donnebaum Philip Lefkowitz Shlomo Stern
Menachem Fisher Moshe Tuvia Lieff Elazar Mayer Teitz
Noson Yermia Goldstein Shmuel Miller Elya Ber Wachtfogel
Avrohom Gordimer Avrohom Yaakov Nelkenbaum Boruch Hersh Waldman
Shmuel Gorelick Yechiel Perr Moshe Weissman
Moshe Green Steven Pruzansky Benjamin Yudin
Yisroel Dovid Harfenes Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff Yeruchum Zeilberger
Boruch Hirschfeld Avrohom Reich Gavriel Zinner