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- Jackson, Police chief Kunz reaponds on a Facebook post to recent eve ts involving officers ticketing Hatzolah volunteers.
From the desk of the Chief of Police***
The Jackson Twp. Police Dept. provides high quality, professional policing services to our community, and has done so since 1946. In so doing, we have collaborated with our Fire, EMS, OEM and other community partners, all in the interest of maintaining a safe environment for our residents and guests.Recently, Jackson Police Officers made the difficult but in their discretion necessary decision to issue traffic summons to members of the Hatzolah organization. This should be neither an indictment of the officers, nor of Hatzolah, but rather a reflection of challenging demands placed upon our staff, to include taking enforcement action when they deem necessary.
The police department leadership is taking these recent concerns seriously. Communications are ongoing between the police department leadership and Hatzolah supervisors, and we have every confidence that the concerns of all parties will be respected and addressed through the mutual cooperation that has been the hallmark of our cooperative service to the community.
There is no reason to believe the actions of the police department staff were anything other than legal and proper, as part of the business of policing our community. We look forward to a reasonable resolution of the present concerns, and our continued, cooperative service to the residents of Jackson Township.
Chief Kunz
- Seman Tov bus company has worked out the insurance issues and will resume transportation tomorrow
- Giyus: IDF continues with arresting of talmidei yeshiva According to the information received by the organization ezram umaginam the police in Cholon arrested a choson who just completed sheva Brachos, for desertion, after he failed to report to the draft offices he was transferred to Tel Hashomer where he is expected to stand trial before an officer. The Ger rebbe has instructed his followers to protest outside prison 10
- Giyus: The 3 moetes chahmei HaTorah of Degel Agudah and Shas have called for protests and atzeres tefillah rallies against the conscription decree, to take place this Thursdau 18 Elul in every city. The rallies will have no speakers at all. The text of the letter reads "The authorities have risen against us, by removing Torah students from the yeshivas to the army."
Nothing yet from American gedolim.
היות ואנו כעת בימי הרחמים והסליחות, לכן יעדנו את יום החמישי י"ח לחודש אלול, להתאסף כל אשר יראת השם בלבבו, ברחובה של עיר, בכל עיר ועיר [לפי האפשר], לעמוד ולהתחנן לבורא עולמים שיושיענו מכל צרותינו, ישלח רפואה שלמה לכל הנפגעים ויבטל מחשבות שונאינו ומקטרגנו..
- Kosov rebbe shlita will visit Lakewood tomorrow for kabolas Kahal at 732 Albert 6:30 pm
- Seat reservations for Yomim Noraim in BMG deadline is tomorrow
- Trump: Israeli Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was held by a militia in Iraq, has been released
- Rav Dov Landau shlita responded to a question from a rebbe in the Mir Rav Asher Berenzweig “Today there was an attack involving six families. I personally know some of them. There were bochurim from Mir who were present at the scene, and they ran back to the yeshiva feeling very unsafe. What can I say to them?” he asked. Rav Landau replied with compassion: “You must calm them. These are the judgments of Hashem. MishpAtecha tehom rabbah. We hope that Hashem’s kindness will give them hope. This was a very severe judgment. It is shocking to hear. Even one who only hears about it is shaken.” av Landau sighed deeply and said with anguish: “One can only cry, just cry. It is terrible, beyond words. What can one possibly say?”
- Giyus: Badatz Eidah Hacharedis plan to resume protest in front of Jail 10 where bochurim are arrested for avoiding IDF draft
- NYT/Siena poll Zohran Mamdani leads by 22 points in a four-way General Election
Mamdani 46%, Cuomo 24%, Sliwa 15%, Adams 9%. Mamdani is most trusted on Affordability, Housing, Israel-Palestine AND Crime, Taxes, Dealing with Trump administration Leads ALL racial groups + 4/5 boroughs. If the field holds, he wins
- Last night, the Lakewood Township Zoning Board of Adjustment overwhelmingly denied an application for a 28-unit townhome cul-de-sac off Locust. The applicant’s attorney pitched the project as “affordable starter homes” for young couples units without basements, priced at just over $800,000. But members of the public weren’t buying it. One speaker, after running the numbers, pointed out that such a so-called “affordable” home would come with mortgage payments of around $66,000 a year. So much for affordability.
-The zoning board postponed the prospect street application to October
the board postponed the Meshech chochma application to October
The board postponed the hamilton application to next meeting
The board told applicant for self storage on Cedarbridge to return with revised plans
on the agenda Broad Estate LLC Pitkin Avenue Subdivision to create 28 lots
Toras Imecha Inc. 970 East County Line Road Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan for an addition to a school
- Keren Olam Hatorah retreat in Mitzpe Ramon Israel going on thru tomorrow .
- A new poll shows Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill holding a 10-point lead over Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the upcoming New Jersey gubernatorial election. The survey, conducted by Quantus Insights from Sept. 2 to 4, found Sherrill with 47% support among likely registered voters compared to 37% for Ciattarelli. The poll has a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points and included responses from 600 participants through a combination of opt-in online panels and SMS outreach.
- Democrats Tap Former Belmar Teacher To Run Against Incumbent Assemblyman Sean Kean and run alongside Assemblyman Avi Schnall after party veteran Claire Deicke bowed out.
- Trump: “If the Fed had followed what we published, they would have raised rates in early 2021. The entire Organization is broken. It needs to be fixed. They need to use modern sources of information
- APP reports on Lang case for funding formula: A state appeals court Monday accused Lakewood school district officials and school board members of engaging in a “consistent pattern of neglect and misfeasance” and “deliberate indifference” in a ruling Monday that rejected claims that the district is entitled to more state aid. The 19-page ruling by the three-judge panel of the state Superior Court Appellate Division upheld a 2024 decision by the Education Commissioner that the state aid formula was not to blame for the district’s financial issues, which include more than $143 million in state loan debt and other issues.
- Ocean County to Approve $6.5 Million Road Upgrade Ahead of New Five Lane Highway Connecting Toms River, Jackson, and Lakewood with Prospect Street, linking Lakewood Township to Cross Street, where a massive five lane highway is being proposed is getting required upgrades approved ahead the future Cross Street project. Snn
-R' Aaron Lang comments: My advice: Sell your house and move out unless you like living in a town in which people don't care if their public corporations are efficiently run and the innovative problem solvers, employees with vision, are kept at the bottom. So far, the people follow the marching orders to the polls given by the very people they are supposed to hold accountable. We just keep on giving the state excuses not to pay its share. No one is even fazed by the reports of incompetence and low morale. The state is going to keep lending money until it reaches a billion dollars, ten times our tax levy. And what do you think will happen then? Goodbye Lakewood. But who knows? Maybe there will be salvation from somewhere else. I doubt the Supreme Court will take the case and really don't care anymore. It's over. AL
Actually, it is not over. We have to crunch the numbers. This nonsense, excusing shortfalls of $100 million with claims of malfeasance and inefficiencies of one or two lower orders of magnitude has to be called out. For example, in 2009, it was the courtesy busing that cost three or four million that prevented the Court from stepping in when the formula was off by ten million. Now it is the incompetence and mediocrity of the administration and BOE, at most wasting a couple hundred thousand dollars, that is used to excuse a $100 million shortfall. I have to show the Court the numbers, that had Lakewood increased taxes in 2011, like the AG claimed at trial, compounding it would have only yielded maybe another 4 million. The audits, mistakes, and other mistakes the voters incredibly ignore and allow the district to get away with, maybe cost a million. This is small change compared to the amount we need.
ReplyDeleteAs I have said, just so that this or that Igud boss can get a $10,000 or whatever, we have to keep Michael, Ms. Winters, and the rest of the visionless leaders in power. Who cares if it costs us a billion dollars and our home values sink? They know best. The biggest fake out is that everyone thinks the BOE incumbent have to be reelected to prevent exposure of the corruption (that is a concern? Shame!). Nonsense. There is nothing illegal. The district boss wants you to think he is bending the law for you but is not. He does not cross the line.
The state used mismanagement and corruption as an excuse in Abbott (1990). The Court did not buy it. So now, 35 years later, in the case of Lakewood, it is the local people who are to blame again. This of course is nonsense. The numbers don't add up. Also, NJ law is clear that it is the state's problem. If the superintendent and BOE don't know what they are doing, the state should replace them. The state has the ultimate authority to provide education and the ultimate blame if the BOE fails.
So now our task will be to petition the Supreme Court. It is not good enough, apparently, just to cite case law. We need to do some mathematics. I just wish it had ended. I drive 140 mile a day to teach, watch how quickly I move up, in another district. Working for Lakewood was a different life. A L
Once it's proven the education is in adequate, why isn't the burden on the state to PROVE the are providing the funding? Why is the district and the Lakewood tax payers being forced to prove the funding that isn't there really isn't there?
DeleteThank you Reb Aaron for all your selfless work that you do and have been doing on behalf of all Lakewood children
DeleteWe salute you and appreciate it
Thanks. Prof. T. said the whole time, no matter who wins in the Appellate Decision, the matter will be decided in the NJ Supreme Court. However, it is not a sure thing that we will get there. And you are right. We argued that once the T & E finding was made, the burden should shift to the state. The Court erroneous said no, because in the Abbott cases, the formula amount was not being funded, so the state had the burden to show that a lesser amount was adequate. In our case, the formula amount is funded, but the formula amount is wrong. That will not hold water in the Supreme Court, if we get there.
Delete"affordable starter homes” for young couples units without basements, priced at just over $800,000"
ReplyDeleteI have an affordable bridge for sale, its JUST over 1 billion $
The main straw that the Appelate Court decided against the very well presented legal argument of Mr. Lang was the millions spent on Mr. Inzelbuch as BOE Attorney. That's it in short.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should make a cheshbon hanefesh.
ReplyDeleteIt's not smartphones, not tzniyut, not lashon harah, etc.
It's refusal to be nosei beOl, and to join Tzahal to fight the Arabs.
I highly doubt those reasons, simply because the gedolim have forbidden us to join the tzahal
DeleteAnon 1:52
DeleteThat's exactly my (I am 12:32) point. But those Gedolim don't care / are laughing all the way to the bank
What's good for the goose is goose for the gander.
I Judaism was only about Ahavas Eretz Yisroel & joining Tzahal, I would think the same way.
DeleteWhile in general such a thing should be an impetus for teshuva I do not pretend to know why this happened. BUT if you are the type of person who expects tinokos shnisbu to rethink their lives due to Hamas attacks and unlike the posuk which says הַלְאֵ֥ל יְלַמֶּד־דָּ֑עַת וְ֝ה֗וּא רָמִ֥ים יִשְׁפּֽוֹט you think you know why Hamas attacks are successful (e.g. Zionism, the efforts to draft Charedim etc.) then you should be doing serious chesbon hanefesh and also question your own haskafa when Lomdey Torah are both killed r'l and are also protected in part by someone who joined the Chasomoniom unit of the IDF. .
DeleteIf you really want the answer to your question, watch the video at www.Vayakhel.com
DeleteThat website seems to be made to give reassurances to the party faithful as opposed to answering the questions of outsiders who are unconvinced of the truth of that haskafa
Delete@2:11 afrah lepumeih. Go back to YWN
ReplyDelete@2:11 afrah lepumeih. Go back to YWN
ReplyDeleteLooking at our issues and problems and following your rationale that our sin and the cause is not joining the IDF looking at those who have joined I have not sure they don't have bigger issues and are way worse off than we are for the last 70 years they have suffered tremendously and died in far greater numbers. H"Y. They aren't lucky by any stretch
ReplyDeletewww.vayakhel.com
Delete#FIRE Jackson Police Chief Kunz
ReplyDeleteDo you think his replacement would be better?
DeleteProblem is the attitude of most townspeople.
A court orxder (like in the Agudah case) will not change antisemitic attitudes.
Might change specific zoning laws, but not overall attitudes.
Who is gonna be better
DeleteI don't know politics. But legalities aside, if someone is having a medical emergency, discretion should be used by police.
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