Weather: 86° Sunshine and some clouds.
Medium pollen count at 7
- Harav Bumim Schreiber shlita is in Lakewood as he came in with the delegation on behalf of Keren Olam Hatorah. He met with the R"Y Rav Malkiel Kotler and will deliver a ahiur tomorrow at BMG at the end of 1st seder 12:45 pm
- Iran just launched missiles toward Israel.
- Rav Dov Landau shlita is in Lakewood today he will meet later with Rabbonim, Roshei chabura and rebbeim in a private event called "Rischa Deoraysa" similarto jow it'sdone in EY in a Q&A format, at the Lakewood high school entrance by ticket only.
- Ruby label shoe sale today at Esther Gerber hall 5th and Madison open until 7pm Shabbos shoes at $40 a pair and lower prices on other shoes
- Updated (this is for Next week Sunday Hachnosas sefer torah lz"n habocher dovid yitzchok handler zt"l Ben rav moshe shlita he was niftar just over a year ago in the car accident with other bochurim right before shavous . Will take place next Sunday Parahas Korach at yeshiva Netiv hatorah (rabbi aron yeshiva) 2040 whitesville rd roms river. Ksiva is at 3:00 and dancing at 5:00)
- Keren Olam Hatorah delegation left EY last night to begin their fundraiser campaign on behalf of yeshivos in Eretz Yisroel . The goal is ro raise $144 million ro cover $12 million per month. The leadership circle goal is $124 million. Klal yisroel goal $20 million.
Rav Dov Landau left earlier today with a scheduled event later today for Rabbonim in Lakewood for a Q&A Torah discussion
- Yeshiva Telz cleveland dinner today at Bellworks. Please factor in heavy beach traffic on the GSP today.
- Baby wipes recall at Target.
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- Once again, school schedules are creating challenges for working parents. This year, schools will end a full week before camp begins, leaving parents scrambling to arrange childcare and balance their work and home responsibilities. As for the official start of the new school year, the girls' school has yet to commit to a firm opening date. There is a possibility that classes could begin a week before Rosh Hashanah, making planning even more difficult for families.
- Adirei HaTorah releases the featured production video shown at the recent 5th annual mammad in Philadelphia. You can watch it HERE
Responding to claims that AI was used for the production video, there's a disclaimer shown prior to the video:
Disclaimer, in accordance with the guidance of daas torah, No generative ai was used to create the content, music, lyrics, script, concepts,
or creative direction of this presentation. to the contrary, it is the product of hundreds of hours of work invested by singers, writers, video producers, graphic designers, and many others. the only use of ai was as a technical production tool during portions of the graphic rendering process, where it assisted the design team in enhancing visual quality and visual effects.
all creative concepts, content, messaging, and artistic direction were conceived, developed, and produced by the production team.
- Giyus: military police arrested a bochur today on the tunnel road in Yerushalayim. In addition the courts extended the detention of 52 protestors by another 4 days, after they demonstrated at the home of a Supreme Court judge. Major hagganos are planned to secure their release.
- For the first time in over a year Shas leader Aryeh Deri and other knesset members visited Military Jail 10 where a sefardi father is holding a protest for his son who is serving a jail sentence for Draft evasion. There's outrage among sefardi bochurim at the leadership for having a banded them while some ashkenazi bochurim are released due to pressure. With elections approaching many voters are calling for a change in the knesset for the frum representatives.
- In recent days, leaders of Degel HaTorah, Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch and Chevron R"Y Rabbi Dovid Cohen, were asked whether yeshiva bochurim should join the "צבע שחור" hotline that operates to disrupt the arrests of yeshiva bochurim through protests. Both of their responses were unequivocal: Yes. The phone system alerts people when IDF military police Arabia and area to arrest talmidei yeshiva for Draft dodging.
- Soft opening today for Brick and Basil restaurant in Howell/Lakewood at Grebow shopping center off rt 9.
- A front cover article in The Voicenof Lakewood, “Convenient Care Comes at a Cost” by Dr. Robert Shanik and Dr. Ira Haimowitz, argues that increasing reliance on urgent care centers and convenience-based medical services can lead to substandard pediatric care. They argue that many families are choosing urgent care centers or home-visit services for convenience rather than consulting their child's regular pediatrician. According to the authors, this can result in: Misdiagnoses,Unnecessary testing and treatments, Incomplete medical records, Different providers treating the same child without knowledge of prior history, Missed serious medical conditions.
A consistent relationship with a primary pediatrician generally leads to safer and more effective care than relying on multiple urgent care or home-visit providers.
- Tens of thousands of New Jersey homes and businesses lost power Saturday evening as severe thunderstorms swept across the state, including Burlington County.
- Clashes between protesters and police continued outside Delaney Hall in Newark last night as police tried to impose stricter rules on what protesters could bring to the site.
Police were seen ordering about 70 protesters to disperse around 10:30 p.m.
- Road crews have paved and restricted the James/Pine streets intersection with Route 9 in Lakewood. Extending the left turning lanes with new traffic signals.
- A new traffic pattern has been implemented
on Central Avenue following recent lane restriping by county crews.Westbound traffic on Central Avenue from Hurley Street now extends further with two lanes continuing before merging into a single lane farther down than in the previous configuration. In the eastbound direction toward Hurley Street, the roadway now transitions from one lane into two lanes after Sunset Avenue, adjusting the flow of traffic through the area.
- Call your assemblyman to vote No.
NJ assembly Bill 2218 that can criminalize parents rebbeim mentors for speaking to patients who want to transition their gender is now Pending: Assembly Appropriations Committee Hearing: Jun 8 @ 11:00 am in Committee Room 11, 4th Floor, State House Annex, Trenton, NJ. The bill already passed in the senate. State senator Bob Singer voted against the bill. it will be voted soon on the assembly.
So AI was used. "the only use of ai was as a technical production tool during portions of the graphic rendering process, where it assisted the design team in enhancing visual quality and visual effects."
ReplyDeleteWe now have a Hetter! Basically AI was used when it was helpful. As we go on it will be more and more helpful in more and more areas in our life enjoy! It is only prohibited when unhelpful or downright destructive! It's Kedai do it!
DeleteI don't know if the organizers of the AI Asifos read these comments, but this story should underscore the danger of saying that all AI is assur. Obviously some (like spell check, spam filters, and Waze) is not. If they don't start clarifying, they are going to look silly.
DeleteThe unfiltered AI hotlines are bad, the people asking AI for advice should be warned, and the "generative AI" kills creativity and industriousness. That is what the Asifos should be about.
Correct sadly this has been the legacy of the anti-technology crowd since it's inception they've been one day late and prohibited everything with a broad brush with a total lack of nuance and clarity. And eventually technology surpassed their rules which were and their words totally forbidden for example we all remember when texting and having a home internet was forbidden...... Even with a filter (if you don't remember go back and read the proclamations) How suddenly does it become okay?? So why should I trust you now??
DeleteThis aboslutely used generative AI. Do they even know what generative means?
DeleteThe article against urgent care was with negius. It could be that equal to the times the pcp caught something that urgent care missed, so it is vice versa. Plenty of kids were misdiagnosed by their primary doctor only to have a great diagnostician at an urgent care catch it. This even includes cancer caught very early for a teen by an urgent care doctor.
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Delete"We know some people reading this may say we are just trying to knock the competition. If you want to believe that, go ahead. As doctors who have dedicated our lives to caring for the children of Lakewood and the surrounding towns, we are speaking out because we are concerned.
We don't care if you are a patient of Pediatric Affiliates or of any of the other fine pediatric offices in town. We just want to ensure that all the children in our community are getting the very best care possible."
I'm not sure how it's better to see a different PA, NP or (even a Dr. once in a while) at established practices.
DeleteYou can't get a appointment at the pediatrician. what are people supposed to do when they kid has fever?
DeleteWait 3-4 days or go right away to an urgent care
Again from the article: "Even if the child did not always see the same practitioner within the pediatric office, the child's medical record would be easily accessible for any practitioners in that practice, which would help a practitioner guide any decisions that needed to be made that day. If a patient needed to be seen by a specialist, a referral would be made, and the specialist would send a report of his findings, which would then be entered into the child's medical record." If anyone would like to read the article before commenting, it's available at https://thevoiceoflakewood.com/convenient-care-comes-at-a-cost/
DeleteWhy would you expect anything different in the voice article Dr heimowitz said that he originally did not allow unvaccinated patients to join his practice quite understandable since he is pro vax then it became difficult financially so now he allows them. So basically the dollar has the last word. It's okay for a business but don't get up on a pedestal and preach
DeleteThat disclaimer thinks we're dumb. I personally don't see an issue with their use of AI. But don't call me dumb. The more words you use, the more obvious that you are trying to cver someting up.
ReplyDeleteAdirei should stop trying to defend what they do. Yes they are raising money for youngeleit in BMG but they are a different entity who don't do everything hashkaficlklly the BMG way. So instead of trying to פארענטפער everything why they do this and that with singers websites AI videos Balei batim fressing sushi and meats and drinking in the VIP boxes. Just keep quiet and keep doing what you do. We understand this is how you do and this is what you feel is needed to raise the money.
DeleteIt is impossible to separate a Yeshiva from its money. If an institution does treifa things for money, the institutions is treif.
DeleteWhat a sleight of Hand. They serve on the same umbrella, and trumpet that when it serves them
DeleteImagine if 10% of the 144 million to keren olam would go to pay tuitions in Lakewood that's 14 million right there
ReplyDeleteThe you wouldn't have the zchus of paying for your child's chinuch. I can't afford it so I don't pay full. And the gvirim donate to the school to make up the difference.
DeleteThe schools raised tuition to unaffordable for the middle class there's a reason why tuition balances are unpaid this year.
DeleteThanks to Torah Umeaorah for empowering the schools to raise tuition on parents while the gevirim pose for photo op meetings
DeleteTo call that shameful embarassing attack on the home of the Supreme court justice a "demonstration" is itself shameful!
ReplyDeleteYeah, but he had it coming. It is embarrassing that people resort to any violence.
DeleteBut Sohlberg began with the violence. He should stop whining about his plant pots and at the same time stop sending people to arrest yeshiva bochurim.
Sohlberg has his Mossad fellows knock out people in much more dangerous ways than a little demonstration. Typical whining Israel
DeleteOf course Sohlberg deserved it.
DeleteBut we need to look at ourselves. Is this what we want from our chinuch? Do we want our bochurim using force to get what they deserve? Is a central part of our chinuch not eidelkeit and the life of ruchniyus?
If the bochurim were on a loft chashmonaim level, and would not enjoy these fights at all, we could discuss whether the judges deserve it.
But now that we know that not to be the case, the bochurim are not yet tzadikim gemurim, rather on the path to tzidkus, we must be careful not to awaken their bad middos. As they get used to demanding what is theirs with force, who knows how they will return?
In a sense, demonstrations are similar to the Army. Street people can go to the Army and return as they went. It is extremely rare to return from the Army ready to internalize the חיי הרוח of a Yeshivaman.
5:00 pm,
DeleteVery eloquently elucidated
The Chazo Ish told Porush and others to go wild, do wild, extreme wild things.
DeleteHe was pretty calm 99%
Hachnosas sefer torah lz"n habocher dovid yitzchok handler zt"l Ben rav moshe shlita he was nebach niftar just over a year ago in the car accident with other bochurim right before shvous . Will take place today at yeshiva netiv hatorah (rabbi aron yeshiva) 2040 whitesville rd roms river. Ksiva is at 3:00 and dancing at 5:00
ReplyDeleteHacnosas sefer torah today
ReplyDeleteIt’s next week - I personally spoke to his mother
DeleteWhile I agree we have to help the gedolim and the yeshivas in eretz yisroel we need to help our neighbors 1st. Aniyei ircha kodmin I understand includes aniyei eretz yisroel but it doesnt obsilve you of helping youe neighbors. You would be surprised how many people youre close to whether family friends neighbors or shul goers need your help!!! Open your eyes!!
ReplyDeleteAniyei ey have a the same din as aniyei irchu
DeleteGo make your appeals for Lakewood Aniyim when Keren Olam HaTorah isn't in town. And don't give me the line with there is nothing left over because of them. All year round no one is screaming about helping Lakewood Aniyim . All the sudden when Keren Olam HaTorah is in town people claim to be be so worried about them...Had they not come no one would worrying about Lakewood Aniyim now either.
DeleteThe issue is not with keren olam haTorah it's about the locals leaders pushing for it while doing nothing to help aniyei ircha
DeleteSame with the Schnall election rabbonim signed letters how important it is to vote because of tuition but nothing was done about easing the pain. They did nothing to help lower tuition costs.
Who is stopping you doing something for aniyei ircha? Get up and do something. There is plenty of money out there, get your hands on some of it for aniyim.
DeleteRabbi Hirsch was vocally clear that it should not be on cheshbon of any other tzedakos.
DeleteRav A C Levine Ztl called the gabboim in Chicago and made every shul adopt a kollel in EY they asked rabbi don't we have local organizations to support? He answered the bracha Hashem will pay you for supporting Toras EY will enable to support also the local organizations
ReplyDelete- The vaad hatzdaka in Chicago used to force all outside organizations to give maaser to local mosdos. Don't know if this is still a practice.
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ReplyDeleteHow do you figure? When is it genug?
DeleteI would say when the need is over. But you seem to have a different date. When is it?
You do know that Hashem made aniyim so that you can have the opportunity to give tzedakah! The more aniyim, the more schnorring, the more opportunities for you to give tzedakah.
DeleteThere is place for everybody but when you focus primarily on EY it is a tremendous problem. In EY night Kollelim shishi /shabbos kolleim are commonplace and being sponsored by people in United States here in Lakewood it's a rarity!? It's only one example.Our boys are going on "road trips" bein hazmanim when we all know how downright destructive that is but there is no money to invest in camps( it's primarily the capital investment which is prohibitive not running the camp which can be charged to the parents)gedolei yisrael after World War II when money was very scarce they were Moser nefesh to build camps . When you look around there are so many unaddressed needs in our community which would be taken care of if we would focus on them for a little bit.
DeleteWho's stopping you from focusing on the local needs? Go for it, and we'll all appreciate it.
DeleteHow will avi schnall vote on all the all the LGBT bills coming up
ReplyDeleteHe represents Lakewood and should vote OUR values not Brooklyn Agudah Daas Torah. Why can't he vote straight out NO
He represents nothing except Chillul Shem Shamayim.
DeleteIndeed. Some people you need to wonder if they could be counted still for a minyan
ReplyDeleteYou all missed the point. We're not screaming aniyei ircha when they come for keren olam hatorah We're trying to say that no one is looking after the aniyei ircha on a regular basis. We should support both. But you need to look for the aniyei ircha they need alot more than tomchei shabbos, tdl, etc etc. So many of them are embarrassed to ask amd are struggling terribly. The guy in shul you think is making it is probably not.
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