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- Agudath Israel of America, event today at the new Washington DC office thanking Rabbi Abba Cohen upon his retirement and announcing that Rabbi AD Motzen will serve as the new Washington DC Director of Aguda Washington office. Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey was there and said a Dvar Torah on the Parsha.
- LPD Traffic Alert: Tonight 6/9 NJDOT Contractor advises they will be repaving the following streets approx 25ft off RT 9: Gila Ln, Haddasah Ln, Halsey St, Pine Blvd, Cushman St, Oak St will be paved from RT 9 to Elroy St
SB lanes of RT 9 will be closed at Prospect St starting 1030PM - detour is Prospect/Massachusetts/Cross. Starting 12AM NB may be closed as well (specifically at Oak)
NJNGAS advises infrastructure improvements on MLK Dr from Cedarbridge to Center St 9 PM. There will be a lane from Cedarbridge to Pine open for Traffic and Detour to get onto Cedarbridge from MLK is Center St
- House passed $70 BILLION secured for ICE and Border Patrol through 2029. A 214-212 vote which now heads to President Trump to sign in to law
- 12 hesder yeshivas (religious Zionist institutions that combine Torah study with military service) have decided: "We will not enlist students into the IDF Armored Corps because female soldiers are being integrated into tanks."
- Trump announces: The Iranians are the ones who shot down a US helicopter last night - we will have to respond to this attack.
- FIFA world cup games will begin in New Jersey June 11
- Keren Olam haTorah delegation visits Chicago today, Kabolas panim planned in Lakewood for Thursday late afternoon at the Clifton avenue parking lot bet 9th and 10th streets
- NJ’s plastic bag ban was supposed to save the environment. But a recent industry-sponsored analysis suggests the result was: MORE plastic, MORE emissions, and HIGHER costs for shoppers. About $200,000 a year in bag-sale revenue for the average store
Democrats promised an environmental win. NJ families got another bill. Once again, you're left holding the bag. (NJ GOP)
- Oil prices fall around 5 percent, to below $90 a barrel, after US President Donald Trump again says an Iran peace deal could be close. locally Gas is $4.19 a gallon
- New simcha hall opens at the Skver cheder building off Squankum rd. Tiferes Yonasan hall.
- Tonight Lakewood Planning board meeting watch livestream HERE 6pm.
On the agenda The board will consider two correspondence items involving signage, retail use, and landscaping modifications, along with three subdivision applications, including a major 75-lot development proposed by Keypoint Equity LLC on Massachusetts Avenue.
- New Jersey American Water's lead service line replacement program is currently canvassing homes in portions of the Park Avenue and Ridge Avenue/Brook Road neighborhoods of Lakewood to identify and replace potential lead service lines.
- PSE&G - the gas and electricity provider for much of North and Central Jersey - announced that it will cut gas bills by an average of 5%, effective October 1st, the company announced.
Nearly 2 million New Jersey residents could see their natural gas and home heating bills drop this year, despite high electricity costs and the rising price of motor fuel. Natural gas is widely used for home heating, cooking and water.(Onejersey)
- Lakewood zoning board meeting recap:
At last night's Zoning Board meeting, proceedings began late due to the lack of a quorum. With only five board members present, applicants were given the option to table their applications rather than proceed with a reduced board.
Several residents who spoke during the public comment portion expressed frustration that they were rushed by the chairman and were not given sufficient time to fully address concerns related to safety, privacy, traffic, and other quality-of-life issues.
An application to construct 66 duplexes off Cross Street, near the entrance to Eagle Ridge, was ultimately tabled following an extended back-and-forth discussion. A large group of senior residents attended the meeting to voice their concerns during public comment. The application is expected to return to the board at its July 6 meeting.
The board approved an application on Prospect Street after the applicant agreed to reduce the project from 16 duplexes to 14. The developer also agreed to reserve the eliminated building site for a future shul with 11 parking spaces. As a condition of approval, the board stipulated that the final duplex may not receive a certificate of occupancy until the shul is constructed. Neighbors raised privacy concerns because the development backs onto an existing community. The applicant agreed to plant 77 Green Giant trees along the property line, with the HOA responsible for maintenance and irrigation for two years.
The board also approved an application to construct four apartment buildings off Route 70, containing a total of 35 two-bedroom units. During the hearing, a resident questioned why the project was not subject to an age restriction, citing language in the township master plan and concerns about the suitability of family housing along a busy highway corridor. The board attorney responded that the project did not require a variance from the master plan's provisions.
- The Knesset Finance Committee votes to advance a bill restoring daycare subsidies for the children of Charedim who are considered draft evaders, sending the measure to its first reading in the Knesset.
- Giyus: Two bochurim and 1 youngerman from Bais Meir arrested by military police.
Hafganos continue today in Bet Shemesh over the arrest of 52 people who protested outside the home of a supreme court judge.
- New Jersey Senate Republicans: Gov. Sherrill's budget proposal cuts $100K of funding for vital services like Meals on Wheels for seniors. At the same time, she is dedicating an additional $13 MILLION in taxpayer $ to fight the deportation of illegal immigrants. Those priorities speak for themselves.
- 4 Jersey Shore Drownings In Three Weeks Have Officials Worried
Officials are urging beachgoers to stay out of the water when lifeguards aren't present.
- A traffic stop in Jackson, NJ is under discrimination investigation after a Black man shared video of police stopping him, allegedly saying it was because he was wearing a hoodie in 80-degree weather. The man says officers followed him for several miles before pulling him over. Jackson Township police say they are reviewing the incident and will conduct a full internal investigation.
-לקיים בנו חכמי ישראל
continued tefilos for gedolei yisroel
Rabbi Dov Kook of Tiveria (Chizkiyahu Dov HaKohen ben Shoshana) in serious condition
Rabbi Shalom Bitan R"Y Daas Chaim (Shalom ben Esther Lizet) after surgery
Rabbi Chaim Berman, Ponovezh (Chaim ben Ra’asha Rizel) in a delicate condition
Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik (Avraham Yehoshua ben Etel) recovering after heart surgery
The Vizhnitz Rebbe (Yisrael ben Leah Esther) dealing with health issues
Rabbi Bunim Schreiber (Yisrael Bunim ben Chaya Roiza)
- Public records allegedly show some noncitizens were mistakenly added to New Jersey voter rolls for years, with a few reportedly casting ballots before being removed. The findings, based on county data requests by NJGOP and the RNC, are raising concerns about DMV-related registration errors and voter roll safeguards.
A 22-year-old Wayne, NJ man from Passaic County, Mohamed Sagha, was arrested and charged with attempting to provide support to ISIS, according to federal officials. Authorities say he allegedly discussed plans to carry out an attack targeting either a National Guard facility or a Jewish place of worship in New Jersey.
Bibi should tell him to stand down
ReplyDeleteAs natural gas gets cheaper the Dems are pushing to require all electric in new construction. Somehow the party that promises to be for the people continually makes it worse for them, and the people stupidly continue to vote for them.
ReplyDeleteagain the Zionists are putting us Torah talmidim in jail for the crime of learning Torah, this is the groysa achievement of the "Jewish state", every tisha bav i add my own kinnus for the getchka created in Iyur 1948, woe is us.
ReplyDeleteThey're in jail for refusing leHitgayess. Just like any country like the US, UK, Holland, Ukraine , Russia.
DeleteMaybe you want to go to Iran, where you'll get the military exemption you want?
Many countries have exemptions for active students. There always was a dichuy for yeshiva students, and that has been removed. The chief court ruled that everyone is equal - except arabs are still exempt. This is an attempt at shmadt and not about manpower. During earlier wars even yerushalmis in meah shearim were given weapons and protected their lines. We have no problem protecting our country.
Deleteab,etc.,
DeleteArabs shouldn't be a consideration.They don't count for many other things.
If there was a real bonafide jewish form of State,without hedonist secularists driving it,would you & your family be prepared to serve?
Combat them on their own terms
Actually the many countries are getting rid of dichuyim.
DeleteAnd a dichuy means 1-2 maybe three years, not automatically renewable.
And when they're renewed for political reasons, you open yourself up to other politics, like the Supreme Court (yes that's politics too.). Yes, I'm against Supreme Court getting involved in politics, but they do.
And when other bnei turah on the mizrachi side are giving up their lives and their work and their businesses and most important, their families, you don't have the moral high road. (Yes, to you that's not Torah, but that's a fallacy to justify your politics. Just like the yerushalmim who took up arms against the Arabs. For example, Rav Chaim z"l.
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The US Supreme Court may overstep its boundaries. Sometimes. But perfection is not the goal.
DeleteThe Israeli Supreme Court is untenable; it has no boundaries at all and works actively against the people in the country. It must be torn down and replaced with something that can exist among people.
many?
DeleteBesides Germany * , who else?
*for males only-cannon fodder for feminist uber-oligarchs
Thank you Anon 3:33. Well (and finally) said!
Delete4:28 -- there is a proposal to reform the Israeli Supreme Court. But the liberals are crying is not democratic!
DeleteIt involves direct elections by the Knesset to Supreme Court, just like in America (and UK, for that matter.). The current system involves committee controlled by current Supreme Court members, hardly democrtaic. The libs forced Pres Biden to oppose it, even though ....
Anything that reforms the supreme Court in Israel - is the definition of democratic. As they are the front for the deep state. Of course all the decent people opposing them are 'evil'
DeleteNot to mention that whatever progress is made in that front, just at the worst possible moment The charedim warning about the supreme Court more than anybody either lose interest like you guys or worse turn around and backstab them
The zoning board meeting is one big clown show and circus
ReplyDeleteThey are all in together pretending to play house while it's all pre approved
They treat us like fools
maybe just maybe the Dati leumi/hesder are starting to see that the Zionists shmad is the sole goal of the IDF and use them as fodder, maybe maybe they will join us in the Torah camp and not serve the Zionists?
ReplyDeleteProblem is Your camp will also use them almost the same as fodder for our own self-serving agendas
DeleteMirror, Mirror, on the wall
Newsflash the dati leumi are the Zionists! They’re worse than the non religious they twist the Torah into there perverted religion of Zionism.
DeleteThese dati leumi Zionists share the same religion of Zionism with the evangelical Christian’s both want to shmad yidden rch”l
Newsflash
DeleteDati Leumi is a very broad brush. There are those who are indeed as bad as you state.
There are many in the middle.
Then there is a significant presence on the other side, who are more righteous than 90% of the charedi world. We don't need to agree on every nitty-gritty detail with them. But they'll fight for Shamayim more than you and probably most anyone you know.
Noam is the most religious party in the knesset.
My blessing to you and your family is for you join them.
9:08 you’re wrong it’s not a nitty gritty it’s a basic Jewish hashkafa they don’t believe in. They don’t believe the Torah alone is what makes us a nation they believe it’s Torah with the land of eretz Yisroel. That belief is kefirah I don’t care how religious you think they are they’re not any better than the nuns who are very religious as well.
DeleteThey and the nuns practice a different religion than me. There religion is Zionism and that religion is anti Semitic religion it was created to destroy Judaism by replacing it with zionism
6:38
DeleteWHAT religion you practice?Any connection with the rest of us?
Spell it out for us
Tell us how it is different than any group of secular exclusive academics busy with texts,who expect the rest of the world to kiss their toes just because?Is it for to gain your place in this world only or explain to us what it has with the next?
12:33pm,
DeleteWell put.
6:38am,
You mentioned Judaism.Could you offer to specify some details re: what it does & doesn't contain?
Anon 12:33aka1:04 it’s a real nebach the way you talk ,your hate for yiddeshkeit is palpable.
DeleteBelieving that being a Jew is anything other than accepting the Torah on Mt Sinai is heresy. Believing the Jewish nation is a nation defined other than a people practicing the Torah is heresy. The Dati leumi and apparently you as well believe that there are other factors as well to being a Jew. For the DL it’s the land of Israel and Jews are just like any other nation that is made up of a land language (and culture )
1:57
DeletePrecisely.Thanks. You were unable tell us what the word Torah.. because
you really don't know what it contains, much of what it's supposed to be about,and since you and others like you it's just now a word that has been tragically rendered nearly without any meaning. Except for those shout it in public.
Like a non-orthodox congregation tells their Rabbi he can't speak about Shabbos or mitzvos instead he should speak Tora
Or to be used l'kanter.
These people you keep barking at actually live Torah .For real.
You don't need to agree with everything they do, and we could frankly acknowledge they allowed themselves to be been gullible for too long re: the state apparatus and those insidious DL who actually are the enemy
They are still more advanced than you and closer to in terms of Torah
3:06-12:33 9:08
DeleteWell done dialectic. You should go public
3:06 would love to respond just have no clue what you’re saying and let’s be honest neither do you
DeleteThe worthless Agudah USA can be very proud to have a shachar saying a Dvar Torah
ReplyDeleteDati leumi is a Israeli version of the kruma MO YU chevrah
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