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Oif Simchas Lakewood January 29, 2018

January 29, 2018, 5:50 pm
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BMG Freezer set to open ahead of Tu Bshvat tomorrow evening
-Vort: Hachosson Dovid Weitman to hakallah Wilhelm (Boston) at 55 Monterey circle Lakewood, NJ 7:00 pm
-Chasuna:Klein- Pressman Ateres Reva hall
-Chasuna Parnes- Zimmerman Fountain Ballroom Lakewood CHeder
-Chasuna Lichter- Gottleib Neemas Hachaim hall
-Chasuna Pearl- kaluszyner Ateres Chana hall Bais Figa

Engaged:
 Hachosson Shua  Waknin (Lkwd) to Hakallah Adina Elmaleh (Toronto)
 Hachosson  Chazkel Yenofsky (lkwd) to Hakallah Sarala Sochet (lkwd)

-Parlor meeting: Yeshiva  Yeshiva Sharei Ezra Rav Avraham Massry, at  610 6th street Lakewood N.J 8:00 pm Guest speaker Rav Menachem Mintz shlita
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TU Bshvat Fruit Guide by Hisachdus

January 30, 2018, 6:08 am
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BOE To Reduce the Cost of Legal Services after Audit

January 30, 2018, 7:13 am
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The BOE will hold a public meeting Tomorrow Wed January 31, 2018.
An Audit on the BOE Budget of 2016-2017 made several recommendations. 

-Legal Services: it said the district exceeds 130% of the statewide average for legal costs and  recommends to implement specific internal controls for the reduction of costs or to provide evidence that such procedures would not result in a reduction of costs. The Board will vote on a resolution acknowledging it 
See resolution below below

-Food service Finding - The audit indicated the fund exceeded three months average expenditures  by $1,458,626 
Recommendation-  to reduce the net cash resources of the food service fund.

-Application for State School Aid revealed the following (CAFR Finding 2017-005): On-Roll • Student counts on the ASSA were not in agreement with supporting work papers provided for audit. • Certain students were not able to be verified to class registers provided for audit. 

 Resolution to recognize cost of legal services exceeded statewide average:
The Board recognizes that the cost of Legal Services for the 2016-2017 school year exceeded the statewide average per pupil amount as determined by the annual audit and as reported in the Taxpayer’s Guide to Education Spending. Furthermore, the Board is committed to reducing those costs to no more than 130% of the statewide average per pupil amount and to accomplish this will continue to monitor those expenditures in accordance with the requirements of N.J.A.C. 6A:23A-5.2(a)(3).



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BOE & Attorney Threatening to Resign if State won't Kick in Funding

January 30, 2018, 10:14 am
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APP reports Lakewood schools need state to fix funding formula and help the cash strapped district.
Board Attorney Inzelbuch, an alumnus of the high school, is emerging as a vocal figure in the burgeoning effort to lobby the state, threatening he and the entire Board of Education would resign if the state doesn't step in. With six times as many children in private and Jewish schools, called yeshivas, than public schools, but a state funding formula that counts public school enrollment, the district is left strapped for cash to cover basic costs, such as transportation. Lakewood's also faced soaring special education costs, another obligation of the public school budget.
Schools officials, allied with Sen. Bob Singer, R-Ocean, whose district includes Lakewood, point to special funding given to Atlantic City in recent years as justification for their request. And the district has commissioned two studies that assert the state funding formula is broken when it comes to Lakewood. They hope to combat the perennial problem this year by launching the funding fight early and hoping new state leadership will work in their favor Read more at APP.com
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FREEZING temps tonight in Lakewood as freezer opens

January 30, 2018, 12:16 pm
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No, not that freezing, not the snow or cold weather but the door to the Lakewood freezer will open as Tu Bshvat is the unofficial day when new Bochurim start the parsha of shidduchim. The official deadline for the takana is Rosh chodesh Adar, but the dating starts a bit early. Hatzlacha to all the bochurim in the parsha may they find their zivug and build a bayis Neeman Byisrael.
 Read more about the Freezer From Wikipedia

 Upon acceptance to the yeshiva, a student must sign a document stating that he will not enter shidduchim for his first three months at the yeshiva. Students entering for the winter term can begin dating on Tu Bishvat; students entering for the summer term can begin dating on 17 Tammuz. The three month periods are known colloquially as "The Freezer." The Freezer policy is designed to minimize students' distractions during the crucial first few months of studies, allowing them to be better integrated into the yeshiva schedule and into the Yeshiva as a whole.

A loophole around the Freezer rule is that a student may continue to date a girl if he began dating her before the start of the semester.

In practice, students comply with the Freezer rule, and it is rarely violated. If a student is found to have violated the rule, the senior faculty (The Roshei Yeshiva) generally will not attend the wedding (which is considered an honor) in protest, and the student may be subject to other disciplinary measures, including suspension of the student from Yeshiva indefinitely, and preclusion from receiving Kolel stipends ($160 biweekly).
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Oif Simchas TLakewood u B'shvat 5778

January 30, 2018, 4:50 pm
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-Chasuna: Spielman- Lederer Nemas Hachaim hall
-CHasuna: Berkowitz- Mandel Fountain Ballroom Lakewood Cheder
-Chasuna:  Genedlman Kestenbaum  Ateres Chana hall Bais Faiga
-Tu B'shvat Mesiba at B'M ערך ש'י   at 114 Madison Avenue 10:30 pm
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Planning Board Looking to Consolidate meetings to Once a Month

January 31, 2018, 6:30 am
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In an Interview with the Yated Neeman, Lakewood Planning board member relates the planning board is working on altering their schedule to consolidate public meetings to once a month, thus accommodating the members busy lives. Currently the board meets bi monthly. Planning member Mr. Israel  Grunberger said "Many people dont realize how much time and effort go into being a planning board member  we all volunteer our time and are trying to balance our busy personal schedules around the board meetings. Planning member Mr. Israel  Grunberger said he was contemplating  stepping down for this reason but will remain on board for the time being.
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Shidduchim: “Balabatish,” “Heimish,” and “Yeshivish.” explained by Lakewood Shadchanim

January 31, 2018, 9:15 am
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A Report on the Zichron Mattel Keren Chasanim event in Lakewood 
from the 5 Towns Jewish Times by Mr. Larry Gordon

PD Roth and Yoeli Steinberg
5tjt - The event took place in the epicenter of what can conceivably be referred to as the shidduch headquarters, if there is such a thing. It was last week in Lakewood, New Jersey, at Beis Medrash Govoha, and the annual event billed as Keren HaChasanim was under way. It is a wonderful experience. I traveled to Lakewood after work last Tuesday night with Yoeli Steinberg, the CEO of the Gourmet Glatt stores.

Over the previous Shabbos, he suggested that I accompany him to Lakewood, and though the Lakewood culture, so to speak, is really not part of my purview or usual domain, I agreed because it would be a new experience and possibly—as you can see—something I could expound upon that would end up in our newspaper and on our website, as well as posted on our other digital outlets.

Lakewood is more than just a city deep in the state of New Jersey. Lakewood is one of the leading yeshiva centers in the world, a bastion of scholarship and a beacon of the light of Torah to the world. But Lakewood is also a city made up of diverse people within both the similar but simultaneously different parts of the Jewish community. That dichotomy is more pronounced when it comes to the matter of making matches between the young men and women. While shidduchim thankfully occur every day, there is a still a crisis of sorts that looms large.

So let me first tell you about the wonderful event we attended last week that is somewhat unique and also inspiring before I get bogged down in the discussion of other issues.

The dinner, which was sponsored by Gourmet Glatt of Lakewood, featured the participation of hundreds of young men who were there to ostensibly pledge their support for one another by committing to donate $300 from the gifts accrued at their own weddings, once they take place. Building this type of internal charitable mechanism results in young men who require assistance in preparing for their own weddings receiving a stipend of $3,000 each.

So I am introduced to the “Lakewood shadchanim,” the men who make it happen in that community. They are headed up by the personable Meir Levy. When I asked Meir straightforwardly how many shidduchim he has engineered, he quickly responded “328.” But that was last week so the number might have increased.


Aside from Meir, who has developed quite an international reputation for making shidduchim happen, there are two or three other Lakewood matchmakers. All are busy as there are thousands of boys in the yeshiva, many in the same age bracket with the same interests—getting married and learning for a while in yeshiva either here in Lakewood or in Israel.

I overhear someone talking to Rabbi Levy about a couple of ideas for his daughter and he immediately discounts both of them almost reflexively, saying that they are just not good ideas. I was interested in the mechanics of how he knocked those ideas down so quickly and asked him about it.

He explained to me that the girl in question was from a “balabatish” home but that she was looking for a “yeshivish” shidduch. I must have looked a bit confused so he immediately gave me a brief crash course on the different types that exist not only in Lakewood but in just about all frum communities, including the Five Towns.

He explained that there are three major categories of homes from which both boys and girls can originate, and that is how they are naturally divided in the shidduch world. They are, in no special order, “balabatish,” “heimish,” and “yeshivish.”

It seems that for the girls and boys from these homes, since their social lives are determined and directed by their parents most of the time, the dominant preference is to stay within the bounds of what they are most familiar with.

That means that heimish will be most comfortable marrying into another heimish family, yeshivish with yeshivish, and so on. It just might be that one of the causes of the inordinate number of older Jewish singles on the market—even in Lakewood—is the reluctance to intermingle within the different categories or classes, if I can call it that. When a child from a balabatish home becomes more yeshivish or more heimish, shadchanim like Meir Levy have to figure out where they fit in—which can be both time-consuming and problematic.

Even more potentially challenging is when there is a mixture or an overlap in a family, which is not uncommon today. According to the shadchanim who I spoke to for the purposes of this essay, the matter is becoming increasingly complicated as the crossover between the various classifications becomes even more blurred.

So what are these classifications or tribal affiliations really about in the first place? On the surface, it seems that the thrust of these lifestyles is not as important as what they seem to represent on the surface, and why they cannot be mixed or matched is even more interesting.

Let’s take a look at balabatish. The Jewish Language dictionary features several meanings for the word. It states that balabatish means: “normal, quiet, well-mannered, or middle-class.” When it comes to shidduchim, however, the meaning diverges quite a bit from those otherwise simple definitions. For shidduch purposes, it seems that balabatish essentially means that the folks in question—usually the parents of the boy or girl—are respectable people. They might be working people and perhaps even folks who have experienced some success in business. This is all fine and good and even a broadly popular lifestyle to maintain, but balabatish people usually need to do shidduchim with other balabatish people, though not necessarily.

Then there is the next category—heimish. That same dictionary defines heimish on an elementary level as “friendly, cozy, and informal.” But when the word is used in the context of shidduchim, it denotes a perhaps more intense type of frumkeit—if that kind of thing can be measured.

Actually, according to some shadchanim, heimish has the ability to contain within itself elements of both balabatish and yeshivish. And therein lies one of the potential pitfalls. While balabatish and heimish can mix when it comes to a shidduch, it is not so fast when it comes to yeshivish.

My superficial impression is that of all the members of these categories, the yeshivish folks might be the ones who are most determined to stick together. All those belonging to these categories are deeply religious, lead pious lifestyles, and are committed to tefillah and Torah scholarship. So where is the cultural divide?

It might be nuanced and not much of a discernable difference to us here on the outside looking in. If you are on the ground, however, there in Lakewood, the differences loom quite large.

Somehow the shadchanim in Lakewood—whether Meir Levy, Tzadok Cohen, or PD Roth—get it done with remarkable success, and that is only because they are the very best at what they do.
Five Towns Jewish Times
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Lakewood Launches 'Chabad Hat'

January 31, 2018, 12:21 pm
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COLlive.com - Lakewood reaches out to Lubavitch. A popular hat store based in Lakewood, NJ, is introducing what they called "the first-ever foldable Chabad hat," promising to help chassidim and bochurim in their many travels.
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 As Lubavitchers of all ages are strict about taking their black fedora along during both personal and business trips, storing the delicate felt hat has always been an issue. Whether traveling by car, train or plane, the hats tend to get crushed by a heavy suitcase or other items. On flights, where airlines limit the amount of carry-on luggage a traveler can bring, the hat box becomes a burden that many would love to do without. Now, Simchy Zuckerman, a young entrepreneur and proprietor of the ThatHat store, says he had come up with a solution. His company designed a hat that he says is an "extremely light-weight, rabbit-felt hat that can be folded and placed in a suitcase or even your pocket, and will not leave a single crease." In describing how he came up with the idea, Zuckerman explained that while the concept of a foldable hat is not his original idea, "There was no foldable hat available for the Yeshiva or Chabad crowd.""I incorporated the idea and manufactured something that is comfortable, stylish, and most of most of all, looks no different than the average black hat," he says. He says the new hat, which is produced exclusively for ThatHat at a plant in Italy, is perfect for travelers and Bar Mitzvah-aged children because of its smaller brim size, it can last for many years.

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Oif Simchas Lakewood January 31, 2018

January 31, 2018, 3:13 pm
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-Chasuna: Neiman- Schneider  Neemas Hachaim hall
-Chasuna: Handelsman- Hochberg Ateres -Chana hall Bais faiga
-Chasuna: Shurkin- Zahner Ateres Reva hall, Lakewood, NJ
-Chasuna: Nussbaun- Einhorn Fountain Ballroom Lakewood Cheder
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Jews You should Know: A Conversation with Lakewood Yeshiva President (Audio)

January 31, 2018, 7:22 pm
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Although he bears the name of his illustrious and saintly grandfather, the current-day Rabbi Aaron Kotler took a circuitous route back to the institution his family created. Spending years teaching in Jerusalem and studying in the Catskills, he eventually returned to as President of what is now the largest yeshiva (institute of Torah study) in the United States - and possibly the world.

In this conversation, Rabbi Kotler shares his passion for the study of Torah by all Jews and for the importance of Judaism as a moral voice to the world. He shares charming vignettes of encounters with esteemed politicians and change-makers in broader society, and discusses the values and challenges associated with building great institutions. Source 

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Parking Information For Rubashkin/Tomchei Dinner

February 1, 2018, 7:41 am
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Ne'emas Hachaim parking Lot will be for Carpool only

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Watch Live: Lakewood BOE Discuss $20 Million Budget deficit with APP

February 1, 2018, 8:09 am
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Mesivta Acceptance Season in Lakewood

February 1, 2018, 10:53 am
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Tu Bishvat in Lakewood is not only for the Freezer but its when boys graduating elementary begin taking bechinos for Mesivta. There are close to 1100 boys graduating 8th grade this year and most will be going locally to the 30 plus mesivtos in Lakewood. A small percentage of  boys go out of town. On average most bar mitzva boys apply to 3-4 mesivtos due to the high demand to get in, additionaly a new mesivta opening for this coming year in Lakewood.
hatzlacha to all the bochurim.
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Oif Simchas Lakewood February 1, 2018

February 1, 2018, 3:54 pm
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-Chasuna: Kaye- Nulman Ateres Reva hall
-Chasuna: Zimmerman- Kaufman Fountain ballroom Lakewood Cheder
-Chasuna: Leiser- Shechter Neemas Hachaim hall
-Chasuna: Deutch- Goldbaum Ateres Chana hall Bais Faiga
-Chasuna: Bernfeld- Bernfeld Lake Terrace hall
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VIdeo: Invitation to the Lakewood Seudas Hodaah

February 1, 2018, 5:27 pm
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Masa U'Matan Lakewood Rental List of Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018

February 2, 2018, 7:18 am
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Video: Giyus Pressure Tactics on Religious girls

February 2, 2018, 9:00 am
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Video: Shows IDF Recruitment officers pressure tactics to recruit religious girls.

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Lakewood Zmanim ערב שבת פרשת יתרו

February 2, 2018, 11:15 am
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Parshas Yisro February 2, 2018/ 17 Shevat 5778 Lakewood NJ

-Candle lighting 4:59 PM
-Shkiah 5:17pm
  Weather shabbos day sunny 35 degrees

ויחן שם ישראל נגד ההר ההוא - כאיש אחד בלב אחד (רש"י
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Watch Live Tomchei Shabbos Lakewood Rubashkin Seudas Hodaah

February 3, 2018, 4:40 pm
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