Hespedim for Chazzan R' Avraham Shlomo Antman Z"L will take place Tuesday evening March 15th following the 7:50 Maariv at the Alumni Bais Medrash on 9th Street between Madison and Clifton. Event is for both men and women.
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Hesped for Chazzan Antman Z"L Tomorrow
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Getting into the Purim spirit
Clearly Some Bochurim in LKWD— Shir V'shevach BC (@ShirVshevach) March 13, 2016
R getting Ready For Purim With #SimchaM'toichSimcha of Course@Shimmyshtauber@CME1pic.twitter.com/qzCJeRMMSU
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DR. Rich Roberts details ‘disingenuous’ donor call to stop Trump
Jewish Insider Dr. Rich Roberts of Lakewood, NJ, wrote Sunday to JI's Jared Sichel about his dismay with Republicans' strategy to stop Donald Trump. Roberts, one of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's major donors until he dropped out in September, said he has since remained undecided, but has donated to the campaigns of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and to the since-suspended campaigns of Chris Christie and Rand Paul. He told JI he was on the March 1st conference call (likely the one related to Our Principles PAC, originally reported by the New York Times), which included top Republican operatives and major donors. Excerpts from Roberts' email:
"After that call, I sent an email to one of the billionaires telling him that I was surprised by the “disingenuous” discussion that I had heard. He forwarded my email to another billionaire who sent me an angry, biting reply. However, the reply that I received was also irrational and factually faulty and seemed to take offense to my use of the word “disingenuous”. (Maybe I am the only guy who will tell billionaires that they are wrong.) I sent a reply demonstrating the irrationality of the email that I had received and that seemed to end the discussion among billionaires."
"I was dismayed to hear that the themes of their intended ads were charges against Trump that he had already effectively publicly refuted. On the call one of the themes that they were planning to hit Trump with is that he is not really a successful businessman but he declared bankruptcy many times. In my email about the call, I cited this as being 'disingenuous' because Trump had already stated that out of 150 of his companies four had declared bankruptcy. The scathing email that I received in reply asked me to consider a statement such as “I went out with hundreds of girls and only raped four.” I replied that “…comparing bankruptcy to rape is not legitimate. One is legal and the other is a crime. One is financial and the other is a grotesque violation of a person."
"The reason why I am writing about this issue, two weeks after the initial call, is that it is clear that there is an anti-Trump smear-campaign that is being waged broadly across the media that has grown to a fevered pitch in an attempt to hit Trump with a tidal wave just before the critical votes on Tuesday, especially in Florida. Pundits keep claiming that Trump is destroying the Republican party but it is they who are destroying the Republican party by trying to deny the groundswell of grassroots voters their overwhelming choice."
"Whether the chorus of attacks on Trump are just a haphazard coinciding of forces from the Left, Republican establishment, and pundits who promote their self-importance by taking positions of extreme projections and hyperbole, or if there is a more sinister coordination by a core of self-interested Republican billionaires and establishment politicians, I do not know. But I am very sure that the tsunami of smears against Trump, at this moment, are disingenuous."
"After that call, I sent an email to one of the billionaires telling him that I was surprised by the “disingenuous” discussion that I had heard. He forwarded my email to another billionaire who sent me an angry, biting reply. However, the reply that I received was also irrational and factually faulty and seemed to take offense to my use of the word “disingenuous”. (Maybe I am the only guy who will tell billionaires that they are wrong.) I sent a reply demonstrating the irrationality of the email that I had received and that seemed to end the discussion among billionaires."
"I was dismayed to hear that the themes of their intended ads were charges against Trump that he had already effectively publicly refuted. On the call one of the themes that they were planning to hit Trump with is that he is not really a successful businessman but he declared bankruptcy many times. In my email about the call, I cited this as being 'disingenuous' because Trump had already stated that out of 150 of his companies four had declared bankruptcy. The scathing email that I received in reply asked me to consider a statement such as “I went out with hundreds of girls and only raped four.” I replied that “…comparing bankruptcy to rape is not legitimate. One is legal and the other is a crime. One is financial and the other is a grotesque violation of a person."
"The reason why I am writing about this issue, two weeks after the initial call, is that it is clear that there is an anti-Trump smear-campaign that is being waged broadly across the media that has grown to a fevered pitch in an attempt to hit Trump with a tidal wave just before the critical votes on Tuesday, especially in Florida. Pundits keep claiming that Trump is destroying the Republican party but it is they who are destroying the Republican party by trying to deny the groundswell of grassroots voters their overwhelming choice."
"Whether the chorus of attacks on Trump are just a haphazard coinciding of forces from the Left, Republican establishment, and pundits who promote their self-importance by taking positions of extreme projections and hyperbole, or if there is a more sinister coordination by a core of self-interested Republican billionaires and establishment politicians, I do not know. But I am very sure that the tsunami of smears against Trump, at this moment, are disingenuous."
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Police investigate shooting
Lakewood Police and the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office are investigating after a shooting at an Eisenhower Street home Monday night, a department spokeswoman said. The shooting occurred around 9 p.m., when at least three males entered the home in the 1300 block, Sgt. Summer Cunliffe said. One man inside the home was shot before the three fled. The victim was later taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center. His condition was not immediately available. NJ.com
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Yeshivas "Rabeinu Yosef Shalom" to open in Lakewood
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LPD update
On March 15th at approximately 9pm, Officers responded to an Eisnehower Street home after receiving a report of man shot during a home invasion.
Responding officers located the resident, a 32 year old male, with an apparent wound to his head. While being treated on scene by Emergency Medical Personnel, Officers were advised that three men had entered the home. After demanding an undisclosed amount of money, witnesses reported hearing a gunshot prior the suspects fleeing the home on foot.
The victim was transported to Jersey Shore Medical Center and is expected to survive.
While on scene we received a report of a suspicious person walking in an adjacent community.
Officer John Ganley responded and located a male, identified as 27 year old Terence Ousley of Asbury Park walking on Dorchester Drive
It as determined that Ousley was trespassing in the complex and was subsequently arrested.
As the investigation continued, information was developed by Det. John Murphy of the Ocean County Prosecutors Office and Officer Steve Kelusak from Lakewood PD, that Terence Ousley was one of the three men who had entered the Eisenhower Street home.
As a result, he was additionally charged with Att. Murder, Burglary, Robbery, Possession of a Handgun and Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose. Bail was set at $150,000 Full by the Honorable Judge Blainey.
Also assisting in the investigation is the Ocean County Sheriff's Department K9 Unit, CSI and the atoms River Police Department K9 Unit.
At this time the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is urged to contact Det. John Murphy at 732-929-2027 or Officer Steve Kelusak at 732-363-0200 ext. 5349.
Responding officers located the resident, a 32 year old male, with an apparent wound to his head. While being treated on scene by Emergency Medical Personnel, Officers were advised that three men had entered the home. After demanding an undisclosed amount of money, witnesses reported hearing a gunshot prior the suspects fleeing the home on foot.
The victim was transported to Jersey Shore Medical Center and is expected to survive.
While on scene we received a report of a suspicious person walking in an adjacent community.
Officer John Ganley responded and located a male, identified as 27 year old Terence Ousley of Asbury Park walking on Dorchester Drive
It as determined that Ousley was trespassing in the complex and was subsequently arrested.
As the investigation continued, information was developed by Det. John Murphy of the Ocean County Prosecutors Office and Officer Steve Kelusak from Lakewood PD, that Terence Ousley was one of the three men who had entered the Eisenhower Street home.
As a result, he was additionally charged with Att. Murder, Burglary, Robbery, Possession of a Handgun and Possession of a Weapon for an Unlawful Purpose. Bail was set at $150,000 Full by the Honorable Judge Blainey.
Also assisting in the investigation is the Ocean County Sheriff's Department K9 Unit, CSI and the atoms River Police Department K9 Unit.
At this time the investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is urged to contact Det. John Murphy at 732-929-2027 or Officer Steve Kelusak at 732-363-0200 ext. 5349.
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Lakewood- Is it a bubble?
The question many are asking will real estate prices come down? or is it no longer affordable to buy? for out of towners its affordable compared to Brooklyn prices but for many Lakewooders its almost beyond reach in a discussion here potential buyers question weather to hold out or lose out.
"I want to buy a house but the prices are really high! I have a house being offered but I'm terrified that its a bubble and the prices will come crashing down and I'll be stuck with a huge mortgage! What is everyone doing? Holding out and hoping the prices will go down or do you expect them to continue to climb?"
"I want to buy a house but the prices are really high! I have a house being offered but I'm terrified that its a bubble and the prices will come crashing down and I'll be stuck with a huge mortgage! What is everyone doing? Holding out and hoping the prices will go down or do you expect them to continue to climb?"
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TR mayor clarifies and defends invasion remark
Responding to criticism Toms River Mayor clarified his remarks and said he has a lovely relationship with the Jewish community in Toms River. In a report from APP.com "Criticized by Lakewood leaders for describing the efforts of Orthodox Jewish homebuyers to purchase properties in North Dover as "like an invasion," Mayor Thomas F. Kelaher defended himself Tuesday, saying his comments were taken out of context. "Let's assume that I used that word," Kelaher said. "What I was referring to is the sworn testimony of neighbors in the North Dover area, who testified and used that term, that they feel like it's an invasion. That's the context in which I used it. The people who live there think that."
Kelaher was quoted in a story that appeared Monday on the Bloomberg news site, headlined "Orthodox Jews Set Sights on N.J. Town and Angry Residents Resist." The story describes the ongoing tensions in the township's North Dover section between homeowners and real estate solicitors who have been seeking properties for Orthodox Jewish families who want to move into the area. In the article, Kelaher is quoted comparing the tactics of some real estate solicitors to the block-busting practices used by real estate agents to convince white homeowners to sell in the 1960s by threatening them that African-Americans were going to move into their neighborhoods. "It's like an invasion," Kelaher says in the story. "To suggest that I am anti-Semitic is ridiculous," said Kelaher, a Republican who in November was re-elected to his third, four-year term as mayor. "We have a lovely relationship with the Jewish community in Toms River." Read more at APP.COM
Kelaher was quoted in a story that appeared Monday on the Bloomberg news site, headlined "Orthodox Jews Set Sights on N.J. Town and Angry Residents Resist." The story describes the ongoing tensions in the township's North Dover section between homeowners and real estate solicitors who have been seeking properties for Orthodox Jewish families who want to move into the area. In the article, Kelaher is quoted comparing the tactics of some real estate solicitors to the block-busting practices used by real estate agents to convince white homeowners to sell in the 1960s by threatening them that African-Americans were going to move into their neighborhoods. "It's like an invasion," Kelaher says in the story. "To suggest that I am anti-Semitic is ridiculous," said Kelaher, a Republican who in November was re-elected to his third, four-year term as mayor. "We have a lovely relationship with the Jewish community in Toms River." Read more at APP.COM
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Come back to the downtown
Guest post.
There is once again parking in the downtown area. proof positive that the illegally built bais horaah caused all the parking problems for over a year. There is no way that they can figure out how much loss they have caused businesses adjacent to them. Hopefully customers that have stopped coming to these businesses will now return. Once again, there is only one solution for the Bais Horaahs future existence. That is a parking lot of their own. As it stands now there is no area large enough to provide the spaces needed for the multitude of uses that have been added to that building in the last year. Local businesses have been more than patient and tried to compromise.This is not a simple non compliance for a C of O issue. A building with that many uses of that type would normally require close to 100 parking g spaces.
This was ignored and the owners figured they could just take away the parking from the downtown businesses. They were evicted once their lies were uncovered. We advocated for them to return over a year ago if they would be able to add a parking lot to their building . We gave them 3 months to begin the process. In that time, they secretly tried to trick us and get approvals with no parking. Since then they even added more services from the Capitol Motel, causing a bigger parking issue. Ask anyone and they will tell you that in the last two years they have given up trying to park in the Bagel Nosh lot. The hefsed that the Bais Horaah has caused is immeasurable. They were called to a din Torah and refused. I am not the Sheriff, I don't demand compliance to every ordinance. But when people's livelihoods are suffering because of one person's selfishness I cannot stand by and watch. I hope Menashe advises the owners to either somehow obtain real parking, or sell the building to a single use buyer that will not hurt other businesses.
On a side note. To Those that insist that the building does not cause any parking problems. There were multiple spaces available to park at all times throughout the day today. Every day they were evicted the parking lots were only half full. So to all Hefkervelt readers that may have given up in frustration trying to get the best Bagel anywhere, please come back, there is plenty of parking again. And to those that were learning and davening in Bais Horaah all this time and are now inconvenienced to have to move. I am sorry about the situation, but now you can have the satisfaction of knowing that your learning and davening is not Yotzeh Schar Behefsaido.
There is once again parking in the downtown area. proof positive that the illegally built bais horaah caused all the parking problems for over a year. There is no way that they can figure out how much loss they have caused businesses adjacent to them. Hopefully customers that have stopped coming to these businesses will now return. Once again, there is only one solution for the Bais Horaahs future existence. That is a parking lot of their own. As it stands now there is no area large enough to provide the spaces needed for the multitude of uses that have been added to that building in the last year. Local businesses have been more than patient and tried to compromise.This is not a simple non compliance for a C of O issue. A building with that many uses of that type would normally require close to 100 parking g spaces.
This was ignored and the owners figured they could just take away the parking from the downtown businesses. They were evicted once their lies were uncovered. We advocated for them to return over a year ago if they would be able to add a parking lot to their building . We gave them 3 months to begin the process. In that time, they secretly tried to trick us and get approvals with no parking. Since then they even added more services from the Capitol Motel, causing a bigger parking issue. Ask anyone and they will tell you that in the last two years they have given up trying to park in the Bagel Nosh lot. The hefsed that the Bais Horaah has caused is immeasurable. They were called to a din Torah and refused. I am not the Sheriff, I don't demand compliance to every ordinance. But when people's livelihoods are suffering because of one person's selfishness I cannot stand by and watch. I hope Menashe advises the owners to either somehow obtain real parking, or sell the building to a single use buyer that will not hurt other businesses.
On a side note. To Those that insist that the building does not cause any parking problems. There were multiple spaces available to park at all times throughout the day today. Every day they were evicted the parking lots were only half full. So to all Hefkervelt readers that may have given up in frustration trying to get the best Bagel anywhere, please come back, there is plenty of parking again. And to those that were learning and davening in Bais Horaah all this time and are now inconvenienced to have to move. I am sorry about the situation, but now you can have the satisfaction of knowing that your learning and davening is not Yotzeh Schar Behefsaido.
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Lakewood Mayor Demands apology for "invasion" remark
TOMS RIVER, NJ Patch.com-- Lakewood Mayor Menashe P. Miller has demanded an apology from Toms River Mayor Thomas P. Kelaher over published comments from the mayor referring to recent real estate issues as "an invasion.""I was appalled to read yesterday's Bloomberg report regarding the increasing number of
Orthodox Jews who have purchased homes in Toms River, or who are considering doing so," Miller wrote in a March 15 letter distributed to media outlets in addition to being sent to Kelaher directly.
"You are quoted as follows, verbatim: 'It’s like an invasion. It’s the old throwback to the 1960s, when blockbusting happened in Philadelphia and Chicago with the African-American community -- ‘I want to buy your house. You’ll be sorry if you don’t.’ It scares the hell out of people.'”
Kelaher's comments appeared in a March 14 Bloomberg article that delved into the recent tensions between Toms River and the Orthodox community in Lakewood that led to Toms River implementing a five-year ban on real estate soliciting in the North Dover section of the township.
"It is funamentally unjust and un-American to compare law abiding U.S. citizens engaging in legal real estate commerce to the hostile entry of a pernicious force," Miller wrote. "To say so, simply due to the fact that the homebuyers are of a different faith and ethnicity than your own, is pure, unadulterated bigotry."
Kelaher has announced a press conference for 4 p.m. Wednesday to address the issue, a township spokesperson said, as the quote and the response of Lakewood officials have gained significant attention. Kelaher told the Asbury Park Press, however, that he was referring to sworn testimony taken during a public hearing on the conflicts between North Dover residents and some real estate solicitors.
Miller, however, wrote that he sees the quote as "part of an unfortunate pattern where you've validated, even stoked, awful stereotypes of your Lakewood neighbors and, by extension, Orthodox Jewish residents of Toms River," citing as an example campaign literature Miller says was sent by Kelaher's campaign that utilized fear tactics to convince Toms River to vote for him.
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Have Haman lead you around on a horse this Purim
Gourmet Glatt and Hatzolah of Lakewood present: Ride for Life- the amazing opportunity to have Haman lead you around on a horse this Purim! Now how cool is that?! Enter now to win!
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Video: Toms River Mayor addresses recent comments and confusion
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Masa U'matan list
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Oif Simchas
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Hail storm Yesterday in Lakewood
@ericfisherpic.twitter.com/ODC6xd7Xa9 lakewood nj hail storm— Eli katz (@emknet_tickets) March 16, 2016
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Video: No knock law
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Opinion: pushback against the pushiness
Recent Op ed in Hamodia By Rabbi Avi Shafran
"Because acting in ways that give people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us, aside from being wrong, well, gives some people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us."
Case in point: Several suburban frum communities are expanding greatly these days, attracting Torah Jews from near and far. The law of supply and demand won’t be violated, and what ensues are increased property values and willingness, on the part of some long-time homeowners, to “trade up” to larger homes in other areas. That’s fine and good; and so is the effort by real estate agents to make the case to residents of such communities that they can benefit financially from the new desirability of their dwellings by putting their houses on the market.
What isn’t fine and good, though, is pressuring residents by visiting them, unbidden, to make that case. And what’s even less fine and good is doing so on non-Jewish holidays, when residents are be more likely to be home but are undoubtedly more likely to resent uninvited guests.
Such solicitations have caused some towns, including Toms River, New Jersey, to update their “no-knock” rules and related laws, adding real estate inquiries to measures that already limit other types of solicitations.
An Associated Press story about that particular New Jersey town was recently widely published by media here and overseas. It may be a local story, but when an item involves Jews, money and irate neighbors, it somehow tends to… hold… special interest.
The news article quoted one Toms River resident who claimed to have been badgered by an aggressive real estate agent to sell his home. In local media, several others complained about feeling pressured by Orthodox Jews’ overtures. The fact that a “no-knock” ordinance was unanimously endorsed by the local Township Council itself indicates that others had, or feared, similar experiences — and should be a wake-up call to us all.
Yes, to be sure, some of the pushback against the pushiness might be tainted with pre-existing resentment of Jews. But that’s really beside the point. In fact, it intensifies the point. Because acting in ways that give people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us, aside from being wrong, well, gives some people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us.
There is no doubt that the great majority of frum real estate professionals in Lakewood and elsewhere hew to high standards and promote their services in proper manners, using advertisements and mailings. But the small number (it may in fact be only one, but that’s one too many) who feel that it’s “just business” to be aggressive and intimidating toward potential clients are causing ill will against the entire community.
And they should know, too, that the truest measure of Jewish success is acting “with pleasantness toward others,” in ways that make others say “Fortunate is his father who taught him Torah” (Yoma 86a).
"Because acting in ways that give people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us, aside from being wrong, well, gives some people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us."
Case in point: Several suburban frum communities are expanding greatly these days, attracting Torah Jews from near and far. The law of supply and demand won’t be violated, and what ensues are increased property values and willingness, on the part of some long-time homeowners, to “trade up” to larger homes in other areas. That’s fine and good; and so is the effort by real estate agents to make the case to residents of such communities that they can benefit financially from the new desirability of their dwellings by putting their houses on the market.
What isn’t fine and good, though, is pressuring residents by visiting them, unbidden, to make that case. And what’s even less fine and good is doing so on non-Jewish holidays, when residents are be more likely to be home but are undoubtedly more likely to resent uninvited guests.
Such solicitations have caused some towns, including Toms River, New Jersey, to update their “no-knock” rules and related laws, adding real estate inquiries to measures that already limit other types of solicitations.
An Associated Press story about that particular New Jersey town was recently widely published by media here and overseas. It may be a local story, but when an item involves Jews, money and irate neighbors, it somehow tends to… hold… special interest.
The news article quoted one Toms River resident who claimed to have been badgered by an aggressive real estate agent to sell his home. In local media, several others complained about feeling pressured by Orthodox Jews’ overtures. The fact that a “no-knock” ordinance was unanimously endorsed by the local Township Council itself indicates that others had, or feared, similar experiences — and should be a wake-up call to us all.
Yes, to be sure, some of the pushback against the pushiness might be tainted with pre-existing resentment of Jews. But that’s really beside the point. In fact, it intensifies the point. Because acting in ways that give people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us, aside from being wrong, well, gives some people who don’t like Jews in the first place reason to resent us.
There is no doubt that the great majority of frum real estate professionals in Lakewood and elsewhere hew to high standards and promote their services in proper manners, using advertisements and mailings. But the small number (it may in fact be only one, but that’s one too many) who feel that it’s “just business” to be aggressive and intimidating toward potential clients are causing ill will against the entire community.
And they should know, too, that the truest measure of Jewish success is acting “with pleasantness toward others,” in ways that make others say “Fortunate is his father who taught him Torah” (Yoma 86a).
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Video: Lakewood industrial commission 3/9/16
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Shabbos with the Magid
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