Quantcast
Channel: Hefkervelt
Viewing all 12522 articles
Browse latest View live

Officials Investigating Possible Measles case in Lakewood

$
0
0
Lakewood pediatrician DR. Shanik said a case of measles was reported today in Lakewood and that people should make sure their children are up to date with their vaccines.

Reports of a patient who broke out with a rash on his body after returning from a trip overseas. Ocean county health officials are currently investigating for a possible case of measles.

“CHEMED would like to make the community aware of a suspected case of measles in Ocean County and confirmed cases of pertussis and varicella,” CHEMED said. “Symptoms of measles include fever, coughing and a rash that usually starts on the face.”

The health facility added, “There is a very real danger for those who are not immunized such as infants and those who are immuno-compromised who may come in contact with an infected person. A non-immunized pregnant women could result in exposure to the fetus. CHEMED would like to remind everyone of the vital importance of being up to date with immunizations to protect you and our community.”

Two Day sale at Prime Ninety Five

$
0
0
Two days Steak special! Today and tomorrow only (Wed 10/24- Thu 10/25) 12 oz boneless rib Steak for $25 only ( dine-in only) Call now for reservations: 732-276-7202

Verizon Responds to Lakewood Petition: Not upgrading will turn phones into walkie-talkies

$
0
0
A Verizon spokesperson said in response to a  petition by a Lakewood resident asking verizon to keep the 3G towers in Lakewood to accommodate those who  abstain from using smartphones  and still use the 3G services on their flip phones.

"We are actively working with our customers to help ensure any transition needs are addressed as early as possible. The best experience for customers is on a 4G device".Verizon said in a statement.  NJ101.5 reports:

Verizon spokesman David Weissman said the networks that a phone can operate on is dependent on the cellular radios that are put in the phone when it is manufactured. If a phone is described as 3G, it likely doesn't also include a 4G radio. 4G is 10 times faster than 3G and that allows smartphones to run faster with more streaming capacity. When 4G was introduced to consumers, it maintained backward compatibility to 3G. But a 5G network won't have that same compatibility.

Weissman said that not upgrading the network would essentially turn their phones into walkie-talkies that couldn't be used outside of Lakewood as 3G networks are phased out.

See petition below


 Verizon has announced that they will end 3G service in 2019, and will instead focus on maintaining 4G and developing 5G. They have already stopped fixing broken 3G towers, and 3G service is already spotty in many areas. Lakewood, NJ boasts a large demographic of Orthodox Jews. Many of them abstain from using smartphones, with the objective to avoid the immorality and culture that has become synonymous with the internet. Verizon has a large customer base in Lakewood that uses flip-phones, the vast majority of which utilize the 3G network. 
It is perfectly understandable that Verizon wishes to advance technology and shed the extra expenses involved in servicing and maintaining the 3G cell towers. Nevertheless, we respectfully ask that you consider departing from that policy in order to accommodate your customers in Lakewood, and continue to upkeep their local 3G towers as long as it is feasible to do so.

Thank you.

Oif Simchas Lakewood October 24, 2018

$
0
0
 Chasuna: Solny - Rotbart at  Fountain Ballroom Lakewood Cheder
 Chasuna: Fenster - Bursztyn  at Ateres Reva hall 
 Chasuna: Klahr - Gartenhouse at Ne'emas Hachaim hall
 Chasuna: Herzog - Brachfeld at Lake Terrace 

- Vort: Hachoson Aaron Melamud at Ohr Gedaliya on Manor drive corner chestnut at 8:00 pm
- Vort: Hachosson Aaron David Seigel to Hakallah Meth at  Ohr Meir simcha hall   30 5th street  (Monmouth & Princeton)  Lakewood  at 7:30 pm

Watch Live stream BOE meeting HERE

Official General Election Ballot for Lakewood this November 6th

$
0
0
Local elections for the township committee,  school board, congress, freeholder and US senate.



Noreaster storm Likely over Shabbos with 60 MPH Winds Power Outages expected

$
0
0
Patch- This could be the roughest weekend New Jersey has had in a while now that a noreaster is expected to bring 40- to 60-mph winds to the state – and even a little bit of snow. Power outages, downed wires, flooding and treacherous roads are the potential impacts caused by the storm.

The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous weather outlook for New Jersey, saying a coastal storm will affect the region Friday night through Saturday. There is the potential for strong, gusty winds, and the rain could be heavy enough to result in localized flooding. Officials from Jersey Central Power & Light say they are preparing for possible wind gusts as high as 50 mph this weekend in their service area.

Update on Suspected Measles Case

$
0
0
CHEMED has identified a case of suspected measles in Ocean County New Jersey. An individual who had recently traveled outside the US was seen at CHEMED for symptoms consistent with upper respiratory syndrome associated with a rash. Preliminary testing identified an acute measles infection. However, these results are currently being confirmed by the CDC. The patient is no longer contagious and CHEMED is working closely with the Ocean County Department of Health to identify any possible exposures from this patient and to advise them whether they need to follow up with their primary care providers if they are not adequately vaccinated. Measles also known as rubeola is a viral infectious disease which usually starts with fever, runny nose, cough, red eyes and sore throat.
It is followed by a rash that spreads over the body. Measles is a highly contagious virus which spreads through the air through coughing and sneezing (respiratory droplets). read more at here

Shiva Info

$
0
0
Shiva for Harav Yitzchok Paler z"l is at 20 Charming Way  Lakewood (Near Chesterfield)
Shachris 7:40 Mincha 1:35 Maariv 7:15
family getting up Sunday morning Rav Simcha Bunim and Rav Shmuel will get up Tuesday morning.

-Shiva for Mrs. Kitty Pollack z'l at 122 6th St between Monmouth Ave & Lexington Ave in Lakewood  Shachris 7:30 am Maariv 7:30 pm getting up tomorrow afternoon Erev Shabbos Vayera.

Oif Simchas Lakewood October 25, 2018

$
0
0
Chasuna: Berger - Bak at Fountain Ballroom Lakewood Cheder
Chasuna: Wolfson - Adler at Ateres Chana hall Bais Faiga
Chasuna: Kwadrat at Ne'emas Hachaim hall

-Vort:  Hachosson Avrohom Pfeifer to Hakallah Bas R' Mordechai  Wolper at Orchos Chaim hall 410 Oberlin  7:30  pm
-Vort: Hachosson Aryeh Redisch to Hakallah Bas R' Yaakov Nekritz at Bais Nosson Tzvi 1445 14th St  Lakewood  8:00 pm
-Vort: Hachosson Shimmy Zaks to Hakallah  Leahle Bergman Bas R'  Boruch at Ateres Yeshaya hall 908 E. County Line Lakewood, NJ 7:30 pm
-Vort: Hachosson Tulli Samuels to Hakallah Daskal at Khal Bnei Torah Hall 304 Monmouth Ave.-Lakewood

Carlebach 24th  Yartzeit  Kumzitz:
-At 15 Cranberry Court Jackson 10:00 pm guitars welcome.
-Berditchev Kloiz Lakewood

Harav Chaim Boruch Wolpin, Zt”l, Stoliner Rosh Yeshivah

$
0
0
The levayah will take place at 11 o’clock Friday morning at Yeshivah Karlin Stolin, 5401-18th Ave. The aron will be flown to Eretz Yisrael on Motzoei Shabbos for kevurah.

Hamodia.com by Yochonon Donn (BROOKLYN) - The hand trembles and the heart weeps as I write about the beloved Rosh Yeshivah, a vibrant and powerful presence in the lives of those who knew him, in the past tense.
Harav Chaim Boruch Wolpin, zt”l, who was niftar Thursday afternoon at the age of 88, after a lifetime of Torah and avodas Hashem, was a paradigm of hasmadah and warmth for hundreds of talmidim during his four decades at the helm of Yeshivah Karlin Stolin in Boro Park. Within five seconds of the last amen ending Minchah, his hat was off and his eyes were already scanning his well-worn Gemara.

“My father was a role model of growing up in America, growing up in Seattle, growing up in a situation where everybody in his generation chose different paths,” a son told Hamodia. “People told my grandparents, ‘you’re destroying him, he should go to college, have a career.’ Learning in kollel was considered a very horrible thing to do, not to have a career. He was from the first.”



A prime talmid of Harav Reuven Grozovsky, zt”l, the Rosh Yeshivah had a leading role in disseminating his Rebbi’s chiddushim through the copious notes he took and phenomenal memory. The names of his venerated Rebbeim — “Mori v’rabi Reb Reuven, zt”l,” and “Mori v’rabi Reb Shraga Feivel, zt”l” — punctuated nearly every shiur and drashah that he gave.



The levayah will take place at 11 o’clock Friday morning at Yeshivah Karlin Stolin, 5401-18th Ave. The aron will be flown to Eretz Yisrael on Motzoei Shabbos for kevurah.

Born in Seattle, Washington, in 1930, the Rosh Yeshivah was one of four sons of Reb Efraim Benzion and Kaila Wolpin, who were immigrants from the Stolin area of Belarus. All four were sent to New York as teenagers to learn in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, a rarity at the time for an out-of-town bachur.

It was evident from the Rosh Yeshivah’s frequent utterances of Harav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, zt”l, the yeshivah’s untitled leader, that he was exceptionally close to him. When Rav Shraga Feivel opened Beis Medrash Elyon in the then-fledgling town of Monsey, the Rosh Yeshivah was one of the select few chosen to join.

During his time spent in what Harav Dovid Schustal nostalgically refers to as the “Gan Eden on this world” of the Beis Medrash Elyon community, the Rosh Yeshivah had little material possessions but was rich in Torah. His day began at 5:30 and ended at 1:00 — both in the a.m. hours.

If there was a characteristic that defined the Rosh Yeshivah it was his absolute hasmadah. A son says that until recent months when he was unwell, he could not recall a time when his father was not busy doing something. He would eat supper and right away stand up to go learn.

The Rosh Yeshivah wed his Rebbetzin, Hinda Devora, a daughter of Reb Yisroel Mendel Glassman of Williamsburg, and began married life as one of the first kollel yungeleit in the Western Hemisphere. He absorbed the derech of his Rebbi, Rav Reuven, and spent the next 60 years passing it on from his reams of trademark yellow papers.

His first position in chinuch came in the early 1960s, when he became one of the founding Maggidei Shiur in Beis Shraga, a yeshivah established by Harav Shmuel Mendlowitz, zt”l, in memory of his father. He taught there for several years before moving to Yonkers for two years and finally arriving in Boro Park in 1972, where he taught in Yeshivah Be’er Shmuel.

In 1978, Rav Chaim Boruch was appointed as the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivah Karlin Stolin, the first chassidishe yeshivah in Boro Park and a storied institution in which he took great pride in leading.

My first memories of the Rosh Yeshivah was in the early 1980s, when he took my siblings and me on several trips to the reservoir in the Catskills. It was during the summer and my parents had to be out of camp for a week, and the Rosh Yeshivah promised to keep an eye out on us.

Indelible in my memory is the way he would throw stones into the water, choosing small round ones so they would “bounce” atop the lake. Large boulders would be spun in the air before crashing down near where we were sitting. It took me years to understand that the nice man who suffered from a limp because of a bout with polio was actually the Rosh Yeshivah.

Over a 40-year period as Rosh Yeshivah, he was mesader kiddushin at hundreds of chasunos. He had a set ritual that he did by each chuppah, which was followed by a kiss to the chassan and a reminder that “until now was Yom Kippur, now is Simchas Torah!”

He had a bulging notebook in which he wrote down the names of all chassanim and kallos for whom he was mesader kiddushin, and would daven that the marriage should be successful and they should build ehrliche Yiddishe homes. Several talmidim noted on Thursday that nearly every one of the chasunos where he presided are all still married and have children.

Above all, the Rosh Yeshivah emanated love and caring for his talmidim. He had a paper next to his siddur in which all their names were written and he would daven for their hatzlachah.

The Rosh Yeshivah was an engaging speaker — even decades later talmidim were able to remember his shalosh seudos Torah and Chumash shiurim — and he had a way with one-line zingers. He would come up with an acronym for each year — 5753, I recall, was “try, shvitz, never give up.”

The Rosh Yeshivah was known for never coming later to a Shacharis or seder. He continued his seder hayom well into his 80s, until the onset of illness forced him to cut back. A lifetime of Torah was cut short on Thursday, several weeks after complications set in.

The Rosh Yeshivah is survived by, ybl”c, his wife, Rebbetzin Hinda Devora; brother, Reb Dovid; and children, Reb Shea, Reb Yossi, Reb Leibel, Reb Avromy; Mrs. Sarah Rabinowitz, Mrs. Rachel Leah Rabinowitz, Mrs. Dina Smith and Mrs. Mindy Rivkin.

Yehi zichro baruch.
Hamodia.com

Lakewood Elections: Independent Candidate

A town of Hachnosas Orchim

$
0
0
Repost: Parshas Vayera- The Capitol hotel was the place were many meshulachim and guests would stay while spending time in Lakewood, it has now gone. There are many private homes who offer guests to stay in for extended periods of time free of charge. B'H we have large homes with basements and attics to accommodate guests who stay in town. Its not only sleeping arrangements, but for food and meals, the Tomchei Tzedaka arranges nightly suppers and vouchers at local eateries. With both the Capitol and the former Solomon's suites closed, guest space is a bit harder to come by. However, local tzadikim and
yechidim are pitching in helping to fill the void. In some developments neighbors  have a system putting up guests when someone makes a simcha. The opportunity for the mitzva of hachnosas Orchim  is now. Chap arein and lets continue to follow in the footsteps of Avraham Avinu.

14 Yidden in IDF Jail This Shabbos

Lakewood Zmanim ערב שבת פרשת וירא

$
0
0
Friday, October 26, 2018 / י״ז חשון תשע״ט Lakewood, NJ

Candle lighting: 5:43 pm
shkia/sunset:  6:01 pm

Prepare a Blech in case of power outage 

Weather:.HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 am Friday night to 11 AM Shabbos morning Rain and a few thunderstorms. Windy, especially in the morning. High 59F.  Rainfall possibly over one inch. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

מנהגו בקודש של רביה"ק ר'ישעי'לע מקרעסטוער זיע"א לטבול פרוסת המוציא בדבש בש"ק פרשת וירא שקוראים קריאת התורה של ימי ראש השנה.


Democrats and Republicans accuse each other of Having Ties to Lakewood

$
0
0
No one wants to be associated with Lakewood  its a sad reality of what the perception about it, is.
elections in nearby towns to Lakewood are running  with anti Lakewood development campaigns blaming opponents for their ties to Lakewood style development. In  Jackson has both democrats and republicans accusing each other of having connections to powerful Lakewood power brokers and developers. Same story in Howell with democrats blaming republicans for approved Lakewood style development.

Sadly, Lakewood has now become synonymous as a town with overbuilding traffic and congestion and is used by political parties to tarnish one another. Politicians are trying to distance themselves or be associated with Lakewood. It is now used to scare off voters living in nearby towns for fear that the same  will  be coming their way. In Jackson, republicans accuse the democrats to be under the control of powerful Lakewood Democrat operatives, and ties to the Vaad.  While Democrats accuse republicans of ties to powerful Lakewood developers.  Election mailers and flyers, instead of focusing on local issues, are turning attention with negative messages about Lakewood. 

Police in Lakewood, Toms River step up patrols following Horrific shooting at Pittsburgh synogogue

$
0
0
Police in Lakewood and Toms River have increased patrols near synagogues public places  following a shooting that took place at a Pittsburgh temple that left at least 11 dead.

APP reports Lakewood police Capt. Gregory Staffordsmith said that patrol officers assigned to areas in which synagogues are located have been instructed to "conduct extra checks in response to today's shooting in Pennsylvania. "In addition, officers assigned to our special response team have been deployed and will be visible and available if needed," Staffordsmith wrote in an email.

The shooting happened shabbos morning at the conservative Etz Hachaim synagogue in Pittsburgh. 11 People were killed R"L. The shooter said all Jews must die as he entered the shul and began shooting. President Trump  described the shooting in Pittsburgh as “pure evil” and an “anti-Semitic act.” “That is something you wouldn’t believe could still be going on.”



Trump also suggested that armed security at the synagogue might have prevented the attack. According to reports the shooter was an anti-Semite who expressed his disdain for Donald Trump, while also commenting, “I did not vote for him.”

Posts by alleged shooter Robert Bowers show he was obsessed with Jewish conspiracies, while also believing Trump to be a puppet for Jewish interests.
suspect is in custody.

CDC: Measles confirmed in Ocean County

$
0
0
LAKEWOOD — A case of measles has been confirmed in Ocean County.
A man who went to the Center for Health, Education, Medicine and Dentistry (CHEMED) medical facility in Lakewood with a rash on his back was confirmed by a CDC lab test on Friday to have had measles, state health officials said Friday. The man had returned from a trip to Israel where cases have increased.
The DOH warned that anyone who was at the following locations may have been exposed and should contact a doctor or health provider.

Schul Satmar, 405 Forest Avenue, Lakewood — Saturday, Oct. 13 - Monday, Oct. 21.

Eat a Pita, 116 Clifton Ave., Lakewood — Monday, Oct. 15

CHEMED Health Center, 1771 Madison Ave., Lakewood — Wednesday, Oct. 17 (3 p.m. - 6 p.m.) and Oct. 18 (10:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.)
Health officials said people who were exposed could develop symptoms as late as Nov. 11.



Symptoms of measles include rash, high fever, cough, runny nose, and red, watery eyes. Measles can cause serious complications, such as pneumonia and encephalitis (swelling of the brain). In pregnant women, measles can lead to miscarriage, premature birth or a low birth weight.

State epidemiologist Christina Tan said that up-to-date immunization is the best protection against measles/mumps/rubella.

"Getting vaccinated not only protects you, it protects others around you who are too young to get the vaccine or can’t receive it for medical reasons," Tan said. "If you’re planning an international trip, the World Health Organization recommends that adults or adolescents unsure of their immune status get a dose of measles vaccine before traveling."

מרחשוון

$
0
0
”מרחשוון”  “מר” – כמשמעו הוא רע ומר, שהרי לא זכה חודש מרחשוון לחגים משלו, והוא שומם ומשמים באין שמחה
גם רבו בו הצרות והפורענויות שבאו לעולם

Mabul started on 17 Cheshvan
Kristalnacht was 16 Cheshvan 1939
Massacre at Chabad house in Mumbai was 28 Cheshvan  5769/ 2008
Massacre at shul in Har Nof was on 25 Cheshvan  5775/ 2014
Massacre at Pittsburgh Synagogue was on 18 Cheshvan 5779/ 2018
הבית השלישי ייבנה דווקא בחודש מרחשוון, כשם שנחנך בו הבית הראשון, ואז תיעלמנה האותיות “מר” משמו, והוא ייקרא בישראל “חשוון”.

Submited.


APP: Letter from Rabbi Kotler- Pittsburgh mass shooting threatens America itself

$
0
0
Letter from Lakewood Rabbi Kotler CEO of BMG printed in the Asbury Park Press

App- This Sabbath, America, that flickering beacon of freedom for a troubled world, witnessed a new twist in an ancient prejudice. Murder in a house of prayer, committed in any country, speaks of bottomless depravity.  In the United States it is far more chilling. When churches in Charleston are turned to charnel, it’s time for a profound reexamination. After the horrific killing three years ago of nine peaceful African-American worshippers, on a quiet summer evening, sandwiched of all things between Flag day and Father’s day, no such national reflection took place.

Charleston was followed two years later by the mayhem of Charlottesville. Then too no such self reflection began.

Now, white and blue prayer shawls in Pittsburgh are stained red with blood, - forming, most ironically, the colors of the American flag. Eleven innocent Americans of the Jewish faith, praying in peace in Pittsburgh’s idyllic Squirrel Hill neighborhood are dead, victims of an Americanized new version of the most ancient hatred — anti-Semitism.

Will we let America’s beacon, now nearly 250 years old, be extinguished?  For surely we realize, it’s
not Jews or blacks or Hispanics or women or Irish or Italians or Catholics or Muslims or some other group who are threatened, it’s America itself.  Let us not imagine that the jackboots seek only the most vulnerable, it’s our beloved and so maligned Lady Liberty, now tired and huddled herself, tremulously holding her torch aloft, standing perplexed at her sons, whom they seek.


Together, we cry. Soon, the tears will dry, after all, this is the way of man.  It is at that time when, together, we must ask ourselves this simplest of questions: “have we lost sight of the very principles on which this Republic was founded?”

America is not just another country or state, rather it is mankind’s bulwark, that exceptional place of hope and dreams, of shelter and prayer, of liberty and life. Let us not let it be lost. For there is no other.

About the author: Rabbi Aaron Kotler is president and CEO of Beth Medrash Gohovah, the largest rabbinical college in the U.S. outside of Israel. It is located in Lakewood, New Jersey.

Oif Simchas Lakewood October 28, 2018

$
0
0
Chasuna: Falik - Birnbaum at Lake Terrace hall
Chasuna: Orbach -Teitelbaum  at Ateres Reva
Chasuna: Zafrani - Choueka at Ne'emas Hachaim hall

-Vort: Hachosson Mutty Ebstein to Hakallah Frumy Feldberger at B"M willow court 1445 Willow Court, Lakewood  7:30 pm
-Vort: Hachosson Eli Aryeh to Hakallah Tzippy Dunst  at 978 River Avenue, Lakewood at 5:30 pm
-Vort: Hachosson Shai Heller to Hakallah Saralee Engel  at 40 Steven Lane, Lakewood 5:00pm 8:00pm
-Vort: Hachosson Reuven Goldberg to Hakallah  Elisheva Grossman at 97  east 9th st, Lakewood, NJ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
-Vort: Hachosson Nesanel Elefant to Hakallah Chana Trainer (LA) at 7 Flannery drive Lakewood 8:30 pm

Rantree Kumzitz to bennefit Yeshiva of Cartarett ,  Sunday Oct 28th, at 1532 Laguna Lane.Lakewood 8:00 pm
Viewing all 12522 articles
Browse latest View live