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Lakewood BOE MeetingTonight
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Moetzes Gedolei Hatorrah: עת צרה היא ליעקב וממנה יושע
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Oif Simchas ד'חשון תשפ''א
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BlueClaws Drop "Lakewood" Rebrand as Jersey Shore BlueClaws extend lease with the Township
In the press release Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles and Steve Reinman, the Township’s Executive Director of the Office of Economic Development, were in attendance at the event. “The BlueClaws have been a tremendous asset to our community, bringing over 7.7 million fans to Lakewood since 2001,” said Coles. “The Township could not be more excited continue our partnership with the BlueClaws and we look forward to this exciting new era in team history.”
“The BlueClaws and Township of Lakewood have been fantastic partners over the last two decades and we look forward to continuing that relationship many years into the future,” said Art Matin, managing partner of Shore Town Baseball, which operates the day-to-day management of the team.
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Thursday October 22 News Updates Lakewood
Weather- Areas of fog early, then partly cloudy this afternoon. High 71F.
- 22 new covid cases in Lakewood +2 deaths totals 5921/208
-Gov. Phil Murphy acknowledged Thursday that he did not wear a mask — because he was eating and drinking at an event where he came into contact with a senior staff member who later tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the governor to quarantine Murphy tested negative twice since the encounter and has shown no symptoms.
- Pro Alan Dershowitz: I grew up in Orthodox Brooklyn. We must apply the same COVID-19 standards for all and Jews must choose life. There has been far too much finger pointing at Orthodox Jews by civic leaders who should know better. I’m on your side of these legal and political arguments. But Please emphasize those parts of the Torah that deal with mandatory isolation of contagiously ill Jews. Please recall the Talmudic wisdom that he who saves even a single human life, it is as if he saved the entire world (JTA)
- Bnos Melech distribution 8:30 pm, Sanz Klausenbeeg weekend box 5:45 pm behind Evergreen Parkview & Edgecomb
-BDE: Petirah of R' Yosef Waldman z"L of Lakewood. he was 63. Levaya 8:00 pm at the Lakewood Bais Olam. He was a son in law by Rabbi Zecharia Fendel ZTL.
-Food distribution today by OTL
Pine park 4:30 pm, 140 Lehigh 5:00 pm, 100 James 5:30 pm, Bais Rochel 6:00 pm,, 1100 Cross 5:30 pm
-In little over six minutes, the Lakewood Board of Education approved the agenda for its monthly meeting without a single mention of the recent COVID-19 cases among teachers and students in the public schools. The Lakewood Public School District has reported recently that at least 36 people, 20 staff and 16 students have tested positive for COVID-19. Dozens of staff members and students have been sent home to quarantine, as well. parents complained they could not as questions.(APP)
-Bikur Cholim- 130 Covid patients have been hospitalized since September 12. B”H 112 were discharged, 5 were niftar R"L. Currently 15 hospitalized, with 6 of them in serious/critical condition- Annual kinus Hashluchim Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries Moves Online Amid Pandemic will be an all virtual event.
-Harold Herskowitz reacts on Twitter to the Blueclaws dropping Lakewood. "Lakewood taxpayers paid for this scam stadium deal. And now they don't want our name on it. We paid 24 million dollars for the stadium. Thy got all proceeds. Paid us 25 grand a year in rent. We the Lakewood taxpayers paid all maintenance costs, which was in the millions for 15 years. It brought no business to the town. Was very profitable. Put money in the politicians pockets. Lakewood had all our money that we could have used to fix our messed up town stolen by these politicians and their buddies. And now they dont even want to be associated with us. I think it's time for a lawsuit. We want our money back."
- Gelbstein food distribution: Today 3:30 p.m. -6:00 p.m. at the Lakewood Middle School on Somerset Ave and Clifton Avenue Grade School.
- Today the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee will be hearing bill S2814, which makes failure to wear a mask into a store with posted signage during the state of emergency a criminal trespass offense punishable by up to 30 days imprisonment, a fine of $500 or both. . If passed, the law will take effect immediately and shall expire upon the expiration of the state of emergency “a person commits a violation if that person is not properly wearing a mask which at a minimum simultaneously covers the nose and mouth
-Final presidential debate will take place tonight
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Brooklyn Kosher Cafe Owner Gets ‘Outpouring of Support’ After Erroneous Fine
Video: watch video below Owner was interviewed on the Tucker Carlson show
Hamodia - A kosher café owner who received a wrongful summons from New York City amid the state’s controversial COVID shutdown, has experienced a national outpouring of support. Mixed Greens Café, on Coney Island Avenue and Avenue V in Brooklyn’s Homecrest neighborhood, was open Tuesday for takeout and delivery only, as required for restaurants in a “red zone” hotspot, when a man in plainclothes entered at 3:30 p.m., store owner Jacob Green told Hamodia Wednesday evening.
The man asked if he could sit down and eat, but Jacob’s cousin Mike Green, the manager who was in the store at the time, said the store was only open for takeout and delivery. The man then identified himself as an officer of the City Department of Consumer Affairs, and proceeded to write the store a summons for keeping its doors open. The store manager, Jacob’s cousin Mike Green, can be heard pleading with the officer, “I’m struggling here every single day. It’s hard for me. There was nobody inside the store, obviously, because we don’t have dining, we only have takeout. There was nobody in the store and I’m only getting a ticket because my doors are open?”
As Mike makes his case, the officer says, “I’m not here to argue; I’m just reporting.” The summons said the business was being cited because it “failed to keep the store closed for pedestrian and customer traffic.” Several hours later, Mike got in touch with City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, who reached out to the City Health Department about the incident. “The Health Department said they had to reach out to the restaurant inspectors and could not give them an answer on the spot,” Deutsch recalled, in an interview with Hamodia Wednesday evening. “But the Health Department is an agency that works with other agencies to put together these guidelines, and if they don’t have an answer on the spot, how are business owners supposed to know the guidelines?” On Tuesday evening, Deutsch tweeted video of Mike’s exchange with the inspector, writing, “Why would anyone want to open a business in NYC??” The video also went viral on several popular social-media accounts. Before long, Mixed Greens began hearing from people near and far, outraged at the incident. “We had a tremendous amount of support,” Jacob said. After Deutsch and other social-media accounts tweeted a link to Mixed Greens’ website, “people from across the country started ordering food, and said we should give it to homeless people.”
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Pushback On A Initiative to Test
A campaign was launched to get the Lakewood community tested for covid19 after serious pushback from parents, schools and residents who are not going along with it. There are ads PR articles and billboards introducing the Lakewood covid testing initiative. The Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva did not sign any letter approving of this. Customarily during the coronavirus the Roshei yeshiva attached their signatures to other letters on matters pertaining to covid-19 so far that has not happened. The Ad says that rabbonim and askanim urge the klal to test and the initiative is endorsed by Agudath Israel. In the ads it states clearly the testing is not to make sure that people who are not well should test to see if they are positive, rather specifically states in small leters on the bottom "for the safety of the public if you are experiencing any symptoms of not feeling well please refrain from visiting the testing sites". The testing is only for healthy people who hopefuly will have a negative result which will give govt officials a snapshot with data about the pandemic in the Lakewood community. The PR articles continue with a constant threat of fear that the only reason schools, shuls and businesses in Lakewood are allowed to remain open is because of the testing otherwise everything will immediately get shut down, need proof well they tell us to look across the bridge in NY and see what Cuomo has done. Finally they acknowledge the reluctance of the rest of the kehila to test not because people have brains and have valid concerns, not because people speak to their doctors who advise them, not because people speak to their local rav who advises them but as the press release states " It is undeniable that in recent days voices have cropped up sowing confusion and misinformation about testing. There have been wild claims about testing that were debunked by public officials such as Rabbi Avi Schnall of Agudath Israel. We are indeed a generation that grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust, which may explain why our trust in authority is lower than in other communities. When parents are handed long documents to sign on behalf of their children, it is natural to panic".
This discussion should be had with gedolim not random lay people. Public policy related to pandemics should only be set with those who have medical credentials and expertise in the field of infectious diseases with no other motives but to protect the safety and health of the community. There are schools that are not asking parents for consent to randomly test their children. There are many who hold halachically and hashkaficly not test or draw blood if there's no medical reason to do so. People do not want to be used as guinea pigs for someone's study especially that the rates in Lakewood have gone way downhill while other parts of the state have gone up.
To use the threat of mosdos shutting down a month after the second wave peaked in Lakewood is misleading. Lakewood is a town of 150,000 people the same metric of measuring positivity rate with percentages is used for a town whose population is 10,000 people. There are many ways to calculate positivity rates and get very different results from the same amount of people tested. See this article about several ways to calculate and get different results. https://covidtracking.com/blog/test-positivity.
Will this be a 1 time test or will the same people require to test again and again.
Another aspect that leads to skepticism and weariness is there a financial component. Why the need to add more testing sites if there is ample amount of urgent cares and medical offices for everyone to get tested. Parents should be given a right and an option to test their children after school in their own time and comfort. Why is everything controlled by who gets to do the testing.
we are a עם חכם ונבון and a עם קשה עורף. When demanding something like mass testing the community should be respected and given the real true answers, not spins lies and misinformation with fear mongering, that even those who are not children of holocaust survivors find suspicious.
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Oif Simchas ה'חשון תשפ''א
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JHS: From Minsk to Monsey: The Life of Rav Reuven Grozovsky
As a sequel to the story of Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz, it would be appropriate to profile the activities of his illustrious son in law and successor Rav Reuven Grozovsky (1886-1958). Growing up in Minsk, he convinced several of the youth to join him in the famed Slabodka Yeshiva. He'd eventually marry the daughter of Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz, assisting him in the running of the Kamenitz Yeshiva. Escaping the war to the United States, Rav Reuven assumed a position as Rosh Yeshiva in both Torah Vodaath as well as the nascent Bais Medrash Elyon in Monsey. At the national level, he was first an activist in the wartime Vaad Hatzalah, then the chairman of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah of Agudas Yisroel, as well as heading the new Torah Umesorah efforts in Jewish education. As a true leader in tune with the times, he voiced his clear opinion on all issues and challenges facing the Jewish people. In 1952 he sustained a tragic car accident under mysterious circumstances. This greatly inhibited his activities and he passed away six years later.
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Lakewood Blue Claws Adding Insult to Injury. 20 years ago, the taxpayers
20 years ago, the taxpayers of Lakewood were kept in the dark, when Bob Singer and his buddies decided to build a stadium using 24 million dollars of Urban Enterprise money. Urban Enterprise money is the sales taxes set aside from Lakewood taxpayers to be used to promote businesses and build infrastructure for Lakewood. Singer and friends decided to use all the money available to build a stadium for a new minor league team.
The team was called the Lakewood Blue Claws. Promises were made that the stadium would be an economic engine and would bring prosperity to Lakewood.
Of course nothing like that happened. Not one business in Lakewood receives any benefit from this 24 million dollar stadium.
Surely there must be some profits from rent or property taxes? Advertising ? Naming and leasing for events ?
The answer is no. The Blue Claws only paid 25 thousand dollars per year for 15 years. Now they pay 175 thousand a year. That is not nearly enough to pay for all the maintenance and insurance, road repairs and other ancillary costs our taxpayers need to pay.
A few years ago I noticed that the team stopped calling themselves the Lakewood Blue Claws. They dropped Lakewood. I assumed they didn't want to be associated with a town that was getting a bad reputation for overdevelopment and corruption. Most people , myself included couldn't care less if our name was on their shirts.
This week the Blue Claws announced that they will be called the Jersey Shore Blue Claws. In other words the millions of dollars that Lakewood taxpayers spent without even giving permission, is now to benefit a team representing the entire Jersey Shore.
Very often I see comments on social media that Lakewood Jews do not pay taxes. This latest name change should be seen for what it is. A slap in the face to every honest Lakewood taxpayer.
We should all demand that the stadium pay property taxes. We should demand a fair percentage of Blue Claws profits, which is in the millions a year. They can keep the name. Give us what we are due as taxpayers who never agreed to this deal.
Harold Herskowitz
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Friday October 23 News Updates Lakewood
Weather: Mostly cloudy skies. Areas of patchy fog. High near 70F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
-Candle lighting 5:47 pm Shkia/sunset 6:05 pm
-14 new covid cases in Lakewood total 5935/208
Chumash shiur 1:00 pm -R' Gershon Ribner shhlita 646-726-9977
-Tehillim: Please be mispallel for R' PG Waxman, Pinchas Gershon Ben Chana. His condition took a turn for the worse overnight(LNN)
-Hachtorah for HaRav Shaul Sinski shlita appointed as rav of Pine River Kehilla in Lakewood
-LPD: Lakewood residents please travel with caution this morning as there is fog throughout the town and surrounding areas.
-BDE: Rabbi Yehuda Kolko Z"L niftar in EY read more at Matzav
- Trump, Biden Debate Marked by Clashes, but Less Chaos more at AP
-Of 1182 new cases reported yesterday in NJ 469, cases are older than 7 days. 40-50% of cases being past infectious is a losing battle for contact tracing. 140 net cases are more than a month old. 100 cases are 100 days ago (Source)
-Ivanka Trump was davening at the Ohel in Queens yesterday 10 days before the election of her father
Audio: Lakewood Election update
- Shiva for Rav Yosef Weiss Ztl at 720 Monmouth avenue shachris 8:25, Mincha 1:45 Maariv 8:00 pm gettin up Tuesday morning
- Shiva for Rav Yosef Weiss Ztl at 720 Monmouth avenue shachris 8:25, Mincha 1:45 Maariv 8:00 pm gettin up Tuesday morning
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Re: Unmasked Mishpacha's Anti Trump virus19? Lakewood's Got Herd Immunity!
By: Y'min Losmol
Erev Shabbos Parshas Noach
When Meir Kahana got elected to the Knesset he promised Shulamit Aloni a heart attack everyday. Ocean county is sure to give Mishpacha's editorial board serious symptoms in the weeks to come- we're wall to wall Donald Trump country here.
This magazine can not embarrass itself anymore than it has already.
Lakewood's yeshivaleit see through the debasement of our mesorah as self anointed spokesmen appeal to the masses directly from the newsstands with ideology that's Hashkafic fruitcake.
America has always purchased oil from abroad; Under president Trump lots of
drilling was done at home. The US now produces lots of its own to heat your home and power your car via gasoline. Soon after the debate last night an economics expert made a keen observation on the John Bachelor show. When the former VP said he would transform Americas energy source (the green deal), Trump asked will America run on oil? he replied, NO.Biden took fortune hostage.
This will impact on the markets (as oil is a major source of American prosperity) and it may well cost the vice president the election, he said.
Unmasked, seems to join Joe Biden's fate too. Our mesorah enjoins us to display Hakoras Hatov for politicians who have been benevolent to klal yisrael. Mr. Trump, surely qualifies for his support for our people.
His style is irrelevant.
The naïve bunch who embrace the message of this off key piece accolade the magazine with the dubious distinction of ראש כל בני הגולם.
In this mabul and deluge of foreign ideas surrounding us, Bnei Torah chart the course of this ship with age old hashkafa what's old is new once again the Torah remains the same forever.
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Lakewood Zmanim עש''ק פרשת נח תשפ''א
יוֹם שַׁבָּתוֹן אֵין לִשְׁכֹּחַ זִכְרוֹ כְּרֵיחַ הַנִיחוֹחַ יוֹנָה מָצְאָה בוֹ מָנוֹחַ וְשָׁם יָנוּחוּ יְגִיעֵי כֹחַ הָעָם אֲשֶׁר נָע וְכַצֹּאן תָּעָה יִזְכּוֹר לְפָקְדוֹ בְּרִית וּשְׁבוּעָה לְבַל יַעֲבֹר בָּם מִקְרֵה רָעָה כַּאֲשֶׁר נִשְׁבַּעְתָּ עַל מֵי נֹחַ
Friday, October 23, 2020 / ה׳ חשון תשפ״א ערב שבת פרשת נח
Candle lighting: 5:47 pm
Shkia/sunset 6:05 pm
- Weather: Friday night low of 56 Shabbos day Mostly cloudy skies early later in the day. High 72F
-מברכים בה׳׳ב
Who was the mother of נח? It is not mentioned in the Torah by there are 3 different names brought in a sefer from Harav Chaim Kanievsky
הגר"ח קניבסקי שליט"א בספרו טעמא דקרא (בקונטרס למכסה עתיק, פרשת בראשית עמוד ה) הביא, ששם אמו של נח היה אשמוע בת אלישוע בן חנוך. ויש אומרים, שמה בת אנוש (מדרש כתב יד). ויש אומרים, ברונוש בת ברכאל
(בריש ספר תולדות אדם להר"ש אלגזי. וכנראה העתיקו מאיזה מדרש)
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Sunday October 25 News Updates Lakewood
Weather: Cloudy with rain developing this afternoon. High 54F. Chance of rain 70%.
- Orthodox Jews arrange Trump parade this morning on Coney Island Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn hundreds of cars join.
-BDE: Petirah of R' Avrohom Abba Cohen ZT"L a Lakewood youngerman who was sick for the last few years he was 32 leaves behind a child .A Son in law by Rav Mendel Kanarek shlita of Peekskill yeshiva. The levaya will be held today 1:00 pm at the Lakewood Bais olam on the 7th street.
-Israel moves clock back to winter time, USA will change clocks this coming motzei Shabbos.
-Inspectors in Brooklyn this past Friday have approached children in the street under bar mitzvah age and asked them if they are going to yeshiva in an attempt to follow them.
-A Letter thanking President Trump was publicly released. The letter signed by Roshei Yeshiva and Admorim was given to the president in June 2020 expressing our deepest gratitude to Trump "in light of your recent declaration that houses of worship and religious institutions should be considered ‘essential’. Among the signatures Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler, Rav Moshe Wolfson, both rebbes of Satmar,Admorim of Skver, Bobov, Vizhitz, Munkatch and Pupa, and Rabbi Osdoba of the Crown Heights Bais Din.. The letter was sent by Rabbi Moshe Margaretten founder of Tzedek Association who helped pass the first step act ending mass incarceration resulting in pidyon shvuyim. See letter Here.
-Due to a severe driver shortage some public school bus routes have not showed up leaving students stranded while waiting for the morning bus since Tuesday. District officials did not respond. (APP)
- New Jersey is the most-hated state in America. According to calculations by BestLife magazine, only 28 percent of New Jersey’s population has “state pride,” and it is loathed most by people in New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut — giving it a “hatred index” of 818.
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Oif Simchas ח'חשון תשפ''א
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Monday Oct News Updates Lakewood
Weather: Showers in the morning, then cloudy in the afternoon. High 64F. Winds E at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
-Newt Gingrich: 13 Grand Rabbis signed a joint letter in a historic first-time presidential endorsement praising President Trump for his leadership
- A call for the establishment of a Igud Horim: "We now call upon the tzibbur to band together as a parents’-union of sorts. Any action taken will be negotiated with the Igud Horim first, before the community at large is coerced to follow this unchecked power. We are the ones who fund the schools, we are the one who supply the merchandise (the students), and we are the one who make the decisions. read more at FAA
- NJ spent $450,000,000 in test costs that is enough to give every family of 4 a $200 rebate in real estate taxes.
-The Republican-controlled Senate is expected on Monday to confirm President Donald Trump's nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, as the next justice to the Supreme Court giving it a conservative majority.
-Covid Testing campaign launched stipulating that schools and shuls are in danger of closing down. All Lakewood urgent care centers are listed as official test sites.
-Ezras Nashim all women's EMT crew in Brooklyn unveiled their first ambulance after getting permission for licensing from NYS. The group plans to open branches in other frum communities including the Lakewood area.
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Video: גֶּשֶם or גָּשֶם
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Oif Simchas ט'חשון תשפ''א
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Tuesday Oct 27 News Updates Lakewood
Weather: Mostly cloudy. High 62F. Tonight- Increasing clouds with showers arriving overnight.
- BDE: Petira of R' Mattis Weinstock Z"L who was niftar in the hospital from the virus R"L Levaya will take place this morning 9:15 am at Pine River Village shul 38 Goldcrest Lakewood.
-An annual report released earlier this month by the FBI shows that Island Heights as the safest municipality in Ocean County in 2019. It’s also one of the smallest towns, with a population of just 1652 residents. Lakewood, the largest community in Ocean County, reported the highest number of violent crimes. Of the 148 offenses, 91 were related to aggravated assault.
-City of Bnei Brak has been declared green by the health ministry as corona cases drop. Only 35 positives reported.
-British study shows evidence of waning immunity to Covid-19Researchers in England who sent out home finger-prick tests to more than 365,000 randomly selected people found a more than 26% decline in Covid-19 antibodies over just three months. Younger people who had recovered from Covid-19 had a slower loss of antibodies, compared to people older than 75 who had survived an infection, the researchers found. More
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Tripping Kosher: Fish Grill Lakewood, NJ
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