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Oif Simchas ח'אדר Tuesday

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 Chasunas:
Miller - Leizerson  Bais Faiga
Motzen - Brandwein Kesser Moshe Yehuda
Weiss - Jacobs Fountain Ballroom 
Schrohn - Tress Lake Terrace 


The First Yahrzeit | Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Z”TL

Wednesday March 1 News Updates Lakewood

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 Weather: Weather: 46° Partly cloudy skies this morning will become overcast during the afternoon. High 46F. 

- BDE: Petirah of Reb Moshe Bertram Z"L purveyor of S. Bertram foods. He was in his low 80's Levaya tomorrow morning at the Lakewood chapel on 7th street at 10:15 am survived by his sons R' Shimmy R' Yeruchom R' Yitzy R' Heshy.

- The purim shadchan Lakewood Giving to Lakewood on Purim
Attention Givers
Are you someone who looks forward to giving out money on purim but your home isn't a popular stop for Bochurim etc.? Now you can sign up to the Purim Shadchan list. Set up your hours for kabolos ponim night/day. Chose which collectors and how many you want to give to. This Purim do it the organized way. Minimum donation per collector $36 to sign up. Lists are limited to one per organization and may not be shared or used for any other time besides for Purim. Sign up Here 

- Popular kosher restaurant facebook group GKRF discuss recent news at Lakewood establishment with statement from owner. See Here 

- Aisle 9 both locations are now under KCL Hashgacha

- Judicial reform protest moves to Jerusalem after escalating in Tel Aviv
Ben-Gvir instructs police to prevent "anarchist blockades" on the roads as protesters take to the streets across the country

- Brick Councilwoman Crate Appointed Mayor Lisa Crate was sworn in to serve as mayor, replacing John Ducey, who resigned Monday after he was confirmed as a Superior Court judge.

- New: Haggada Shel Pesach M’Shulchan Rav Eliyahu Baruch (Finkel) now released. 

- Attorney representing industrial park property owners, filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Township's new ordinance which legalizes banquet halls in schools. The lawsuit includes an Order to Show Cause which asks Ocean County Superior Court Judge Francis Hodgson to order a stay on the lawsuit pending the outcome of the lawsuit. Faa 

- Gvir culture: A Artisanal king Achashveirosh gourmet meat platter for purim selling at $2499. the queen Esther one is cheaper for only $1799 at Pomegranate. Local Lakewood area Shalach manos meat board including a 3 bone standing rib roast rack of baby lamb chops with a signature Herzog 4 bottle of wine for only $999

- Masa Umatan rental list for this week Here 

-PSA: Shkiah on Taanis Esther is 5:53 pm the clock change is after Purim this year

- Today Rav Avrohom Noach ben Yehudis Palei shlita was notified in the hospital  that he lost 2 of his children in a terrorist attack 3 weeks ago as he was not aware of it as he was also injured and in a comma. He was mekabel the din and made a brach of dayan haemes. he asked to tear kriah and sit shiva until Purim.

- Bde: Petirah of Rav Dovid Busu ZTL son in law of the Baba Sali. Levaya going out from the B"M in Givat Shaul neighborhood in Yerushalayim under the leadership of his son Rav Shlomo Shlita.



Hashkafa Q & A

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 Hashkafa With Rav Gershon Ribner Shlita

Developing appreciation for the bnei Torah you come in contact with Settling marital strife regarding perfect care for a first baby Some aveilim abandon major zechusim and obsess over the Save your marriage by taking the initiative The great opportunity Purim presents is often mismanaged

Oif Simchas Wednesday ט'אדר

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 Chasunas:

Altman - Adler Lake Terrace
Rosenman - Hauer Fountain Ballroom 

Pre purim farbrengen at Mordy's Shtiebel 9:30

Thursday March 2 News Updates Lakewood

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 Weather:56° Mostly cloudy. High 56F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph.

- Lake Terrace is granted 2 week postponement on motion to shut them down completely see full story on faanews.com 

-Simcha halls now permitted use in school buildings The New Jersey Appellate Division today released a decision upholding Lakewood Township's Planning Board 2019 approval of Bais Reuven Kamenetz's application for a yeshiva - which turned out to include the Ridge Terrace banquet hall, with no notice to the public - on Ridge Avenue near Brook Road, and an adjacent 15-unit Farmer's Drive Subdivision off of Ridge Avenue. FAA news

- Bais Shaindel's building at 685 River Avenue was sold last year to Congregation Lutzk for $25 million. Since that time, Bais Shaindel has been constructing a new school campus with a wedding hall on a lot they previously purchased at 500 Lewin Avenue for $3,750,000, as well as in Toras Ahron's existing rear yard. Bais Shaindel has just now closed on an additional $2,240,000 purchase of the adjacent 3.5 acres lot at 400 Lewin Avenue, FAA News has learned. Faanews 

- Moadim Lsimcha Lakewood Order Deadline: Sunday, March 5th, 2023 order Here no price set for eggs yet.

- Day care centers are starting to charge parents for the co pay after covid funds have run out. 
- Many will be thrown off Jersey care as the renewals begin following the end of covid emergency. 

- Rents are still high but there's more apts available with more coming for next few month until demand begins again with the freezer chassanim looking for apts. 

-  A asifa will take place purim night for women and girls 8th grade and up with mikra Megila Tehillim and Divrei Hisoirerus at the Lakewood high school the event is organized by Chesed of Lakewood. Program begins at 9.

 - Lakewood Republican Club’s screening committee last night endorsed Bruce Stern and Debbie Fuentes for the Republican nominations for Lakewood Township Committee  seat that will be vacant after Mike Delia will not be running again due to his health. Mayor Ray Coles is up for reelection and will be running as a democrat. 

- Ads in Local papers in English and Yiddish from several organizations ranging from ADL to Satmar UJO about wearing blackface and hanging effigy of Haman on purim. Last year many continued the minhagim regardless.

- New York State lawmakers have introduced  bills that would ban corporal punishment in private schools. There were 1600 cases reported In public schools  vs 12 in yeshivos yet the NYT article blamed it on the chasidishe moisdos "that students in some Hasidic Jewish religious schools have been regularly hit, slapped or kicked by their instructors''. NY senator Julia Salazar tweeted To be clear: We introduced this bill because the law should *explicitly* ban corporal punishment in all schools. The use of physical or violent methods to ostensibly discipline students has happened in many schools. I haven't seen any evidence of it being a pattern in yeshivas.

- LPD CHIEFS MESSAGE -Together with the Township Committee, with a heavy heart, we are sad to announce the sudden passing of Michael Saccomanno, the head of our Inspections Department.  As funeral information comes available, we will pass it along. Please keep Mike's family in prayers

- Snaps restaurant reopened last night with customers coming to show support.

- Stop & Shop stores are pulling one-gallon bottles of Acadia spring water because it's sourced from a bottling facility near the site of the toxic train derailment in Ohio. Company says other sizes are produced at a different location.

- WIC electronic payment system was down yesterday at NPGS and other stores

- Lakewood Township's Planning Board is fighting vehemently in Superior Court to defend their denial of a application on East 8th Street. Faa 

Marbim Besimcha







Oif Simchas/Shiurim י'אדר Thursday

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 Chasunas:
Kenner - Gruen Kesser Moshe Yehuda
Gartenberg - Neumann  Ne'emas Hachaim
Glustein - Kaplan Bais Faiga
Horowitz - Grunbaum Fountain Ballroom 

- Adirei hatorah Coventry Dinner 8:00 pm at the club house

- Drasha for Purim by Rav Uri Deutsch 8:00 pm at B"M Bais Elazar 185 Miller Rd Upstairs

- Chumash shiur by HaRav Yeruchum Olshin shlita live at B"M Ateres Bracha 11:30 pm call in 646-726-9977

- Rav Yosef Dovid Korbman shlita Rosh Yeshiva Yeshiva Gedola South Lakewood weekly chumash shiur Thursday night 11:30pm in Bais Yitzchok (BMG) Ezras Nashim

- Hatzolah member pre purim event at Lake Terrace .
Outside EMT's covering for Lakewood Hatzolah 

Amalek Kugel for Shabbos Parshas Zachor

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Amalek’s Kugel is an acronym for four kugels which together form the word Amalek.

A for apple or epel (the ayin)

M for Mehl, or Flour (the mem)

L for lukshen or noodles (the lamed)

K for kartofel(potatoes) the kuf.


In Europe and in other places Chassidim serve these four kugels on the Shabbos when Parshas Zachor is read and then they eat them thereby symbolically annihilating Amalek by eating him all up.

Friday March 3. News Updates

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 Weather: 45° A mix of clouds and sun this morning followed by increasing clouds with showers developing this afternoon. High near 45F. Chance of rain 60%. Friday
Friday Erev shabbos Tezaveh parshhas Zachor
Candle lighting 5:32 pm
Shkiah/Sunset 5:50 pm

- Decision this Monday on Lang Lawsuit: The decision of the Appellate Division will be on Monday and it is going to be published in the NJ court reports. Here  The decision will have a significant impact, not only on Lakewood, but on Toms River, Brick, Jackson and other towns with large numbers of nonpublic students.
Happy Purim!, Aaron Lang

- Melava Malka this motzei shabbos for Avreichim shul at their new building corner Clifton Ave and 10th st.

- Erev Purim shopping . stores and caterers pushing meat boards for shalach manos with thousands of orders. Costume closeouts open in Howell today until 1 and Motzei shabbos 8- 11. Vineyard selling kosher wines at new location off Cedarbridge near MLk.

- Purim Night mesiba will take place in BMG Bais Aaron B"M at 11pm. There will be a area for  adirei Hatorah supporters.

- NYC Comptroller Lander accuses YU of not creating enough safe space for LGBTQ students. 
 
- Gov Murphy has included $834 million of state aid in the budget  for school districts. Lakewood  will receive  $1,907,870 a  7.7% increase, however Jackson Twp will lose only   receive  a total of $27,861,779 thats a loss of  -$6,287,744  and a cut of 18.4% over last year. Toms River was also cut only receiving  $30,978,802 a negative of  -$14,421,851  and a loss of 31.8% Republicans called out Murphy for targeting  certain districts.

- Jackson Township's Zoning Board ranted Site Plan approval for an in-patient drug and alcohol treatment facility at 130 Pushkin Road in the Cassville section of the Township. Faanews reports. Their facility will be a 48 bed, post detox residential rehab center, as there will be no detox going on. The center will be only for adult, non-criminal defendants who enter rehab voluntarily, not criminal defendants who are Court-ordered to go to a rehab facility.

Video first yartzeit Rav Chaim Kanievsky ztl lighting shabbos candles.

Getting ready for parshas zachor

Video: Zechor- Shabbos Zachor

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 יוצר לפרשת זכור

- מתוך יוצר לפרשת זכור קֵל נָא בְּלָשׁוֹן אֲשֶׁר הִזְכַּרְתָּ לְזוֹכְרֶיךָ זְכוֹר. בּוֹ בְלָשׁוֹן הִזְכִּירוּךָ נָא אַתָּה זְכוֹר. וְאִם הֵמָּה כְּאָדָם עָבְרוּ בְרִית מִלִּזְכּוֹר. וְאַתָּה קֵל וְלֹא אִישׁ לָמָּה לֹא תִזְכּוֹר. בְּזֹאת יָדַעְתִּי כִּי יֵשׁ לְךָ לִזְכּוֹר. אֲבָל תָּשׁוֹחַ עָלַי נַפְשִׁי עַד זָכוֹר תִּזְכּוֹר. וּמַה כֹּחִי כִּי אֲיַחֵל לְקֵץ זָכוֹר. וּמַה קִּצִּי כִּי אַאֲרִיךְ נַפְשִׁי עַד שֶׁתִּזְכּוֹר. אִם לֹא לְמַעֲנִי תִּזְכּוֹר. לְמַעַנְךָ וּלְמַעַן יְרוּשָׁלַיִם זְכוֹר

Lakewood Zmanim עש''ק פרשת תצוה שבת זכור תשפ''ג

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- Friday, March 3, 2023 / י׳ אדר תשפ״ג ערב שבת פרשת תצוה

- Candle lighting 5:32 pm
-  Shkiah/sunset 5:50 pm
sof zman Krias shma Gra 9:18 am

- Weather Friday night 41° Windy with periods of rain. Thunder possible. Low 41F. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall possibly over one inch. Shabbos day 52° Cloudy. Gusty winds in the morning. Slight chance of a rain shower. High 52F. Winds WNW at 20 to 30 mph.

Motzei shabbos Zachor 5783 Lakewood

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- Stores open tonight for purim shopping

Moadim Lsimcha Lesach order deadline is tomorrow 

 - Melava Malka  for Minyan  Avreichim shul at their new building corner Clifton Ave and 10th st.

- Melava Malka for B"M Ishay Yisrael Rabbi Millstein shlita at 110 Miller Rd guest speaker Rabbi Pesach Krohn 9:00 pm

- Melava Malka Santov B"M Irene court.

- Yeshiva Zichron Leyma evening of connection at Ohr Mattisyahu 953 E. County Line 8:45 pm

- Yeshiva Lekach Tov crowdfunding campaign 1822 Charlton Circle Toms River

- Rav Avrohom Noach Ben Yehudis Palei has been transfered out of ICU to a regular unit as he continues to heal after a terrorist attack in Ramot.

- Not a Purim joke: New Jersey state senator has proposed a bill that would ban the sale of non-flushable baby wipes throughout the state -- and would punish anyone who violates the ban with a fine of as much as $20,000. Earlier this week, Democratic lawmaker Joseph Cryan, introduced the bill, which notes that non-flushable baby wipes can mistakenly get flushed down a toilet leading to problems for municipal septic systems. If the bill is approved, anyone who sells non-flushable baby wipes in New Jersey could face a $10,000 on first offense and a $20,000 fine on any subsequent offenses.

Sunday 12 Adar March 5th News Updates Lakewood

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 Weather: 55° Sunny to partly cloudy. High around 55F. 

- Moadim L'simcha Pesach order deadline today for Lakewood info see  Here

- Erev purim shopping large crowds at the wine stores and supermarkets 

- TTFY Adirei Hatorah Fundraiser today in Florida with the attendance of all Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva.

- Purim night learning at BMG seder on Bais Sholom 830 - 9:45 followed by the purim tish in Bais Aaron. There will be a section designated for supporters of the adirei Hatorah. Maariv in all botei medrashim Purim night 6:44 pm Krias Megillah at 7:08

- Decision tomorrow  on Lang Lawsuit: The decision of the Appellate Division will be on Monday and it is going to be published in the NJ court reports. The decision will have a significant impact, not only on Lakewood, but on Toms River, Brick, Jackson and other towns with large numbers of nonpublic students.Happy Purim!, Aaron Lang

- B"M Arlington will have a seder limud Purim day for Bochurim and Youngeleit with מתן שכרה בצידה from 9:45am - 11:45 am up to $200 staggered.

- Minyan for entire sefer Tehillim purim morning at Kol Aryeh 6:00 am 

Kupas Hair refalling off a talis worn by Rav Chaim Kanievsky to all donors who contribute to the matanos Levyonim Kupat Ha'ir will iy"H be holding a special lottery for the tallis in which Maran Sar HaTorah ztvk"l himself davened. Whoever gives $111 in matanos l'evyonim to Kupat Ha'ir is eligible for entry into the lottery. The special letter that his son HaGaon Rabbi Yitzchak Shaul Kanievsky shlit"a wrote says as follows: "BS"D Erev Rosh Chodesh Adar 5783 With this I confirm that the tallis gadol which is found at Kupat Ha'ir is the tallis gadol – it is the tallis that our father, our master, our teacher, and our Rav Maran HaGaon zllh"h davened with it tefillas Shacharis a few days before he went up in a storm to the Heavens on Adar Aleph 5783, and by his instructions we are giving it to Kupat Ha'ir for the donors".

The 2.3 million kiddush hashem at American Dream Water Park construction


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Audio: The Purim Story

Videos Purim Songs 5783

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New purim Songs and releases for 5783 New Meilich Kohn songs, Hoshanas for Purim from Lipa, Aaraleh Samet Purim mix, and more
 more Meilich Kohn purim medley pirim Mix

Oif Simchas 13 Adar Sunday night

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 Chasunas: 

Notis - Zaks Fountain Ballroom
Schreiber Ne'emas Hachaim
Bark -  Krafman Kesser Moshe Yehuda

Hatzolah pre purim Soiree at 10 Bear Trail Jackson 

Monday, March 6, 2023 / י״ג אדר תשפ״ג תענית אסתר

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 Monday, March 6, 2023 / י״ג אדר תשפ״ג  תענית אסתר 
Weather: 54° Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 54F. 
Purim night:  Considerable cloudiness with occasional rain showers. Snow may mix in. Low 34F. Chance of rain 60%.
Purim day: Flurries or snow showers possible early with gusty winds developing during the afternoon. High 46F

-Expect heavy traffic this afternoon for the morah Shalach Manos delivery

- Some girls schools are off but instead kifs bring shalchmanos to the teachers in school.

-Shkia 5:52 pm fast is over 6:24 pm it is customary to extend the fast until after קריאת המגילה
-The Minhag is to give מחצית השקל, by Mincha תחנון and אבינו מלכנו is not said.

      סגולה גדולה לקרוא פרק כב'בתהילים ולבקש בזכות מרדכי ואסתר המלכה את כל מה שרוצים     
- Vineyard will be open past shkia

Minyanim for Mincha  in Satmar kol shimshon /Sanz oak and Vine

- Seder limud in BMG tonight as a zechus for the yidden in Ukraine 8:30 - 9:45 at the Bais Yitzchok and Bais Shalom botei Medrash followed by the annual Purim Tish in Bais Aaron on tenth street at 9:45 pm

- Gas prices in Lakewood go up 10-8 cents per gallon

- Lang funding formula lawsuit: The decision of the Appellate Division will be today and it is going to be published in the NJ court reports.


סליחות לתענית אסתר

קנא לשמך נורא ונקדש, חזה כרמך נהרס ונידש. זרויינו קבץ ושיר לך יחודש, קימם והחים בבנין בית המקדש. וכעשותך נוראות באותן הימים, אתנו הפלא תשועת עולמים. מצוא לפניך כפר ותנחומים, אל מלך יושב על כסא רחמים.

A Win For Lakewood in Lang Court Case

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 R' Aaron Lang tweeted "We won. Court agreed with all our arguments.  A win for Lakewood after  a New Jersey Appellate Court ruled in favor of Lakewood Public School teacher and lawyer Aaron Lang  and reversed the decision made by the state Commissioner of Education the court agrred that Lakewood Schools do not receive enough state aid.  The case goes back to the Commissioner, and fix the problem in lakewood public schools for not providing a T&E education see ruling Here 

Faa: This long awaited ruling is a massive win for Lakewood's taxpayers and students of both public and non-public schools as it orders the State Education Department to more thoroughly review the Appellants main argument that the funding structure of the SFRA was unconstitutional as applied to Lakewood's unique demographic situation.

Full news article from FAANEWS 

BREAKING NEWS: APPELLATE DIVISION GIVES MASSIVE WIN TO ARTHUR LANG'S LAWSUIT OVER UNFAIR SCHOOL FUNDING FOR LAKEWOOD

In a massive win for Lakewood's taxpayers and students, the New Jersey Appellate Division today granted a major win to Arthur Lang in his long running lawsuit known as Alcantra vs. Hespe, which seeks for a fairer funding formula for the Lakewood Public School District.

The 3-judge panel agreed with Mr. Lang's long time 2 arguments: 1) Lakewood's students are not receiving a constitutionally sound education, 2) the fault of this is because New Jersey's School Funding Formula is unconstitutional as applied to Lakewood's unique demographic situation.

The court held that the Commissioner of Education owes a thorough review of the most substantive argument - that the funding structure of the SFRA was unconstitutional as applied to Lakewood's unique demographic situation.

Appellants, parents of children enrolled in the Lakewood Public School District, filed a petition alleging the District was not providing its public-school students a thorough and efficient education (T&E) as required by our State's Constitution.

They contend this is due to the failure of the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) to adequately fund the District.  To that end, they assert the School Funding Reform Act (SFRA), which sets certain standards for the DOE, is unconstitutional as applied to Lakewood.

Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Susan Scarola initially considered the case. After the development of a thorough record, she determined while the District was indeed failing to provide T&E, this failure was due to local mismanagement and other factors, and not because of a constitutional defect in the SFRA. She denied appellants' relief on this basis.

Appellants petitioned the New Jersey Commissioner of Education (Commissioner) for review. The then acting Commissioner rejected the ALJ's conclusion the District had failed to provide an adequate education to its students, and therefore, because it found the District was providing T&E, did not reach the issue of constitutionality of the SFRA. She denied relief.

The Appellants then moved their case to the Appellate Division.

Judges Whipple, Mawla, and Smith heard oral arguments in January 2023 from Mr. Lang and renowned education lawyer Professor Trachtenberg.

They released their decision minutes ago:

The record demonstrates Lakewood's school district is in a unique and precarious position. Due, in large part, to demographic trends in the area. Lakewood Township has seen a population rise in recent decades, primarily resulting from a thriving Orthodox Jewish community. As a result of this demographic shift, the township has approximately 37,000 school-aged children, however, only about 6,000 are enrolled in the secular public schools.  The majority—eighty-four percent—are enrolled in private religious schools.  Testimony before the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) established this demographic trend is likely to continue and accelerate.

Like other districts, Lakewood's state-issued school aid is calculated based upon its 6,000 enrolled public-school students. The total budget for the most recent school year at the time of that decision was $143.45 million. Of that, over half—$78 million—went to transportation and special education tuition for non-public students. This is an abnormal and unsustainable imbalance.

Faced with this picture, the ALJ found the District was failing its students to a degree that offended the basic guarantees of our State Constitution. 

The Commissioner, however, rejected this finding. She reasoned that "[w]hile Lakewood's standardized test scores [and other metrics] are below the [s]tate average, they have shown consistent improvement" and therefore lacked constitutional defect.

In finding the District's students were not receiving T&E, the ALJ focused on credible evidence in the record that Lakewood's test scores were well below state averages, and students fared poorly on performance in English and math. She also observed low rates of graduation and college enrollment, as well as high rates of chronic absenteeism. Moreover, while the District offered courses in AP English and Spanish, as well as art and technology, the ALJ noted the programs in industrial arts and auto mechanics had been recently cut. Finally, she noted the only foreign language study offered in-district was Spanish, despite a high rate of Spanish literacy within the student body to begin with. 

However, when the Commissioner interpreted this same evidence, she saw a glass half full. In determining Lakewood's students were receiving a constitutionally adequate education, the Commissioner made essentially three arguments. First, she asserted there was a positive trend of improvement in the school's testing averages. Second, while acknowledging cuts to various educational programs at the district, she observed the District still offered "all the courses required for graduation[,]" as well as five AP classes, music programs, and research skills courses. Third, while she acknowledged a "high rate of teacher turnover" and a high student-teacher ratio, she claimed Lakewood met various federal targets under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (with exceptions).

As legal support for her conclusion, she compared the above observations with the conditions described in Abbott II, a case concerning stark physical deficiencies in school facilities—students being taught in coal bins, eating lunch in the corridor, and using bathrooms without hot water. In the Commissioner's estimation, because Lakewood lacked these desperate conditions, the quality of education it provided remained constitutionally sound. 

The Commissioner's reliance on this aspect of Abbott II does not address the problem in Lakewood. Abbott II does not hold that all a school district must do to remain constitutionally compliant is provide adequate physical facilities. Instead, Abbott II observed "a thorough and efficient education requires a certain level of educational opportunity, a minimum level [which] . . . should[] be defined in terms of substantive educational content."

Furthermore, "a thorough and efficient education requires such level of education as will enable all students to function as citizens and workers in the same society . . . ." 

The question is not whether Lakewood's public schools are direct physical analogues of the unacceptable conditions observed in a school over thirty-three years ago. Instead, it is whether, substantively, the District is failing to provide its students with a minimum level of educational content and opportunity as required by our Constitution today.

The court reviewed the record generated before the ALJ which showed that Lakewood's test scores and graduation rates are below State average. The court also noted that it is irrelevant that the Lakewood School District does meet the ESSA as that is Federal legislation, which has no direct bearing as to whether Lakewood is performing to the standard required by our State's Constitution.

Based on the above, the Appellate Division concluded that the record generated before the ALJ cannot fairly be said to support a finding Lakewood's students are receiving a constitutionally sound education.

The court therefore held that the Commissioner utilized an incorrect standard in rejecting the ALJ's finding, and further held the Commissioner owed appellants a thorough review of their substantive argument:  the funding structure of the SFRA was unconstitutional as applied to Lakewood's unique demographic situation.

The court reversed and remanded for the agency to consider the substantive arguments pertaining to SFRA in light of our Supreme Court's previous directive in Abbott ex rel. Abbott v. Buke:  the State has a continuing obligation to "keep SFRA operating at its optimal level" and "[t]here should be no doubt that we would require remediation of any deficiencies of a constitutional dimension, if such problems do emerge."

This long awaited ruling is a massive win for Lakewood's taxpayers and students of both public and non-public schools as it orders the State Education Department to more thoroughly review the Appellants main argument that the funding structure of the SFRA was unconstitutional as applied to Lakewood's unique demographic situation.

"We won. Court agreed with all our arguments," tweeted Arthur Lang.


37th yahrtzeit of Rav Moshe Feinstein ZTL,

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 Today, 13 Adar, marks the 37th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ZTL.

 Audio: Hesped by Rav Lazer Shach zatzal on Rav Moshe Feinstein at the Levaya in Eretz Yisrael 1986

 
 In this never-seen-before video below, Reb Moshe is Davening Shacharis in Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem, located in New York's Lower East Side. The footage was taken in 1984, approximately two years before his passing. Also seen is Rabbi Michel Berenbaum, the Mashgiach of the Yeshiva. Rav Moshe Feinstein ztz"l speaking at an Agudah Convention 1970s - The M.D. Yarmish Collection personal story
      Shlomo Carlebach - Story of Reb Moshe Feinstein Pregnant Girl Suicide / Torah Shebaal Peh

Zmanim and Places for מגילה

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 Zmanim for Tefillos and places for נשים to hear מגילת אסתר



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