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Local NewsAre You Going?
Posted: May 20th, 2012 9:06 AM
By Harold Herskowitz
One could not go to Shul this Shabbos without being asked, "Are you going?" There was no need to ask "Where?" What started out as a marketing campaign for a kosher internet filter business had become a Juggernaut for the frustration that all Orthodox Jews feel in this new age of technology. As many leaders signed on to this event it ... Read More
ImpactThe Lesson We Learned From Yosef Meir Berger Z"L.
Posted: May 17th, 2012 7:16 AM
When I heard the news that Yosef Meir Berger had passed away this evening, I was shocked. Although he had been in a coma for months, and his prognosis was dim, many of us believed that he would be the subject of a miracle story that would shock the medical establishment. The reason we believed this was simply because the parents showed us what true ... Read More
ImpactLakewood's Rapid Growth- Fear of A Jew Planet, Part One
Updated: May 15th, 2012 12:48 PM
By Harold Herskowitz
Preface: This will not be some maudlin article about how wonderful our town was when I moved here long ago and the Lakewood list was typed on two pages that you got in the Legion building of BMG for 25 cents. The point of this article is to explain how explosive growth has hurt our town and why we must fix it now.
Jackson New ... Read More
Local NewsProminent Yeshiva in Lakewood speaks out against the Citfield asifa with the backing of the gedolei hador
Updated: May 13th, 2012 10:37 PM
Prominent Yeshiva in Lakewood speaks out against the Citfield asifa with the backing of the gedolei hador. Read More
Front PageIs it Worth Voting?
Posted: May 9th, 2012 6:26 PM
By Harold Herskowitz
In a month from now we will be asked to go to the polls once again to vote in the primary election. Menashe Miller and Meir lichtenstein will once again be running for the Republican and Democrat positions on the ballot respectively. They will each have running mates whose names I honestly cannot remember. It doesn't really matter, ... Read More
Front PageWho is running the Internet asifa?
Posted: May 9th, 2012 10:22 AM
Until now rumors have been flying around that the internet asifah was started by two former menahelim of lakewood schools. One of these menahelim was accused of beating students numerous times until finally being dismissed from his position. Now that many students have begun to come forward publicly, we feel comfortable reporting this awful fact to our ... Read More
ImpactBeen There, Done That: Why Being Frum Is So Boring
Posted: May 8th, 2012 5:41 PM
By: Rabbi Yitzchok Feigenbaum
“SO YOUR PARENTS PUSH YOU into the right Bais Yaakov, you go to the right camp and seminary and build your resume. Then your father buys you some cliché to marry, you have a daughter that you push into the right school, camp and seminary and you build her resume so she can marry a cliché. Then we all die.” This ... Read More
Front PagePrivate schools get millions in tax dollars and teach kids at half the cost of public schools
Updated: May 6th, 2012 10:31 PM
In the realm of education, Lakewood is unique in New Jersey.
Four-fifths of the school-age children in Lakewood attend private schools, with tens of millions of public dollars funneled to private schools and their students each year.
Some 5,600 students attend Lakewood public schools, and an estimated 22,000 other students attend private ... Read More
Front PageExclusive: Audio of Dr. David Pelcovitz Admitting He Was Told Not To Discuss The Requirement To Call Police
Updated: May 3rd, 2012 1:41 PM
Audio of Dr Pelcovitz admitting to a concerned parent that he was asked NOT to discuss calling the police in a case where a child was molested. The LCSC event was headed by Rabbi Moshe Velvel Weisberg, who was monitoring the event closely. It is illegal to cover up a case of molestation. You are required by law to report the incident to police, just as ... Read More
Front PageSchool Acceptance (Here We Go Again) By Hershel Hershkowitz
Posted: May 2nd, 2012 1:22 PM
(This articlre was sent in to the Mishpacha, and Yated Neeman last year. I showed it to many Rabbonim and all agreed it does not belong on the internet alone and should be read by as many people as possible. Unfortunately my writin' skills. ain't up to par with these fine publications, and they refused to publish the article. So here it is, for the ... Read More
Local NewsBreaking News: BOE Attorney Michael Inzelbuch Resigns From 2nd Position
Posted: May 1st, 2012 11:44 PM
Michael Inzelbuch has resigned from his second position as non public special education consultant. Last week he was voted out as Board of Education attorney.
The board accepted his resignation. Many are wondering who will be able to take over this position. Michael Inzelbuch has been " a one man show" according to an inside source. "He knew all the ins ... Read More
ImpactAPP.com: Why Lakewood Public Schools Are Failing?
Updated: May 1st, 2012 8:57 PM
In the first of a four-day series, the Asbury Park Press investigates the failings of the Lakewood School District, which has some of the lowest test scores and one of the highest per student costs in the state. The series will show you its systemic problems, suggest remedies and tell you how some of the solutions can improve your own district. The ... Read More
Front PageWhy is the Internet Asifa at Citifield for Men Only?
Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 11:41 AM
By Rabbi Eliyahu Fink
There are a million and one things to complain about regarding the Ichud HaKehilos Asifa at Citifield. Pretty much everyone has read the excellent post by Dovid Teitlebaum pointing out the fallacy of blaming the Internet for problems within the orthodox Jewish community. I wholeheartedly agree that positive chinuch is far more ... Read More
Front PageBringing the Beauty of Lakewood to Los Angeles
Posted: Apr 29th, 2012 3:55 PM
Three representatives of Beis Medrash Govoha, Roshei Hayeshiva , Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, Rabbi Yisroel Newman, and the Mashgiach Rav Matisyohu Solomon, spent this past shabbos in Los Angeles. They went as guests of Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, a noted askan in Los Angeles, who has been helping many Torah institutions. Tonight they are having a meeting at ... Read More
Front PageSuicide of Haredi Teen in Israel Raises Questions
Updated: May 17th, 2012 9:27 PM
Y., the child of a Hareidi family in Jerusaelm, took his own life a few days ago. Family members are pointing fingers at the Yeshivas he attended - and those he didn't.
According to an exclusive Kikar Shabbat report, Y. was kicked out of the reputable Haredi school he attended throughout his childhood five years ago. His father was hospitalized with a ... Read More
Front PageRep. Chris Smith: State's plan will work in Lakewood
Posted: May 16th, 2012 1:29 PM
What’s good for the state is good for Lakewood when it comes to improving the troubled school district, a congressman said Tuesday.
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., met with acting state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf Monday in Newark, where the two men discussed how Gov. Chris Christie’s Regional Achievement Centers (RAC) plan announced in April would ... Read More
Local NewsPolice Catch Multiple Hit and Run Driver with Help of Brave Citizen
Updated: May 13th, 2012 10:37 PM
Exclusive First Report: A Lakewood man that hit a car on Cedarbridge and fled the scene of the accident was apprehended by police with the help of a brave Lakewood Citizen. When S.W. Who does not wish to be named, saw the accident, he immediately called 911 and followed the driver from a distance. The driver proceeded to hit four more cars as he fled the ... Read More
Front PageFighting the bad influences of the Internet starts at home.
Updated: May 12th, 2012 11:53 PM
By Harold Herskowitz
When I first heard about the Citi Field event I wondered how something as important as the influence of the Internet on frum society can be discussed rationally over giant booming loudspeakers outdoors. I had already gone to two events, one in a large venue in Lakewood where the speakers simply said Internet is bad, and one in Edison ... Read More
ImpactRep. Allen West On Food Stamps: ‘That’s How You Enslave The American People’
Updated: May 10th, 2012 8:04 AM
As if poor people didn’t have enough to worry about, Rep. Allen West (R-FL) has given them one more: enslavement.
West, speaking at the Broward County Lincoln Day Dinner this past Saturday, warned the crowd about the danger of food stamps for American society. “In the last 10 years,” West said, the “food stamp program that has gone from about ... Read More
Front PageAPP Editorial: Why no action on Lakewood, Governor?
Updated: May 9th, 2012 6:23 PM
In Gov. Chris Christie’s closing remarks at Tuesday’s town hall meeting in Freehold, he said that if he decides to run for governor again, “The one thing I can guarantee you is you won’t wonder where I stand and what I believe.”
No? We are wondering plenty! We are wondering why his administration has virtually ignored the problems plaguing ... Read More
Front PageElection Tactics of Rabbi Schenkolewski
Posted: May 8th, 2012 11:12 PM
This letter that was sent to all the private Lakewood Schools is further proof that Rabbi Schenkolewski uses deception in order to trick schools into voting the way he wants. In this letter he sends out a lie to the schools to make them believe that there was a secret vote and all the schools wanted what his VAAD wanted. This is a tactic that would make any ... Read More
Front PageIt's Our Kids: 4 Suicide Notes - Rabbi Ronald Greenwald's speech to the Agudah Convention
Posted: May 6th, 2012 5:47 PM
Rabbi Ronald Greenwald Talks Tachlis! A Must For Every Jewish Parent! Watch In Its Entirety!
Title says it all. The topic was children at risk. Watch and enjoy. Read More
Front PageHealthy Boundaries, Thriving Children, Thriving Molesters
Posted: May 3rd, 2012 2:12 AM
By Harold Herskowitz
Tonights symposium held at Ateres Riva, sponsored by the Lakewood Community Services Corporation was very well attended. Dr Pelcovitz, and Dr. Mandel gave excellent speeches on how to talk to your children to protect themselves from molestation. Yet the overall theme of the evening was that molestation happens, just like tic bites. ... Read More
Front PageAPP.com Investigation: Did Lakewood Fudge To Win $6 Million Grant?
Posted: May 2nd, 2012 8:13 AM
Press uncovers suspect grad rate; state to investigate
Like magic, the Lakewood High School Class of 2010 disappeared in its freshman year.
That’s if you believe in the numbers the district used to win a $6 million federal grant.
State and federal education officials are expected to take a hard look at the vanishing act uncovered by the Asbury ... Read More
OpinionControl Hurts Everybody
Posted: May 1st, 2012 8:30 PM
By Harold Herskowitz
Recently there was a post on a local blog about a plea bargain made in County court for a burglar that was allegedly resposible for burglarizing numerous Lakewood homes. The Court allowed Joshua McDaniel, 22, to be released with time served. Police Chief Rob Lawson was angry that the court released a man who was quite possibly ... Read More
Front PageReader's View: Election Response to Rabbi Kanarek
Posted: Apr 30th, 2012 8:45 PM
Dear Rabbi Kanarek,
Recently, a letter bearing your signature went out to the parent body of your schools with the following message:
“There is a movement in town seeking to convince people to vote for a slate inconsistent with the directive of (and thus undermining) the Roshei HaYeshivos and Roshei HaMosdos. To counteract this Bizayon HaToah, it is ... Read More
Politics, Local NewsAn apology To Steven Langert from Hershel Herskowitz
Updated: Apr 30th, 2012 11:40 AM
Today I received a letter from a lawyer. It said that Committeeman Steven Langert is threatening to sue me for defamation about an article posted on this website. When I heard that Mr. Langert was upset at me, I couldn't help laughing.When the article was posted, I was on a plane returning from Los Angeles. When I landed I received an email about the ... Read More
Food, Deals, Coffee TalkAnd now for something Completely Different. By Hershel Herskowitz
Posted: Apr 26th, 2012 7:00 PM
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