Front PageNYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg Locks up Formula in Hospitals to Encourage Mothers to Nurse
Updated: Aug 3rd, 2012 6:36 PM
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Entertainment, WorldIDF Says ‘No’ to Meshichist ‘Yechi’ Yarmulkes
Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 11:19 PM
Chabadnikim serving in the IDF who identify with the Meshichist element received a new guideline from the military today. They may no longer wear the so-called ‘Yechi’ yarmulkes.
Chief of the Conduct and Discipline Unit Lt. Colonel Oren Avraham issued the new order, Ladaat.net reports. The lt. colonel explains that all yarmulkes with writing are ... Read More
World, Israeli News, US News Governor Christie: New Jersey Will Continue To Stand WIth Israel
Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 5:46 PM
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Local NewsLocal pair charged in bogus 9/11 charity scheme
Posted: Jul 31st, 2012 11:42 PM
NEWARK — Two area residents are being sued by the state for allegedly collecting thousands of dollars in donations for a bogus 9/11 foundation.
Mark Anthony Niemczyk, 66, of Tinton Falls and Thomas J. Scalgione, 40, of Manahawkin used money raised for their own personal gain, according to a news release from the state Office of the Attorney ... Read More
Front Page APP Editorial:Open letter to Christie-Shame On You
Posted: Jul 30th, 2012 4:31 AM
For the first time ever, the editors of the Asbury Park Press have taken a public stand on an issue on the front page of their paper.
Dear Gov. Christie,
It is absolutely outrageous that you have remained silent for months on what the state might do to help fix Lakewood’s dysfunctional public school system, after choosing to visit a ... Read More
Opinion AMI and Bloggers
Posted: Jul 26th, 2012 3:47 PM
AMI Magazine and the importance of the Blogs?
By Harold Herskowitz
Once again Ami Magazine has shown that it is willing to speak out for truth and justice. A recent article written by the editor, Rabbi Frankenfurter strongly stated how Jewish Orthodox blogs are providing an outlet for free speech, in order to prevent people in powerful positions from ... Read More
Impact, Local NewsJudge Frank Buczynski rejected Steve Langert's claims to sue 'The Lakewood View, due to failure to show cause
Posted: Jul 19th, 2012 11:31 PM
On this Friday July 13 Judge Frank Buczynski rejected Steve Langert's claims of defamation and denied him any immediate relief due to failure to show cause and lack of proof for any wrong doing by The Lakewood View. The judge found that there was no urgent need for intervention by imposing restraints on TLV and denied any further request of discovery. ... Read More
Opinion, Local NewsThe future of Lakewood traffic ?
Posted: Jul 16th, 2012 5:29 AM
By Harold Herskowitz
Is this the future of all intersections in Lakewood?
When our own Committee members become involved with builders and special interests, they abandon all reason and common sense when it comes to providing the correct planning before building more developments. When politics gets in the way of common sense we end up with frustrated ... Read More
Impact, Religion, Local NewsHow low can the ROSHAI YESHIVA'S go
Posted: Jul 6th, 2012 7:23 PM
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Politics, OpinionHere We Go Again By Harold Herskowitz
Posted: Jul 4th, 2012 1:14 AM
The intention of this article is to simply clarify a misunderstanding that I have discovered regarding the lawsuit that Steven Langert has filed in Secular court against the owner of this website, and has named me in the suit as well. I adamantly deny any involvement in the articles of Langert being involved in Ponzi scheme dealings with Eli Weinstein. I ... Read More
Impact, Local NewsFrom now on cedar-brige development should not be a problem anymore
Posted: Jul 2nd, 2012 3:18 AM
New Jersey’s private nonprofit colleges are a step closer to having the same land-use and development advantages as the state’s public colleges, as the Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee passed today a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senators Robert Singer and Paul Sarlo.
S-1534 places private nonprofit colleges under the “Municipal Land ... Read More
Israeli NewsIsrael Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial attack: Three held
Updated: Jun 28th, 2012 8:21 PM
Three ultra-Orthodox Jewish men have been arrested in Israel, suspected of defacing the national Holocaust memorial with anti-Zionist graffiti.
One of the slogans daubed in paint on the walls of the memorial read: "If Hitler had not existed, the Zionists would have invented him."
The suspects have admitted vandalising the site, a police spokesman ... Read More
Lifestyle, Coffee TalkWhat power does to some of us
Updated: Jun 21st, 2012 9:51 PM
There was no mistaking the balance of power in academia when one local professor recently convened a session with lowly graduate students: they listened reverentially, while he hoisted his feet onto the conference table and commenced clipping his toenails.
So, too, are the privileges of power self-evident in the business world. Hollywood film ... Read More
Local NewsJudge allows land-deal lawsuit Deals with Lakewood religious organization
Updated: Jun 19th, 2012 8:40 AM
An Ocean County judge has ruled a lawsuit filed by two residents to stop a township redevelopment pact they claim amounts to a $9 million public gift to a religious organization should proceed because it has “important public interests.”
Attorneys for Lakewood and the endowment fund of Beth Medrash Govoha, the world’s largest university for ... Read More
Politics From Elected To Ejected
Posted: Jun 15th, 2012 10:13 AM
Steven D. Langert has been the mayor of Lakewood, NJ for the past three years and after a victory last night, he's happy and proud he'll be the Mayor for another three years.
No sweat really, despite attack ads from his opponent surrounding poker.
"We had good support town-wide in all areas. It was all very rewarding and gratifying" explained ... Read More
Entertainment, OpinionObama speaks with world leader on phone while holding baseball bat
Posted: Aug 2nd, 2012 11:24 PM
(CNN) - It's still a mystery why President Barack Obama was holding a baseball bat during his telephone conversation with Turkey's prime minister earlier this week. An official White House photo shows the president with the bat in one hand and a phone in the other.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked about the photo on Tuesday and ... Read More
Impact, Local NewsLakewood rabbi gets 30 days to clean up or pay up
Updated: Aug 2nd, 2012 11:14 PM
LAKEWOOD — An Ocean County Superior Court judge has given Rabbi Chaim Abadi 30 days to remove materials from a Vermont Avenue dump site or pay $1,000 for each day the religious items remain buried there.
For two years, Abadi of Miller Road and the state Department of Environmental Protection have been battling over the dump site. The DEP has ordered ... Read More
Local NewsVideo: Christie On Lakewood School Visit
Posted: Aug 1st, 2012 1:10 PM
Governor Chris Christie denies that his visit last week to a high-tuition private school in Lakewood was an indication that he’s ignoring the township’s struggling public school system. VIDEO COURTESY OF NEWS12 Read More
Impact, Local NewsBOE GAMES Part 2
Updated: Jul 31st, 2012 2:49 AM
By Harold Herskowitz
It was a good thing that our BOE members have finally gotten those IPADs that were needed so desperately to manage our Public School system. Now that it was voted on and approved, any day now they each should be unpacking their new IPAD in the color of their choice. Not sure if they chose the 16 32 or 64 gig models. I hope they made ... Read More
Local News Board of Ed Likes Angry Birds
Posted: Jul 27th, 2012 4:35 PM
Part one
By Harold Herskowitz
I will never forget the Board of Education meeting that I attended in which newly elected members, Carl Fink, Chesky Seitler and Isaac Zlatkin proudly sat on the board. As promised, they had begun to try to pass their agenda of cost cutting measures. They were firing teachers, and other employees that they felt were no ... Read More
Local NewsGet over it
Posted: Jul 22nd, 2012 8:12 PM
Get over It
By Harold Herskowitz
This (insert an adjective) portrait of Adolf Hitler was sent to me by Email from "Anonymous Anonymous" With the Subject line "Get Over It". When I saw the line "Get Over It", I expected it to be someone from the inner circle of Steven Langert telling me, anonymously as always, to stop trying to get revenge on his friend( ... Read More
Impact"A letter from the heart of Rabbi Jerremy Stern to Rabbi Malkiel Kotler"
Updated: Jul 16th, 2012 10:00 AM
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Health, Local NewsOCEAN COUNTY RECORDS THE FIRST BIRD POSITIVE FOR WEST NILE VIRUS DURING THE 2012 SEASON – From LPD Chief Rob Lawson
Posted: Jul 16th, 2012 4:50 AM
“The Ocean County Health Department (OCHD) has received the first positive results for West Nile Virus (WNV) identified in a crow collected from Point Pleasant Borough on July 5th,” said Ocean County Freeholder Director Gerry P. Little, Liaison to the Ocean County Board of Health. “In addition, four other birds tested positive in the state; two in ... Read More
Entertainment Hershel Hershkowitz Has Yo Yo event scheduled for fast of Shiva Asar B’tammuz
Updated: Jul 6th, 2012 7:55 PM
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Opinion, Local NewsLakewood committeeman sues political adversary
Posted: Jul 3rd, 2012 9:25 AM
A township committeeman is suing a political adversary for comments on a blog that said he was addicted to gambling and criminally affiliated with a high profile Ponzi scheme.
Committeeman Steven Langert filed his lawsuit against Hershel Herskowitz, the Lakewood View and its owners including Yona Kviat and Yisroel Goodman, and anyone one ... Read More
Opinion, Local NewsInappropriate Spending? - A Discussion Paper
Posted: Jun 28th, 2012 8:28 PM
Residents,
Please note the Discussion Paper, entitled Inappropriate Spending, from Professor Michael Hoban. Professor Hoban sent a copy of his Paper to members of the Lakewood Board of Education. It is my hope that residents will read and evaluate the document, and that the BOE appoint a Task Force or Study Group, as Professor Hoban suggests, to look ... Read More
Local NewsSeminaries could get funds from state
Posted: Jun 24th, 2012 1:31 AM
TRENTON — Beth Medrash Govoha, a massive yeshiva in the heart of Lakewood, will be eligible to dip into $750 million in state funding for capital projects if a November referendum is approved by voters.
The borrowing legislation was amended Thursday so that “all private, nonprofit, licensed institutions of higher education are eligible for ... Read More
OpinionGoogle reports 'alarming' rise in government censorship requests
Posted: Jun 19th, 2012 8:42 AM
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