World, Israeli NewsYeshiva student's marijuana garden
Posted: Jun 11th, 2012 6:12 PM
Wife says she was opposed to habit, brought rabbit into house in bid to destroy plants
Police on Wednesday arrested a married couple from the city of Elad after a search of their home revealed more than 200 marijuana plants and hundreds of grams of the drug.
The woman claimed in her defense that she had tried to prevent her husband from growing the ... Read More
Opinion5 Warning Signs To Look For When Choosing A Debt Relief Firm - The Consumerist
Posted: Jun 11th, 2012 5:00 PM
With many Americans still weighed down by debt, there seem to be an endless number of firms out there offering to help save people from the quicksand. Alas, not all of these people are completely on the up-and-up.
The Federal Trade Commission is trying to crack down on debt relief services that mislead customers with unsubstantiated or false claims ... Read More
Torah, ReligionMaybe rabbi Miller would like to respond to the PSAK of three BOTTAY-DINIM
Updated: Jun 7th, 2012 10:03 AM
While Toronto achieved the degree of SODOM when accepting the GEYORES they just forgot to smear on honey before they started stinging her from all sides. Perhaps rabbi miller might want to explain to us how exactly he got involved in this case and what were the motives which led him to execute the current terror on the newly married couple Read More
Front PageReader Submitted: From Bnos Yaakov...
Posted: Jun 5th, 2012 11:14 PM
Here is a great example of how they push our kids over the edge. This is a regular frum Bais Yaakov Elementary school in Lakewood. This Newsletter was sent out to all grades. How does a parent explain this?
Mashiach needs to come fast...
From a Concerned Parent of Bnos Yaakov Elementary School Read More
Politics, Local NewsInterview with Elazar "Louie" Follman
Updated: Jun 5th, 2012 7:28 PM
The Lakewoodview interviewed LOUIE Follman or as he is legally named ELAZAR FOLLMAN.
LAKEWOODVIEW: Why did you decide to run as a write in suddenly before the primary?
ELAZAR "LOUIE" FOLLMAN:
I was constantly being asked by many people if I would be interested in running for Township Committee. The answer was always no. Just recently I was approached ... Read More
Front PageNo reason to go to The Polls This Tuesday? Think again!!!
Posted: Jun 3rd, 2012 7:19 PM
Nobody seems to realize that this Tuesday is a primary election day her in Lakewood. As usual we are having two incumbents shoved down our throats along with their running mates that are there for show. I, along with others, took it as a fait accompli that we are destined to be saddled with a Committee , for another ten years, that does nothing to improve ... Read More
Front PageOcean County Heath Dept. Warns About Dangers of Concentrated Packets Laundry Detergent - From LPD Chief Rob Lawson
Posted: Jun 3rd, 2012 12:45 PM
Daniel E. Regenye, Ocean County Health Department (OCHD) Public Health Coordinator, said that the OCHD has received information for the New Jersey Poison Information and Education System (NJPIES) that warns the public, especially parents, to keep highly concentrated “single dose packs” of laundry detergent locked away from children.
Regenye said, ... Read More
Front PageBloomberg Defends plan to restrict big-size sodas in NYC
Updated: Jun 1st, 2012 8:17 AM
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday defended his plan to impose a 16-ounce limit on the size of sweetened drinks sold in restaurants and other establishments across the city.
The move is designed to combat obesity but has rekindled criticism that Bloomberg is turning New York into a "nanny state."
"We've got to do something," the mayor said ... Read More
Front PageCisco Sees 2.5 Web Connections for Every Person on Earth
Posted: May 31st, 2012 5:21 AM
By Andrew Zajac -
Bloomberg news
The number of Internet connections will reach 18.9 billion by 2016, up from 10.3 billion in 2011, driven by a proliferation of smartphones, tablets and other handheld devices, according to an annual survey by Cisco Systems Inc. The number of connections works out to almost 2.5 for each person on Earth in 2016. India ... Read More
Opinion, Local NewsWhy are we not switching to LED streeetlights?
Updated: May 30th, 2012 3:20 AM
Harold Herskowitz
Lakewood streetlights have been a major topic lately, as if it was the most important issue facing the future of our town. Nothing was accomplished other than a few bulbs were changed. Nothing was done to prevent the problem of dark parts of town and repair costs in the future. A simple understanding, and review of the options out there ... Read More
Front PageKevin Hunt: West Hartford Doctor Challenges GE On `Sabbath Mode' Oven
Posted: May 29th, 2012 6:37 PM
A two-year-old gas oven sits, like new, in the kitchen of a residence retired pediatrician and neonatologist Robert Harris of West Hartford uses only on Friday nights and Saturdays for the Jewish Sabbath.
It's not the oven he thought he was getting, nor is it one he wants.
Harris, who paid close to $600 for the oven, felt betrayed by General Electric ... Read More
Front PageNJ Mayor Arrested For Hacking Website Tied To A Recall Effort
Posted: May 24th, 2012 5:39 PM
A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly hacking into an email account and website tied to a recall effort — and then intimidating those associated with the site.
Felix Roque, 55, the Democratic mayor of West New York, N.J., and his son Joseph, 22, allegedly accessed and cancelled the domain registration for ... Read More
Local NewsThe loss of Kevin Kielt
Updated: May 23rd, 2012 9:34 PM
Today we heard the shocking news that Kevin Kielt, the head of the planning and engineering department, passed away. Kevin was always a friendly face that greeted you whenever you made your way up to the second floor of the Township Building. His busy, high pressure job could have made him become suspicious, and arrogant. Kevin was the exact ... Read More
Politics, Local NewsOur Failing School System by Bill Hobday
Updated: May 23rd, 2012 9:10 PM
So where has Representative Chris Smith and State Senator Robert Singer been? They are shocked and appalled upon discovering that the Lakewood School District was in deep trouble.
Where has the State Department of Education been? Where were the Auditors? Where were the Accounting Department, Business Administrator, Superintendent, and every other person ... Read More
Entertainment, Politics African-American Chassidisher Political Pundit
Posted: Jun 11th, 2012 6:24 PM
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Torah, OpinionPARKING SPOT
Posted: Jun 11th, 2012 6:00 PM
Yankel drove with his wife to the Yeshiva's Annual Dinner. "I hope we'll be able to find parking," she said.
When they arrived, Yankel circled the block twice looking for parking, but had no luck. "I'll wait on the block until a spot opens," he said. He pulled up by a driveway in the middle of the block and waited there.
Ten minutes later, a car ... Read More
Entertainment Where In Lakewood?
Posted: Jun 8th, 2012 11:17 AM
Sometimes you need a good bagel really bad and there is no time to take off your Talis. Read More
Front PageInternet Filter Scam Part 2
Updated: Jun 6th, 2012 11:45 AM
A computer maven was concerned about the claims of the Asifa organizers that insist, with the haskoma of our Gedolim, that only their filter is Kosher, and is worth the fees that go along with it. This is what he found.
The software known as Nativ, is one of the filters that the Ichud uses. The Nativ website's questions page makes the following ... Read More
Front PageAnother Four Years of.... Nothing
Posted: Jun 5th, 2012 11:09 PM
By Hershel Herskowitz
Another typical primary has ended. It was supposed to be a boring primary with no challenger. Nobody was planning on voting. I was upset over the thought of our two incumbent candidates simply sailing into another four years to sit complacent in their positions on the Township Committee. How can we allow them to do nothing other ... Read More
Front PageWhere in Lakewood?
Posted: Jun 4th, 2012 8:12 AM
In our Newest Addition to The Lakewood View we will be posting sights from around Lakewood. Here we see a novel Barbecue area created outside a window. Can you identify the location. Just hope its not next door to you. Maybe Town inspectors will find it before something happens. Read More
Front PageSomebody's Got To Say These Things, It Might As Well Be Me: The Asifa Scam
Posted: Jun 3rd, 2012 7:14 PM
The Asifa Scam: How 60,000 Orthodox Jews Were Conned by a few Manipulative Askanim, Businessmen, and the Chareidi Press!
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something." -Woodrow Wilson
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” -Mark Twain
Preface and background:
My original intention for ... Read More
Front PageHope Springs Backwards
Updated: Jun 1st, 2012 10:12 AM
By Harold Herskowitz
In a few days we will sit and watch another primary election pass us by. Many of us will hardly notice the few people that make their way out to vote. There may be a few RepGublicans that will care to vote for a Senate candidate that will challenge Menendez in the general election. Monmouth State Senator Joe Kyrillos, a career ... Read More
Front PageProselytizing in Town square With the Committee's Blessing
Posted: May 31st, 2012 11:50 PM
By Harold Herskowitz
Once again, the same performances appear in Town Square (see video). On any given night assorted Church groups take over town square to extoll the greatness of Jesus. While using publicly funded electricity, and using a public area that was paid for by taxpayers, these groups are thumbing their nose at a rule that has been a part of ... Read More
Front PageAmazon To Collect Sales Tax, and Build Distribution Center In New Jersey
Posted: May 31st, 2012 5:14 AM
By Chris Morran
One by one, the number of states where Amazon does not collect sales tax continues to shrink. New Jersey Governer Chris Christie has announced that the e-tail giant will not only begin collecting sales tax in the Garden State, but will also open a distribution center there.
According to the Newark Star-Ledger, Amazon won't ... Read More
Front PageMemorial day
Updated: May 31st, 2012 5:38 AM
by Rob Tornoe
Whenever I visit Washington, D.C., I'm always struck by the quiet simplicity of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
So, on a day where every columnist and newscaster rehashes the generic importance of Memorial Day, I thought I'd mark the holiday by listing the 145 service members from New Jersey who gave their lives in Iraq and ... Read More
Front PageGoogle warns hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
Posted: May 29th, 2012 6:29 PM
WASHINGTON – Google plans to warn more than half a million users of a computer infection that may knock their computers off the Internet this summer.
Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up ... Read More
Politics, Impact, Local NewsBMG is taking control over Internet usage from it's kollel students
Posted: May 23rd, 2012 9:51 PM
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ImpactBusing- Who Really Pays? By Harold Herskowitz
Updated: May 23rd, 2012 9:31 PM
A recent article written by Josh Pruzansky, who is the New Jersey Director of Political Affairs and Public Policy for the Orthodox Union in New Jersey explained the need, and benefits of private(and public) school busing in New Jersey. All of his points were generally correct and valid and Josh should be commended for being at the forefront of ... Read More
Front PageDoes Facebook Wreck Marriages?
Posted: May 23rd, 2012 10:05 AM
By Quentin Fottrell
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed his status to “married” Saturday and received over one million “likes” from his followers. But the site he founded isn’t always so marriage-friendly. In fact, lawyers say the social network contributes to an increasing number of marriage breakups.
More than a third of divorce ... Read More
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