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
Impact, Local NewsPost Asifa-Now What?
Posted: May 22nd, 2012 11:54 PM
By Harold Herskowitz
For a few hours this past Sunday the streets, synagogues, and study halls
of Lakewood were eerily silent.On the other hand, the Citi Filed baseball stadium of
Queens, New York was, oddly enough, filled with many of us that have never
before stepped foot in such a venue. I must admit, although I was not
well enough to ... Read More
Front PageVideo: A Response to The Internet Asifa
Posted: May 22nd, 2012 9:52 PM
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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 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
Front PageLawmaker golfs while BOE begs for help
Posted: May 22nd, 2012 9:50 PM
Relentless news coverage by the Asbury Park Press prompted township Board of Education President Carl Fink to demand help Friday from state and federal elected officials for the failing school district.
Fink sent an open letter late Friday morning to Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and state Sen. Robert W. Singer, R-Ocean, in response to the Press series ... 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
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