Month October 2023
In a historic step, the Jackson Township Council has agreed tonight to adopt a set of ordinances making it significantly easier for the Orthodox Jewish community to establish schools, dormitories, eruvim and Mikvaos in the municipality. The ordinances approved tonight… Continue Reading →
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The bid opening for a two-year multi-million-dollar Lakewood construction project is set for this month. The project encompasses two new water treatment plants and arises from 2020 legislation pushing water purveyors across the country to address the health concern of… Continue Reading →
An Ocean County man was killed in an explosion early this morning. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer and Stafford Township Police Chief Thomas Dellane announced that in the early morning hours of October 31, the Stafford Township Police Department… Continue Reading →
Those with personal connections to the gedolim in Israel know that they are extremely busy: Many of them wake while it is still dark to begin their Torah learning for the day, then spend long hours until late into the… Continue Reading →
Director of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners Joseph H. Vicari is urging senior residents to be cautious of scam phone calls that are targeting senior residents. “With over 200,000 seniors living in Ocean County, it is important that we… Continue Reading →
A pedestrian was hospitalized after being struck by her own vehicle, officials say. The woman reportedly got out of her vehicle near her Lakewood home, but apparently forgot to put it into park. The vehicle (pictured) rolled into the women,… Continue Reading →
Event offered chizuk and opportunities to network and learn about technological advancements Eruv professionals at the first-ever City Eruv Conference at OU headquarters in New York Carrying objects and pushing a stroller or wheelchair on Shabbos are abilities many frum… Continue Reading →
Three kedoshei elyon had one common concept when it came to learning Torah – they were the Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh (Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar 1696-1743) when he came to Eretz Yisroel; the Ramchal (Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto 1707-1746) when he lived in Padua, Italy; and Hagaon,… Continue Reading →
With the amount of bias crimes in New Jersey on the rise, especially in the last three weeks, state Senator Joseph Cryan and Assemblywoman Annette Quijano say they will introduce legislation aimed at expanding the New Jersey Nonprofit Security Grant… Continue Reading →
Ocean County officials reiterated their stance against offshore windfarms by questioning why the state is subsidizing – through lucrative tax credits – the foreign firms planning to build the controversial projects. Joseph H. Vicari, Director of the Ocean County Board… Continue Reading →
The response to a post on TLS has been overwhelming, with approximately 150 children’s Tehillim groups forming in the Lakewood area, as well as out of state. “Due to the overwhelming response, a new dedicated number has been assigned to… Continue Reading →
Daf Yomi will be celebrating the Siyum of Kiddushin this Friday. The Song of Kiddushin is a great chazara that includes hundreds of phrases found in the mesechta, chazur’ing its key klallim and yesodos – all in rhyme!
By Rabbi Berach Steinfeld If Reuven has a seder kavua of learning in the morning may he be mevatel Torah to attend a bris milah? “Aseh docheh Lo Saseh” is a concept that we learn in the gemara in Yevamos 5b. The gemara adds to this that one cannot learn “Aseh docheh Lo Saseh that has kareis” from… Continue Reading →
Dear Johns Hopkins Medicine, In the wake of these most heart-wrenching current events, and as a response to the Statement delivered to the entire Johns Hopkins Medicine community on October 10th, please allow me to express the following thoughts: I… Continue Reading →
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As organized retail crime rings continue to pillage stores and make headlines in New Jersey and across the nation, Assemblyman Alex Sauickie says he is joining with business leaders and local law enforcement to combat this scourge legislatively. Sauickie met… Continue Reading →
When the Simchas Torah War broke out it became very clear that Hashem has decreed it, and called upon every Jew with a mission. When Hamas took down the wall between us and our fellow yidden, and between us and… Continue Reading →
“We had to leave our home in the South in the middle of the night. When we got the call that help was on the way, my tears wouldn’t stop falling.” “They killed my parents right in front of me…. Continue Reading →
WANTED October 20, 2023, at 4 p.m., Officer Jeffrey Emmons was in the area of NJ Transit Bus Terminal and observed David Belcher, 61, from Lakewood, NJ, from previous encounters. Dispatch confirmed an active Lakewood warrant and Belcher was subsequently… Continue Reading →
“מִקָּדֵשׁ בַּרְנֵעַ וְעַד עַזָּה” War at Gaza- Another Feature Shiur about the ongoing war in Eretz Yisroel including Divrei Chizuk about Hagaon Horav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi zt”l by Horav Michoel Sorotzkin The Shiur is dedicated לזכרה ולעילוי נשמתה של… Continue Reading →