“The LCSW team would like to take this opportunity to offer our best wishes to the Boro Park Shomrim shooting victims, following yesterdays shooting attack on fellow Civilian Patrol members”, says LCSW Director Aaron Kugielsky. ”This is a trying time Read more ›
This week’s Parsha contains the mitzvah of “Kesivas Sefer Torah” – the commandment that each Yid write a Sefer Torah, where the Torah is described as “this Shira – this song” (Kli Chemda,Vayalech 5; Mishnas Rav Aaron 3:17). The Gemara (Sotah 35a) relates that Dovid Hamelech was Read more ›
VIDEO of last night’s Kumzitz at Minyan Shelanu, which took place in the Minyan’s Game Room. The Minyan is a social center and surrogate home for teens and young adults, under the auspices of Rav Chaim Abadi Shlita. To read more about the Minyan, click here.
After nearly three weeks of no school, Bais Hatorah has reopened. The school opened at 9:00 a.m. today, with all the nearly 400 children back under one roof, and in the same building, located on Swarthmore Avenue. As extensively reported on TLS, the school was taken over by Read more ›
10:15 a.m. [Click on image to enlarge] TLS has received reports of several reports of power outages in town, possibly as of result of the effect of Hurricane Earl passing through NJ. According to JCP&L, between 501-2,000 Lakewood customers are currently without power. 10:40 a.m. Read more ›
New Jersey will be getting a portion of federal Race to the Top grants to help the state develop new standardized tests to improve assessment of student performance. The grant money is separate from the pot of money doled out last week by the federal Department of Education. Read more ›
PHOTOS & VIDEO [New video posted 1:45 p.m.] of Thursday evening’s Kumzitz with Yehuda Green and Abraham Danziger which took place on the Atlantic Ocean. The cruise, arranged by Misameach for sick patients, gave the children a night of entertainment with food, music and dancing, all on
Read more ›
VIDEO of Thursday night’s weekly Shiur on the Parsha, given by Reb Yisroel Meir Shapiro at the South Side Sandwich Shop. Also, click here to download and print this week’s issue of Mishnas Chaim to enjoy over Shabbos, provided by Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah.
Mazel Tov! The TLS staff would like to wish a Mazel Tov to Board Of Ed member Yoni Silver upon the birth of his son today. May you have much Nachas from this one and the rest of the family and may you be granted the Koach to continue in your Avodas Hakodesh.
PHOTOS & VIDEO of Investors Savings Bank officials visiting the Tomchei Shabbos Warehouse this afternoon, to get a look at the Sukkos distribution operation currently underway. Officials visiting the warehouse were Lakewood branch manager Robert Gazic, Victoria Maglicane Read more ›
VIDEO: In 2009, Yossi Rothenberg, a Lakewood Information Technology specialist, set upon obtaining a Sukkah for his growing family. After carefully studying the market, Yossi was convinced that there was much untapped innovation in the timeless Mitzvah. Combining his creativity Read more ›
The number of illegal immigrants living in the United States has dropped for the first time in two decades — decreasing 8 percent as the sour economy dried up jobs and increased enforcement made it harder to sneak across the border with Mexico, a new study finds. Much of the decline Read more ›
Dear Editor,
I’d like to share with you my experience as a Tiny Tots parent amid the current cyclone of events. My intent in writing is not to cast blame or bad-mouth the BOE in its recent decision to close the program. I am sure they are trying to do the right Read more ›
The average property tax hike in New Jersey will be 3.3 percent this year — and will hit 23.5 percent after the loss of the homestead rebate is factored in, a statewide review of new tax rates show. The changes in the average property tax bills will Read more ›
PHOTOS of the meeting which took place last night between Bais Hatorah’s new school Dean – Reb Shloime Chaim Kanerek, Harav Silberman Shlita – who was flown in from Eretz Yisroel to meet with Rabbi Kanerek – and the the staff members of the school. After nearly Read more ›
