Apparently they don't care very much that the internet was assered.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/16/2007 09:48:00 PM
Saturday, June 16, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/16/2007 09:48:00 PM
The Yiddishe iPhone
Apparently they don't care very much that the internet was assered.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/16/2007 09:48:00 PM
Apparently they don't care very much that the internet was assered.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/16/2007 09:48:00 PM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/14/2007 09:03:00 PM
The Times Herald Record, big on anti-Semitism, small on common sense
The latest article to bash Hasidic Jews printed in the Times Herald Record rag about the arrest of the Monroe Mayor (yes, arrest, this is English) did wonders to reveal the true sentiments of the paper and their writing staff. The article, penned by John Sullivan, goes through more loops than a Six Flags roller coaster to make it look like Monroe Mayor John Karl III was the victim of a Hasidic Jew, when by all witness accounts it is quite clear that the Mayor was actually the aggressor and had overstepped both his professional and personal boundaries and had behaved inappropriately with Mr. Goldberger.
The Record is not concerned in the least bit of the wrongdoing that was perpetrated here by a government official onto another human being, but rather on the fact that the man was a Hasidic Jew and that a Hasidic web-site misused the word 'arrested'.
The Record needs to get rid of this ugly and destructive anti-Semitic and anti-Hasidic agenda and start putting the onus where it belongs.
As for the definition of the word 'arrested', the Record does not even need to go as far as to look into a dictionary to find the correct definition, but at their own published material which uses the exact word quite often to define the same situation.
Amazingly enough, since Times Herald Record writer Chris McKenna left his position as Kiryas Joel reporter, the Times Herald Record had no problem finding someone that shared his views, such as John Sullivan, to replace him.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/14/2007 09:03:00 PM
The latest article to bash Hasidic Jews printed in the Times Herald Record rag about the arrest of the Monroe Mayor (yes, arrest, this is English) did wonders to reveal the true sentiments of the paper and their writing staff. The article, penned by John Sullivan, goes through more loops than a Six Flags roller coaster to make it look like Monroe Mayor John Karl III was the victim of a Hasidic Jew, when by all witness accounts it is quite clear that the Mayor was actually the aggressor and had overstepped both his professional and personal boundaries and had behaved inappropriately with Mr. Goldberger.
The Record is not concerned in the least bit of the wrongdoing that was perpetrated here by a government official onto another human being, but rather on the fact that the man was a Hasidic Jew and that a Hasidic web-site misused the word 'arrested'.
The Record needs to get rid of this ugly and destructive anti-Semitic and anti-Hasidic agenda and start putting the onus where it belongs.
As for the definition of the word 'arrested', the Record does not even need to go as far as to look into a dictionary to find the correct definition, but at their own published material which uses the exact word quite often to define the same situation.
Amazingly enough, since Times Herald Record writer Chris McKenna left his position as Kiryas Joel reporter, the Times Herald Record had no problem finding someone that shared his views, such as John Sullivan, to replace him.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/14/2007 09:03:00 PM
Friday, June 15, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/15/2007 11:52:00 AM
Frum WIC worker harasses women in Boro-Park
We are posting this as per an overwhelming readership request.
There is a Frum person, with a yarmulka and beard, named David, that works in the Boro-Park WIC office on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 56th Street, who harasses the women clients while he serves them. According to many client accounts he will ask very personal questions and will whisper them, asking the women to bend in closer to hear what he is saying. Many times after getting an answer to a personal question from an unsuspecting woman he will then admonish her for what she had said to him and will tell her that he disapproves of it. Also, when serving a woman he will purposely make them wait for a very long time for no apparent reason and will keep on going back for erroneous things that he supposedly forgot, hassling them all the while.
We have been getting many messages to post this story from numerous people sporadically over the last few weeks but have held out posting it until we investigated the matter and made attempts to have it worked out. We interviewed many of his victims and got very similar reports. We also spoke to his supervisor who said that because he was a union worker there was not much more she could do than to warn him. She said that if any real action was to be taken to rectify the situation there would have to be letters sent to the main WIC office by regular citizens.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/15/2007 11:52:00 AM
We are posting this as per an overwhelming readership request.
There is a Frum person, with a yarmulka and beard, named David, that works in the Boro-Park WIC office on Fort Hamilton Parkway and 56th Street, who harasses the women clients while he serves them. According to many client accounts he will ask very personal questions and will whisper them, asking the women to bend in closer to hear what he is saying. Many times after getting an answer to a personal question from an unsuspecting woman he will then admonish her for what she had said to him and will tell her that he disapproves of it. Also, when serving a woman he will purposely make them wait for a very long time for no apparent reason and will keep on going back for erroneous things that he supposedly forgot, hassling them all the while.
We have been getting many messages to post this story from numerous people sporadically over the last few weeks but have held out posting it until we investigated the matter and made attempts to have it worked out. We interviewed many of his victims and got very similar reports. We also spoke to his supervisor who said that because he was a union worker there was not much more she could do than to warn him. She said that if any real action was to be taken to rectify the situation there would have to be letters sent to the main WIC office by regular citizens.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/15/2007 11:52:00 AM
Thursday, June 14, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/14/2007 09:33:00 AM
Guardian Angels to meet with armed citizens' patrol
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An 18-year-old man was shot to death late Tuesday in Edgewood Park, a day after a citizen's group said it was arming itself to combat rampant street crime in that area of the city.
The park slaying was the second shooting death Tuesday. Earlier in the day, a 30-year-old man was gunned down on nearby George Street in the city's West River section, and later died at the Hospital of Saint Raphael. The two deaths were the city's fourth and fifth homicides of the year and the third and fourth this month.
The killings came on the same day as the Guardian Angels pledged to meet with Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Greer and other Edgewood neighborhood activists who Monday announced the formation of the armed Edgewood Park Defense Patrol, claiming police were not doing enough to keep the area's residents safe.
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18466036&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7576&rfi=6
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/14/2007 09:33:00 AM
An 18-year-old man was shot to death late Tuesday in Edgewood Park, a day after a citizen's group said it was arming itself to combat rampant street crime in that area of the city.
The park slaying was the second shooting death Tuesday. Earlier in the day, a 30-year-old man was gunned down on nearby George Street in the city's West River section, and later died at the Hospital of Saint Raphael. The two deaths were the city's fourth and fifth homicides of the year and the third and fourth this month.
The killings came on the same day as the Guardian Angels pledged to meet with Orthodox Rabbi Daniel Greer and other Edgewood neighborhood activists who Monday announced the formation of the armed Edgewood Park Defense Patrol, claiming police were not doing enough to keep the area's residents safe.
http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18466036&BRD=1281&PAG=461&dept_id=7576&rfi=6
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/14/2007 09:33:00 AM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/11/2007 09:49:00 AM
Beware of new reduced speed on FDR Drive
Now that people are traveling up to the country it is important to be aware of the new reduced speed regulations on the FDR Drive in Manhattan. Police are out in full force and are ticketing violators.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/11/2007 09:49:00 AM
Now that people are traveling up to the country it is important to be aware of the new reduced speed regulations on the FDR Drive in Manhattan. Police are out in full force and are ticketing violators.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/11/2007 09:49:00 AM
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/13/2007 09:06:00 AM
MBD in Cheirim
You're such a wonderful person, you don't want to go to court.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/13/2007 09:06:00 AM
You're such a wonderful person, you don't want to go to court.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/13/2007 09:06:00 AM
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/12/2007 02:34:00 PM
In N.H. town, a cultural widening
Kosher history was made in this North Country town as clerks at the Bethlehem Village Store recently moved aside boxes of Luvs diapers and cases of Budweiser to make way for Manischewitz matzo meal, borscht, gefilte fish, potato pancake mix, and Tam-Tam crackers.
"The store is recognizing that there are other people who exist," said Harold Friedman , 76, a Bethlehem selectman and resident of six years, by way of Long Island. "It's wonderful."
Brookline, it is not. But Bethlehem, population 2,300, has become an unusual rural scene. Jews from across the country have taken up residence in and around this faded resort town, lured in part by the area's rugged beauty, but especially by the proximity to members of a common faith.
Jewish culture, far more prevalent in urban and suburban settings, now threads through this outlying town, which has a lone blinking traffic light and grassy knolls where elegant hotels once stood on Main Street. The recent influx has propelled an ongoing tutorial for long time residents in the ways of synagogues and Jewish burial and the rules of kosher food.
The scenes unfold everywhere. Bethlehem's Colonial Theater this summer will host a Jewish film festival. The town's five-member Board of Selectmen includes two Jewish members. The non denominational synagogue, a former Episcopal church, is now open year-round for regular services, a Hebrew school, and bar and bat mitzvahs.
Meanwhile, the Hasidic Jews who make summer pilgrimages from New York, speaking Yiddish and generally keeping to themselves, are comingling as well. This summer they will begin construction on a year-round hotel that will cater to Jews and non-Jews.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/11/in_nh_town_a_cultural_widening/
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/12/2007 02:34:00 PM
Kosher history was made in this North Country town as clerks at the Bethlehem Village Store recently moved aside boxes of Luvs diapers and cases of Budweiser to make way for Manischewitz matzo meal, borscht, gefilte fish, potato pancake mix, and Tam-Tam crackers.
"The store is recognizing that there are other people who exist," said Harold Friedman , 76, a Bethlehem selectman and resident of six years, by way of Long Island. "It's wonderful."
Brookline, it is not. But Bethlehem, population 2,300, has become an unusual rural scene. Jews from across the country have taken up residence in and around this faded resort town, lured in part by the area's rugged beauty, but especially by the proximity to members of a common faith.
Jewish culture, far more prevalent in urban and suburban settings, now threads through this outlying town, which has a lone blinking traffic light and grassy knolls where elegant hotels once stood on Main Street. The recent influx has propelled an ongoing tutorial for long time residents in the ways of synagogues and Jewish burial and the rules of kosher food.
The scenes unfold everywhere. Bethlehem's Colonial Theater this summer will host a Jewish film festival. The town's five-member Board of Selectmen includes two Jewish members. The non denominational synagogue, a former Episcopal church, is now open year-round for regular services, a Hebrew school, and bar and bat mitzvahs.
Meanwhile, the Hasidic Jews who make summer pilgrimages from New York, speaking Yiddish and generally keeping to themselves, are comingling as well. This summer they will begin construction on a year-round hotel that will cater to Jews and non-Jews.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/06/11/in_nh_town_a_cultural_widening/
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/12/2007 02:34:00 PM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/12/2007 11:11:00 AM
Girl fired single shot in home, prompting manhunt
A two-hour police search for a reported gunman yesterday turned out to be anything but. Police reported this morning that the incident was sparked by a single shot fired by a young girl in a home in the Town of Woodbury. Police said there was no armed gunman and no home invasion, as originally suspected
Troopers, sheriff's deputies with K-9 units and Woodbury and Blooming Grove police searched the area around Bakerstown Road between Acres and Seven Springs Road Monday evening for what was then described as a white male, about six-feet in height.
Because the shot was fired near the densely-populated village, schools were shut down and children immediately bused home at 4 p.m.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070612/NEWS/70612009
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/12/2007 11:11:00 AM
A two-hour police search for a reported gunman yesterday turned out to be anything but. Police reported this morning that the incident was sparked by a single shot fired by a young girl in a home in the Town of Woodbury. Police said there was no armed gunman and no home invasion, as originally suspected
Troopers, sheriff's deputies with K-9 units and Woodbury and Blooming Grove police searched the area around Bakerstown Road between Acres and Seven Springs Road Monday evening for what was then described as a white male, about six-feet in height.
Because the shot was fired near the densely-populated village, schools were shut down and children immediately bused home at 4 p.m.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070612/NEWS/70612009
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/12/2007 11:11:00 AM
Monday, June 11, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/11/2007 03:43:00 PM
FIGHT FOR YESHIVA TUITION BREAK - YOU MUST ACT NOW
One sixty second phone call to this toll-free number could save our community millions of dollars: (800) 319 - 3403.
With just two weeks left in the Legislative session in Albany, now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez & Senator Marty Golden have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.
But we must ACT NOW. The legislative session in Albany ends June 21st
Please call Governor Spitzer's office today at (800) 319 - 3403.
If you speak with a live operator, please tell them:
"I'm calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill."
If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Each message is logged and counts!
After the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code:
"I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX."
Governor Spitzer has the ability to get this done. But he must hear from you and everyone you know.
It's a simple call (800) 319 - 3403.
Every single call made to the Governor is logged and will make a difference!
http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/action_alert_yeshiva_tuition_break_please_act_now/
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/11/2007 03:43:00 PM
One sixty second phone call to this toll-free number could save our community millions of dollars: (800) 319 - 3403.
With just two weeks left in the Legislative session in Albany, now is the time to act to help families who are struggling to pay yeshiva tuition. Assemblyman Vito Lopez & Senator Marty Golden have introduced legislation that would allow middle-class parents to deduct the cost of private school tuition from their state taxes and poor families would receive an actual tax credit. This could save average families in our community thousands of dollars each year.
But we must ACT NOW. The legislative session in Albany ends June 21st
Please call Governor Spitzer's office today at (800) 319 - 3403.
If you speak with a live operator, please tell them:
"I'm calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill."
If you reach a voice mailbox, DO NOT HANG UP. Each message is logged and counts!
After the tone, leave the same message along with your zip code:
"I am calling to ask the Governor to support the Lopez-Golden Tuition Tax Deduction Bill. My zip code is XXXXX."
Governor Spitzer has the ability to get this done. But he must hear from you and everyone you know.
It's a simple call (800) 319 - 3403.
Every single call made to the Governor is logged and will make a difference!
http://www.ou.org/public_affairs/article/action_alert_yeshiva_tuition_break_please_act_now/
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/11/2007 03:43:00 PM
Sunday, June 10, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/10/2007 10:50:00 AM
Shopping Mothers, Neglected Babies
Recently, I was walking past a store in a frum neighborhood and saw two unattended babies in carriages. Being that I was on my cell phone, I loudly said I would watch the unattended babies until the mothers returned. A few minutes later, a lady came out and said, rather irritably, "The mother is here!" This mother, obviously perturbed that I had suggested her baby was being neglected, glared at me.
This is not the first time I witnessed such an incident and intervened. Leaving babies unsupervised in carriages may have become something of a "conventional" practice in the frum community, but how, exactly, is it not out-and-out neglect?
Brooklyn is not a place where crimes never occur. We frequently hear of incidents in our communities. So why do people assume their unattended babies are safe? You rarely see an unattended bike, even in your own communities, without a chain or padlock. But unattended carriages with babies inside – well, that's an entirely different story.
Dear mother, do you not realize how easy is it for someone to walk away with a child when there are several other abandoned baby carriages on a busy avenue? If a store does not allow carriages, leave it outside and take your baby in. Would you ever consider leaving your pocket book in the carriage and walking into a store?
Once, I saw an unsupervised toddler in a carriage outside a pizza store. I walked into the store and announced that someone "forgot" a baby outside. A mother eating pizza grunted to her daughter to go watch the baby. How can a mother leisurely sit and eat pizza while her baby is left alone on the street?
Besides the obvious dangers of leaving a baby unattended, how can you be sure the carriage will not roll into the gutter? All infant seats, swings, highchairs, etc. have warning labels about not leaving children unattended. If children must be supervised even when inside a home, how much more so out on the street?
Another personal experience: A stroller left outside a store with packages on the handles suddenly tipped over. I ran to the carriage, which contained a crying toddler, and tried to rebalance it but it kept tipping over. I waited with the carriage until the mother came out of the store with yet more bags. How can a mother go shopping without even bothering to check on her baby left alone outside?
Mothers, your children are invaluable! As a caregiver, it is a parent's responsibility to ensure that babies and young children are supervised at all times. Unsupervised children are neglected children. Period.
http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21770/Letters_To_The_Editor.html
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/10/2007 10:50:00 AM
Recently, I was walking past a store in a frum neighborhood and saw two unattended babies in carriages. Being that I was on my cell phone, I loudly said I would watch the unattended babies until the mothers returned. A few minutes later, a lady came out and said, rather irritably, "The mother is here!" This mother, obviously perturbed that I had suggested her baby was being neglected, glared at me.
This is not the first time I witnessed such an incident and intervened. Leaving babies unsupervised in carriages may have become something of a "conventional" practice in the frum community, but how, exactly, is it not out-and-out neglect?
Brooklyn is not a place where crimes never occur. We frequently hear of incidents in our communities. So why do people assume their unattended babies are safe? You rarely see an unattended bike, even in your own communities, without a chain or padlock. But unattended carriages with babies inside – well, that's an entirely different story.
Dear mother, do you not realize how easy is it for someone to walk away with a child when there are several other abandoned baby carriages on a busy avenue? If a store does not allow carriages, leave it outside and take your baby in. Would you ever consider leaving your pocket book in the carriage and walking into a store?
Once, I saw an unsupervised toddler in a carriage outside a pizza store. I walked into the store and announced that someone "forgot" a baby outside. A mother eating pizza grunted to her daughter to go watch the baby. How can a mother leisurely sit and eat pizza while her baby is left alone on the street?
Besides the obvious dangers of leaving a baby unattended, how can you be sure the carriage will not roll into the gutter? All infant seats, swings, highchairs, etc. have warning labels about not leaving children unattended. If children must be supervised even when inside a home, how much more so out on the street?
Another personal experience: A stroller left outside a store with packages on the handles suddenly tipped over. I ran to the carriage, which contained a crying toddler, and tried to rebalance it but it kept tipping over. I waited with the carriage until the mother came out of the store with yet more bags. How can a mother go shopping without even bothering to check on her baby left alone outside?
Mothers, your children are invaluable! As a caregiver, it is a parent's responsibility to ensure that babies and young children are supervised at all times. Unsupervised children are neglected children. Period.
http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21770/Letters_To_The_Editor.html
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/10/2007 10:50:00 AM
Friday, June 8, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/08/2007 10:40:00 AM
Why didn't Satmar think of this?
a new system has just been installed in 770 informing if there is a Choson in shul, so you would know if you have to say Tachnun or not.
If you are a Choson during sheva brochos, you are kindly asked to walk up to the umud and choose the amount of time you will be in 770 and the light will remain on till you leave. In an event that you leave earlier you can go and shut it off.
http://crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=6814
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/08/2007 10:40:00 AM
a new system has just been installed in 770 informing if there is a Choson in shul, so you would know if you have to say Tachnun or not.
If you are a Choson during sheva brochos, you are kindly asked to walk up to the umud and choose the amount of time you will be in 770 and the light will remain on till you leave. In an event that you leave earlier you can go and shut it off.
http://crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=6814
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/08/2007 10:40:00 AM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/08/2007 08:49:00 AM
Someone was really perturbed by G & G Clothing
I guess more than one person got upset from being woken up by G & G Clothing's phone ad.
Thank you Moish from B.P. for sending in the pix
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/08/2007 08:49:00 AM
I guess more than one person got upset from being woken up by G & G Clothing's phone ad.
Thank you Moish from B.P. for sending in the pix
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/08/2007 08:49:00 AM
Thursday, June 7, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/07/2007 04:21:00 PM
Nuchem Rosenberg asks for resignation of Monroe Vaad HaTznius head
Listen to the Nuchem Rosenberg hotline where he rants about the Monroe Vaad HaTznius. He asks for Dovid Eckstein to step down from his position as head of the organization. He claims that if he doesn't step down within a couple of days 'someone' will masser him and he will end up in jail.
Call the hotline at: 212-461-2778
Rush Limbaugh is boring compared to this guy.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/07/2007 04:21:00 PM
Listen to the Nuchem Rosenberg hotline where he rants about the Monroe Vaad HaTznius. He asks for Dovid Eckstein to step down from his position as head of the organization. He claims that if he doesn't step down within a couple of days 'someone' will masser him and he will end up in jail.
Call the hotline at: 212-461-2778
Rush Limbaugh is boring compared to this guy.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/07/2007 04:21:00 PM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/07/2007 03:27:00 PM
Major fire in Williamsburg, people trapped on the roof
There is a major fire in a building in Williamsburg, people are trapped on the roof and cannot get away. Hatzolah members that are on the scene are frantically calling for help. The fire engines are stuck in traffic and cannot get to the scene.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/07/2007 03:27:00 PM
There is a major fire in a building in Williamsburg, people are trapped on the roof and cannot get away. Hatzolah members that are on the scene are frantically calling for help. The fire engines are stuck in traffic and cannot get to the scene.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/07/2007 03:27:00 PM
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/07/2007 12:07:00 AM
G & G Clothing enjoys waking people
Apparently G & G clothing enjoys waking people at night. Their automated phone advertising service was still calling people at 12 AM. Call G & G and let them know that you are outraged by this practice.
Their number is: (718) 871-7841
The number of their advertising service is: (718) 569-2208
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/07/2007 12:07:00 AM
Apparently G & G clothing enjoys waking people at night. Their automated phone advertising service was still calling people at 12 AM. Call G & G and let them know that you are outraged by this practice.
Their number is: (718) 871-7841
The number of their advertising service is: (718) 569-2208
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/07/2007 12:07:00 AM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/06/2007 02:14:00 PM
Urgent – Pidyon Shivuyim (You can take part in the mitzvah this second!)
A heimishe yungerman was just arrested early this morning (Wednesday June 6. 2007) on the Palisades Interstate Parkway on his way back from the Skverrer Rebbe's grandsons Chasunah. A police car had been following him for some time, but never turned on its lights or tried to pull him over. When the police finally turned on the emergency lights, the yungerman pulled right over. The police officer came over to the car and asked why he made him chase him. The yungerman answered that he didn't make them chase him at all and that as soon as he turned on the lights he pulled over. The cop said "don't be a wise a**" and pulled him out of the car, and threw him to the ground and arrested him.
The yungerman is at this moment sitting in the Palisades Police Station in handcuffs, and has not been allowed to even be given a yarmulka to cover his head. The cops said they won't release him until sometime during the day because they can't find the judge. This is nonsense, because they can release him with an appearance ticket. Please immediately call the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Station and demand that they release him immediately. The number is: 201-768-6001.
Here's an idea of what to say: "I'm calling about the guy you arrested on the Parkway. It's an outrage that you're holding him and you should please release him now!"
http://www.hatzolahtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=1996&hl
Disclaimer:
This article was sent to us to post and has not been verified by us for accuracy or legitimacy.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/06/2007 02:14:00 PM
A heimishe yungerman was just arrested early this morning (Wednesday June 6. 2007) on the Palisades Interstate Parkway on his way back from the Skverrer Rebbe's grandsons Chasunah. A police car had been following him for some time, but never turned on its lights or tried to pull him over. When the police finally turned on the emergency lights, the yungerman pulled right over. The police officer came over to the car and asked why he made him chase him. The yungerman answered that he didn't make them chase him at all and that as soon as he turned on the lights he pulled over. The cop said "don't be a wise a**" and pulled him out of the car, and threw him to the ground and arrested him.
The yungerman is at this moment sitting in the Palisades Police Station in handcuffs, and has not been allowed to even be given a yarmulka to cover his head. The cops said they won't release him until sometime during the day because they can't find the judge. This is nonsense, because they can release him with an appearance ticket. Please immediately call the Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Station and demand that they release him immediately. The number is: 201-768-6001.
Here's an idea of what to say: "I'm calling about the guy you arrested on the Parkway. It's an outrage that you're holding him and you should please release him now!"
http://www.hatzolahtalk.com/index.php?showtopic=1996&hl
Disclaimer:
This article was sent to us to post and has not been verified by us for accuracy or legitimacy.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/06/2007 02:14:00 PM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/06/2007 09:55:00 AM
Vandals steal mezuzah from apartment building in Boro-Park
Vandals tore a mezuzah off the outer doorway of an apartment building in Boro-Park. The doorway from where the mezuzah was stolen was open to the street and was accessible to anyone. The mezuzah was in a white plastic holder and was easy to break. In order to insure that this doesn't happen to your mezuzah, buy a high quality mezuzah holder and install it securely. Even though it is not break-proof, chances are if it takes some time to break, vandals will ignore it.
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Vandals tore a mezuzah off the outer doorway of an apartment building in Boro-Park. The doorway from where the mezuzah was stolen was open to the street and was accessible to anyone. The mezuzah was in a white plastic holder and was easy to break. In order to insure that this doesn't happen to your mezuzah, buy a high quality mezuzah holder and install it securely. Even though it is not break-proof, chances are if it takes some time to break, vandals will ignore it.
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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/05/2007 11:03:00 AM
The New York Post gets it wrong with William 'Zev' Ballen
The New York Post claimed in an article that a Frum licensed Social Worker from Monsey, William 'Zev' Ballen, had been reprimanded last year for falsely claiming to be a Psychotherapist. The New York Post got it wrong on this one. According to New York State law a licensed Social Worker may call themself a Psychotherapist and may practice Psychotherapy. The actual charge against William Ballen last year was that he called himself a Psychologist, which is a false portrayal and is against the law in New York.
Here is the Journal News article from last year.
Monsey man to halt claim
July 22, 2006
State orders social worker to stop saying he's a psychologist
Jane Lerner The Journal News
State officials have told a local man to stop telling people that he is a licensed psychologist when in fact he isn't, according to the New York state Department of Education. Zev Ballen entered a compliance agreement with the state Office of Professional Discipline. He agreed to stop advertising himself as a licensed psychologist.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=thejournalnews&f_site=thejournalnews&f_sitename=Journal+News%2C+The+%28Westchester%2C+NY%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=WJNB&p_action=search&p_field_base-0=&p_text_base-0=social+worker&Search=Search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=keyword&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&p_text_date-0=
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/05/2007 11:03:00 AM
The New York Post claimed in an article that a Frum licensed Social Worker from Monsey, William 'Zev' Ballen, had been reprimanded last year for falsely claiming to be a Psychotherapist. The New York Post got it wrong on this one. According to New York State law a licensed Social Worker may call themself a Psychotherapist and may practice Psychotherapy. The actual charge against William Ballen last year was that he called himself a Psychologist, which is a false portrayal and is against the law in New York.
Here is the Journal News article from last year.
Monsey man to halt claim
July 22, 2006
State orders social worker to stop saying he's a psychologist
Jane Lerner The Journal News
State officials have told a local man to stop telling people that he is a licensed psychologist when in fact he isn't, according to the New York state Department of Education. Zev Ballen entered a compliance agreement with the state Office of Professional Discipline. He agreed to stop advertising himself as a licensed psychologist.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=thejournalnews&f_site=thejournalnews&f_sitename=Journal+News%2C+The+%28Westchester%2C+NY%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=WJNB&p_action=search&p_field_base-0=&p_text_base-0=social+worker&Search=Search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=keyword&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&p_text_date-0=
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/05/2007 11:03:00 AM
The New York Post gets it wrong with William 'Zev' Ballen
The New York Post claimed in an article that a Frum licensed Social Worker from Monsey, William 'Zev' Ballen, had been reprimanded last year for falsely claiming to be a Psychotherapist. The New York Post got it wrong on this one. According to New York State law a licensed Social Worker may call themself a Psychotherapist and may practice Psychotherapy. The actual charge against William Ballen last year was that he called himself a Psychologist, which is a false portrayal and is against the law in New York.
Here is the Journal News article from last year.
Monsey man to halt claim
July 22, 2006
State orders social worker to stop saying he's a psychologist
Jane Lerner The Journal News
State officials have told a local man to stop telling people that he is a licensed psychologist when in fact he isn't, according to the New York state Department of Education. Zev Ballen entered a compliance agreement with the state Office of Professional Discipline. He agreed to stop advertising himself as a licensed psychologist.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=thejournalnews&f_site=thejournalnews&f_sitename=Journal+News%2C+The+%28Westchester%2C+NY%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=WJNB&p_action=search&p_field_base-0=&p_text_base-0=social+worker&Search=Search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=keyword&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&p_text_date-0=
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/05/2007 11:03:00 AM
The New York Post claimed in an article that a Frum licensed Social Worker from Monsey, William 'Zev' Ballen, had been reprimanded last year for falsely claiming to be a Psychotherapist. The New York Post got it wrong on this one. According to New York State law a licensed Social Worker may call themself a Psychotherapist and may practice Psychotherapy. The actual charge against William Ballen last year was that he called himself a Psychologist, which is a false portrayal and is against the law in New York.
Here is the Journal News article from last year.
Monsey man to halt claim
July 22, 2006
State orders social worker to stop saying he's a psychologist
Jane Lerner The Journal News
State officials have told a local man to stop telling people that he is a licensed psychologist when in fact he isn't, according to the New York state Department of Education. Zev Ballen entered a compliance agreement with the state Office of Professional Discipline. He agreed to stop advertising himself as a licensed psychologist.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=thejournalnews&f_site=thejournalnews&f_sitename=Journal+News%2C+The+%28Westchester%2C+NY%29&p_theme=gannett&p_product=WJNB&p_action=search&p_field_base-0=&p_text_base-0=social+worker&Search=Search&p_perpage=10&p_maxdocs=200&p_queryname=700&s_search_type=keyword&p_sort=_rank_%3AD&p_field_date-0=YMD_date&p_params_date-0=date%3AB%2CE&p_text_date-0=
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Monday, June 4, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/01/2007 06:46:00 PM
Boy accused of burning down synagogue
Ramapo police today arrested a 15-year-old boy on a felony charge accusing him of burning down a Monsey synagogue used by an anti-Israel group.
The boy was playing with matches and recklessly started the fire that destroyed Congregation Bais Yehudi on April 1, Ramapo Detective Lt. Brad Weidel said.
The Saddle River Road building housed a rabbi and his family and was used by Netura Karta. The anti-Zionist religious group believes only the biblical Messiah can create a state of Israel and that Jews there should live under Arab rule until that day comes.
Police charged the youth with fourth-degree criminal mischief.
His case has been referred to the Rockland Family Court for disposition of the charge because of his age. The boy is scheduled to appear in court on June 26.
http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070601/NEWS03/706010477
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Ramapo police today arrested a 15-year-old boy on a felony charge accusing him of burning down a Monsey synagogue used by an anti-Israel group.
The boy was playing with matches and recklessly started the fire that destroyed Congregation Bais Yehudi on April 1, Ramapo Detective Lt. Brad Weidel said.
The Saddle River Road building housed a rabbi and his family and was used by Netura Karta. The anti-Zionist religious group believes only the biblical Messiah can create a state of Israel and that Jews there should live under Arab rule until that day comes.
Police charged the youth with fourth-degree criminal mischief.
His case has been referred to the Rockland Family Court for disposition of the charge because of his age. The boy is scheduled to appear in court on June 26.
http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070601/NEWS03/706010477
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Sunday, June 3, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/04/2007 12:03:00 AM
Enjoy the brand new MBD SoundBoard
Now you're the boss. Make MBD say what you want him to say.
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Now you're the boss. Make MBD say what you want him to say.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/03/2007 07:26:00 PM
Working hard to drive down the crime rate - 66th Police Precinct salutes crackerjack cop
They're making the nabe a better place by knocking out one crime at a time.
Cops from the 66th Precinct honored another stalwart fighter in the war against crime last week by honoring Police Officer Davida Welch as cop of the month for May.
During a recent meeting of the 66th Precinct Community Council, held at the Community Board 12 offices, Captain Peter DeBlasio, the commanding officer of the 66th Precinct, honored the anti-crime cop for apprehending three muggers responsible for attacking a Hasidic man in early April, as well as collaring a man wanted for a burglary.
He explained that officers like Welch are helping to ensure that crime continues to fall in both Borough Park and Kensington.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/03/2007 07:26:00 PM
They're making the nabe a better place by knocking out one crime at a time.
Cops from the 66th Precinct honored another stalwart fighter in the war against crime last week by honoring Police Officer Davida Welch as cop of the month for May.
During a recent meeting of the 66th Precinct Community Council, held at the Community Board 12 offices, Captain Peter DeBlasio, the commanding officer of the 66th Precinct, honored the anti-crime cop for apprehending three muggers responsible for attacking a Hasidic man in early April, as well as collaring a man wanted for a burglary.
He explained that officers like Welch are helping to ensure that crime continues to fall in both Borough Park and Kensington.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/03/2007 02:29:00 PM
Hit and run accident on 13th Avenue
A car smashed the mirror off the mini-van and took off. The Yingerman called the Cops and is filing a Police report.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 6/03/2007 02:29:00 PM
A car smashed the mirror off the mini-van and took off. The Yingerman called the Cops and is filing a Police report.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/01/2007 08:59:00 AM
Repainting the crosswalks on 14th Avenue in Boro-Park
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Saturday, June 2, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/31/2007 10:01:00 AM
Astroland's last stand
The end is approaching for Astroland, which goes dark shortly after Labor Day — all the neon and the rides and the booths rolling out on a tide that will never return.
In its place comes a planned $2 billion Coney Island makeover, a proposal to convert the once-seedy stretch of Brooklyn into a year-round stop with a swanky Vegas-style hotel and glitzy indoor attractions. Albert, who sold the family property to developer Thor Equities last November, remains in intermittent denial about Astroland's impending demise.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=13160
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/31/2007 10:01:00 AM
The end is approaching for Astroland, which goes dark shortly after Labor Day — all the neon and the rides and the booths rolling out on a tide that will never return.
In its place comes a planned $2 billion Coney Island makeover, a proposal to convert the once-seedy stretch of Brooklyn into a year-round stop with a swanky Vegas-style hotel and glitzy indoor attractions. Albert, who sold the family property to developer Thor Equities last November, remains in intermittent denial about Astroland's impending demise.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=13160
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Friday, June 1, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/30/2007 09:58:00 AM
Muni-meters to be installed on 13th Avenue
Muni-meters, central parking meters, will soon be installed on 13th Avenue in Boro-Park. Muni-meters are devices where you can purchase parking receipts to display in your windshield in order to be able to park on the street.
What the City gains from the new Muni-meters
What you supposedly gain from this
In reality there will be less parking space because parking will become a free-for-all with cars taking up more room than thay need, as on every other block in Boro-Park.
Thank you NYC for squeezing every penny out of us!
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/30/2007 09:58:00 AM
Muni-meters, central parking meters, will soon be installed on 13th Avenue in Boro-Park. Muni-meters are devices where you can purchase parking receipts to display in your windshield in order to be able to park on the street.
What the City gains from the new Muni-meters
- No more taking over meters with time left on the clock
- No more feeding the meter
- No more adding time when the meter maid is approaching (it will take too long to buy another receipt)
- No more broken meters
- Tickets are often issued when the driver leaves his car to purchase a receipt at the Muni-meters which can be up to half a block away
What you supposedly gain from this
- Supposedly there will be more parking space because cars will be able to park closer without having the constrictions of the predetermined metered spots.
In reality there will be less parking space because parking will become a free-for-all with cars taking up more room than thay need, as on every other block in Boro-Park.
Thank you NYC for squeezing every penny out of us!
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/30/2007 09:38:00 AM
BEWARE - If your vehicle was registered in Pennsylvania
If your vehicle was registered in Pennsylvania you may have a fake registration sticker. New York City Police are looking for cars with Pennsylvania plates that have a fake registration sticker. Apparently one of the DMV convenience service places in the Yiddishe area in Pennsylvania has been taking people's money and instead of registering their vehicle has been giving them fake registration stickers. New York City Police are set on busting this ring and are arresting anyone that has such a sticker. One such Yingerman was arrested with his wife present while driving his car with the fake sticker. The car was also towed off and impounded.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/30/2007 09:38:00 AM
If your vehicle was registered in Pennsylvania you may have a fake registration sticker. New York City Police are looking for cars with Pennsylvania plates that have a fake registration sticker. Apparently one of the DMV convenience service places in the Yiddishe area in Pennsylvania has been taking people's money and instead of registering their vehicle has been giving them fake registration stickers. New York City Police are set on busting this ring and are arresting anyone that has such a sticker. One such Yingerman was arrested with his wife present while driving his car with the fake sticker. The car was also towed off and impounded.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/01/2007 12:34:00 PM
The Bal Machshir of the fish department at Shop-Rite
The Opsher Rov, HaRav Beck, who is the Bal Machshir of the Boro-Park Shop-Rite fish department is having an intense conversation with the department manager.
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The Opsher Rov, HaRav Beck, who is the Bal Machshir of the Boro-Park Shop-Rite fish department is having an intense conversation with the department manager.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/30/2007 06:58:00 PM
BEWARE - Cellphone roadblock
Be aware, there is a cellphone roadblock currently in place on 55th Street and 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. Uniformed Police officers are hiding behind cars at a stop sign and ticketing drivers that are talking on their hand-held cellphones as they stop at the corner.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/30/2007 06:58:00 PM
Be aware, there is a cellphone roadblock currently in place on 55th Street and 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. Uniformed Police officers are hiding behind cars at a stop sign and ticketing drivers that are talking on their hand-held cellphones as they stop at the corner.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/29/2007 09:16:00 AM
Pinny's sign takes a ride down the block
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/27/2007 10:08:00 PM
Exclusive pictures from the Bobover Chasunah at Floy Bennett Field
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/28/2007 04:06:00 PM
Mordechai Ben David makes illegal u-turn and parks by fire pump
The world renowned Chasidic music recording star and activist for Chasidic recording artists' rights, Mordechai Ben David, publicly displayed his disregard for New York City traffic law, public safety and for his fellow man. While driving his silver Jeep, MBD dangerously swerved into a full u-turn on 16th Avenue and 55th Street. After performing that illegal maneuver he proceeded to slam his car into an illegal parking spot blocking a fire hydrant. To quote the great MBD from his own words, "You're such a wonderful person".
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/28/2007 04:06:00 PM
The world renowned Chasidic music recording star and activist for Chasidic recording artists' rights, Mordechai Ben David, publicly displayed his disregard for New York City traffic law, public safety and for his fellow man. While driving his silver Jeep, MBD dangerously swerved into a full u-turn on 16th Avenue and 55th Street. After performing that illegal maneuver he proceeded to slam his car into an illegal parking spot blocking a fire hydrant. To quote the great MBD from his own words, "You're such a wonderful person".
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/28/2007 10:24:00 AM
Three new Chasunah halls sprouting up in Boro-Park
Three new Chasunah halls are slated to be built on the lot at 18th Avenue and 52nd Street. The new halls will be approximately 7,000 square feet each and will share one kitchen. I guess that makes up for the closing of the Vizhnitzer Chasunah Hall.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/28/2007 10:24:00 AM
Three new Chasunah halls are slated to be built on the lot at 18th Avenue and 52nd Street. The new halls will be approximately 7,000 square feet each and will share one kitchen. I guess that makes up for the closing of the Vizhnitzer Chasunah Hall.
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/27/2007 06:24:00 PM
Finally a poster ad in Boro-Park that actually makes sense
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/27/2007 09:46:00 AM
Vizhnitzer Chasunah Hall no longer accepting bookings
The Vizhnitzer Chasunah Hall in Boro-Park has had a court injunction placed against it that it can no longer accept new bookings and will cease to operate as soon as it has fulfilled its current wedding booking obligations. The decision which is now headed to Supreme Court was brought against Vizhnitz by the neighbors of the hall who claim to be overwhelmed by the noise and trash that is caused by the chasunah hall.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/27/2007 09:46:00 AM
The Vizhnitzer Chasunah Hall in Boro-Park has had a court injunction placed against it that it can no longer accept new bookings and will cease to operate as soon as it has fulfilled its current wedding booking obligations. The decision which is now headed to Supreme Court was brought against Vizhnitz by the neighbors of the hall who claim to be overwhelmed by the noise and trash that is caused by the chasunah hall.
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/27/2007 12:48:00 AM
MAYOR MIKE'S PARKING PERKS
The Post, through its exclusive and excellent reporting, has uncovered the real reason for congestion in lower Manhattan: City Hall ("Getting a 'Pass,' " May 20).
Mayor Bloomberg, in his misguided plan to put tolls on traffic into Manhattan, has missed an easy and effective solution to the problem. If only he would have looked in his own back yard.
If his plan were to be implemented, how much would we have to spend taking photos of license plates of city workers and then have them exempted.
Let Bloomberg reduce the congestion caused by city employees by 75 percent, and then let's revisit the issue. You never know, the whole problem might disappear overnight.
Chayim Weiss
Brooklyn
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05252007/postopinion/letters/mayor_mikes_parking_perks_letters_.htm
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/27/2007 12:48:00 AM
The Post, through its exclusive and excellent reporting, has uncovered the real reason for congestion in lower Manhattan: City Hall ("Getting a 'Pass,' " May 20).
Mayor Bloomberg, in his misguided plan to put tolls on traffic into Manhattan, has missed an easy and effective solution to the problem. If only he would have looked in his own back yard.
If his plan were to be implemented, how much would we have to spend taking photos of license plates of city workers and then have them exempted.
Let Bloomberg reduce the congestion caused by city employees by 75 percent, and then let's revisit the issue. You never know, the whole problem might disappear overnight.
Chayim Weiss
Brooklyn
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05252007/postopinion/letters/mayor_mikes_parking_perks_letters_.htm
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/26/2007 09:41:00 PM
Skulener Shul in Boro-Park to expand
The Skulener Shul in Boro-Park has bought up the corner building that is next to the Shul. Plans have been made to extend the Shul so that it will encompass the original location and the new building as well. I smell a yerishe fight looming somewhere.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/26/2007 09:41:00 PM
The Skulener Shul in Boro-Park has bought up the corner building that is next to the Shul. Plans have been made to extend the Shul so that it will encompass the original location and the new building as well. I smell a yerishe fight looming somewhere.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/25/2007 05:05:00 PM
Heimishe Mentch on the Bentch, Supreme Court Justice David I. Schmidt, honored in Brooklyn
When discussing the legal profession, virtues like compassion, charity and selflessness may not immediately spring to mind — but for the past 33 years, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Brooklyn has honored judges and attorneys who demonstrate these qualities.
This year, about 225 people attended the guild's annual dinner at Gargiulo's Restaurant, according to immediate past president Annalise Cottone.
Brooklyn Civil Administrative Judge Ariel Belen swore in Joseph Bellard as the new president of the guild, which honored Judge Belen, Brooklyn Law School Professor Richard T. Farrell, Civil Court Judge Bernard Graham, state Justice David Schmidt and attorney Andrea Bonina.
Justice David Schmidt accepted the Guild's Ecumenical Award on behalf of his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors. Schmidt said his father never spoke about his experiences until right before he died.
Schmidt had a case against a synagogue in Williamsburg where a worker fell from a scaffold. He mentioned the case to his father, who then told him how he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"There were hundreds of people in the car. The train traveled for seven days and seven nights; they were given no food or water. When the train arrived … everyone had died except my father," Schmidt said. "My father thought all the Jews in the world were killed." The first people he saw at Bergen-Belsen were the rabbi of this synagogue and his father.
"One of the reasons that the Holocaust succeeded in killing so many people is that when the Nazis started passing all these racist laws in which Jews could not marry non-Jews, own property or businesses and could not belong to any of the professions, no one protested," Schmidt said.
The lawyers supported the laws and the judges did not protest the removal of their colleagues, nor did they find these laws invalid or unconstitutional, Schmidt said.
"We as judges and lawyers in the greatest country in the world have a duty to fight racism and bigotry wherever we find it," Schmidt said. "It is our duty to make certain that no one is persecuted based on their religious beliefs or [ethnicity]."
He quoted Martin Niemuller, the German pastor who outspokenly opposed the Nazis and suffered in concentration camps. In a 1959 seminary address in Atlanta, Ga., Niemuller said, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Webster's defines "ecumenical" as "fostering religious unity," Justice Schmidt noted. He said he was especially honored to receive this award from the Catholic Lawyers, who "strive for higher ethical morals and standards than the law requires.
"I, as a Jew with a yarmulke, who wears religion on my sleeve, similarly strive for higher ethical morals," Schmidt said.
The judge graduated from Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, and served for 11 years as law secretary to Justice Gerard Rosenberg before being elected to Brooklyn Civil Court in 1995. He was appointed as an acting state Supreme Court Justice in 2000, and was elected to that bench in 2006.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=13106
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/25/2007 05:05:00 PM
When discussing the legal profession, virtues like compassion, charity and selflessness may not immediately spring to mind — but for the past 33 years, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Brooklyn has honored judges and attorneys who demonstrate these qualities.
This year, about 225 people attended the guild's annual dinner at Gargiulo's Restaurant, according to immediate past president Annalise Cottone.
Brooklyn Civil Administrative Judge Ariel Belen swore in Joseph Bellard as the new president of the guild, which honored Judge Belen, Brooklyn Law School Professor Richard T. Farrell, Civil Court Judge Bernard Graham, state Justice David Schmidt and attorney Andrea Bonina.
Justice David Schmidt accepted the Guild's Ecumenical Award on behalf of his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors. Schmidt said his father never spoke about his experiences until right before he died.
Schmidt had a case against a synagogue in Williamsburg where a worker fell from a scaffold. He mentioned the case to his father, who then told him how he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"There were hundreds of people in the car. The train traveled for seven days and seven nights; they were given no food or water. When the train arrived … everyone had died except my father," Schmidt said. "My father thought all the Jews in the world were killed." The first people he saw at Bergen-Belsen were the rabbi of this synagogue and his father.
"One of the reasons that the Holocaust succeeded in killing so many people is that when the Nazis started passing all these racist laws in which Jews could not marry non-Jews, own property or businesses and could not belong to any of the professions, no one protested," Schmidt said.
The lawyers supported the laws and the judges did not protest the removal of their colleagues, nor did they find these laws invalid or unconstitutional, Schmidt said.
"We as judges and lawyers in the greatest country in the world have a duty to fight racism and bigotry wherever we find it," Schmidt said. "It is our duty to make certain that no one is persecuted based on their religious beliefs or [ethnicity]."
He quoted Martin Niemuller, the German pastor who outspokenly opposed the Nazis and suffered in concentration camps. In a 1959 seminary address in Atlanta, Ga., Niemuller said, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Webster's defines "ecumenical" as "fostering religious unity," Justice Schmidt noted. He said he was especially honored to receive this award from the Catholic Lawyers, who "strive for higher ethical morals and standards than the law requires.
"I, as a Jew with a yarmulke, who wears religion on my sleeve, similarly strive for higher ethical morals," Schmidt said.
The judge graduated from Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, and served for 11 years as law secretary to Justice Gerard Rosenberg before being elected to Brooklyn Civil Court in 1995. He was appointed as an acting state Supreme Court Justice in 2000, and was elected to that bench in 2006.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=13106
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/25/2007 05:05:00 PM
Heimishe Mentch on the Bench, Supreme Court Justice David I. Schmidt, honored in Brooklyn
When discussing the legal profession, virtues like compassion, charity and selflessness may not immediately spring to mind — but for the past 33 years, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Brooklyn has honored judges and attorneys who demonstrate these qualities.
This year, about 225 people attended the guild's annual dinner at Gargiulo's Restaurant, according to immediate past president Annalise Cottone.
Brooklyn Civil Administrative Judge Ariel Belen swore in Joseph Bellard as the new president of the guild, which honored Judge Belen, Brooklyn Law School Professor Richard T. Farrell, Civil Court Judge Bernard Graham, state Justice David Schmidt and attorney Andrea Bonina.
Justice David Schmidt accepted the Guild's Ecumenical Award on behalf of his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors. Schmidt said his father never spoke about his experiences until right before he died.
Schmidt had a case against a synagogue in Williamsburg where a worker fell from a scaffold. He mentioned the case to his father, who then told him how he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"There were hundreds of people in the car. The train traveled for seven days and seven nights; they were given no food or water. When the train arrived … everyone had died except my father," Schmidt said. "My father thought all the Jews in the world were killed." The first people he saw at Bergen-Belsen were the rabbi of this synagogue and his father.
"One of the reasons that the Holocaust succeeded in killing so many people is that when the Nazis started passing all these racist laws in which Jews could not marry non-Jews, own property or businesses and could not belong to any of the professions, no one protested," Schmidt said.
The lawyers supported the laws and the judges did not protest the removal of their colleagues, nor did they find these laws invalid or unconstitutional, Schmidt said.
"We as judges and lawyers in the greatest country in the world have a duty to fight racism and bigotry wherever we find it," Schmidt said. "It is our duty to make certain that no one is persecuted based on their religious beliefs or [ethnicity]."
He quoted Martin Niemuller, the German pastor who outspokenly opposed the Nazis and suffered in concentration camps. In a 1959 seminary address in Atlanta, Ga., Niemuller said, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Webster's defines "ecumenical" as "fostering religious unity," Justice Schmidt noted. He said he was especially honored to receive this award from the Catholic Lawyers, who "strive for higher ethical morals and standards than the law requires.
"I, as a Jew with a yarmulke, who wears religion on my sleeve, similarly strive for higher ethical morals," Schmidt said.
The judge graduated from Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, and served for 11 years as law secretary to Justice Gerard Rosenberg before being elected to Brooklyn Civil Court in 1995. He was appointed as an acting state Supreme Court Justice in 2000, and was elected to that bench in 2006.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=13106
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When discussing the legal profession, virtues like compassion, charity and selflessness may not immediately spring to mind — but for the past 33 years, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Brooklyn has honored judges and attorneys who demonstrate these qualities.
This year, about 225 people attended the guild's annual dinner at Gargiulo's Restaurant, according to immediate past president Annalise Cottone.
Brooklyn Civil Administrative Judge Ariel Belen swore in Joseph Bellard as the new president of the guild, which honored Judge Belen, Brooklyn Law School Professor Richard T. Farrell, Civil Court Judge Bernard Graham, state Justice David Schmidt and attorney Andrea Bonina.
Justice David Schmidt accepted the Guild's Ecumenical Award on behalf of his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors. Schmidt said his father never spoke about his experiences until right before he died.
Schmidt had a case against a synagogue in Williamsburg where a worker fell from a scaffold. He mentioned the case to his father, who then told him how he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"There were hundreds of people in the car. The train traveled for seven days and seven nights; they were given no food or water. When the train arrived … everyone had died except my father," Schmidt said. "My father thought all the Jews in the world were killed." The first people he saw at Bergen-Belsen were the rabbi of this synagogue and his father.
"One of the reasons that the Holocaust succeeded in killing so many people is that when the Nazis started passing all these racist laws in which Jews could not marry non-Jews, own property or businesses and could not belong to any of the professions, no one protested," Schmidt said.
The lawyers supported the laws and the judges did not protest the removal of their colleagues, nor did they find these laws invalid or unconstitutional, Schmidt said.
"We as judges and lawyers in the greatest country in the world have a duty to fight racism and bigotry wherever we find it," Schmidt said. "It is our duty to make certain that no one is persecuted based on their religious beliefs or [ethnicity]."
He quoted Martin Niemuller, the German pastor who outspokenly opposed the Nazis and suffered in concentration camps. In a 1959 seminary address in Atlanta, Ga., Niemuller said, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Webster's defines "ecumenical" as "fostering religious unity," Justice Schmidt noted. He said he was especially honored to receive this award from the Catholic Lawyers, who "strive for higher ethical morals and standards than the law requires.
"I, as a Jew with a yarmulke, who wears religion on my sleeve, similarly strive for higher ethical morals," Schmidt said.
The judge graduated from Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, and served for 11 years as law secretary to Justice Gerard Rosenberg before being elected to Brooklyn Civil Court in 1995. He was appointed as an acting state Supreme Court Justice in 2000, and was elected to that bench in 2006.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=13106
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/25/2007 05:05:00 PM
Heimishe Mentch on the Bentch, Supreme Court Justice David I. Schmidt, honored in Brooklyn
When discussing the legal profession, virtues like compassion, charity and selflessness may not immediately spring to mind — but for the past 33 years, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Brooklyn has honored judges and attorneys who demonstrate these qualities.
This year, about 225 people attended the guild's annual dinner at Gargiulo's Restaurant, according to immediate past president Annalise Cottone.
Brooklyn Civil Administrative Judge Ariel Belen swore in Joseph Bellard as the new president of the guild, which honored Judge Belen, Brooklyn Law School Professor Richard T. Farrell, Civil Court Judge Bernard Graham, state Justice David Schmidt and attorney Andrea Bonina.
Justice David Schmidt accepted the Guild's Ecumenical Award on behalf of his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors. Schmidt said his father never spoke about his experiences until right before he died.
Schmidt had a case against a synagogue in Williamsburg where a worker fell from a scaffold. He mentioned the case to his father, who then told him how he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"There were hundreds of people in the car. The train traveled for seven days and seven nights; they were given no food or water. When the train arrived … everyone had died except my father," Schmidt said. "My father thought all the Jews in the world were killed." The first people he saw at Bergen-Belsen were the rabbi of this synagogue and his father.
"One of the reasons that the Holocaust succeeded in killing so many people is that when the Nazis started passing all these racist laws in which Jews could not marry non-Jews, own property or businesses and could not belong to any of the professions, no one protested," Schmidt said.
The lawyers supported the laws and the judges did not protest the removal of their colleagues, nor did they find these laws invalid or unconstitutional, Schmidt said.
"We as judges and lawyers in the greatest country in the world have a duty to fight racism and bigotry wherever we find it," Schmidt said. "It is our duty to make certain that no one is persecuted based on their religious beliefs or [ethnicity]."
He quoted Martin Niemuller, the German pastor who outspokenly opposed the Nazis and suffered in concentration camps. In a 1959 seminary address in Atlanta, Ga., Niemuller said, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Webster's defines "ecumenical" as "fostering religious unity," Justice Schmidt noted. He said he was especially honored to receive this award from the Catholic Lawyers, who "strive for higher ethical morals and standards than the law requires.
"I, as a Jew with a yarmulke, who wears religion on my sleeve, similarly strive for higher ethical morals," Schmidt said.
The judge graduated from Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, and served for 11 years as law secretary to Justice Gerard Rosenberg before being elected to Brooklyn Civil Court in 1995. He was appointed as an acting state Supreme Court Justice in 2000, and was elected to that bench in 2006.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=13106
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/25/2007 05:05:00 PM
When discussing the legal profession, virtues like compassion, charity and selflessness may not immediately spring to mind — but for the past 33 years, the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Brooklyn has honored judges and attorneys who demonstrate these qualities.
This year, about 225 people attended the guild's annual dinner at Gargiulo's Restaurant, according to immediate past president Annalise Cottone.
Brooklyn Civil Administrative Judge Ariel Belen swore in Joseph Bellard as the new president of the guild, which honored Judge Belen, Brooklyn Law School Professor Richard T. Farrell, Civil Court Judge Bernard Graham, state Justice David Schmidt and attorney Andrea Bonina.
Justice David Schmidt accepted the Guild's Ecumenical Award on behalf of his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors. Schmidt said his father never spoke about his experiences until right before he died.
Schmidt had a case against a synagogue in Williamsburg where a worker fell from a scaffold. He mentioned the case to his father, who then told him how he was taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
"There were hundreds of people in the car. The train traveled for seven days and seven nights; they were given no food or water. When the train arrived … everyone had died except my father," Schmidt said. "My father thought all the Jews in the world were killed." The first people he saw at Bergen-Belsen were the rabbi of this synagogue and his father.
"One of the reasons that the Holocaust succeeded in killing so many people is that when the Nazis started passing all these racist laws in which Jews could not marry non-Jews, own property or businesses and could not belong to any of the professions, no one protested," Schmidt said.
The lawyers supported the laws and the judges did not protest the removal of their colleagues, nor did they find these laws invalid or unconstitutional, Schmidt said.
"We as judges and lawyers in the greatest country in the world have a duty to fight racism and bigotry wherever we find it," Schmidt said. "It is our duty to make certain that no one is persecuted based on their religious beliefs or [ethnicity]."
He quoted Martin Niemuller, the German pastor who outspokenly opposed the Nazis and suffered in concentration camps. In a 1959 seminary address in Atlanta, Ga., Niemuller said, "First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me."
Webster's defines "ecumenical" as "fostering religious unity," Justice Schmidt noted. He said he was especially honored to receive this award from the Catholic Lawyers, who "strive for higher ethical morals and standards than the law requires.
"I, as a Jew with a yarmulke, who wears religion on my sleeve, similarly strive for higher ethical morals," Schmidt said.
The judge graduated from Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, and served for 11 years as law secretary to Justice Gerard Rosenberg before being elected to Brooklyn Civil Court in 1995. He was appointed as an acting state Supreme Court Justice in 2000, and was elected to that bench in 2006.
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=4&id=13106
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/24/2007 09:47:00 PM
Meter parkers get heavily ticketed over Yom Tov
Although alternate-side parking regulations were suspended for Yom Tov, meter parking, as Boro-Park residents learned the hard way, was not. People that parked at metered parking spaces over Yom Tov were heavily ticketed for their transgression. As a matter of fact, so many tickets were issued that ticket agents ran out of envelopes and were leaving only the tickets on the offending cars' windshield. Upset Boro-Park residents approached Councilman Simcha Felder in Shul about what was happening. His response was that he had made a clear announcement on the Nachum Segal radio show that meter parking would not be suspended over Yom Tov. I'm sure every Boro-Park listens to every word that Nachum Segal broadcasts.
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Although alternate-side parking regulations were suspended for Yom Tov, meter parking, as Boro-Park residents learned the hard way, was not. People that parked at metered parking spaces over Yom Tov were heavily ticketed for their transgression. As a matter of fact, so many tickets were issued that ticket agents ran out of envelopes and were leaving only the tickets on the offending cars' windshield. Upset Boro-Park residents approached Councilman Simcha Felder in Shul about what was happening. His response was that he had made a clear announcement on the Nachum Segal radio show that meter parking would not be suspended over Yom Tov. I'm sure every Boro-Park listens to every word that Nachum Segal broadcasts.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/24/2007 09:47:00 PM
Meter parkers get heavily ticketed over Yom Tov
Although alternate-side parking regulations were suspended for Yom Tov, meter parking, as Boro-Park residents learned the hard way, was not. People that parked at metered parking spaces over Yom Tov were heavily ticketed for their transgression. As a matter of fact, so many tickets were issued that ticket agents ran out of envelopes and were leaving only the tickets on the offending cars' windshield. Upset Boro-Park residents approached Councilman Simcha Felder in Shul about what was happening. His response was that he had made a clear announcement on the Nachum Segal radio show that meter parking would not be suspended over Yom Tov. I'm sure every Boro-Park listens to every word that Nachum Segal broadcasts.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/24/2007 09:47:00 PM
Although alternate-side parking regulations were suspended for Yom Tov, meter parking, as Boro-Park residents learned the hard way, was not. People that parked at metered parking spaces over Yom Tov were heavily ticketed for their transgression. As a matter of fact, so many tickets were issued that ticket agents ran out of envelopes and were leaving only the tickets on the offending cars' windshield. Upset Boro-Park residents approached Councilman Simcha Felder in Shul about what was happening. His response was that he had made a clear announcement on the Nachum Segal radio show that meter parking would not be suspended over Yom Tov. I'm sure every Boro-Park listens to every word that Nachum Segal broadcasts.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/24/2007 09:47:00 PM
Meter parkers get heavily ticketed over Yom Tov
Although alternate-side parking regulations were suspended for Yom Tov, meter parking, as Boro-Park residents learned the hard way, was not. People that parked at metered parking spaces over Yom Tov were heavily ticketed for their transgression. As a matter of fact, so many tickets were issued that ticket agents ran out of envelopes and were leaving only the tickets on the offending cars' windshield. Upset Boro-Park residents approached Councilman Simcha Felder in Shul about what was happening. His response was that he had made a clear announcement on the Nachum Segal radio show that meter parking would not be suspended over Yom Tov. I'm sure every Boro-Park listens to every word that Nachum Segal broadcasts.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/24/2007 09:47:00 PM
Although alternate-side parking regulations were suspended for Yom Tov, meter parking, as Boro-Park residents learned the hard way, was not. People that parked at metered parking spaces over Yom Tov were heavily ticketed for their transgression. As a matter of fact, so many tickets were issued that ticket agents ran out of envelopes and were leaving only the tickets on the offending cars' windshield. Upset Boro-Park residents approached Councilman Simcha Felder in Shul about what was happening. His response was that he had made a clear announcement on the Nachum Segal radio show that meter parking would not be suspended over Yom Tov. I'm sure every Boro-Park listens to every word that Nachum Segal broadcasts.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/22/2007 07:43:00 PM
Chag Sameach - A Git Yom Tov
Enjoy the cheesecake!
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Enjoy the cheesecake!
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/22/2007 07:43:00 PM
Chag Sameach - A Git Yom Tov
Enjoy the cheesecake!
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Enjoy the cheesecake!
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/22/2007 11:00:00 AM
Glatt Diner - Update
According to the owner of Glatt Diner, there was a small fire in the kitchen of the restaurant. Although the damage was not too extensive, the owner says that he does not want to borrow money that he can't pay back to fix up the place. He said that he is waiting for the insurance money to come in and will hopefully reopen in a few weeks.
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According to the owner of Glatt Diner, there was a small fire in the kitchen of the restaurant. Although the damage was not too extensive, the owner says that he does not want to borrow money that he can't pay back to fix up the place. He said that he is waiting for the insurance money to come in and will hopefully reopen in a few weeks.
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Monday, May 21, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/21/2007 10:25:00 AM
What's up with Glatt Diner
After being open only a few short weeks, Glatt Diner (formerly Miller's Diner, the choo-choo train restaurant) has had their doors shut for over two weeks now. A sign on the door says that this is due to a fire that took place at the diner. What's going on there? I've seen Bobov put up an entire parking lot quicker than this.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/21/2007 10:25:00 AM
After being open only a few short weeks, Glatt Diner (formerly Miller's Diner, the choo-choo train restaurant) has had their doors shut for over two weeks now. A sign on the door says that this is due to a fire that took place at the diner. What's going on there? I've seen Bobov put up an entire parking lot quicker than this.
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Sunday, May 20, 2007
Saturday, May 19, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/19/2007 11:51:00 AM
Gerrer Hasidim declare war on computers
Where else but on the Internet could the articles raise such a fuss? "There are no kosher movies," "No more computers," read some of the headlines on Heder Shaket, the online forum where Gerrer Hasidim conduct discussions, some of them daring, under a blanket of abbreviations and internal code. As usual in the virtual world, for a long time truth and rumor about what was permitted blended together, but an official declaration of war has finally been issued - a war against the increasing computerization of the ultra-Orthodox world.
Every Gerrer Hasid with a computer can expect a house call in the near future, meant to persuade him to get rid of the treyf device. Those with an Internet connection - the height of spiritual contamination, which only a few members of the community have rabbinical permission to use, and that for work purposes only - will receive special attention.
The purpose of the campaign is not to threaten computer users with sanctions, but rather to explain the "spiritual dangers" to which they and members of their household are exposed. If the Gerrer rebbe so wished, members of the community say, he would have ordered the computers removed from his followers' homes. But the rebbe is not doing so, perhaps because he, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, knows how difficult it is to round up the horses once the stable door has been left open. And so, the campaign's purpose is informative: Every shtibl [small synagogue] is to appoint two people to go from house to house with the message that it is preferable not to have a computer at home.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/861196.html
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/19/2007 11:51:00 AM
Where else but on the Internet could the articles raise such a fuss? "There are no kosher movies," "No more computers," read some of the headlines on Heder Shaket, the online forum where Gerrer Hasidim conduct discussions, some of them daring, under a blanket of abbreviations and internal code. As usual in the virtual world, for a long time truth and rumor about what was permitted blended together, but an official declaration of war has finally been issued - a war against the increasing computerization of the ultra-Orthodox world.
Every Gerrer Hasid with a computer can expect a house call in the near future, meant to persuade him to get rid of the treyf device. Those with an Internet connection - the height of spiritual contamination, which only a few members of the community have rabbinical permission to use, and that for work purposes only - will receive special attention.
The purpose of the campaign is not to threaten computer users with sanctions, but rather to explain the "spiritual dangers" to which they and members of their household are exposed. If the Gerrer rebbe so wished, members of the community say, he would have ordered the computers removed from his followers' homes. But the rebbe is not doing so, perhaps because he, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, knows how difficult it is to round up the horses once the stable door has been left open. And so, the campaign's purpose is informative: Every shtibl [small synagogue] is to appoint two people to go from house to house with the message that it is preferable not to have a computer at home.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/861196.html
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/18/2007 12:56:00 PM
Read the new Chaptzem article in the Country Yossi Family Magazine
Make sure to pick up your free copy of the Country Yossi Family Magazine and read the brand new original article 'The Great Kollel Experiment' written by Chaptzem, the only Heimishe blogger to make the transition from cyberspace to print.
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Make sure to pick up your free copy of the Country Yossi Family Magazine and read the brand new original article 'The Great Kollel Experiment' written by Chaptzem, the only Heimishe blogger to make the transition from cyberspace to print.
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Friday, May 18, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/18/2007 11:32:00 AM
Stay-on yarmulke a quick hit
Every year, Jon Kaweblum starts off the the basketball season the same way.
The volunteer coach at Weinbaum Yeshiva High School drills his players. He schedules late-night practices. And he sends a letter to the Florida High School Athletic Association asking permission for his players to use bobby pins or clips to keep their yarmulkes, or traditional Jewish skullcaps, in place during games.
But this year, the association didn't approve the Boca Raton school's request, citing safety reasons.
''It was going to be a big issue because we could have put up a fight,'' said Kaweblum, 26, an architecture student at Florida Atlantic University's Fort Lauderdale campus. ``A yarmulke really symbolizes what an Orthodox Jewish school is all about.''
Instead of trying to prove a point, Kaweblum went to a wig store to learn how wigs are made to stay on. After a trip to a seamstress, the Klipped Kippah was born.
Kaweblum, of Aventura, sent the athletic association a prototype of the Klipped Kippah, which has two built-in clips with combs on two sides.
''Based on our review it didn't seem that it would pose a threat to the safety of users or competitors, so it was approved for the '06-'07 season,'' said Denarvise Thornton, the association's senior director of athletic operations and officials. ``What we are concerned with is that in a lot of instances a clip or pin can come off during the game. It's no different than an official in wrestling looking at the fingernails of a wrestler.''
Kippahs, also known as yarmulkes, are skullcaps worn by many Jews during religious services, and by Orthodox Jews at all times.
http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/110652.html
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Every year, Jon Kaweblum starts off the the basketball season the same way.
The volunteer coach at Weinbaum Yeshiva High School drills his players. He schedules late-night practices. And he sends a letter to the Florida High School Athletic Association asking permission for his players to use bobby pins or clips to keep their yarmulkes, or traditional Jewish skullcaps, in place during games.
But this year, the association didn't approve the Boca Raton school's request, citing safety reasons.
''It was going to be a big issue because we could have put up a fight,'' said Kaweblum, 26, an architecture student at Florida Atlantic University's Fort Lauderdale campus. ``A yarmulke really symbolizes what an Orthodox Jewish school is all about.''
Instead of trying to prove a point, Kaweblum went to a wig store to learn how wigs are made to stay on. After a trip to a seamstress, the Klipped Kippah was born.
Kaweblum, of Aventura, sent the athletic association a prototype of the Klipped Kippah, which has two built-in clips with combs on two sides.
''Based on our review it didn't seem that it would pose a threat to the safety of users or competitors, so it was approved for the '06-'07 season,'' said Denarvise Thornton, the association's senior director of athletic operations and officials. ``What we are concerned with is that in a lot of instances a clip or pin can come off during the game. It's no different than an official in wrestling looking at the fingernails of a wrestler.''
Kippahs, also known as yarmulkes, are skullcaps worn by many Jews during religious services, and by Orthodox Jews at all times.
http://www.miamiherald.com/467/story/110652.html
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Thursday, May 17, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/17/2007 09:49:00 AM
Orthodox Jews Come to a Well-Worn City, Pleased to Find a Piece of Paradise
The 7-Eleven on Cooke Street in this central Connecticut city now offers kosher Slurpees. A deli offering Shabbat specialties like cholent and kishke sits on a blighted street where the police frequently block off vandalized homes. An abandoned synagogue that was nearly sold to a church about seven years ago is now a bustling yeshiva where 200 young men study the Talmud.
Just north of downtown in this struggling city of 107,000, the Hillside neighborhood is a mix of boarded-up windows and pristine views of the green and lakes of Fulton Park below. Lately, there have been rumors of a police sting operation for prostitution.
Increasingly, the streets are filled with men in skullcaps and dark suits and women in wigs and long skirts as about 100 Orthodox Jewish families, many from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, have moved in.
"We are building from scratch, from the very beginning we have to establish everything," said Rabbi Avrohom Krohn, 35, who spent a decade in Jerusalem before moving here with his wife, Genendel, and four children three years ago. "Everyone has to take some responsibility."
If anyone would have suggested a decade ago that this heavily Roman Catholic city whose best-known religious landmark is a large steel cross on a hill would become an Orthodox Jewish enclave, they would have been laughed out of shul.
Back then, there was little more than a shell of a Jewish community in Waterbury: the synagogue that was not sold to a church had dwindled to a handful of congregants. Now, plans are under way to build a second Orthodox synagogue among a new development of dozens of homes in the hills being marketed to Jewish families.
There is a ritual bath, a Jewish bookstore and cooperative exchanges for used appliances and furniture. There is a Waterbury branch of Hatzolah, a volunteer Jewish ambulance service, and a communal emergency locksmith.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/nyregion/17jews.html?em&ex=1179547200&en=972b12d0bbd114c4&ei=5087%0A
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The 7-Eleven on Cooke Street in this central Connecticut city now offers kosher Slurpees. A deli offering Shabbat specialties like cholent and kishke sits on a blighted street where the police frequently block off vandalized homes. An abandoned synagogue that was nearly sold to a church about seven years ago is now a bustling yeshiva where 200 young men study the Talmud.
Just north of downtown in this struggling city of 107,000, the Hillside neighborhood is a mix of boarded-up windows and pristine views of the green and lakes of Fulton Park below. Lately, there have been rumors of a police sting operation for prostitution.
Increasingly, the streets are filled with men in skullcaps and dark suits and women in wigs and long skirts as about 100 Orthodox Jewish families, many from the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, have moved in.
"We are building from scratch, from the very beginning we have to establish everything," said Rabbi Avrohom Krohn, 35, who spent a decade in Jerusalem before moving here with his wife, Genendel, and four children three years ago. "Everyone has to take some responsibility."
If anyone would have suggested a decade ago that this heavily Roman Catholic city whose best-known religious landmark is a large steel cross on a hill would become an Orthodox Jewish enclave, they would have been laughed out of shul.
Back then, there was little more than a shell of a Jewish community in Waterbury: the synagogue that was not sold to a church had dwindled to a handful of congregants. Now, plans are under way to build a second Orthodox synagogue among a new development of dozens of homes in the hills being marketed to Jewish families.
There is a ritual bath, a Jewish bookstore and cooperative exchanges for used appliances and furniture. There is a Waterbury branch of Hatzolah, a volunteer Jewish ambulance service, and a communal emergency locksmith.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/17/nyregion/17jews.html?em&ex=1179547200&en=972b12d0bbd114c4&ei=5087%0A
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/17/2007 09:22:00 AM
Fairmont Funding now hiring
According to the scrolling electronic banner on the Fairmont Funding building on the corner of 16th Avenue and 60th Street, they are now looking to hire sales people. Please don't all run to apply for the job at once.
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According to the scrolling electronic banner on the Fairmont Funding building on the corner of 16th Avenue and 60th Street, they are now looking to hire sales people. Please don't all run to apply for the job at once.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/16/2007 04:39:00 PM
Please explain
I would comment, but I find this extremely self-explanatory.
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/16/2007 04:39:00 PM
I would comment, but I find this extremely self-explanatory.
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/16/2007 08:52:00 AM
Brooklyn man is master of thousands of tales
Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum of Brooklyn, N.Y., is considered to be a master in the art of Jewish storytelling.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a picture of Assemblyman Dov Hikind.
Storytelling has long been used as an effective way of passing down religious tradition.
If done well, it can be a true art form that enables the storyteller to hold an audience spellbound and a powerful tool in transcending cultural boundaries.
Judaism is one faith that thrives on telling the stories of its rich heritage. No one loves a good story as much as the Jewish people, and as Jewish storytellers go, Yitzhak Buxbaum ranks at the top.
Buxbaum, considered in some circles to be one of the most important Jewish storytellers of our time, was in Traverse City last week speaking at Horizon Bookstore and The Potter's House Church. His visit was under the sponsorship of the Or Tzafon Retreat Center, which is directed by Rabbi Chava Bahle of Ahavat Shalom Congregation. Twice yearly the center strives to bring to the area some of the best teachers in Judaism.
Buxbaum, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a master of thousands of tales. He travels throughout the country as a maggid, a Jewish inspirational teacher and storyteller.
Maggid Buxbaum focuses on Jewish teachings, but he frequently is asked to speak in ashrams, mosques and churches, providing a bridge between not only the different Jewish sects, but also a link between Jews and people of other faiths.
A Hasidic Jew, his beliefs lie in the teachings of the 18th century Ukrainian Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement. Buxbaum is an expert at relating legendary stories and teachings of the Besht, a Hebrew acronym for the Baal Shem Tov. The stories are interwoven with ancient Kabbalistic mysticism that the Baal Shem Tov brought into his teachings. Kabbalah, the deeper mysticism of Judaism, is a belief that God is found in everything.
http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/features/cnhinsfaith_story_135131531.html
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/16/2007 08:52:00 AM
Maggid Yitzhak Buxbaum of Brooklyn, N.Y., is considered to be a master in the art of Jewish storytelling.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a picture of Assemblyman Dov Hikind.
Storytelling has long been used as an effective way of passing down religious tradition.
If done well, it can be a true art form that enables the storyteller to hold an audience spellbound and a powerful tool in transcending cultural boundaries.
Judaism is one faith that thrives on telling the stories of its rich heritage. No one loves a good story as much as the Jewish people, and as Jewish storytellers go, Yitzhak Buxbaum ranks at the top.
Buxbaum, considered in some circles to be one of the most important Jewish storytellers of our time, was in Traverse City last week speaking at Horizon Bookstore and The Potter's House Church. His visit was under the sponsorship of the Or Tzafon Retreat Center, which is directed by Rabbi Chava Bahle of Ahavat Shalom Congregation. Twice yearly the center strives to bring to the area some of the best teachers in Judaism.
Buxbaum, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a master of thousands of tales. He travels throughout the country as a maggid, a Jewish inspirational teacher and storyteller.
Maggid Buxbaum focuses on Jewish teachings, but he frequently is asked to speak in ashrams, mosques and churches, providing a bridge between not only the different Jewish sects, but also a link between Jews and people of other faiths.
A Hasidic Jew, his beliefs lie in the teachings of the 18th century Ukrainian Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer, Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement. Buxbaum is an expert at relating legendary stories and teachings of the Besht, a Hebrew acronym for the Baal Shem Tov. The stories are interwoven with ancient Kabbalistic mysticism that the Baal Shem Tov brought into his teachings. Kabbalah, the deeper mysticism of Judaism, is a belief that God is found in everything.
http://www.glasgowdailytimes.com/features/cnhinsfaith_story_135131531.html
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[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/16/2007 08:41:00 AM
Orthodox band Blue Fringe
Rock band Blue Fringe's newly released third CD, "The Whole World Lit Up," has gone where few overtly Jewish recordings have gone before: into the rock/pop bins in selected stores of three national chains n Barnes & Noble, Borders and Virgin Records.
"It's very exciting for us," said lead singer Dov Rosenblatt. "It's the first time that the music has a chance to be heard by more people … We're the big guinea pig. They really feel we have crossover, mainstream appeal."
Blue Fringe's sound is part folk rock, part pop punk, with a mix of traditional Jewish melodies and harmonies. In keeping with Torah precepts, the love songs speak of adoration and commitment, not lust. Other lyrics yearn for god.
The new album is stylistically diverse and contemporary. "Eshet Chayil," a love song, and the reverential song "Listen to You" share a vibe with the chart-busting band Coldplay, though without the sonic effects. The romantic "Do You Realize" evokes John Lennon at his tenderest.
"We're just writing about issues we think about as being religious Jews in a modern society," Rosenblatt said.
Lead guitarist Avi Hoffman adds that Blue Fringe seeks to "reinterpret [traditional Jewish melodies] in a different harmonic context n to play an existing melody with very different chords. It changes the meaning, puts it in a different light."
The New York-based band also includes bassist Hayyim Danzig and drummer Danny Zwillenberg. All four members are mid-20s modern Orthodox men who "dream that we can make a living doing what we love, by playing music," Rosenblatt said. Still, Zwillenberg attends graduate school, Danzig is an engineer, Hoffman is considering law school and Rosenblatt studied psychology.
Blue Fringe formed six years ago while the guys were students at Yeshiva University in New York.
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2007/05/15/news/news07.txt
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/16/2007 08:41:00 AM
Rock band Blue Fringe's newly released third CD, "The Whole World Lit Up," has gone where few overtly Jewish recordings have gone before: into the rock/pop bins in selected stores of three national chains n Barnes & Noble, Borders and Virgin Records.
"It's very exciting for us," said lead singer Dov Rosenblatt. "It's the first time that the music has a chance to be heard by more people … We're the big guinea pig. They really feel we have crossover, mainstream appeal."
Blue Fringe's sound is part folk rock, part pop punk, with a mix of traditional Jewish melodies and harmonies. In keeping with Torah precepts, the love songs speak of adoration and commitment, not lust. Other lyrics yearn for god.
The new album is stylistically diverse and contemporary. "Eshet Chayil," a love song, and the reverential song "Listen to You" share a vibe with the chart-busting band Coldplay, though without the sonic effects. The romantic "Do You Realize" evokes John Lennon at his tenderest.
"We're just writing about issues we think about as being religious Jews in a modern society," Rosenblatt said.
Lead guitarist Avi Hoffman adds that Blue Fringe seeks to "reinterpret [traditional Jewish melodies] in a different harmonic context n to play an existing melody with very different chords. It changes the meaning, puts it in a different light."
The New York-based band also includes bassist Hayyim Danzig and drummer Danny Zwillenberg. All four members are mid-20s modern Orthodox men who "dream that we can make a living doing what we love, by playing music," Rosenblatt said. Still, Zwillenberg attends graduate school, Danzig is an engineer, Hoffman is considering law school and Rosenblatt studied psychology.
Blue Fringe formed six years ago while the guys were students at Yeshiva University in New York.
http://www.jewishledger.com/articles/2007/05/15/news/news07.txt
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/16/2007 08:41:00 AM
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/15/2007 10:28:00 AM
NEW AFFRONT IN 'WAR OF ROSES' DIVORCE
An infamous divorcée wannabe is hoping what happens in Brooklyn doesn't have to stay in Brooklyn.
Chana Taub, whose nasty divorce clash with her husband, Simon, was dubbed "the War of the Roses" after a judge ordered the pair to split their home with a makeshift wall, is now trying to open a new battlefront against her estranged hubby - in Manhattan.
Taub, 57, has filed a new divorce suit against her sweater-mogul husband in Manhattan Supreme Court, charging him with cruelty and adultery, just weeks after a Brooklyn jury rejected similar claims, leaving the pair unhappily married.
Her lawyer, Irvin Rosenthal, said the new suit deals with Simon's actions since she filed for divorce the first time, in September 2005.
"He's committed acts of cruelty and adultery since then," Rosenthal said, adding that the case was filed in Manhattan because "we felt a woman in the Hasidic community can't get a fair trial in Brooklyn."
Simon Taub, 58, wants the case transferred to Brooklyn and accused his estranged wife of "judge shopping."
"If she doesn't like what happens in Manhattan, then she'll go to Queens," he said after a hearing yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The two-year fight made headlines when, despite owning several pieces of property, both refused to move out their Borough Park brownstone and Simon, with judicial approval, built a wall to split the home in two.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05152007/news/regionalnews/new_affront_in_war_of_roses_divorce_regionalnews_dareh_gregorian.htm
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/15/2007 10:28:00 AM
An infamous divorcée wannabe is hoping what happens in Brooklyn doesn't have to stay in Brooklyn.
Chana Taub, whose nasty divorce clash with her husband, Simon, was dubbed "the War of the Roses" after a judge ordered the pair to split their home with a makeshift wall, is now trying to open a new battlefront against her estranged hubby - in Manhattan.
Taub, 57, has filed a new divorce suit against her sweater-mogul husband in Manhattan Supreme Court, charging him with cruelty and adultery, just weeks after a Brooklyn jury rejected similar claims, leaving the pair unhappily married.
Her lawyer, Irvin Rosenthal, said the new suit deals with Simon's actions since she filed for divorce the first time, in September 2005.
"He's committed acts of cruelty and adultery since then," Rosenthal said, adding that the case was filed in Manhattan because "we felt a woman in the Hasidic community can't get a fair trial in Brooklyn."
Simon Taub, 58, wants the case transferred to Brooklyn and accused his estranged wife of "judge shopping."
"If she doesn't like what happens in Manhattan, then she'll go to Queens," he said after a hearing yesterday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The two-year fight made headlines when, despite owning several pieces of property, both refused to move out their Borough Park brownstone and Simon, with judicial approval, built a wall to split the home in two.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/05152007/news/regionalnews/new_affront_in_war_of_roses_divorce_regionalnews_dareh_gregorian.htm
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/15/2007 10:28:00 AM
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/15/2007 10:16:00 AM
State squashes Sullivan's bid to strengthen collection of hotel taxes from non-profits
Sullivan County's burgeoning crackdown on nonprofit groups that skirt local tax laws has met its first obstacle: the New York state Assembly.
The chamber's powerful Ways and Means Committee has balked at a provision that Sullivan hoped would strengthen its ability to collect hotel taxes from lodgings owned by religious institutions and other nonprofits.
The provision, which mirrors Tompkins County's effort to collect more taxes from a hotel operated by Cornell University, was folded into Sullivan's request for state approval to raise both its sales and hotel occupancy taxes.
The language would have put a greater burden on nonprofits to prove that tax-exempt guests had stayed for tax-exempt purposes. Doing so is a critical issue for the cash-strapped county that plays host to numerous nonprofits and religious organizations.
Last year, the 320-bed Raleigh Hotel was purchased by a Brooklyn-based Hasidic group for a weekend retreat. Although its owners have pledged to pay full taxes, the sale highlights Sullivan's interest in beefing up its tax-enforcement powers.
But Assemblywoman Aileen M. Gunther, D-Forestburgh, said questions by Ways and Means staff threatened to stall the county's requested tax hikes in committee. She removed the extra enforcement language.
"This was the only way to get it done fast," said Gunther. The state must pass the tax hike bill within the next three weeks if the county hopes to collect the new revenue during this year's summer tourist season.
The bill would boost the county's hotel occupancy tax to 5 percent from 2 percent. The county expects to raise at least $750,000 a year, up from $300,000 at the current rate.
At the same time, the state will allow Sullivan to increase the county sales tax to 8 percent from 7.5 percent.
Together, the higher taxes are expected to increase county revenue by an estimated $6 million each year.
Sullivan County Manager David Fanslau said the county would consider a local law to give it the enforcement power it seeks against nonprofits. But state Sen. John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, criticized the Democrat-run Assembly for not enacted the bill as the county originally requested it.
"The bottom line is the Assembly leadership, despite the efforts of the local Assembly member, is protecting their tax-exempt special interests," said Bonacic's counsel, Langdon Chapman.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS/705150321/-1/NEWS
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/15/2007 10:16:00 AM
Sullivan County's burgeoning crackdown on nonprofit groups that skirt local tax laws has met its first obstacle: the New York state Assembly.
The chamber's powerful Ways and Means Committee has balked at a provision that Sullivan hoped would strengthen its ability to collect hotel taxes from lodgings owned by religious institutions and other nonprofits.
The provision, which mirrors Tompkins County's effort to collect more taxes from a hotel operated by Cornell University, was folded into Sullivan's request for state approval to raise both its sales and hotel occupancy taxes.
The language would have put a greater burden on nonprofits to prove that tax-exempt guests had stayed for tax-exempt purposes. Doing so is a critical issue for the cash-strapped county that plays host to numerous nonprofits and religious organizations.
Last year, the 320-bed Raleigh Hotel was purchased by a Brooklyn-based Hasidic group for a weekend retreat. Although its owners have pledged to pay full taxes, the sale highlights Sullivan's interest in beefing up its tax-enforcement powers.
But Assemblywoman Aileen M. Gunther, D-Forestburgh, said questions by Ways and Means staff threatened to stall the county's requested tax hikes in committee. She removed the extra enforcement language.
"This was the only way to get it done fast," said Gunther. The state must pass the tax hike bill within the next three weeks if the county hopes to collect the new revenue during this year's summer tourist season.
The bill would boost the county's hotel occupancy tax to 5 percent from 2 percent. The county expects to raise at least $750,000 a year, up from $300,000 at the current rate.
At the same time, the state will allow Sullivan to increase the county sales tax to 8 percent from 7.5 percent.
Together, the higher taxes are expected to increase county revenue by an estimated $6 million each year.
Sullivan County Manager David Fanslau said the county would consider a local law to give it the enforcement power it seeks against nonprofits. But state Sen. John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, criticized the Democrat-run Assembly for not enacted the bill as the county originally requested it.
"The bottom line is the Assembly leadership, despite the efforts of the local Assembly member, is protecting their tax-exempt special interests," said Bonacic's counsel, Langdon Chapman.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS/705150321/-1/NEWS
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Monday, May 14, 2007
[Chaptzem Blog!] 5/14/2007 10:12:00 AM
'Jews have too much power in business'
Thirty-nine percent of Europeans believe Jews have too much power in the business world, while 44% think Jews have too much power in international financial markets, according to the results of a survey published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Monday.
The survey of five European countries - France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Poland - showed that a large number of Europeans continued to harbor anti-Jewish attitudes, holding on to the classical anti-Semitic canards and conspiracy theories that have haunted Jews through the centuries.
Large portions of the European public continue to believe that Jews still dwell too much on the Holocaust. Overall, 47% of those surveyed thought the statement was "probably true."
In addition, 51% said they believed Jews were more loyal to Israel than to their country and 20% of those surveyed continue to blame Jews for the death of Jesus.
Meanwhile, 25% said that their opinion of Jews was influenced by Israel's actions and of those, 52% said their opinion of Jews was worse as a result of the actions taken by Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708599058&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/14/2007 10:12:00 AM
Thirty-nine percent of Europeans believe Jews have too much power in the business world, while 44% think Jews have too much power in international financial markets, according to the results of a survey published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Monday.
The survey of five European countries - France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and Poland - showed that a large number of Europeans continued to harbor anti-Jewish attitudes, holding on to the classical anti-Semitic canards and conspiracy theories that have haunted Jews through the centuries.
Large portions of the European public continue to believe that Jews still dwell too much on the Holocaust. Overall, 47% of those surveyed thought the statement was "probably true."
In addition, 51% said they believed Jews were more loyal to Israel than to their country and 20% of those surveyed continue to blame Jews for the death of Jesus.
Meanwhile, 25% said that their opinion of Jews was influenced by Israel's actions and of those, 52% said their opinion of Jews was worse as a result of the actions taken by Israel.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708599058&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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Posted By Chaptzem to Chaptzem Blog! at 5/14/2007 10:12:00 AM
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