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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[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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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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Thursday, June 14, 2007

[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/14/2007 09:33:00 AM

Guardian Angels to meet with armed citizens' patrol



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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[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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Wednesday, June 13, 2007

[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/13/2007 07:33:00 PM

Yankels or Motels



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[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/13/2007 06:26:00 PM

New Jewish music album



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[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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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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[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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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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[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/11/2007 09:12:00 AM

Chasidishe playing the piano



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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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Friday, June 8, 2007

[Chaptzem Blog!] 6/08/2007 12:42:00 PM

Skullcaps and afros



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[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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[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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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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[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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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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[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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