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
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
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