The APP reports:With the backing of private-school leaders and senior citizens fed up with tax hikes, a team of three fiscally conservative newcomers swept the Board of Education elections Tuesday, riding a tide of frustration that ultimately rejected the district budget for the fifth straight year.Carl Fink, Yechezkel Seitler and Isaac Zlatkin took 75 percent [...]
Lakewood Voters Trounce Budget, Elect Fiscally Conservative Slate
Posted in News by jwadmin 134 days ago (http://www.theyeshivaworld.com)NJ Voters Reject Majority Of School Budgets
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New Jersey voters took a stand on school spending and property taxes Tuesday, rejecting 260 of 479 school budgets across 19 counties, according to unofficial results in statewide school elections.In the proposed state budget he unveiled last month, Gov. Chris Christie slashed $820 million in aid to school districts and urged voters to defeat budgets [...]
NYC: Borough Presidents Want Their Power Back
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Brooklyn Borough President, Marty Markowitz asked the city’s Charter Review Commission yesterday to consider giving control back to him and the other four Beeps over their budgets, a move that would restore much of the powers they lost 21 years ago.Testifying at a hearing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights yesterday, Markowitz urged the 15-member [...]
The Big Debate!
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Jewish News/LJCC to host Anglo-Jewry's ONLY live election hustings
A Soldier's Shofar In Afghanisatan
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Jews don't just serve in the idf. A thriving community of anglo-jewish troops is enlisted in both iraq and afghanistan. Judith Field speaks to some of them about the challenges and perils of observing their religion on the frontline...
Rav Yehudah Elchonon Diskind zt”l
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It is with great sadness that we report that passing of Rav Yehudah Elchonon Diskind zt”l of Flatbush, Brooklyn. Rav Diskind lived a long and fruitful life in which he was involved in chinuch and numerous endeavors of avodas hakodesh. He will be remembered for his love and yedios of Torah, for his perpetual smile and [...]
Survey Finds Teens Addicted to Text Messaging: Over 100 a Day
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A Pew Research Center and the University of Michigan study says nearly one out of three kids between 12 and 17 years old send over a 100 texts a day. At school these days, the cell phone is now as common as the backpack, reports CBS News’ Ben Tracy.Teens say they don’t know anyone who doesn’t [...]
Video: Anyone Know How to Pronounce the Icelandic Volcano “Eyjafjallajökull”?
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[Video below.] No one in the world can pronounce thuis dumb volcano’s name. It’s true. People can’t even type “Eyjafjallajökull,” let alone say it. This is apparently a global phenomenon.Apparently, millions of people around the world are trying to say the name of the volcano which is spewing up so much ash that no one [...]