Lakewood Shmooze

09/09/2026

This week, as we commemorate 9/11, I wanted to share this video.

It contains the audio of Edward Felt, from Matawan, NJ, frantically calling for help from aboard United Flight 93, which would crash just minutes later. Edward shared his phone number—and hearing our own 732 area code makes the recording feel especially close to home.

I think that’s part of what made 9/11 hit so many of us here so hard. This wasn’t a wildfire thousands of miles away, a flood in Texas, or awar in the Middle East. This was right in our backyard. So many of us knew victims, and their families personally. These were our neighbors, friends, relatives, and members of our communities.

This week, we remember and honor the nearly 3,000 lives that were taken that day. They were ordinary people going about their everyday lives and we're cut down so senselessly.

More than two decades later, we remember them not simply as names or numbers, but as people and individuals whose lives mattered. May their memories be for a blessing.

09/06/2026

Michael Caldarise is a blowhard who rants and raves. And whenever someone disagrees, the Dave-Smith-Wannabe screams, "Debate Me Bro!!!!"

Well now someone took him up on his offer. Predictably he declined. It seems that he doesn't want a debate where he can't outyell his opponent.

Weak sauce.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1D9VR8shv5/

08/28/2026

Perfectly said. Every word.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1JaW12Vkja/

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08/06/2026

Well said, RUOC.

06/11/2026

Kiryas Joel Part 2!!! The censors cannot stop us!!!

(Sarcasm alert)

https://youtu.be/WGJipjwpkUo?is=0ncnLnb3XhrfV3h3

06/01/2026

The Newark Public School BOE approved a lease on a building for $500 million dollars. Close to 90% of the Newark School District funding comes from other townships. Read that again. And then read it again. We did. Can you all stop lying about the root of the problem?

Ocean County property tax dollars are being sent to Newark and Trenton. Stop blaming Lakewood and lying and that they're not paying property taxes. This right here is the problem.

- This lease would pay $1.4 million dollars a month for less than 600 students.
- Newark recently spent $44,000 on a "staff fun day".
- The Newark district’s budget for this coming year is $1.67 billion with $1.38 billion of that coming from taxpayers outside of Newark.
-This is being considered at a time when 167 other towns across the state are forced to cut programs, fire teachers, and sell property to stay afloat.

We have a problem. Our public schools are increasingly underfunded by the state that keeps taking our tax dollars and sending them to districts like Newark. Blaming the Jewish community or bussing for private schools for the problem is ignorant, uneducated and counterproductive.

https://www.njassemblygop.com/m/newsflash/home/detail/959

04/23/2026

Chaim Galbut, an Orthodox Jewish basketball player, has committed to Duquesne, in DI college basketball. The 6’7 forward observes the Sabbath and was discovered on social media by Duquesne, throwing down dunks in a yarmulke.

You can see some of his highlights here.

https://youtube.com/shorts/qFHmZ9AMxuY?si=Zs5TLuJp87xmbzCB

Interesting note, there is now at least 1 Orthodox Jewish athlete in D1 Baseball, D1 football and now D1 basketball.

04/20/2026

Elliot Shem Tov Should be Disqualified.

June 4th and June 5th of 2004 were devastating days in New Jersey’s history. Four heroic U.S. service members from Brick, Newark, Carlstadt, and Livingston were killed by IEDs in Iraq. They were among approximately 137 troops from New Jersey who lost their lives during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

IEDs were responsible for roughly 1,700–1,800 U.S. deaths in Iraq. U.S. military assessments have long concluded that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), under the direction of Ali Khamenei, supported Iraqi insurgent groups by providing training and advanced explosive technology. These actions contributed to the deaths of thousands of American service members.

In Jackson, a woman named Rania Hesham publicly praised Khamenei, writing that he was “a wise, peaceful man.” At a time when American troops were being killed by weapons tied to Iranian support, statements like that are deeply offensive to the memory of those who served and died.

Elliot Shem Tov, a candidate for mayor of Jackson, chose to meet with her. He also criticized a sitting council member for calling out those statements.

Let’s be clear: showing support for individuals or regimes connected to the killing of American troops is disqualifying. Anyone seeking public office should be willing to clearly and unequivocally denounce such views.

Terrorists, their supporters and enablers do not deserve representation. They deserve to have their Jihadi asses deported to the country from whence they came.

May God watch over and bless our troops. God bless the USA and may God grant wisdom and strength to our commander and leader to finish the war with the US victorious.

Pictured:
Frank T Carvill aged 52 from Carlstadt, NJ

Humberto Timoteo aged 25 from Newark, NJ

Ryan E Doltz, ages 26 from Morristown, NJ

Christopher Duffy, aged 26 from Brick, NJ