Last year, Republican Trump got the Vaad’s endorsement.
But this year the endorsement went to Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy in his race for re-election.
If Murphy were to win Lakewood by a margin similar to Trump’s, that would preclude any chances of an upset victory for his Republican opponent.
That’s why Murphy made a campaign stop in Lakewood the day before Ciattarell did.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/01/new-jersey-gubernatorial-elections-national-518262
Ahead of a September gubernatorial debate between New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Republican challenger Gov. Jack Ciattarelli, Democrats plastered the lamp posts along one of this city’s busiest thoroughfares with signs reading, “Stop the Trump Team. Vote Murphy.”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/aaron-beck-father-of-cognitive-therapy-dies-at-100/
Dr. Aaron T. Beck, a groundbreaking psychotherapist regarded as the father of cognitive therapy, died Monday at his Philadelphia home. He had turned 100 in July.
Beck’s work revolutionized the diagnosis and treatment of depression and other psychological disorders. He died peacefully in his sleep, according to the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy, which he co-founded with his daughter, Dr. Judith Beck.
Detectives from the Jerusalem Police’s Central Unit arrested Rabbi Eliezer Berland on Monday morning at his current place of incarceration in Ramle prison on suspicion of involvement in kidnap and murder cases dating back more than 30 years.
https://www.jcpa.org/dje/articles2/demographics.htm
It means that if there are only eight million Jews who identify themselves as religious, there is an approximately equal division between self-defined non-Orthodox and self-defined Orthodox. However, if there are as many as 9.5 million religiously identifiable Jews, 5.5 million of these identify with Orthodoxy whatever their level of personal observance, giving the latter a 40 percent margin. Many in both groups are nominal in their commitment. Indeed, when nominal observance is factored out, the strength of Orthodoxy is even greater.
Take the Conservative movement, until recently recognized as the largest of the non-Orthodox movements in the United States, and, as a result, probably in the world. Charles Liebman and I have calculated that there are no more than forty to fifty thousand Conservative Jews in the world who live up to the standards of observance set by the Conservative movement. This means that when the Conservative mass is left out, the movement is only the equivalent of a fair sized Hassidic sect. It may be hard to believe, but it is important to note that at the late 1984 wedding of two scions of the Satmar dynasty, the number of Jews packed into a single Long Island stadium for the nuptials equalled the whole body of authentic Conservative Jews. There are seriously committed Conservative Jews who do no live up to those standards, but who are seriously religious in some way. It is hard to estimate how many, but a generous figure would be 36 percent of the movement's membership. Thus, at most there are 400,000 Conservative Jews in the world.
The situation is even harder to estimate with regard to Reform Jews, where standards of observance are low and less binding, but figures similar to those of the Conservative movement are probably in order. Moreover, recent studies of American Jewry show that both movements are in trouble, as increasing numbers of American Jews tend to identify with neither. According to the studies, first generation American Jews tend to identify with Orthodoxy; second and third generation Jews with Conservatism, and, beginning with the fourth generation, with Reform or nothing. This accounts for the decline in Conservative movement membership noted in the recent population studies and the increase in the Reform membership, but the non-identified category in the fourth generation and beyond is around 40 percent.
Orthodox identification, on the other hand, which had been declining precipitously since the late nineteenth century (before that, high Orthodox birthrates offset defections), has probably bottomed out.
Overall, the percentage of Jews who define themselves as Orthodox has grown only marginally, but there has been a transformation in the nature of this group. Many of the nominally Orthodox have fallen by the wayside, and more of those who define themselves as Orthodox really are committed or want to be,. Moreover, the increase in the number of seriously Orthodox is significant, even without taking into consideration the effect of today's high Orthodox birthrate, contrasted with the very low non-Orthodox birthrate.
Today there are approximately 600,000 Orthodox Jews in the
United States, plus another 850,000 in Israel, and perhaps
another 750,000 committed Orthodox in the rest of the world. This
means that there are approximately 2.2 million Orthodox Jews who
are indeed Orthodox - that is to say, wholly committed to
Orthodoxy. That does not include several million semi-observant
Jews who identity with Orthodoxy and will not choose to identify
with a non-Orthodox movement, even if they do not intend to
become more Orthodox in observance in their own lives.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/05/11/orthodox-jews-poll-secular-trump-republican/
Pew Research Center’s “Jewish Americans in 2020,” the biggest national study of Jews since 2013, said 17 percent of Jews under 30 are Orthodox, compared with 3 percent of Jews 65 and over and 7 percent of Jews aged 50 to 64. They are the product of high birthrates and, experts say, a more engaging and somewhat less isolated culture.
In Pew’s 2013 study, 11 percent of Jews under the age of 30 were Orthodox. Nine percent of all Jews in the new study identify as Orthodox, essentially unchanged from 10 percent in 2013.
While the Orthodox appear to be proportionally growing, Pew found even more Jews becoming more secular and unaffiliated. “Jews of no religion” — Pew’s term for people who identify as Jews and do things they see as Jewish but do not identify with the religious parts — in 2020 made up 27 percent of all U.S. Jews, up from 22 percent in 2013. These Jews are not leaving Judaism, not letting go of their identity, are increasingly welcoming and retaining interfaith Jews, and are strengthening the idea of Judaism as a civilization as much as a religion.
What is changing, religiously, is the moderately religious Jewish population, the liberal Jewish center, “is starting to vanish,” said Michelle Shain, assistant director of the Center for Communal Research at the Orthodox Union, a major group representing Orthodox Jews. Shain advised Pew. “To me the question becomes, what does that growing gap [between the very religious and the secular] mean? Who speaks for the interests of American Jews?”
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/24/us/jewish-moderate-urges-believers-to-take-stand.html
Despite that outlook, Dr. Lamm said in response to a question that ''in 34 years of public life I've never experienced such open hostility toward the Orthodox'' from the non-Orthodox groups.
Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, a Conservative leader who is the executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assembly, acknowledged the animosity, but he said it came from efforts, particularly among ultra-Orthodox groups, to try to delegitimize non-Orthodox rabbis.
''The centrist Orthodox have not been our problem,'' Rabbi Kelman said.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/the-future-is-haredi/
Regardless of what initially attracts people, Haredi branches of
Orthodoxy are growing faster than Liberal, Modern, and Centrist
Orthodoxy combined, and many Orthodox synagogues and institutions are
shifting rightward. If trends continue, and there is no reason to
suggest they won’t, Haredi Judaism will make up the largest swath of the
Jewish American population.
I texted this to R Avi Richler, Jewish Liaison for the GOP Gov. candidate, within the past half hour or so:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211029-why-mandatory-vaccination-is-nothing-new
"The United States has had vaccination mandates in place since the late 1970s," says Lee Hampton, a paediatrician and medical epidemiologist with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. And Italy requires children to be vaccinated against a range of pathogens, such as hepatitis B, diphtheria, pertussis, poliovirus, tetanus, Haemophilus influenzae type b, measles, mumps, rubella and varicella.
The Jerusalem Police arrested Rabbi Eliezer Berland on Monday morning at his current place of incarceration in Ramle prison on suspicion of involvement in kidnap and murder cases dating back more than 30 years.
Jailed sex offender Rabbi Eliezer Berland was arrested Monday in connection with decades-old homicide cases linked to his extremist ultra-Orthodox sect, according to multiple Hebrew-language reports.
Berland entered prison last week after he was convicted of fraud in June, in a plea deal that saw him sentenced to 18 months.
He was arrested and questioned at the Nitzan Prison in Ramle.
