Apparently, Christie’s feud with the business lobby and the New Jersey Education Association has gotten the attention of others who were at odds with the Republican during the fall election. One group that took notice was the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood. The council of rabbis that runs the massive rabbinical college in town broke with its tradition of interviewing both major-party candidates before endorsing someone; instead, it gave its nod to Corzine without ever meeting with Christie. Now that Christie is governor, The Auditor is informed the rabbis made a move to smooth things over by meeting last week with Sen. Joe Kyrillos (R-Monmouth), a Christie intimate who chaired the Republican campaign. Kyrillos declined to say much about the sit-down with Rabbi Aaron Kotler, CEO of Beth Medrash Govoha, except to say, “I trust and hope the rabbi and his community will be there to support the governor on the tough agenda items upcoming, many of the goals of which he shares with the governor.”
Sen. Robert Singer (R-Ocean) helped broker the sit-down, which was also attended by Sister Rosemary Jeffries, president of Georgian Court University in Lakewood. Singer said he was disturbed by the rabbis’ refusal to meet with Christie and blamed Corzine, “who was overly sensitive” and insisted that they not sit down with the Republican.
With Christie in office, “the rabbis certainly wanted to let Joe know they would be supportive,” Singer said. Star Ledger.
I hope the gov knows that 80% of lakewood voted for him
It is spelled Aaron not Aron. You got it right in the article but wrong in the title.
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I don’t know. This looks like a big job. Get back to you with an estimate.
Hey scoop you are not letting any comments. Other sites are loaded on this one. You can let posts clear your strict censorship run by ak and the vaad nothing will happen to you. Let the truth be heard
Well either way the people of Lakewood backed Christie so I hope he keeps that in mind.
Now the only thing left to do is mend fences with the 90% of the frum community who voted for Christie.
Sometimes outreach to a winning candidate is genuine.
I’m also not cynical. I’m sure there was outreach to Corzine as well.
Those other guys at the meeting look really involved.
Governor Christie is a good guy. Every thing I read about him shows him to be a true mentsh. I’m glad I voted for him.
After the election?
What happens to the untouched danishes from these meetings?
I heard that AK has spoken to governer a couple of times recently, Let’s hope.
Well at least we know that the BOE is on good term with him, as was I was informed by a source michael inzelbuch met with the governor before he won governor.
Lev Melochim Biyad Hashem.