A financial planning forum designed to help frum families navigate economic pressures while maintaining Torah values is set take place Sunday evening in Lakewood.
The “Community Evening of Chizuk” — titled “Can I Make It In Today’s Economy?” — will bring together financial experts and rabbanim to discuss practical strategies for budgeting, saving, and long-term planning from a Jewish perspective.
The event, scheduled for Sunday, May 10 at 8:15 p.m. at KYA Sincha Hall (1371 Alvarado Avenue), will feature Rabbi Eliezer Gewirtzman of the Coventry Shul, and Doni Brodie, a board member of Living Smarter Jewish, a financial coaching organization.
The forum will address the financial realities facing contemporary frum families, offering halacha-based guidance on modern economic realities. Attendees will learn practical, real-life strategies for budgeting, saving, and planning ahead, according to promotional materials. The event will also offer an opportunity for community members to sign up for free financial coaching sessions.
The event is open to both men and women.
Will it be on zoom or available to listen afterwards?
Will contact numbers for Section 8, SNAP and WIC be distributed?
This is about being independent, not about functioning by leaning on programs or others.
Will there be planning ahead for the growing number of our children who will not even have a high school education?
Huh?
A generation is now being raised in Lakewood with virtually no secular , certainly beginning in high school. They are being doomed to a life without parnasa. Its not goo early to talk about that.
Bologna. Look at the booming chasidish community, with countless successful business owners and workers.
Success is brought about by doing the right hishtadlus and having the right Bitachon.
Um do you know how many guys in Lakewood are doing VERY well without any high school english education?
look around!
Will this event put baalabatim in cherem for not learning full time? Please, it must be done.
Men who don’t learn full time in bmg are reshoim gmurim who deserve to be treated like Get Refusers…
. Parnosa comes from
hashem
Wow, so many trolls here.
We are in trouble if pointing out that the prevalant hashkafa in Lakewood is not “Parnosa Friendly” is an indication of a troll.
I’ve said this before on this topic and I’ll say it again; all these so called community forums and support groups and evenings of chizzuk won’t do diddley to help a struggling family cover the bank, help pay down their grocery bills or pay their utility bills, help knock down their ever growing credit card debt or offset an eviction. All it does is, it makes askonim feel good that they are trying to help. If you want to really help people that are stuggling – take it from someone that has lived both worlds, go and offer to help out your family member, go and help your fellow mispallel or neighbor. Be creative , go to your rov and say here is ma’aser money I’m sure you know someone that can use this money. There are enough people that give out funds in Lakewood, they just need more funds, go over and give them some money and say give this to so and so… Sadly there are people in this town that are facing unprecedented hardships, go out and help them the real way and the only way and yes you could find ways to do it that they won’t feel embarrassed or uncomfortable..
Exactly. We had a meeting with someone trying to help. Their advice? Make sure to expand your business because you’ll be making bar mitzvahs and weddings soon (no advice on where to get that funding or what to do if that venture fails and you’re left with heaping debt) . Wow, we never thought of that. Thank you for your advice!
The simple answer is NO. How can a 9-5 job cover today’s expenses for a yiddishe growing family. Not everyone is an an entrepreneur and not every entrepreneur makes more money than an average worker. The frum communities are held hostage by “chinuch” systems and real estate brokers and kosher food industry. 98% of the population is poor and 2% get rich. Move out of NY and NJ. Only real solution.
The situation is defintly tight. But there are ways to survive and thrive. http://www.rsk.org is one organization that can help you take control of your finances BEZ”H.