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MONDAY 01.05.15

IN HIS
OWN
WORLD

N.J.S PLAN
FOR LAST
SANDY AID

Aaron Carter, the

multi-platinum
artist who started
his show-biz career
when he was 7, is
taking his tour to

Toms River is the venue for a state public hearing on what

the Jersey Shore.

will likely be the final round of superstorm Sandy relief

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money, and residents will be able to weigh in. Today, A3

WHY THE
WAIT, GOV?
THOMAS P. COSTELLO/PRESS PHOTOGRAPHER

Expert: Christie may shy from announcing his

presidential bid until GWB closure report is out

Mike Irwin shows where mortar is no longer present between

bricks in the basement of his Eighth Avenue home in Belmar
since Sandy's floodwaters hit.

Reports to
be opened
in Sandy suit
Owners of Belmar home
to see engineering data
RUSS ZIMMER @RUSSZIMMER

FILE PHOTO

Gov. Chris Christie, pictured this summer, has not announced his candidacy for president in 2016, despite all the speculation.

BOB JORDAN @BOBJORDANAPP

TRENTON Gov. Chris Christie is starting 2015 the same way he finished 2014, traveling the

BELMAR The seawater propelled by superstorm

Sandy rushed into the basement and the first floor of
the Eighth Avenue home that Krista Sperber shares
with her husband and their two kids.
The floodwaters stayed in their home, yard and in
neighboring properties for about a week. The flood and
an ongoing dispute with an insurer who insists that the
damage revealed by Sandy existed before the storm
has kept them out ever since.
Her insurer denied their claim based on a pair of engineering reports that asserted the damage to her foundation was not caused by Sandy but instead arose from
long-gestating effects of their house settling, which is
outside the scope of their flood insurance policy.

See REPORTS, Page A8

country like a presidential candidate without actually saying hes in the race. Sunshine
State voters will get a visit from Christie on Tuesday when he attends the second inaugural
of Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott in Tallahassee. Christie is also booked as a speaker

In Manalapan: A
mitzvah in return

Jan. 24 at the Iowa Freedom Summit organized by conservative power broker Rep. Steve
King, R-Iowa.

See WAIT, Page A4

JERRY CARINO CARINOS CORNER

COWBOY WRANGLING

Life has a way of bringing things full

circle. Two decades after his tangential
connection to a tragedy, and eight
months after his own death, the circle
is complete for Howard Feinstein.
On Sunday, Congregation Sons of
Israel synagogue in Manalapan will
dedicate four pairs of Tefillin small,
black leather boxes containing scrolls
of parchment bearing Torah verses in memory of
Feinstein, a longtime member who lived in Marlboro.
Observant Jews wear Tefillin during weekday
morning prayer. Feinstein adopted the practice in
1992 at the urging of 14-year-old Ari Halberstam, a
friendly stranger who showed up at the door of his

How some of our Facebook readers reacted to Gov. Christies celebration of the Dallas Cowboys victory:
Michelle Neckonoff Jenner: How nice of him to travel to
a football game in Dallas instead of governing NJ!
Kathy Morse: Maybe he should move down to Texas ... he
spends more time there and in every other state but his
own.
Daniel Troy: How come are you ... arent complaining
about President Obamas latest trip to Hawaii this week?
Hypocrisy at its finest.
Rich Demczyszyn: I think its awesome that just like anything else, he sticks by his beliefs! GO COWBOYS! CC for
President 2016
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TWITTER SCREEN GRAB

Gov. Chris Christie (right) joins in the jubilation with

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and others at the
Cowboys playoff win in Arlington, Texas, yesterday.
Christie will be at various events outside the state this
month that hint at his presidential aspirations. And he
also is famously, and unashamedly, a Cowboys fan.

See MITZVAH, Page A4

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