News Updates Sunday 3/29/20

-Bingo senior hours per company ad will be from 5am -8:00 am
-petirah of Reb Yehosef Neumann, Hy”d, the victim of the stabbing attack in Forshay on Chanukah of this past year.

-Volunteers available in frum communities to go shopping and do errands for those that can not leave their home
.Coronachesed.org If you are in need of assistance  call at 1-929 J-CHESED (+1-929-524-3733) volunteers available in Lakewood.

-Teleconference TONIGHT! Hachana L’Seder, featuring Rabbi Yisroel Reisman at 10:00 p.m. (English), and Chayav Adam Liros Es Atzmo Keilu Hu Yotza MiMitzrayim, featuring Rabbi Elya Brudny at 10:30 p.m. (Yiddish). Call 929.219.1197

-B"H- Reb Zundel Binik shlita a veteran Hatzola member in NY and Rav Chaim Meir Roth shlita if Lakewood both released from hospital and back home after recovering.

- Chizuk: Yes, there is constant chatter about this plague, but there is one important word missing from the conversations: the name of Hashem. There is a lot of espousing of “kochi ve’otzem yodi,” how we have it in our power to conquer this latest menace to society. But they’ve all missed the point of all this. How fragile we are. How dependent we are on the Ribono Shel Olam. How all of the advances in the field of medicine cannot help us if it is not His will that we be safe.
Read more at Yated.com

-Live Shiurim and Shmuessin for Bnei Torah Tonight 8:45 – Divrei Chizuk from Harav Mendel Slomovitz 9:15 –Shiur from Harav Aryeh Sherwinter 10:00 Shiur from Harav Tzvi Berkowitz Call in number 646-726-9977 no pin necessary

- Rav Shmuel  Kamenetzky Shlita will be saying a shmuz tonight @ 8:05 PM. 617-691-8997 no pin required.

-Rabonim in all out of town cities ( Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, LA, Toronto) reiterate restrictions no one should have any guests for pesach coming from other cities even if it's married children or parents that were quarentined for 14 days

- Dr. Fauci: coronavirus outbreak could kill 100,000 to 200,000 Americans, the U.S. government’s top infectious-disease expert warned on Sunday as smoldering hot spots in nursing homes and a growing list of stricken cities heightened the sense of dread across the country.

- Trump extends federal social distancing guidelines  through April 30 as next 2 weeks will see a peak in cases.
- Pesach Guidelines from BMG poskim Download HERE

-from  BMG poskim- HaGaon Harav Shmuel Kamenetsky directly advised us that one may kasher an urn for Pesach by not
using it for 24 hours, and then pouring hot water, from a boiling kettle that was not used in 24 hours, over the spout and handle of the urn. We suggest that you also
cover the handle with foil for the duration of Pesach.

-Tevilas Keilim can be done by lake carasaljo in certain sections 5th street and Lakewood avenue is fine with proper social distancing.
- Siyum Bechorim can be done privately if one can't make one he can listen to a siyum over the phone.
- Lakewood poskim: There will be no public sreifas chometz this year nor will small fires be allowed. After consulting with Rav Dovid Feinstein shlita and Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita the biur chometz should be performed by crumbling a kazayis chometz and flushing it away.

-The U.S. Embassy in Israel warned American citizens on Sunday that they should leave the country immediately or risk an open-ended stay in Israel.

-Order the Pesach box HERE

-NJ: statewide total climbed to  13,386 with 161 deaths Ocean county with 759. Health officials also reported 22,216 negative tests for coronavirus to date.

-Tehillim: Please be mispallel for Meyer ben Perel

-Donate HERE- Fund set up for Mishpacha of Reb Zevi Halberstam A”h. Zevi was a special soul, always running around with a smile, always available to help another Jew, but now, ZEVI IS NO LONGER WITH US. He was niftar on shabbos from the virus

-Shwekey live concert streaming at 12:00 pm watch HERE

-US treasury Secretary  Mnuchin says Americans can expect checks from stimulus bill to be direct deposited in their accounts within 3 weeks

-Agudah launches Corona virus emergency relief fund Klal Yisroel Helping Klal Yisroel HERE

-Lakewood has 272 cases only 2nd behind Jersey city that has the most in NJ with 334
-Chevra Kadisha in Brooklyn overwhelmed looking for volunteers or willing to pay drivers to bring niftarim to the bais olam

-UPS won’t require signatures from customers during the coronavirus pandemic.

The delivery company released updated guidelines Saturday. It says drivers will just make contact with the recipient and request ID if applicable.

-Daf  Yomi: Are you falling behind? join in now learning the sugyos of ner chanuka

-BDE: Petirah of  Rav Shimon Susholz zt”l. was the rov of Cong. Keren Orah in Kensington, Brooklyn, NY. His son Shalom Aron Dovid Susholz A"H  "pops" was  nifter 4 few years ago in Lakewood.

-Crown Heights: Crown Heights Hatzalah is requesting that every member of the Crown Heights community fill out the COVID-19 community survey to identify the spread and extent of the virus