News updates Sunday כ''ו אדר תש''פ , Lakewood

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11:30 am
  Pesach challenges for this year Rabbonim are working on different eitzos

Mechiras Chometz - recommending to do it over the phone or online its not lechatchila but due to circumstances they will be meikel.

Tevilas Keilim: for those making Pesach for the first time especially the local keilim mikvaos are closed. The Rabbonim are  advising people to be mafkir their keilim and not claim ownership until after pesach or have in mind when purchasing that you are not being koneh it. Another option is to go to a lake or body of water but due to current circumstances is not a viable option

Hagolas Keilim: Kashering can be done at home if no public places will be open

Biur Chometz: Most probably there will be no public burning sites or it would be set up as a drop off only location if small fires are not allowed one would have to put it in their trash cans and be mafkir it.
Siyum Bechorim- on Erev Pesach: for those who are not making a siyum Modern Orthoodox rabbonim recommend you can hear a siyum over the phone but are also warning that fasting this year for many could be a sakana since they can have symptoms and need hydration.

Getting Haircuts all Barber shops are closed not knowing when restrictions will be lifted it makes sense to order a haircut machine



11:00 pm
-Mnuchin: Tentative Coronavirus Package Will Include Average Of $3,000 To A Family Of Four

-65 out of 114 Chabad bochurim who came from the US and were staying at the Dan Jerusalem Hotel, a designated Coronavirus hotel, were diagnosed with COVID-19.

-Website with financial help govt programs for those affected by Coronavirus HERE


9:00 pm-
- NJ opens State run Coronavirus testing site  tomorrow at PNC Arts center in Holmdel NJ 30 minutes from Lakewood cases expected to spoke with more testing.

-This Wednesday Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan Hagaon Harav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, Calls for Increased Limud HaTorah and a Yom Tefillah and fast day.

 -Medical community warns those who have Covid19 symptoms fever and aches not to take Advil or iboprofine it only kick-starts the virus and brings on pneumonia. Only use Tylenol

FBI: White supremacists encouraging members to spread coronavirus to cops, Jews by going "any place they may be congregated, to include markets, political offices, businesses and places of worship.

-Tehillim: Please daven for Gavriel Ben Liza Leah he is currently in ICU w/ corona virus and not breathing on his own he is attached to a respirator.

Harav Boruch Hirshfeld is speaking at 8pm , cleaning, kashering, and other things related to making yt. 646 558 8656 meeting id 697709949

7:00 pm
Do I have Coronavirus? young people feeling symptoms are wondering if they have the virus a loss of sense of taste and smell is a symptom as is the feelings one gets when you have the flu but there is no reason to panic,
- Dr Zelenko in a updated video on social media says everyone should relax  99% of you will be fine. Just wait, don’t have panic. Stay away from old people. You will be fine. As long as there is no shortness of breath, you will be fine. You don’t need any treatment.”

6:30pm

Mincha reminder

-Murphy: We banned any social gatherings in the state. We want people to stay home, Enforcement could include arrests, he said.

-Tehillim: Women in EY with Coronavirus emergency C-section in 7th month to save the baby  עטל בת רות לאה
-Trump: National guard will be deployed to NY to fight Coronavirus by building hospitals 1,000 beds are coming to New York City within the next 48 hours, 2,000 to California.
-NY Gov. 80% of the population might get the virus closures could last for as long as 9 month
- Evergreen: Not taking anymore online orders due to tremendous volume please check back for updates

5:00 pm
-Trump Coronavirus Briefing at 5:00 pm HERE

-Harav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita in a video Message to Klal Yisrael- Hashem has seperate us now from one another to give us time to think how we can become better in serving hashem by becoming one klal yisrael to think about others how can we help  others we are missing the freinship of one another and we should think that we are thinking not for ourself but what we can do for someone else. watch HERE

- 4:00 pm
- Hatzolah of Central Jersey transporting many patients to the hospital today R"L
-Streets of boro park are deserted  as residents stay indoors
-Amazing savings will close tomorrow
-Ohio going into lockdown tonight Telz Yeshiva closes.

3:30 pm

-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said worst is yet to come: The city is in desperate need of ventilators and other medical supplies and staff. There are now over 8,000 coronavirus cases in New York City, totaling to almost a third of cases in the U.S.

Glatt Bite will close through March 29 for the safety of it's employees.
2:30 pm
-Misameach live event for children starting 3pm HERE
-Israel considers extending winter clock and pushing off  Daylight savings for a month to keep people home
-New Jersey coronavirus outbreak rises to 1,914 cases with 20 deaths. 590 new positive tests announced.
-Suspended  mortgage payments contact your lender if you are by the pandemic you may be able to postpone mortgage payments or work out a payment plan and pay half (depends on state)

-Mechaneches and speaker  Rebbetzin Rena Tarshish will be speaking via teleconference 2:00 pm
 646-726-9977 for women and girls

-Lakewood Cheder and Bais Faiga school supply 5 days worth of free meals  for the parents pick up times scheduled today at the school for those who ordered in advance

 -Rebbetzin Liba Ettil Silverstein A"h 102 year old Holocaust survivor from Williamsburg was nifteres Friday night from Coronavirus. She was fully functional on Purim.
-Price of Eggs spike before Pesach Consumer panic buying causes US wholesale egg price spike The wholesale egg market now sits over $2 per dozen, Bingo was selling@ $2.50 a dozen limiting to 5 per customer.

Tehillim: Rav Chaim Meir Ben Fraida Rivka tehillim betzibur 857-799-9347 Rav of Sterling Forest (LNN)

Tehillim: Tvi Yehuda Ben Rivka on a respirator in Lakewood
-Tehillim: Rav Dovid Olewski, Rosh Yeshiva of Gur in Boro Park needs Rachmai Shumayim due to coronavirus,  Dovid Shlomo Zalmen ben Zlata for a Refuah Shlem
-Bingo open and stocked sanitary items available for customers while you shop
-NPGS - Online order availability is limited at this time/item prices subject to change/items may be out of stock & w /limits consider in store shopping.
-Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said The lockdown affecting large segments of the American public to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus is likely to last 10 to 12 weeks, or until early June.
- Israeli doctor in Italy they are no longer treating patients older than 60 years old

-10:00am
-The state-operated coronavirus testing site at Bergen Community College reached capacity less than an hour after opening Sunday and is closed for the day, officials said.

 Eli Beer, the founder of Israel's Ichud Hatzalah who tested positive with coronavirusbeen placed on a respirator, Please Daven for Eliezer Yehuda ben Chaya

-Federal Tax Day Postponed To July 15 Amid Coronavirus Outbreak

8:00 am

-Tehillim: Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago Rosh Yeshiva, Harav Chaim Dov Keller, shlita, is hospitalized with COVID-19P Please be mispallel for Chaim Dov ben Kreindel b’soch she’ar cholei Yisrael.