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8:45 Practical Halacha by Rav Shlomo Stein
9:15 Divrei Chizuk Rav Uren Reich
- Mincha/ Shkia 7:47 pm
-CDC adds 6 new symptoms of covi19 to the list Chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and a loss of taste or smell.
-Petition: Almost 35,000 have already signed a petition for a hospital to allow a family member in the room with a Coronavirus patient. Sign HERE
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-Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop in a newsletter to residents that the state’s -largest city will reopen some larger pauprks next week, but said residents must still practice social distancing there. He also said playgrounds, basketball courts, or other areas where social distancing is difficult will still be shuttered.
-Lakewood Rebbeim drove to Talmidim’s homes to speak with each boy and offer him Chizuk Veltnews reports The Rebbi parked near the home and spoke with the student from a distance in accordance with social distancing guidelines.
-New Jersey is still “a number of weeks away” from starting to reopen from the near lockdown restrictions to slow the spread the coronavirus, Gov. Phil Murphy said Sunday morning.
Murphy also said he is still deciding whether the state will reopen as a whole or whether it could be a regional approach.(nj.com)
-NJ: 109,000 positive cases and 5938 deaths
-12:30-1:30 pm Hespedim for HaRav Yisrael Pluchock ztl Rosh Yeshiva Derech Chaim on phone conference (857) 356-3300 or (612) 398-0330
-Agudah YK Shiur in English: at 12:00 pm from Rabbi Asher Weiss on yesod din Krias Shema and divrei chizuk from Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Ausband at 1:00 pm To connect via zoom, go to https://zoom.us/j/876513892 or, via phone, call 646-558-8656 ID 876 513 892.
-Panini cafe in Lakewood reopening today for curbside pickup or delivery here 732-730-7536
-Monsey: Yeshiva of Spring Valley: The Yeshiva intends to pass along 100% of the benefit of any CARES funds (covid19 govt grant) received to the parent body, particularly those that have been impacted by the economic effects of COVID-19. as a tuition credit or set up a fund for tuition relief.
-Murphy on Friday: Today I’m signing an executive order allowing renters to to direct their landlords to use their security deposits to pay their rents, whether that be to make up for a shortfall or to pay it in full.
- 2:00 pm The Shnitzel guys family show today at 2 pm must RSVP to get zoom link HERE
- 11:30 am Shivti Shiur live on zoom HERE
-Jerusalem mayor calls for an immediate re-opening of Machane Yehuda market after a vendor reportedly commits suicide in despair at the economic straits of the coronavirus closures.
- Harav Berel Povarsky shlita Ponovez Rosh Yedhiva delivers a pesicha shiur today to his talmidim via live broadcast
- Petition launched here asking Twitter to allow tweets via SMS notification. Many frum yidden receive their news bus text message from the heimish news media using Twitter to send texts
-Twitter has abruptly ended the ability to get tweets via text, allegedly to prevent hacking.(kolhaolam)
-Khal Zichron Schneur along with the Wolf Family invite everyone to attend a Hesped for our dear Chaver & Gabbai of more than 35 years , Reb Shmuel Eliezer Wolf z”l this Sunday night April 26th at 8:00 pm . Speakers will include Rav Osher Chaim Lieberman, Rav Yeruchem Olshin, Rav Heshy Brody, R' Menachem Wolf, R' Mordechai Schrieber and Reb Yisroel Steinberg representing the kehilla The call in number is 978-990-5000. The access code is 871220#.
-NJ Police: Excessive Wearing of Mask May Have Contributed To Driver Passing Out And Crashing Car. A driver had been wearing an N95 mask inside the vehicle for several hours and ultimately passed out while operating the vehicle.”
- Photo Gallery: Social distancing minyanim on the porches and courtyards of Yerushalayim by Photographer Shuki Lerer view HERE
- USDA is providing a 40% increase in SNAP benefits to ensure that low-income individuals have enough food to feed themselves and their families during this national emergency,” said Secretary Perdue.
-Deli Dinner special at Gourmet Glatt south location Sun- Wed for family of 6 $30 or deluxe package for $45 call or text 347-452-9151 order must be placed by 11:00 am pick up after 4:30 pm Menu
- In a sign that the coronavirus is easing, a funeral home in Boro Park has gone from dozens of levayos a day to a more regular, pre-virus routine. A source who spoke to boropark24.com said that it appears the drastic social distancing measures undertaken by Boro Park residents the past month is working.(source)
-Yeshiva Bais yosef Novardhok of Flatbush willing to assist Bochurim and youngeleit who returned from Eretz Yisrael and dont have a proper framework now for the summer zman please call 718-551-4220. The yeshiva isstarting the zman today via teleconferencing. under the leadership of Rav Mordechai Yoffen Rav Yaakov Drillman Rav Yisrael Nekritz shlita
-El Al on Friday announced that it was willing to carry the bodies of coronavirus victims from New York to Tel Aviv, and at regular prices that were charged before the coronavirus pandemic.
-The next phase of Masmidei HaSiyum will go through Lag B'Omer with FIVE DAILY winners!!!
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Khal Zichron Schneur along with the Wolf Family invite everyone to attend a Hesped for our dear Chaver & Gabbai of more than 35 years , Reb Shmuel Eliezer Wolf z”l this Sunday night April 26th at 8:00 pm .
ReplyDeleteSpeakers will include Rav Osher Chaim Lieberman, Rav Yeruchem Olshin, Rav Heshy Brody, R' Menachem Wolf, R' Mordechai Schrieber and Reb Yisroel Steinberg representing the kehilla
The call in number is 978-990-5000. The access code is 871220#.
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ReplyDeleteok. I think its safe to stop the quarantine.... All seems to be normal so why are we continuing like this???
ReplyDeleteThe only reason things are back to “normal” is because of social distancing, Coronavirus did not disappear and there is no vaccine/cure yet. We are continuing like this because if we reopen hastily things will get very bad very quickly again.
DeleteSo you're saying we should be holed up until there's a vaccine/cure? Seriously??
DeleteNo, just saying that the reason we’re continuing like this is that the metziut has not changed, and until there’s a smart plan to reopen slowly and safely we should sit tight. There have been enough deaths rl”t
DeleteIs it really the quarantine that caused the virus to subside? Quarantine was in place before March 15, peak should have been April 1 based on 2 week max incubation. Yet the peak did not occur till 2 weeks after.
DeleteQuarantine won't help much more. Most likely the reason for the decline is that most people came in contact with this type of Corona virus and either had some sort of affect or no affect. At this point the quarantine may just help the (probably small percentage) people that have not come in contact, but either way the quarantine can't be forever so they will anyways come in contact on the future. At this point the quarantine is mostly useless
DeleteVote Murphy OUT!!
ReplyDeleteIt's so obvious by now. He needs to go
DeleteMurphy is ruining New Jersey for political purposes .
ReplyDeleteVote Him Out !
Yes! We need a governor who will risk our lives for non political purposes! We should ignore experts and stop the single thing that has been proven to slow down this plague.
DeleteSheesh! There should be a minimum IQ to be able to vote.
The quarantine started March 14th. The incubation period is from 3 days to 2 weeks max. So if the lockdown worked, the virus should have peaked the first week of April, not the 2nd week.
DeleteSo there is no evidence the quarantine worked, it is very possible that this virus, like every virus, passed through naturally.
"Monsey: Yeshiva of Spring Valley: The Yeshiva intends to pass along 100% of the benefit of any CARES funds (covid19 govt grant) received to the parent body"
ReplyDeleteWill lakewood yeshivos do the same?
BMG has not received the money yet. It is also very heavy restricted. Many talmidim will not be eligible.
DeleteCan you please explain about restricted? It’s pretty clear that 3,000,000 should go to the students.... please specify any restrictions on the money allocated for the students... yungerleit ( and others) are In desperate need of funds...
DeleteThe press release specifies that money be allocated for the students. What exactly are the restrictions that you are talking about? The senators released the money . Why are you saying bmg did not received it yet??? It rightfully should be for the yungerleit!!!
DeleteEach institution is required to distribute half of their award—the portion being released first—directly to students by providing emergency financial aid grants to help cover costs associated with the disruption of campus operations due to COVID-19, including course materials, food, health care, technology, housing, and other eligible costs.
Alot of Other yeshivos in Lakewood receivesd money as well are they giving tuition breaks
DeleteBefore you start kvetching about the yungerleit receiving the money, you should read up a little on the Cares act. BMG has not yet received the money because as you can imagine, there is a very arduous and not yet clear cut process for applying for and receiving the money. They will get the money but have not yet received it. As far as the restrictions mentioned, there is a lot of conflicting and not clear guidance from the Department of Education as to which students will be eligible and what the requirements are for distributing the funds. While it sounds nice to say that $3,000,000 is going to students, it does not mean that everyone is eligible and not clear what the money is meant for. It isn’t meant just as a straight up grant to students no strings attached. I’m sure Yeshiva is working on figuring it all out.
DeleteCafoteria reopened
ReplyDeletehttps://www.senatenj.com/petitions/openreligion/confirm.php
ReplyDeleteThis is a petition to permit Outdoor Religious Services - Should Be Allowed with Reasonable Precautions
Look at this letter from Yeshiva of Spring Valley. This is impressive:
ReplyDeletehttps://us2.campaign-archive.com/?u=d3013102b6daadc1be1e94d25&id=7570bc5759
I am confident that Lakewood schools will also do the right thing and give tuition relief.
ReplyDeleteI don't think any area should be reopened until 2 weeks with NO new cases. Otherwise, we will be right back where we were.
ReplyDeleteSweden never closed. In less than 2 weeks the entire country will have immunity.
Deleteonly if immunity actually happens. we are now finding out that it might not....
DeleteWhy are cops sitting in front of empty shuls that are closed for more than. Month. Are they hoping to catch someone and put out another press release about Lakewood? Some of those that were charged were for violating social distancing were actually keeping to the rules yet the put out the stories to the media and put Lakewood not just in a bad light but in danger of all the hate spewed on social media.
ReplyDeleteWhere are the askanim who always brag about their relationship with law enforcement.
after this is all over there is going to be alot to answer up to the community on what has transpired from the police politicians and the askanim. The politicians were not heard from not a peep. but alot ogf the bad press started with mesira against backyards weddings that were legal at the time but once authorities came they busted it up and the press releses brought national attention while people all over NJ were just as guilty.
DeleteThey yelled about porch minyanim porch minyanim porch minyanim nothing else.
DeleteThe politicians in this town never have to answer for anything. The Vaad will come out with a letter backing them, the sheep will vote for them, while the majority do not vote at all.
DeleteAnd we’ll ALL be classed as “bad apples”!!
DeleteNot sure why everyone thinks the was mesira going on.
ReplyDeleteRise up ocean county was asking it readers to drive around Lakewood and report and "suspicious" activity. They went so far to report a doctors office....
For those who have access to social media from local non-jews, there were plenty of pics from scenes that they witnessed.
While things seem to have calmed down in our community BH, remember that we do not live in isolation. We had an early bump in this virus due to Purim, other communities, such as the Hispanic and seniors are still being hit.
I think we all know the trouble the callous disregard for our neighbors has caused us....
the mosrim did not hide what they did they proudly called authorities while the wedding was taking place
Deleteaccording to r' chaim (who get to decide what constitutes mesirah) reporting Corona gatherings is not a problem.
DeleteI wonder if those same mosrim were the ones who were upset with one of the hosts because he blocked plans for a high density development in the area.
DeleteI don’t understand why some people feel that in every instance where the authorities were notified about Covid-related violationsp, it was “mesirah. On the contrary, many of these people were doing a big mitzvah by taking proper action to stop the spread of this deadly and highly contagious disease and thereby SAVING LIVES. There are unfortunately some real idiots out there that could care less about all the warnings and act in purely selfish ways in direct violation of the Rabbonim’s directive, the Doctor’s orders, and the dina demalchusa. Those individuals need to be stopped and deserve to get penalized so they learn their lesson not to continue endangering the rest of the populace with sakanas nefashos.
DeleteUmmm, before you take actions that are mafkir your dam (mesira) into your hand, be sure that you are indeed correct and not just rushing to judgement based upon a supposed psak from someone who insists that you don't rely on his psak.
DeleteIn this case you were wrong and the negative consequences are obvious to all. No tov would give you a heter! And as is clear in halacha, the first step before mesira is to speak to the people if possible. You never spoke to them!
Just like mesirah on a Shul is not mesirah right?
Delete“Getting Lakewood to a place where the religious, community and public health leaders were all on the same page wasn’t an easy task, Kotler said. It required hours of conference calls, with physicians and community leaders trying to convince rabbis to shut the synagogues down.
ReplyDelete“We know you’ve been praying for thousands of years,” Kotler recalled saying. “Now is not the time. God does not want you in the synagogues now. He wants you home with your family. We’re grateful the people have really listened — and the rabbis have really listened.”
These are the exact words from the Asbury park press .
Our Own Askonim said this about our Rabbonim and Our Rosh Yeshiva .
Nothing wrong with what was said in hindsight no one knew how bad it was so it took some convincing.
DeleteThere is something very wrong with what he said. It is condescending and makes Rabbonim sound like idiots. The purpose of the proffesionals is to provide facts and data, it is up to the Rabbonim to decide what G-d wants based on that.
Deletethat being said, I am glad Aaron finally admitted that he is not a religious leader. Although he will likely change his tune when it benefits him
The "vort" that supposedly took place where a "99" yo was charged, when the police came, they were fine with what was going on. It was the frum neighbor next door that screamed at the police they must do something. We are own worst enemy.
ReplyDeleteIts remarkable the social distancing the lakewood as a community did as soon as it became serious. A community who lives on socializing davening 3 times a day going to shul going to learn in botei medrash going to simchos every night visiting family relatives over one hundred thousand people changed their daily routine and stayed in their homes all communal life shut down. There is also shabbos when no one goes out no driving no shopping anywhere there was a 3 day yom tov. We should have gotton an award, instead the media with the help of some unzere that kept on mentioning that lakewood has a social distancing problem. This fanned the flames and no matter how restrained and restricted we became considering the busiest shopping season of the year, The constant robo calls and nonn stop letters publicized everyday screamed out that lakewood still does not have its act together. Instead of keeping quiet it changed the narrative and lakewood became a national story with Murphy talking aboout it every day in his press conference. A vort that was done with social distancing with immidiate family was called an ailegal engagement party, a bar mitzva with only family members became a public news story with twisted and untruthful facts. but they did not stop they had to go all out to stop the porch minyanim which were legal at all cost and kept lakewood again in the news that we are breaking the rules.
ReplyDeleteOh and than there Aiva toobubt boruch hashem it came and went away very quickly.
The only AIVA I know of has come from within. Ironically it all started with trying to shut down a Shul... this is just 13 year history repeating itself... midah kineged midah... vihamaivin yavin.
DeleteThe only AIVA I know of has come from within. Ironically it all started with trying to shut down a Shul... this is just 13 year history repeating itself
DeleteThe Olam is stuck at home and it's pouring rain bring the popcorn.
ReplyDeleteCHURCHES are OPEN
ReplyDeleteAs per NJ.COM and Gov. MURPHY
The botton line is policeor politicians mesira or no mesira if we dont act cautiously the virus will c"v flare up again. Just because porch minyanim are allowed if we dont follow to the letter of the law we are asking for trouble (besides going against daas torah). Do you qant to be stuck at home for a few more weeks or months??
ReplyDeleteNobody honestly believes that were going to wipe out the virus. You're not going to keep everyone at home until the virus disappears, because it is not going to disappear. We need to start accepting the reality of the virus and resume our lives. Anyone who is at risk should continue to quarantine until a vaccine is developed, and the rest of us can try to get some normalcy in their lives
DeleteIf the kloister is open then the Kloiz must be open. Reminds of the chilul hash' that the catholics protest Toeivah and we don't. Go R" Levin and Richter Go
ReplyDeleteAguda yarchei kallah continues tmrw,11 hachanah,12 shiur on kadish by rav lipa geldwerth,sign in info at aiayk.org
ReplyDeleteThese gatherings that the mosrim called the cops were not a danger to the public it was private family events like a vort or bar mitzvah and the attendees who sat in their cars were all members of the same family
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