Thursday 4/2/20 News Updates Lakewood

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Shabbos in a Box  for  4 by Shloimy's kosher for $220  All your Seudos plus challas and cake.
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10:30 pm
תורה תורה חגרי שק

BDE: Rav Aharon Walkin zt”l-.  rov of a Khal Bais Aharon in Lakewood, NJ, Matzav

-Help Hatzolah Members for Yom Tov DONATE HERE

-Mincha- shkia 7:22 pm

6:00 pm
-Lakewood positive cases 524, Toms River 221, Jackson 120, Brick 139
- Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says first stimulus payments will be directly deposited in 2 weeks, a week ahead of schedule.

5:00 pm

- Lakewood township meeting  video here

-Harav Moshe Tuvia Lieff shlita: “Modify the Pesach preparations to a bare minimum. Sell even things you would never normally sell. Now you’re going to be machmir on pikuach nefesh mishpacha article.
-Hatzolah of Central Jersey Seeking List of Medical Professionals to assist the community should the need arise fill out form  HERE

-B"H: The R"Y Harav Nosson Stein shlita has been released from the hospital continue tefillos
-NPGS James Street Npgs has Lakewood matza from last year.

4:00 pm

-BDE: Petirah of Rav Mendel Margulies zt”l Roas Yeshiva Torah Temima the son of Rav Lipa Margulies.(Matzav)

-BDE: Yoka Rov, zt”l, Prominent Boro Park Rav and Posek (BP24)
-Tehillim: Nosson Moshe Hakohein ben Sasa Mindel Rav Nosson Stein, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Chesed of Lakewood, NJ. (Matzav)

-Tefillos for Harav Chaim Dov Keller  shlita  Chaim Dov ben Kreindel
-Mesameach live watch HERE at 3:00 pm with Beri Weber

-Lakewood township committee meeting tonight at  5:30 pm on zoom
watch live stream HERE
See Agenda HERE
public can send in comments during the public comments section by email to:
comments@lakewoodnj.gov

2:00 pm

-NJ statewide numbers  25,590  positive coronavirus cases and 537 deaths
-Tehillim: Avrohom Yaakov ben Chaya
-City of Bnei Brak under locksown To protect the elderly the IDF will remove some 4,500 people above the age of 80 from Bnei Brak and place them in state-run isolation hotels out of the city

1:45 pm

Lakewood Bikur Cholim update: B"H 10 patients have been safely discharged from local hospitals a women who is positive delivered a healthy baby, there are still 150 patients in local and regional hospitals 35 patients on respirators R"L bikur cholim donated 14 respirators to local hospitals.Again  the stumbling block askanim are facing as they advocate for members of the kehila is the media reports of social distancing violations  please have zero social gathering and don't be anywhere you should not be.

1:00 pm

-Bingo: Restocked with Blechs, stove tops, open 24 hours, no children under 16 allowed, please keep 6 feet apart for social distancing
-Gourmet Glatt Lakewood donates food to Monmouth Medical Center to assist during this crisis. The food was transported via Bikur Cholim of Lakewood
-Evergreen is cooking for Pesach order deadline extended to Tomorrow 5:00 pm order here
- Florida essential service Attending religious services conducted in churches, synagogues and houses of worship.” not under stay at home order but local govt can have tighter rules.

12:00 pm

Tehillim:Yitzchak Mordechai Ben Rose Nizha Rav- Yitzchak Dwek Shlita is in very serious condition due to the Coronavirus.

-Hisachdus Harabonim kashrus: Although the minhag is not to eat Garlic on Pesach, this year those who need it for health reasons may eat it. Additionally one should not refrain from taking any medications even though it is not on a approved list unless told so specifically by a rav or physician.

-Snaps kosher take out and restaurant in Lakewood donates  500 pastrami sandwiches to neighboring hospitals doctors and nurses who are working tirelessly during this crisis compliments of Hatzolah EMS and Bikur Cholim.

11:30 am
-News 12 Lakewood mayor: Members of the religious community are calling police on neighbors for social distancing violations

-LIC meeting has been cancelled to to "technical issues preventing the remote meeting from taking place"

10:00 am
- 15 people have been charged after attending Levaya last night of R' Chaim Moshe Strulovics ztl in violation of the statewide social distancing order police said. 60 -70 ppl gathered at 8th and Madison for the levaya according to the media reports. Those charged are family members of the niftar.

-Lakewood Industrial Commission (LIC) has scheduled to hold a Special Meeting today at 11:00 AM  on items of business that are deemed to be time sensitive and should not be delayed further.
Agenda and zoom instructions HERE
Online access to the meeting is as follows: https://zoom.us/j/470497181
Dial in phone number: +1-646-558-8656 Meeting ID #470497181

8:30 am

-Report:  Engagement party PD gets it all wrong: The summons called it a ‘wedding’ and it charged a 99-year-old man married to a 21-year-old woman. In reality, the man was 27 years old but the officer wrote the date as his birthday, so the following day they released a report saying he was 99! Everyone were in their cars. The media and authorities blew this one again (VeltNews)


-Lakewood community leaders applauded the increased scrutiny announced Wednesday to crack down on social distancing violations.
-Mayor Raymond Coles: “I’m all in favor of having as many eyes as possible on the streets,“The community as a whole will appreciate the increased presence of the police as much as anybody because they are the ones most at risk.”

-Rabbi Aaron Kotler: “Thankfully, Lakewood, New Jersey’s fourth largest city, is closed,” he said. “We support all enforcement efforts, they can help ensure that not even one of the 130,000 residents in Lakewood makes even small mistakes. On our end, we continue our nonstop public service messaging and awareness, along with vital supplies deliveries.”(APP)