- Updated Weather: Showers before 8pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 8pm and 1am, then showers likely after 1am. Low around 54. Winds could gust as high as 45 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
- Maariv/Sefiras Haomer היום שנים ועשרים יום שהם שלשה שבועות ויום אחד לעומר/בעומר
- Lakewood yeshivos and private schools may get cell phones through Title 1 funding. The BOE has prepared a draft of the following: A waiver to include the purchase of cell phones under educational technology due to extenuating learning circumstances of the health related pandemic. This is particularly for the non public schools and yeshivos who are using a system of instruction packets with audio. Additionally it was announced that title 1 services can be conducted with audio from home.
8:45 Rav Abba Brudny Divrei Chizuk
9:15- follow up questions on Porch Minyanim answered by Rav Shmuel Felder
10:00 pm- Rav Dovid Cohen shiur on Lulav Hagazol, 11:30 pm Chumash Shiur Harav Yeruchem Olshin shlita
- Night Seder America 8:00 pm for boys 6-8 Grade ZOOM ID: 8970634419 or 71913589090 (Password for both is 5780) Call in option 929-436-2866 followed by 8970634419 or 929-205-6099 followed by second meeting id (Pirchei Aguda)
-Mincha/ Shkia 7:51
- Leil Shishi event Live- tonight 8:00 pm Interview with Benny Friedman on TheJewishPlatform
-Cell phone Tower Petition: Lakewood residents sent a letter asking the township and Verizon to remove the temporary cell towers that are put up near their homes in the Squankum road area, Others are challenging with a petition to keep the towers. see HERE
-Senator Simcha Felder- "Terrorizing people by sending in armies of cops during such stressful times is not helpful at all. @NYCMayor - we need real leadership. Stop the chaos now"
-NYPD arrest 1 in BP for disobeying orders at a levaya he was released with a desk appearance ticket. see update here
-Kosher phone plans Wing 1-888-813-1541 or at wingalpha.com 3G & 4G coverage- phones $60
-Kosher Grab & Go Meals locations now in Manhattan Lower East side & Washington Hts (hamodia)
-Spotty cell phone service cell phones not working during 11:00 am - 1:00 pm hours in Lkwd
-Lakewood cases 1735 and 85 Deaths, Toms River 1102/59, Brick 829/76. Jackson 600/13
-Toms River property Tax increases for school and municipal: The municipal tax rate to go up 6%, from 63.9 cents to 67.6 cents per $100 of assessed property. The school tax rate will increase 5.5% to 6.4 cents per $100 of assessed property value. A resident with a home assessed at $275,164 a average home in TR will pay an additional $176 in school taxes and additional $102 for municipal yearly
-N.J: 118,652 total positive cases. death toll surges to 7,228 more than 450 new deaths announced in highest single-day increase. However hospitalizations are down down 26% from the peak of 8,293 patients on April 14.
-Mishpacha Magazine: Every Soul a word paying tribute to the community's Coronavirus victims. Click HERE for articles and tributes on the korbonos of the virus
-Tehillim: Yehuda Leib Chizkiyahu ben Basya Dial-in number: (978) 990-5006 code: 4860940#
-USS Comfort the Navy hospital ship left NYC back to its home port in Virginia
- Torah treasures will be open (as a essential business providing religious articles) modified hours 9:30 am-6:30 pm (9:00-930 am high risk) 1 person per family. Must follow CDC guidelines with mask. Phone orders available with $5 delivery
-Bde: Petira of R’ Pinchos Boruch Unger, 23 a resident of New Square a kollel youngerman who was stricken with the coronavirus. He was not known to have any underlying conditions. He caught the virus sometime after Purim and was hospitalized on Shabbos HaGadol. He leaves behind his wife and a 16 month old child. (Matzav)
-Ocean county Parks scheduled to reopen on May 2 include Ocean County Park and Lake Shenandoah County Park, both in Lakewood. These parks will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. open to the public for walking, jogging, biking, passive recreation which allows for social distancing.
-The CARES Act authorized a 13-week extension of unemployment benefits to workers who have exhausted their 26 weeks of New Jersey unemployment. For more information HERE
-More than 930,000 new unemployment claims have been filed since COVID-19
- Trump - Murphy meeting: Murphy praised Trump for his help in securing ventilators and expanding testing for the state Trump said about Murphy "You can’t have a better representative than this man, when Murphy asked for Financial aid Trump responded it was a “tough question”.
-White House senior adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday expressed optimism that much of the country could be "back to normal" by June as several states prepare to lift restrictions.
-Hespedim today for Mrs. Chana Tabak a'h 2:30 pm zoom ID 86275802052 PW 765002 or call in 646-558-8656 same zoom ID and Password
-Williamsburg - Very large presence by the NYPD today giving tickets for not obeying social distancing rules and guidelines set by the governor. They're also giving tickets if you pass someone on the street within 6 feet without wearing a mask.
-Tonight Follow up shiur from Rabbi Shmuel Felder on Porch Minyanim 9:15 pm Bnei torah line
11:30 am
-A High Wind Warning has been issued for Lakewood in effect until 8 pm Winds of 20-30 mph with gusts of 50-60 mph are expected.
-Madison Repair (Sruly's) 6702 Rt 9 South Howell/lkwd is open for business 732 942 6996
-Yarchei Kallah Shiur on Porch and Zoom minyanim by Rabbi Shmuel Gelley Hachana shiur 11:00 Main shiur 12:00 pm via zoom HERE phone- call 1646-558-8656 log in #83528677424
- United airlines waived the fees to change or cancel any past or future trip through the end of 2020, Every customer now has until May 31 to make changes to current reservations or book new flights that can be changed or canceled without a fee, and you'll be able to reschedule your trip for anytime in the next 12 months
- Bonfires will be banned across EY for Lag Baomer since the smoke is dabgerous for corona patients only bonfires will be allowed in Miron
-Besuros Tovos: ViznitzMonsey Rebbe ofBeit shemesh hasbeen released from the hospital he will go to rehab, Gabbai of the Skver rebbe has also been released after getting the virus
- Gov. Phil Murphy will meet with President Donald Trump This morningat 11:00 am in the Oval Office to discuss the response to the coronavirus and get federal funding for NJ
- Askanim lobbied and now 25 NY State Senate senators sent a letter calling Governor Cuomo and Hospitals to allow visitors to patients
-Report: NYPD helped plan the levaya in Williamsburg that NYC Mayor blamed on the frum community
-State parks to open Murphy strongly recommends all people wear face coverings at parks and golf courses, but the executive order does not require facial protection.
-LPD- Based on Governor Murphy’s executive order reopening State and County parks, Lakewood Municipal Parks will be reopened to the public as of April 30, 2020.
-Flatbush- In a show of thanks and appreciation to hatzolah the community arranged a parrade and convoy of emergency vehicles to drive by the hatzolah headquarters and solute the volunteers.
Parks are open !
ReplyDeleteHashem inspire us to open our Shuls !
Hashem save us from
overreaching Askonim !
Yes, we should be able to make minyans with social distancing in the parks.
DeleteTonight, Live for B'nei Torah!
ReplyDelete8:30 Shiur from Harav Dov Kahan in Sefer Chofetz Chaim
8:45 p.m. Divrei Chizuk from Harav Abba Brudny
9:15 Shiur from Harav Shmuel Felder on the topic of porch minyanim
10:00 Shiur Klali Perek Lulav Hagazul Harav Dovid Cohen (E”Y)
Call in number 646.726.9977 no pin necessary
Hashem, Dave is from non-science based decisions. Hashem, save us from non-Torah ideas of ‘a balance between human lives and something else’. Hashem, save us from repeating the mistakes we made in the month of Adar.
ReplyDeleteHashem please save us from Anon 7:31 Hashem please save us from people who think we are making a balance between saving lives and killing them. Hashem please save us from people who want to keep us locked down forever and destroy our lives for many years to come. Hashem please save us from people who think that our lives are all in danger until politicians decide we are safe. Hashem please help us from people who think the lockdown has any science behind it. Hashem please save us from these people who can't think straight.
DeleteIt doesn't make sense to you that if we all stay indoors then the virus will spread less?
DeleteTo those meshugoyim who want to open shuls as normal: you don't seem to realize that hatzalos nefashos is more chamar than minyan. The answer is that you don't really care about what hashem wants, you just want to argue with those in power. If the ships stayed open you would all be cursing out the askanim for leaving them opened.
ReplyDeleteYour remark is projectionism at its best because that's how you see it.
DeleteDid you shop in stores with social distancing? did you go out on the street with social distancing? is it so hard for you to see other people have a will to serve Hashem how they see fit. yes a minyan is very possible with social distancing and is allowed by the law just as churches are please tell us why its the minyan thing that irks you so much.
did you have the same reaction to all those politicians calling for an end of the restrictions.
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DeleteWell said, well said!!!
Amazing how some people feel they have the right to attack fellow Yidden just because of their unfinished psychological issues. They go as far as being mafkir their dam with their mesira. Nebach!
While there is certainly an increased risk of exposure every time you go to a store, most people I know are trying to limit this exposure to when absolutely necessary. A responsible family will probably not have more than an hour of shopping exposure per week to one or two members of the household. Shuls on the other hand, would represent at least 90 minutes of exposure per day per male household member. Additionally, people go in and out of stores. They do not handle the washing cups, doorknobs, tables, chairs or use the restrooms - all areas where there is an increased risk of virus spread.
DeleteI don't want to get into the actual question of if shuls should or should not be opened but the comparison to food stores is totally flawed and at best represents a real lack of understanding of how infectious diseases spread.
To be machmir on tefilla b'tzibur while being a meikel on pikuach nefashos is silly.
why is it that people who want to daven in a shul can not be trusted to keep social distancing regulations shuls are keeping the same rules as anywhere else like essential businesses that are open. Of course safeguards are put in place, no they wont share the washing cup. But the same resistance was used against porch minyanim that have absolutely none of these risks
DeleteI'm not sure that its a question of trust. It is very difficult to maintain a constant awareness of what and where you touch for extended periods of time. Essential businesses have limited employees, provide training and PPE for essential employees and are financially motivated to protect their employees. As far as customers, they are in and out. Shuls are very different as I explained above.
DeleteI fully understand the legitimate desire that people have to open the shuls but I wonder if those in favor of opening the shuls can understand that many who oppose that stance are motivated by a sincere concern for communal welfare and not by a desire to control others or worse.
Wanting to save lives - or to otherwise have a cause in your life - gives you no right to impose your 'saviorisim' on me, or on anyone else.
DeleteI've seen porch minyanim that "officialy" followed the rules. That's why there was opposition to porch minyanim.
DeleteA Rosh yeshiva spoke recently to his talmidim and mentioned how one of the big tumlurs and advocates against minyanim was spotted waiting in line motzei pesach for fresh pizza social distancing not so strictly enforced.. its all about priorities
ReplyDeleteWill Agudah issue a statement against NYPD for profiling and ticketing Williamsburg Jews
ReplyDeleteIf you allow minyan you're a Goy if you don't, your a meshu-goy
ReplyDeleteYou wrote “A responsibile Family will only send only one family member to store once a week , Shuls will be open 90 minutes a day ...” etc . .
ReplyDeleteSO OPEN THE SHULS ONCE A WEEK !!
Only for healthy people .
Why do you extinguish every bit of Judaism ??
You are a terrible Yid !
99% of those who were tested positive in the frum non-facility were not fatal regardless of age, or prior history, so going to shul is less than 1% and al pi torah even thse who are choshehsh it's botel b'shishim
ReplyDeleteBatel B'shishim? If you went to Yeshiva, you were appearently weren't all that concerned about participating then f you think Batel B'shishim applies.
DeleteNot going to comment overall on whether shuls should open, beyond my pay grade. But each shul is different. some can add additional minyanim, and maintain social distancing, other can't
Less than 2% is so unlikely that it's considered botel for example Dole lettuce has a hechsher though it's not checked and Heckers flour has a hechsher unchecked because less than 2% chance of bugs even though many ppl have found bugs it doesn't mean it's ossur and in fact 99% of food you eat relies on this so why is minyan different????
DeleteHuman life is not batel b'shishim.
DeleteWhat's truly shocking is that our community which has lost such a disproportionate number of people (and seemingly so many talmidei chachamim_ have done no cheshbon hanefesh and insteda are blaming the doctors and askanim etc...) TAKE ACHRAYUS YIDDEN!!!!!
Are we really so krum in our thinking!!!!!
If you lost 1 in 60 of your relatives you wouldn't be so happy. Real life is not a sugya, either people die or they don't.
DeleteYou wrote “A responsibile Family will only send only one family member to store once a week , Shuls will be open 90 minutes a day ...” etc . . SO OPEN THE SHULS ONCE A WEEK !! Only for healthy people . Why do you extinguish every bit of Judaism ??
ReplyDeleteI think that's a fair proposal. Or open it every day for a limited number of people and have a rotation so everyone can daven btzibur once a week until things improve. Ensure proper sanitizing every day. Carefully track who is part of which group so that when someone tests positive you don't have to close the whole shul, it would be just that group that has to isolate. But honestly, I cant imagine a system like that ever working.
DeleteI was in line at the grocery and someone announced "Borchi H' Hamevorach" there were more than 10 yidden there and someone screamed "brocho l'vatolo" and no-one ansWered.
ReplyDeleteChazal were mevatel tkias shofer on rosh hashana forever for a chshash hotza'ah, and the rabanim were mevatel tfila betzibur for a chshash pikuach nefesh for just a few weeks. And this oiber chochom thinks we're being mevatel Judaism?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteIf you think tfila betzibur is the sum total of yidishkeit, you need to work on your yidishkeit.
Stop throwing around geamrahs that have no shaycus at all, Mr Am Ha'aretz. Its boidem mit klotz. The point is that this is not a religios debate. Peoplw are saying that shutting down life for everyone was a mistake from the get-go. You can't stop the world because you might save a life. And there is zero science to back the extreme shutdown. And there is zero evidence that it actually did anything. You show me one place that it had an effect.
DeleteUnfortunately what we are being told by official channels is the complete lie. Turkey used hydroxycloroquine early in the disease and 92% didn’t even need hospitalizations. If you want to really understand what is going on you have to follow the money and see who is benefiting and gaining monetarily and egotistically. A huge reason for so many deaths in NY can be put to blame on Gov Como and his order that there is no liability for hospitals n medical workers now and the fact there are no patient advocates allowed in now.
ReplyDeleteMedicaid pays for death by heart attack say $5000 for Covid 19 $13,000 and if they die on a vent $39,000. So there is a huge reason to put people on vents. Normally before Covid 19 vents would have 40% mortality rate. Now with Covid 19 mortality is 80% or more. Numerous stories have been told of people dyeing in the hospitals because of neglect. The chevra Kaddisha found a note (I saw a picture of the note) in the pockets of a man that was written in Yiddish saying he’s dyeing but not from Covid 19 but from starvation. Another case Hatzolah dropped off someone in the hospital and 3 days later chevra kaddisha picked him up in the same exact place without him being touched or looked at. A young lady went into ER, she thought she was having problems breathing. A nurse told her your too young and beautiful to die. Their going to stick you on a vent and basically most die then. She left and went home and it turned out it was a panic attack.
There is a expose today that was done by project Veritas that spoke to funeral parlors in NY and they said they are putting down everyone as dyeing of Covid 19 so they can get more money. There was someone that wanted an autopsy done on their relative as reason for death had been listed as Covid 19 and the relative felt it was from Alzheimer’s which actually turned out to be the reason. The cdc is touting right now a medicine that they were working on for Ebola which cost a thousand dollars versus hydroxycloroquine which is only $20. The medicine they are referring does not have any of the time tested safety records of hydroxycloroquine which is from over 40 years ago. It also doesn’t sound like it’s as effective as hydroxycloroquine which has at least 92% effective rate wherever it has been used.
A doctor that worked in Maimonides ICU said they’re treating people the wrong way. He said the people do not have pneumonia’s but more like just a lack of oxygen like dropping people out of plane at 30,000 and when they put on the vent it blows apart the peopleS lungs. So basically they’re killing the people by putting them on vents.
Dr. Fauci and others at the CDC have gotten this all wrong from the get go. Unless you consider they’re driven by an agenda. Numbers way out of proportion, vents mostly not needed etc.
There are many scientists that are voicing out that we should open up almost totally. There are even some that hold most people have been exposed and we already have herd immunity. When we go to stores and by water or whatever, the virus is probably attached to whatever we bring back to our homes. It attaches to our shoes and pants etc.
Now to get back to whether we should be allowed to have minyanim I think with social distancing we are doing more than our fair share. If we start be choshesh for the miyut of pekuach nefashos then no one should go in a car or bus or anything anymore as it could be dangerous also the food ur getting delivered probably has Covid 19 on it and maybe some other bacteria.
The bottom line is we need to remember who really controls the world?! And that is Hashem!! The more we accept His rule over us and that He is our Healer the more He will become our healer. Covid19 is really all about Kavvod of 2019 where we think we have all the answers and potenten how to handle everything in life. The real problem is the the Kavvod of the doctors and false healers of world civilization. Let’s get back to Hashem and internalize He is Ein Od Milvado.
Please sign the petition to keep the new cellphone towers in Lakewood http://chng.it/Ph9vHq5x
ReplyDeleteThanks to Agudah for emboldening the mayor and throwing chasidim in Brooklyn under the bus or bridge now we see the response as frum yidden are being singled out and terrorized by law enforcement.
ReplyDeletewith statements like these who needs enemies.
Totally untrue. Show me one piece of evidence. And Agudah has supported Satmar throughout the education debacle in NYC; they help Yidden even when they are ideolagically opposed. Unfortanately there are Yidden who are responsible for this, ayein b'tvitter, vdo"k
DeleteThere was no need to put out the statement They could have done the same to Lakewood when it was in the news everyday for violations aguda was silent about it but call out chasidim and defend Deblasio. It's all about the $$$$
DeletePeople are fed up already. Kids (along with their parents) are going crazy cooped up in the house. Teachers are desperately trying to get some semblance of class taught. Yeshivos are closed, "learning" over the phone is not learning the way it's supposed to be. Tefilla is not what it should be with shuls closed. Businesses are suffering, some will have to close. Jobs are being lost. Teenagers are being medicated to prevent them from breakdowns.
ReplyDeleteWho is taking achrayus for all the suffering that the quarantine is causing?
We need to reopen already.
Anyone over 50, or at risk should continue to stay indoors, but why can't the younger population get back to their life? Is there still a risk for some people people? Yes, a very small percentage of the population. Nobody is minimizing a single death. But to keep an entire population indoors to prevent a few deaths is not right. It is going to cause more deaths, someone who loses his parnassa is at risk for a lot more than corona virus. Children not in school for months will suffer later and many of them could drop out of the system because of this. People suffering from depression, anxiety etc...
We don't ban cigarettes and alcohol for the health hazards they cause.
We don't ban take out food, because of the health hazards of people who eat too much?
Did we make people stay home during the intifada years so that no one would C"V get killed in a terrorist attack?
How many US soldiers died in WW2 so that we would have a better society.
Politicians need to pull themselves together and do what is right, and not worry about their election
Yup, all that money that R' CDZ makes off of Agudah. Its all about the $$$$ for who? Agudah is doing what they think is best for klal yisrael as a whole unlike the people here who are only thinking about themselves....their minyan, their paycheck etc.
ReplyDeleteTAKE ACHRAYUS YIDDEN!!!!
Aguda attacked President Trump us that considered achrayus for the klal for potential nekama Yet they suck up to liberal NY politicians who ignored attacks on Jews its all about the Binyomins $$$
ReplyDeletehttps://arcdigital.media/bill-de-blasio-is-playing-with-antisemitic-fire-ae557599aae
ReplyDeleteHow about a petition to move the tower 1/2 mile out of town. Would help in both providing cellular service and not having it to close to residential housing for comfort (and safety) To those that want the tower under 300' from residential buildings Can you volunteer your backyard?
ReplyDeleteYes!! I would for many years I lived in a building that had a cell tower on the roof the only problum was you had to get a cell phone from the towers com. other wise your cell phone would not work. Funny I don't remember that all children (or any children) were born with brith defects.
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