Tuesday July 21 News Updates Lakewood

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 / כ״ט תמוז תש״פ
-Weather: Mostly sunny skies. Hot and humid. High 93F. Humidity 50%
-Dinei Aveilus of the 9 days begins this evening Rosh chodesh Av, (shkia tonight is 8:20 pm)

-Yartzeit of Bobov Rebbe zatzal today Rosh Chodesh Av. There will be restrictions and limitations at the tzion for those coming to the bais olam. Minyanim will take place outside the ohel. Limited entry to the ohel only to place a kvitel and for short tefila, fulll compliance with the law will be implemented.

-Harav Yechiel Moskowitz will be giving a Shiur tonight at 10:30 on Nach regarding the period preceding the Churban Habayis. The Phone # is 701-802-5287 and the access # is 6391175

-Laws of the nine days  Based on "A Summary of Halachos of the Three Weeks" by Rabbi Shimon D. Eider  according to the Ashkenazic custom see Here

- 5 new positive cases in Lakewood +3 deaths totals 2654/192

- Trump: 'Wear a mask.' urging Americans to wear a mask as he predicts the spread of the disease will worsen before it improves It will probably, unfortunately, get worse before it gets better," "We're asking everybody that when you are not able to socially distance, wear a mask, get a mask," Trump said in perhaps his strongest urging to date on that issue. "Whether you like the mask or not, they have an impact, they have an effect. We need everything we can get."

-Simchas Brisk Youngest son of RAvrohom Yehoshua Soliveitchik shluta engaged to kallahs daughter of Rav Blau from Manchester.
-Michael Cohen writing Book on Trump claims "my book will provide graphic and unflattering details about the President’s behavior behind closed doors,” Cohen wrote. The memoir “describes the President’s pointedly anti-Semitic remarks and virulently racist remarks against such black leaders as President Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, neither of whom he viewed as real leaders or as worthy of respect by virtue of their race.”



-LPD: Now that we have everyone washing their hands correctly, next up: Turn signals!

-NJ 424 new positive cases and  an additional confirmed 22  deaths

-Murphy adds 10 states to 14 day Quarantine Advisory Issued for Individuals Traveling to New Jersey  31 States Include Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin


-Some Campers going to out of state camps must test for Covi19 within a week of arriving to the campgrounds. Local urgent caes are expediting results  some have rapid tests available.

-Erev Rosh Chodesh Av Minyanim for Yom Kippur Koton today
-Lunch distribution at Pizza on Wheels Chestnut and Route 9  11:00 am
-Lakewood DMV has met it's capacity and not be servicing any new customers.
-Yated Lakewood team on Twitter: New at BMG: Aside for a 236-spot parking lot that was approved by Lakewood's Planning Board last week, BMG also has plans to pave the existing lot adjacent to the Bendheim "Yoshon" Bais Medrash, resulting in two, fully-paved lots servicing the 7th Street/Private Way buildings.

-Lakewood residents have not received their USPS Mail since last week post office is investigating (LNN)
-Last night Lakewood Zoning board approves 23 homes at the corner of Neiman road and Cross street currently its a r40 zone and only 8 homes are allowed but after the masterplan  the zoning was changed to R12 allowing 23. The board conditioned the permits on the county widening Cross street which has begun. Some members objected that they just approved Eagle ridge which will have 5000 cars coming to Cross street andit will be congestion city. Other members  said that the other option is another  school will be built there and he rather have ratables than a school. Lawyers said that the lots may not all be 12,000 some will be 13 or 14.