Friday, January 8, 2021

Friday January 8 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather:  will become overcast during the afternoon. High 42F 
-Candle lighting 4:30 pm Shkiah/Sunset 4:48 pm 

-84 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 8682/237 thats 458 since last Friday

-BDE: Petirah of Rav Yehudah Kelemer zt”l, rov of Young Israel of West Hempstead, NY. He was 73. Rav Kelemer served as mara d’asra of his beloved shul since 1983. He was a community rabbi who was universally revered. Rav Kelemer received semicha from Rav Chaim Shmulevitz zt”l at Mir Yerushalayim and also learned at Telz Yeshiva in Cleveland, where he was a chavrusah of the rosh yeshiva, Rav Mordechai Gifter zt”l. read more at Matzav.com

- President Trump Says He Will Not Attend Joe Biden’s Inauguration on January 20th
-Pelosi: “This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”
-Trump: The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!

-Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3B defamation lawsuit against pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. She responds "Dominion’s suit against me  is baseless & filed to harass, intimidate, & to drain our resources as we seek the truth of Dominion's role in this fraudulent election. We will not be cowed in exercising our 1st Amendment rights or seeking truth"

-Secretary of Education Betsy Devos resigns 

-BMG freezer has unofficially opened after chanukah this year due to covid, bochurim were home before sukkos and allowed to start shidduchim earlier than the official date of Tu Bshvat  

-Israel health ministry says number of covid deaths is rising in the frum population highest is in Yerushalayim. Last week there were 15 deaths R'l in the chareidi community including 3 young mothers.

-New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID19 coronavirus vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two highly contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa.

-APP- The Lakewood Township Committee appointed the wife of deputy mayor to the Municipal Utilities Authority. Mayor Raymond Coles said that he made the nomination to the appointment after the deputy mayor, her husband, asked him to do so . Coles said that he doesn't see the appointment creating any conflict of interest(Faa)

-Rush Limbaugh said this yesterday. "If you want to continue to work in Washington, to have a life in Washington, you have to denounce Donald Trump now." 

-U.S. Capitol Police say officer Brian Sicknick has passed away due to injuries sustained while on-duty after he was injured "while physically engaging with protesters.  He returned to his division office and collapsed."

-Trump prepares list for potential preemptive pardons including himself. Preemptive pardons are under discussion for top White House officials who have not been charged with crimes, including Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, senior adviser Stephen Miller, personnel chief John McEntee, and social media director Dan Scavino. The president’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, her husband, Jared Kushner, who both hold White House positions, are also under consideration, the people said. Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has also discussed the issue of a pardon with the president. (Bloomberg)

3 comments:

  1. All those upset that Betsy resigned raise your hand

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  2. All of you, with your ad hominum arguments against me, we Americans can disagree over policy, or whether we welcome social change or not, but WE are all outraged, like never before, over what happened yesterday. I will say it again, this was not a riot, a typical crime or anything we have seen in our lifetime, not even comparable to past attacks upon our Capitol, but an affront to the Constitution. I do not have enough fingers to count how many times in the past when governments ceased being constitutional because the executive or demagogue rallied the people, thugs, rabble, to intimidate the Senate (and now, sadly, the Congress of the United States).

    The nation is not under threat just because women, homo-s-xuals, African-Americans, Liberals or even Progressives gain power. Nor does any policy, no matter how much it affects what we believe to be the American way, how much it disgusts us, threaten the survival of the republic. If that is your definition of doom, then look yourself in the mirror. Whom do I love more, my country or myself.

    Take your stand concerning what happened. This is not a time for ambivalence, justification or comparisons. The rest of the nation is together speaking as one voice now. If you have not spoken out, think long and hard of your priorities.

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  3. what's with bentching ר"ח שְׁבָט ?

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