Thursday July 22 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: Partly to mostly cloudy. High 82F

Food distributions:

Bnos Yaakov at pine park 2:00 pm

- Boxes at 420 Cross st 7:00 pm

- Meor Hatorah 720 Massachusetts 6:00 pm

- Yeshiva Chemdas Hatorah 3:00 pm 950 Massachusetts Ave

- 1:00 am pedestrian fatally struck on route 9 in front of 7 Eleven by John street. Misaskim services not needed 

- 5 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 13811/311

-The Israel Health Ministry released new data showing that the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine remains 91% effective against developing serious cases of the disease. However, its effectiveness at stopping infection declined from 90%-95% to 39%.

The vaccine was found to be 40% effective against symptomatic COVID-19 and 88% effective against hospitalization. - For people vaccinated more than six months ago, the effectiveness of the vaccine at stopping coronavirus dropped as low as 16%.

- Starting next week, unvaccinated  in Israel will have to show a negative test to enter  a shul or indoor gathering with over 100 people, after August 8 they will have to pay for  tests at their own expense

- Florida Condo Collapse Victims to Receive $150 Million In Initial Compensation: Judge

- Hachnosas sefer Torah today at the Woodbourne shul from 3:00 pm to 11:30 pm

- NJ Family Care will continue to temporarily suspended renewal applications and process reviews due to covid19 pandemic

- Preparations underway at BMG for the Levaya of Harav Yitzchok Feigelstock zatzal Rosh Yeshiva mesivta of Long Beach. Misaskim and LCSW has set up command at 7th and Private way the roadway in front will be closed at 11:00 am

-LPD: The section of James Street between Williams and Sunset that was closed for construction, is now fully open. LNN reports the construction was done by the conrail train company to prepare the area for the ttffic light at the James/Williams intersection

- Glory market in Jackson at the corner of Cedar swamp rd near the 195 entrance will close and a wawa will be constructed on the site

Israel: 40% of new Covid patients were vaccinated, compared to just 1% who had been infected previously" "Covid recovered pts were far less likely to become infected than ppl who were vaccinated against Covid, according to data presented to Israeli Health Ministry"(INN)

- Eighty fully vaccinated Massachusetts residents have died from COVID-19 and the number of breakthrough cases reported across the state has surpassed 5,000, new public health data shows.(source)

- Agudah statement on Ben and Jerry's

The recent announcement by the Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company that it would no longer sell its products in Yehudah, Shomron or East Jerusalem has brought the issue of BDS once again to the forefront of public discourse.

Agudath Israel is on longstanding record opposing BDS as a form of antisemitism. Agudah has advocated for anti-BDS laws across the United States, and has defended their constitutionality in courts of law.

This case illustrates why economic boycott against Israel is so objectionable, and why it is so important to stand firm against BDS. We urge all states that have anti-BDS laws to apply those laws as appropriate in this case. And we urge all states that have not as yet enacted anti-BDS laws to use this case as impetus to pass such legislation