Wednesday July 28 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: Mainly sunny to start, then a few afternoon clouds. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. High 83F

- 10 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 13849/311

- Update The three bochurim who were killed in a plane crash were part of a larger group of around fifty bochurim on a Lalechet tour of Jewish historical sites. They were spending the afternoon on a sightseeing plane. Several of the bochurim had already been flown on the plane and more were waiting for their turn when it crashed. Authorities kept them at the scene of the crash as part of the investigation. Misaskim is working on bringing the niftarim to kevurah

- Bike4Chai will have a 1 day event tomorrow with team Lakewood raising $1,509,051.12

- Food distribution for today see Here

- NJ mandates all unvaccinated state employees to wear masks indoors at work even at their desk or work station

-Gov. Phil Murphy and the state’s top health official announced Wednesday that all people in New Jersey regardless of vaccination status are ”strongly recommended,” but not mandated, to wear masks indoors in public settings where there is “increased risk”

- BDE: 3 yeshiva Bochurim were killed  along with the pilot Wednesday in Prykarpattia, western Ukraine, when the small plane they were in crashed directly into the roof of a private home.  They were identified were identified as Avrohom Fromowitz Z”L a chosson from Monsey, Lazer Brill Z”L from Williamsburg and Heshy Weiss Z”L from London. see more at (Hamodia) The bochurim were an a  trip bein hazmanim visiting kivrei tzadikim

- Last night the Lakewood Planning board held a special meeting on a application for Cheder Bnei Torah to convert a residence into a school, the board voted to approve with some conditions restricted a access way that will be constructed between 6th and 7th street to one way. Committee man Albert Akerman was sworn in to listen to the application since they needed a quorum. 

- Today at 7am, James St between Williams and Sunset is shut down due to construction with no access. Expected to reopen Saturday. Plan alternate route.

- Hachnosas Sefer Torah will take place tomorrow night Thursday 7/29 Liluy nishmas Hayeled Eliyohu z"l ben R" Aaron Baruch Gruskin commemorating the first yartzeit כ''א אב תשפ''א The procession will start at 6:30 pm from the corner of Park Ave and Ocean Ave(Rt 88) to Minyan Shelanu 145 Ocean Ave

 -The traffic light at the intersection og Hope chapel and 14tth st will be activated today (LNN)

- The Aron of  Dr Binyamin Sokol Ztl  will be exhumed and  taken to Eretz Yisroel. Anyone who would like to be melaveh should come to the Lakewood Bais Hachaim at 9:40 (on the side of the Chapel)

- 3 arrested for Hate crime in the Catskills at Fleischmans:  New York state police have arrested three men and charged them with grand larceny in the third degree as a hate crime.The three men are accused of approaching a Jewish man on 10:42 a.m. on Shabbos July 24 and stealing his streimel, then driving away in a pickup truck while shouting antisemitic slurs.The incident occurred along Main Street in Fleischmanns Village in Delaware County.( Hamodia)