Friday, August 20, 2021

Friday Aug 20 News Updates Lakewood

- Weather: Occasional rain tapering to a few showers late. High 81F.  Chance of rain 90%. Shabbos hi of 82 with thunderstorms
Candle lighting 7:28 pm Shkia/Sunset 7:46 pm

- 24 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 14088/312. A total of 103 cases for this week
- 20 new cases in Jackson totals 6768/109
- 36 new cases in Toms River totals 11530/326

- Kehiloth magazine resumes publication after bein hazmanim. Delivered for free to Lakewood residents or available at local supermarkets

- Tropical storm Henri shifts west, NJ not out of the woods yet possible coastal flooding and power outages along the coast.

- FDA is aiming to give full approval to Pfizer’s COVID19 vaccine on Monday (NYT)

- FBI at this point believes the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups, Trump, or prominent supporters, but has found "scant evidence" it was an "organized plot".

- Kayleigh McEnany Just now, Biden admits what his administration has been burying all week: they have NO CLUE how many Americans are stranded in Afghanistan!

- NYC's new vaccination screening program for indoor dining etc requires that you show proof of vax *and* ID. The ID requirement is to help reduce fraud. Venues covered by the vax screening program are required to check ID for those 18+

- Traffic light at the intersection of 14th street and Hope chapel goes live.

- U.S. officials are reviewing the possibility that the Moderna coronavirus vaccine is linked to a higher risk of myocarditis in younger adults than previously thought (Wapost)

- The Ger rebbe received a 3rd booster shot of the Moderna Vaccine while in the US after his antibodies were low from the precious vaccine 

- Fox& Friends TV show apologizes and rectified a news clip reporting on the murder of the yeshiva bachur in Denver and showing the suspect as a victim and victim as suspect
- The U.S. is extending the nonessential closure of its borders with Canada and Mexico to at least Sept. 21 due to the delta variant of the coronavirus, the Department of Homeland Security announced Friday.

- Tropical Storm Henri now expected to stay well off Jersey Shore the storm track has shifted east and for the moment the Garden State appears out of serious danger.

- At the Lakewood BOE meeting this morning a member made a proposal to send a letter to the governor asking that parents have the option to opt of the mask mandate and for teachers to have a oprion get tested weekly instead of vaccinating. The attorney said that Murphy has been good to Lakewood and the board should wait until Monday when the vaccine mandate will be announced 

- With vaccine mandate on teachers from k-12  including day care, there are twachers that are willing to get fired or quit and not vaccinate.

- Rebbetzin Koledetzky daughter of Rav Chaim Kanievsky in a video message calls on everyone to vaccinate and take the 3rd booster shot (see below)

- 70 girls waiting fo be accepted into high school. There is no movement yet parents are hoping for a last minute placement before the school year begins.

- Hospital visitation restrictions resume in several NJ counties including Monmouth & Ocean hospitalized patients can only have one masked visitor at a time. Visitors are also screened for COVID symptoms, it said.
-  Nursing homes and assisted living facilities across the US will be required to get their employees vaccinated against the coronavirus or risk jeopardizing their federal funding

- Israel covid numbers yesterday 7692 new covid cases 594 in serious condition 108 on respirators 33 died.  The death toll is 6759

News photos and videos

Rav Moshe Wolfson and the Gerrer Rebbe




Rebbetzin Koledetzky mitzva to take 3rd covid shot


Update on the new Lamppost kosher bistro in Toms River


 

10 comments:

  1. If someone could let me know if Rav Gershon Ribner has yet discussed the explosion of cuisine and food opulence in Lakewood and it’s environs
    In the past this was seen as purely detrimental and it was self evident that anyone who would indulge in anything of the sort was considered a mediocre Ben Torah
    However it seems that lines have been redrawn so I would like to know his take

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  2. The idea that the streets of town should be a Ben Torah's home is fallacious and impossible.
    If you want to live a Ben Torah's life, you have to announce to yourself that you are not interested in what happens in the streets, in what is announced in newspapers, or what the yakking ladies discussed. Public gatherings, Kidush Hashems, and historic happenings have nothing to do with you.

    Restaurants can open or close, the Ben Torah has his Gemara, Rambam and Tur Shulchan Aruch. He learns Mussar, and davens in the way a Ben Torah was taught. He buys the minimum necessary to live, and lives in the least opulent house that his family needs. A car gets him to where he needs to get, nothing more, and his children are happy and secure in the knowledge that their lives are devoted to something higher than this world.

    If Ben Torah means 'fight restaurants', that is the opposite of all of that, and a dangerous ziyuf of the true meaning of Torah.

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    1. Fantastic post.
      ודברי פי חכם חן

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    2. You are wrong.
      When something is a michshol you can not ignore it. When the first sit down pizza shop opened in lakewood the mashgiach Rab Nosson wrote a letter against it. He did not use your krumeh toolireh to ignore things that are a direct michshol.
      Lakewood yeshiva came because it was removed from the city. Now they are brought the city to lakewood. You can not simply live the ben torah life while it is effecting yourself and kol sheken the children

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    3. AnonymousAugust 20, 2021 at 1:43 PM

      Well put

      Beautiful

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  3. New Lamppost kosher bistro in Toms River!
    Mamish- hasken atzmichoo bitraklin kidai shetukoonois liproizdur.

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  4. There were two developments today in the Lakewood school funding case.

    1) Professor Tractenberg joined as co-counsel to represent the appellants (plaintiffs).

    2) We just filed in the Appellate Division. See the Case Information Statement:

    http://lakewoodlaw84048.ipage.com/documents/CIS.pdf

    (BTW Is that which was reported above the reason why the BOE opposes us, and by extension, bringing hundreds of millions to Lakewood, because Murphy has been good to us and his attorney general is my adversary? Know ye, that this matter is now finally out of the executive branch of government. We knew all along that the commissioner would likely reject any favorable findings of the ALJ. The ikur was to get those findings into the record to present to the NJ Supreme Court. Going through the Office of Administrative Law is a procedural requirement set by the Supreme Court.

    A Lang

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  5. Mr Lang,you are a Brilliant Atty,the Only one in Lakewood.....

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