Weather: Mainly sunny. High 48F. Tonight low of 33 Shabbos day high of 52
ערב שבת פרשת מקץ חנוכה שבת ראש חודש
Candle lighting 4:13 pm Shkiah 4:31 pm
- 18 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 17484/327
- 33 cases in Jackson 8452/123
- 59 cases in Toms River 14171/355
- Two frum residents have joined as members to the Jackson planning board, Mordechai Burnstein, and Tzvi Herman as an alternate member.
- A fire broke out this morning in Lakewood were destroying 2 homes on Davids court at the Briarwood development off rt 70 near New Hampshire
- U.S. economy added only 210,000 jobs in November, a gigantic miss to the 550,000 expected.
- A Hachnosas Sefer Torah will take place on Monday Zos Chanukah at BMG. The sefer Torah will be given by the Rosh Hayeshiva Harav Malkiel Kotler shlita as a שבח והודאה להודות ולהלל after his medical episode last year. Thousands are expected to join the celebration details TBA. (LNN)
- Stores in Lakewood ran out of Donuts yesterday, they plan on restocking for Shabbos Chanukah.
- Bagel Nosh open today until 2;00 pm will be closed Motzei Shabbos. Open Sunday, are taking orders for platters and 9x13 pans, Bagles and Donuts will be first come first serve
- Shabbos Chanukah getaway not many leaving town as parents now come to the children or live in Lakewood
- New York state reports 11,331 new coronavirus cases, the biggest one-day increase since January
- All counties in NJ moving higher with covid19 cases Ocean/Sussex/Hunterdon leading the way higher.
- JSOR kahrus of the Jersey Shore allows the consumption of unflavored Grey Goose Vodka.
- Grey Goose debacle: “What occurred with Grey Goose vodka on Thursday clearly shows that our policy of encouraging Yidden to only buy liquors with a reliable hechsher is proper,” said Rabbi Sholem Yehudah Fishbane, Kashrus Administrator for the Chicago Rabbinical Council (CRC). “This time, we got lucky that despite the fact that we the CRC does not list it on there approved list of liquors, it ended up that there actually was someone providing supervision and there were no ingredients which rendered the product non-kosher. Nevertheless, it is a lesson as to how careful we have to be, both in what we consume and how we correspond with each other in this day of instant communication.”(Hamodia)
- Clarification by Belz kashrus rav Asher Eckstein: After verification there currently is no סתם יינם in the Vodka, however vodka without a hashgacha should be avoided. See letter below.
- NJ bill seeks to keep forclosed homes within the family living there or available for low income people and keep investors away from bidding and flipping homes at sheriff sales. Currently, a winning bidder must pay 20% of the purchase price of the property at the end of a sheriff’s s
The bill, would lower the deposit amount to 3.5% for those intending to live in the home for at least seven years. It would also give up to 90 days to complete the purchase instead of 30 days and they wont lose out on fees if they cant cone up with the money.
- Agudah letter to NYC mayor "The impact of imposing a mandate could be devastating to our schools & the children they serve." NYC nonpublic schools join in opposition to vaccine mandate in letter by Agudah exec VP Rabbi David Zwiebel, chairman of Committee of NYC Religious & Independent School Officials
- Multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, health officials said Thursday, all have been vaccinated
Clarification on Grey Goose Vodka
Chanukah lighting with Rav Yeshayahu Pinto chief Rabbi of Morocco, in Boro Park
Avrrohom Fried performs his original song at a concert in YerushalayimChanukah at Ger
Another mixed concert in Yerushalayim?!
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