Weather: Cloudy skies. High 53F. Rain overnight
- 71 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 18398/330
- 55 new cases in Jackson +1 death totals 9503/125
- 94 new cases in Toms River totals 15860/362
- NY health official admits they released that scary advisory about increasing pediatric hospitalizations not because there's an actual issue, but just to "motivate" parents to vaccinate kids. (Source)
- As of 3 pm today, 17 of 83 New Jersey emergency rooms were on divert status due to patient volume or reduced staff. Local hospitals included in that count are Jersey Shore Medical Center in Neptune and Ocean Medical Center in Brick. (OneJetseySchorr)
- Hatzolah of central Jersey announces it will relocate the headquarters in Lakewood to a new state of the art facility with multiple bays,training, meeting rooms and offices. The new building will be located in the Cedarbridge New Hampshire area.
- As of Today December 28 the following NJ towns required indoor mask mandates for their communities indoor public businesses and buildings ,regardless of vaccination status. including Newark, Morristown, Montclair, South Orange, Hoboken and Paterson.
- Vaccine crackdowns have begun in NYC with police arresting people in restaurants who are not vaccinated
- Kayleigh McEnany: President Biden: “There is no federal solution for covid but Candidate Biden said "Donald Trump still doesn't have a plan... I do."
3:50 pm UPDATE Levaya will first take place at Lutzk B"M at 5:20 pm and continue to the Belz Shteible 44 Grove Springs Ct at Belz development in Lakewood. Kevurah in Lakewood. Shiva is at 71 North Crest pl in Westgate. Shachris 9:00 am Mincha/Maariv 4:30 pm
- BDE: Car Accident in Toms River Tragedy 9 year old girl from Lakewood Leah A"H bas R' Levi Yitzchok Gross. The accident happened this morning at North Bay Ave and Whitty Rd in Toms River after the van slipped off the road and hit a tree. other victims were taken to hospital. Levaya 5 pm at Lutzk B"M 520 New Egypt and will go to the Belzer shteibel 44 Gove Springs Ct. Lakewood. Police said there was no indication of driver impairment, and all four occupants were restrained at the time of the collision. The accident remains under investigation.
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- Dr. Fauci to airlines: A Covid-19 vaccine requirement should "seriously" be considered for domestic air travel.
- 242 car crashes resulting in 25 injuries over the first 2 weeks of December 1-15. (LNN) Lakewood has a average of 500 crashes a month with serious injuries. Officials have yet to address it.
Donald Trump wants congressman Chris Smith out of office after he was one of only 13 House Republicans to back President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure bill. There are several candidates lining up to vote in the primary this year. The 4th district represents Lakewood and most of Ocean county republican Trump country. The infrastructure bill for NJ did not include any funding to widen Rt 9.
- Tonight: Bochurim event for keren chasanim Zichron Mattel hosted by Lakewood BMG Shadchanim at Ateres Esther hall downstairs of Bais Yitzchok after 2nd seder. Divrei Bracha by Rav Uri Deutsch shlita.
- Speaking at a event in Chicago, R' Lazer Scheiner praised the Lakewood community answering the call to support the youngeleit. He detailed the sequence of events that led to his involvement in raising money to increase the kollel stipend from $80 a week. He said that he has supported many worthy tzedakas and organizations but never was he supporting Torah learning on this magnitude that transforms not only elevates the families of the youngeleit but transforms the baalei batim supporting it as well. He credited his father ztl with the zechus raise money for bnei Torah all across the US
- New Jersey hospitals of RWJ Barnabas includes Kimbal in Lakewood have begun to limit their use of monoclonal antibody therapies to treat COVID-19 because of a shortage of supplies and questions over how well they treat the omicron variant. At this time, the criteria for recipients is now restricted to individuals who are 65 years of age or older or are immunocompromised and have cancer or have recently received an organ transplant.
- Visitor restrictions are now in place at Leisure chateau
- CDC: New Jersey is 1 of 7 states currently experiencing high flu activity, with this year's virus causing a large amount of severe disease, especially in the elderly and the very young
Gourmet Glatt joins in with its version of מכת צפרדע available this week at the bakery
Reb Levi Yitzchok is the legendary 'Belzer' of Lakewood, the one who founded the Bais Hatavshil and Hachnosas Orchim of Lakewood with his friend Reb Mordechai Schwartz.
ReplyDeleteHe is one of the major askonim in town, who has helped countless people in his quiet manner, and has not built a career out of it.
May he be comforted from his loss ומחה ה' דמעה מעל כל פנים
Omigosh! I didn't realize it was that Gross. He is mamesh a Tzadik, he helped so many people. This is really sad.
DeleteSmith has been there for awfully long overly ensconced & has his faults .That said, he has gotten the memo and is starting to shape up EG he spoke Bold and forceful at the recent anti-abortion rally
ReplyDeleteToo late. He voted for Obama's cap and trade, and he was called out on it then. At that point I didn't want to vote for him anymore, but we needed as many Republicans as possible to stop Obama, so I kept voting for him. But now he's shown that he doesn't learn. He will continue to vote for the progressive agenda. (I think that its probably because tucked into these large bills are some "gifts" for our local "askanim".)
DeleteEither way he lost my vote (and my wife's and daughter's) going forward.
You have to be both dumb and insane not to vote for Smith. He's the senior most and most responsive congressman of all, and you want to lose that for a backbencher who just wants attention?
DeleteHe helped us get a rushed passport during Corona. He got the job done and has my family's support.
DeleteI don't know Chris Smith at all, but we should be more careful with our votes.
ReplyDeleteTrump wants to be president without the responsibilities of president. We should not allow him to do so. If he wins an election, that is one thing. But the idea that he should be the king maker, and should be able to stop bi-partisan cooperation, is just not in our interest.
Vote for him as president, by all means. He is good for us. But not when he is not president.
Btw, bipartisanship is a good thing. I don't know how it got its bad rap. The infrastructure bill is great for this country.
Chris Smith lost my vote by Cap and Trade and he proved it with voting for the Biden bill, that does nothing locally.
ReplyDeleteI don’t think the infrastructure deal was a good idea. What did we get from Obama’s 887 billion dollars spent on infrastructure? Even so that alone is not a reason to vote against Smith. And Trump telling us not to vote for him is actually a reason why we SHOULD vote for him. I voted in Trump in 2020 but don’t want a situation where every Republican need his endorsement to win. If Trump was promoting some candidate and giving us a reason why he would be better for us that is one thing. But this is basically telling us not to vote for Smith because “I said so”
ReplyDeleteSo you have a גזירה שווה infrastructure-infrastructure. Nice.
DeleteSmith voted for Obama care. Smith voted for the infrastructure bill, Cap and trade... He represents us in Trump republican county. He lost my vote. Primary him and goodbye. Especially now with the new voting map, Toms River joined our district. We turned more conservative.
DeleteNo, that is not what it is, the infrastructure was full of pork and very little infrastructure. If the Dems cared about infrastructure, they would have gotten behind Trumps $2 trillion infrastructure bill that was actual infrastructure
DeleteThe "infrastructure" bill only has $110 Billion for bridges and roads with much of it earmarked for political payback
$66 Billion for railways, which are primarily used by highly profitable freight operators (political payback to Warren Buffet). they are also beneficiaries of the stoppage of oil and gas pipelines which now have to travel by rail.
$65 billion for updating power lines, and security of the power grid, again, supporting profitable private companies who are regulated monopolies, that should be required to fund their own upgrades.
$65 billion to expand broadband for rural and low income areas. This is a windfall for telco and cable operators. It can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to lay cable to a single rural residence, and their is massive innovation and improvement happening with far more efficient satellite and 5G.
Not to mention that cable companies are supposed to be regulated, and their price increases are supposed to be capped, yet optimum has more than doubled their fees over the last 5 years. how about doing the regulating job they were supposed to so cable would be affordable to everyone
$50+ billion for cybersecurity and climate change, not even going to attempt to rationalize where all this money is going
$39 billion for public transit - again rewarding poorly managed municipally run public transportation. The Varrazzano bridge alone brings in $500 million in tolls annually, where is all the money going?
$21 billion for the environment - ????
$17 billion for ports - Ports make a lot of money for private companies, they should not require government money
$11 billion for safety - ????
$7.5 bill for electric vehicle charging stations - Which the owner of Tesla says is not needed and is a waste.
This is not like the stimulus bills which were broadly spent and a lifeline to many during the shut down. this is a bill full of pork for political paybacks. If Chris Smith was going to vote for it, the least he could have done was to bring some of it back to his district
$55 Billion for water. Where exactly is this money going? Based on my water bill the water company doesn't need any additional funding, so this is going to go to poorly managed Dem municipal owned water utilities to reward them for their horrible management
Ditto. Chris Smith did nothing for his district he is part of the swamp and the time has come to vote him out.
DeleteHe has done nice work on antisemitism but locally he ignored those who voted for him.
Did any of the frum websites report on Walders death? YWN, scoop, matzav, hamodia, yated etc ?
ReplyDeletePlease list them, I'm curious to know who did report it
I have a strong suspicion that he is alive. He faked his death and left israel
What you think?
YWN had 3 clickbate articles on Walder acting as Judge and jury now they cowardly run for the hills
DeleteAmudim to the rescue again capitalizing on the sad story. They know better than Rav Gershon Edelstein
DeleteAmudim is very woke.
DeleteThey rake in millions of dollars from fake PR, pocket who knows how much of it, and spend the rest on some more fake PR.
Does anyone actually know anyone that they helped with getting into Israel?
I think your confused, amudim doesn't help pple get into israel.
DeleteAmudim quotes anonymous gedolim to justify their public letter
DeleteYWN has three posts on walder about his books being banned and him being summoned to beis din
ReplyDeleteHow come not a word about his death or levaya?
Answer:
Because he didn't die
Walder is a creative genius. Like I just posted, he faked his death, ran away and will continue writing books from his hideout under a different name and continue to rake it in
Are you out of your sick mind? The guy was found LIFELESS. His family buried him.
DeleteYour an idiot. There was a massive Levaya in Bnei Brak family is sitting shiva victims arw suffering
DeleteEnough move on genug shoin.
He is drinking a beer with Elvis, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Anastasia
DeleteMaybe ywn realized they and the rest of the knee jerk cancelation played a role in the death...
DeleteChris Smith was instrumental in helping out with the Yankie Ostreicher saga. We must be grateful. (The same applies to president Trump who helped a number of yidden מאפילה לאורה . The writer in The Voice doesn't understand such a concept, וצריכין לבדוק אחריו).
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