Friday January 7 News Updates Lakewood

 Snow this morning will give way to some clearing this afternoon. High 34F.Snowfall around one inch. Higher wind gusts possible.

Erev Shabbbos Parshas BO candle lighting 4:29 pm Shkiah 4:47 pm

-winds will turn gusty Friday afternoon, and when they calm down tonight, temperatures will drop into the low teens 18 in Lakewood

- 327 new covid cases in Lakewood totals 20476/332

- 148 cases in Jackson 10720/126

- 234 cases in Toms River 18057/362 

- LPD warning drivers to clear off the top of their vehicles before driving. The snow on rooftops can easily turn to ice and become dangerous on the roads.

  - Continued Tehillim for Chaya Malka bas Batsheva. still critical

- Yated editorial In every age and in every time, things happen in our world and in the world in general that are difficult or impossible to understand. People wonder how it can be. How can it happen? Why did it happen? We are the eternal people, and for all time we have turned to the Moshe Rabbeinus of the generation for guidance, instruction and support.

Scoffers and people who are not bnei Torah accuse us of every sin in the book. They say chareidim are cruel and heartless, don’t care about their children and don’t care about people’s feelings. They paint us as Neanderthals locked in the past, cave dwellers in ghettos, because we don’t mouth exactly the words they want us to when they want us to. When a chareidi person is found to be an evil abuser, we are all abusers, they say. They say that we all don’t care about what he did and his victims, when nothing could be further from the truth. Of course we abhor evil; of course we care about his victims and all victims. Of course we condemn a man who used his position to cruelly and sadistically take advantage of people and ruin untold numbers of lives.

There is no group more compassionate collectively than chareidim. The amount of chesed performed with victims and others is hard to fathom. Our hearts break. Many tears are shed. There are many professionals, rabbonim, tzaddikim and fine members of the community who work hard and with much compassion to help heal victims and other people in need of support. It is ridiculous to say otherwise.

- Over the last week Lakewood had 1834 positive cases of covid

-The Supreme Court will hear arguments today on vaccine-and-testing rules for large private employers and  healthcare workers.

- Lakewood gets a total of 5 inches of snow

- ChaimVchessed Tourist Entry to Israel, Patience Advised   Here

- Mishpacha magazine now $8 per issue  joining Ami in raising prices 

 - The CDC updated its Covid-19 quarantine and isolation guidance for K-12 schools Students, teachers and staff can end isolation after five days after their initial positive test or the onset of symptoms, or if they are fever-free for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medication and their symptoms have improved.

- 8:30 am Several boys yeshivas are open for the older grades. Lakewood cheder is closed.

Roadways are mostly plowed businesses are open

 7:00 am - Snowfall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour accumulated early this morning across the state. Snow continues across New Jersey, is expected to start decreasing around 8 a.m. and come to an end shortly after. 

- Girl schools in Lakewood will be closed today

- No LSTA busing today

-Jackson school district NO TRANSPORTATION to any out of district school on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022.

- Mesivtos  shachris  delayed, boys elementary yet to announce 

- Due to the impending snow storm, the Lakewood Public School District will be closed on Friday, January 7, 2022

- Please continue to daven that Chaim shaul ben pessil he made some progress but still needs rachmei shomayim  for a complete refuah

- General Electric has decided not to renew its hechsher with the Star-K for the Shabbos mode on ovens produced in 2022.The feature, had been standard on GE ovens for twenty years, will be discontinued, and instead the company will offer a feature called “The Shabbos Keeper” as an add-on for an extra cost of $200-$250 dollars. This new feature will be under the supervision of the Orthodox Union (OU).

-Hamodia editorial: Hamodia   stands firm in the face of frivolous accusations of coverup or whitewash. The Torah demands that evil be expunged from our midst, and there are proper venues for this process. Not in the media. Allegations have to be investigated and pursued, in accordance with halachah. Not in the media. Our mission is always uppermost in our vision, even when we experience pressure to waver. Only the Ribbono shel Olam knows how much Hamodia has sacrificed not to lose sight of our mission. Every day we walk a tightrope. We have a duty to provide a clean window to a world that is not clean. And that means that we are obligated to guard the purity and safety of our children. more