Thursday May 5 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 68F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Sefiras Haomer 19

- Gas prices shoot up today average $4.50 a gallon along Brick/Lakewood  border. wawa rt 70 & near Rt 9 $4.53

- Stoliner chassidim in EY were told all who are permitted to carry guns should do so even on shabbos when coming to shul 

- The hot Chulent saved the day: David Amar was sitting in his car enjoying a 2 pounde container of piping hot chulent when the terrorist lunged at him with an axe. David didn’t think twice and threw the entire chulent at the savage and saving himself as the terrorists backed off and continued down the street.

First victim identified as R' Yonassan Cbabakuk HY"D a Breslover chosid was 68 from Elad. 

- Terror Attack in Israel: 3 dead, 4 injured in terror attack in Elad in central Israel near petach Tikva. search for 2 arab terrorists who went on a killing spree with knives and hammers.

- Russian President Putin apologized to Israeli Prime Minster Bennett for comments made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov who said that Hitler had Jewish blood and that jews are the biggest antisemites. 

- There will be a hesped today (Thursday) for Rav Nota Greenblatt zt"l at 6:00 PM at Ohr Meir (30 5th St. between Monmouth and Princeton.)

- NJ DEP set up snitch line to report contraband plastic and styrofoam users. They are in charge of enforcement of the plastic  bag ban.

- Acceptance and rejection letters go out for girls' high schools, girls now wait for the second round.

- Israeli Flag flies above Ponovezh yeshiva today on Yom Haatzmaut a tradition enacted by the ponovizher Rav.

- Checks arrive in the mail for alakewood residents who were eligible for the EAP grant administered through Agudah and the township for $2500. The amount of money for the grant has not been publicized.

- Inflation prices 1/2 gallon of low fat milk now $4 at some stores in Lakewood.

- Movement Underway to Halt 6th Street Verizon Antenna in lakewood - 

Members of the community reached out to the building’s owners at 500 Clifton Avenue in an attempt to inform them of the potential health and safety issues of the antenna’s radio frequency emissions. Dozens of neighbors signed a petition essentially pleading with them to “put an end to this.”  On April 8th, a member of the community met with the building’s manager, presenting him with extensive documentation about the inherent dangers. The manager reportedly presented all the information to the building’s owners. Documentation was hand-delivered to the owners as well. On Tuesday, April 27th, the building’s manager reported back to the local community with a phone call, indicating that the owners regret their original decision and claim that they will be working on a resolution. Rav Forchheimer concluded, “I am hereby of the opinion that, considering the halacha of chamira sakanta mei’issura, all involved parties should ensure that this proposed antenna does not become a reality.” Matzav 

- Agudas Israel says they are waiting for the final ruling of the supreme court on Abortion per email sent by Abba Cohen the Washington DC director to the JTA.  “While Agudath Israel is closely monitoring this important — if irregular — development, the Jewish perspective on abortion is nuanced, Thus, we would have to review the precise nuances of the final decision itself — how, for example, it treats abortion rights when the ‘mother’s life or health is endangered,’ or when the ‘mother’s sincerely-held religious beliefs allow or require’ her to seek an abortion, “We would also have to carefully examine state statutes and prospective legislation on these matters. Only then can we responsibly determine the true impact of the Dobbs decision and future steps we might deem necessary.”

- Fence erected overnight around the U.S. Supreme Court building.

- Moscow confirmed its troops ran simulated nuclear missile strikes in the western enclave of Kaliningrad on the NATO border yesterday amid heightening tensions over the war in Ukraine.

- Middlesex County Judge Joseph Paone, who was recently assigned to the case of SCHI founder Rabbi Osher Eisemann, will preside over a critical hearing this Friday to determine if the two convictions – each of which carries up to 10 years in prison – should be tossed, or if the case should proceed to resentencing. A phone hotline for updates on the case can be reached by calling 732.363.1011. The tzibbur  is asked to daven for a just outcome in the case for  Osher ben Chana Frumet (Yated)