Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Wednesday May 4th News Updates

 Weather: 70° Showers this morning becoming less numerous during the afternoon hours. High around 70F.  Chance of rain 40%.

-OCHD updated covid numbers April 27- May 3 no deaths reported 
- 70 new covid cases in Lakewood  totals 24712/ 374
- 70 new covid cases in Jackson 12972/143
- 111 new covid cases in Toms River totals 22053/ 433

- U.S. surpasses 1 million Covid-19 deaths, according to data compiled by NBC News.

- Free sandwiches today at Hot Bagles 232 2nd street until closing 6:00 pm

- EAP Grant checks of $2500 from covid care act arrive in the mail to lakewood residents who were eligible and won a lottery. 

- Plastic bag bans goes into effect today in NJ

- Yesterday Chemed set up a corona vaccine shop on the corner of North Lake Drive and 2nd Street at the North Lake Park. Two individuals came to protest. (Jnews)

- Chasdei Dovid post pesach chometz sale this Sunday fill up a box with items for only $10 this Sunday May 8 at 532 Applegate Dr Jackson 11:00 am to 6:00 pm over 25k items. Food is from the chometz drop offs and were sold with a mechira.

- Today  May 4, Wawa convenience store in NJ will be giving away 1,000 free reusable bags with a purchase, while supplies last. afterwards they will charge 35 cents for it.

- Kol haolam reports 200 Jews were stranded at Frankfurt airport overnight after not being allowed to board their connecting flight to Budapest. Airline officials claimed some of them refused to wear masks on their original flight from JFK. All non-Jews were allowed onto the connection. travel agents are working on alternate options but for now they are still stuck due to not many available tickets. Some will fly to Vienna and drive from there, others will just return home.

- Fed  Set to Raise Interest Rates a Half Percentage Point today

- Chavrusah Tumul winding down in BMG as summer zman begins. The yeshiva will be learning maseches Kesubos.

- This Friday, May 6th, a crucial hearing on the motion for a retrial in the case of SCHI founder Rabbi Osher Eisemann will take place Please daven for Osher ben Chana Frumet.

- Lakewood residents who applied for the tuition grant from the New Jersey Educational Assistance Program through Agudah have still not received any checks. They are reportedly set to go out next week.

- Anytime a student of Rabbi Wallerstein would give in to his pleas to take off a piercing they had, he would take that piercing and put it on his tallis bag. He always told his students, “I will be buried with it” and yesterday, he was. (meaningful moment)

 


11 comments:

  1. Why the tumlt starts on Rosh Chodeh and decreases 'ZMAN' time in not forgivable.
    If you need to tumlt - dd not get a chavrusa before the end of the last Zman then come to Yeshivah on 27 or 28 of nissan and tumlt then. The Zman should start on Rosh Chodesh with no exuses.
    To me its a Chesoron in the value of time and Torah (to deduct zman time instead of your own time.

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    1. Says the person who doesn’t have a zman to begin with.

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  2. Don't forget mitzvas hayom

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  3. Actually got the check today in the mail from Agudah.

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  4. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/04/new-jersey-dept-of-environmental-police-set-up-snitch-line-to-report-contraband-plastic-and-styrofoam-users/#more-232688

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    1. Spam it? Like the libs did to trumps voter fraud hotline! The only government agency that is fully staffed and answers your calls on the first ring!

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  5. Today, the leadership of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (Orthodox Union) issued the following statement:

    The Orthodox Union is unable to either mourn or celebrate the news reports of the U.S. Supreme Court’s likely overturning of Roe v Wade. We cannot support absolute bans on abortion—at any time point in a pregnancy—that would not allow access to abortion in lifesaving situations. Similarly, we cannot support legislation that permits “abortion on demand”—at any time point in a pregnancy—and does not confine abortion to situations in which medical (including mental health) professionals affirm that carrying the pregnancy to term poses real risk to the life of the mother.

    As people of faith, we see life as a precious gift granted to us and maintained within us by God. Jewish law places paramount value on choosing life and mandates-not as a right but as a responsibility-safeguarding our own lives and the lives of others by behaving in a healthy and secure manner, doing everything in our power to save lives, and refraining from endangering others. This concern for even potential life extends to the unborn fetus and to the terminally ill.


    Abortion on demand–the “right to choose” (as well as the “right to die”) are thus completely at odds with our religious and halachic values. Legislation and court rulings that enshrine such rights concern us deeply on a societal level.

    Yet that same mandate to preserve life requires us to be concerned for the life of the mother. Jewish law prioritizes the life of the pregnant mother over the life of the fetus such that where the pregnancy critically endangers the physical health or mental health of the mother, an abortion may be authorized, if not mandated, by Halacha and should be available to all women irrespective of their economic status. Legislation and court rulings-federally or in any state-that absolutely ban abortion without regard for the health of the mother would literally limit our ability to live our lives in accordance with our responsibility to preserve life.

    The extreme polarization around and politicization of the abortion issue does not bode well for a much-needed nuanced result. Human life-the value of everyone created in the Divine Image-is far too important to be treated as a political football.

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    1. We have too much going for us smugly to choose between weapon vs,victim

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    2. OU Statement.
      bla bla bla.

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  6. That same Mandate to cherish life should include basic healthcare for all children, right? That same Mandate to cherish life should ban guns from people's homes, right?

    This never was about people's lives. This is all about Christians shoving their nonsense religion down people's throats.

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