Sunday July 31 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: 85° Partly cloudy during the afternoon. High near 85F. Showers tonight after midnight.

- Longer than usual lines at Milchig restaurants fish stores and Pizza shops 

-At the Levaya of Rav Weiss, A new Gaavad and succesor has not been named yet sources say such an announcement may come at the conclusion of shiva. There's speculation about who will be appointed will it be someone from within the ranks of the eidah Hacharedis or an outsider from Chutz Laaretz.

- Lufthansa airline is creating a position for preventing discrimination and antisemitism after it kicked a large group of Orthodox Jewish passengers from a connecting flight.

- Biden tests positive for Covid again, will restart isolation despite no new symptoms

-Nine days local fleishig stores either closed while others are serving parve menue .Snapskosher has all you cam eat Falafel and chumps bar for $20. Gourmet Glatt Madison falafel Humus demo today 10:30am - 2:30 pm

- Food boxes officialy continuing through the end of August, there is talk of extending it through September or up to the midterm elections.

-Yeshivos and private schools scramble with short notice from LSTA to notify parents of courtesy busing increase from 180 to $260. Parents have until tomorrow August 1 at 12:00 pm to opt out of busing otherwise they will be charged the new fee per child. This is only for private school parents, however public school parents don't have to pay as Lakewood township fully cover their courtesy busing. The Township chose to do this they are not obligated. The big question is why they are picking one over the other and discriminating against private school parents.

- Lakewood Schools raise tuition for next year citing inflation and the need to increase salaries. At the same time advocacy is taking place by the OU and some philanthropists to bring tuition relief through school vouchers. In the past the OU met with NJ gov. Chris Christie who favored expanding charter schools and extending state dollars for special education to Jewish day schools. There was a proposed bill in NJ, A-2830, to create a system of publicly funded scholarships or vouchers for students to attend schools of their choice, public or private. Sponsored by state Assemblymen Angel Fuentes and Lou Greenwald, both Camden County Democrats, the bill would limit the program to seven school districts and 20,000 students, the smallest number yet. At this time there is a renewed push to get NJ politicians on board with school vouchers and other 

- FAAnews background on upcoming yeshiva campus application adding 500 cars at James & Cross HERE

- Summer in Deal,NJ: Tefillin awareness project today at cong Bet Yosef

- Buses and luggage trucks to sleepaway camps leaving Lakewood today, tomorrow expect traffic at the dropoff locations.

-Putin signs doctrine  today that says The main threat to Russia, is "the strategic policy of the USA to dominate the world's oceans" and the movement of the NATO military alliance closer towards Russia's borders.

- Retail’s ‘Dark Side’: As inventory piles up, liquidation warehouses are busy more

- Bde Reb Elazar (Luzy) Steinmetz z”l Matzav.com

- One ticketholder in Illinois won the $1.337 billion Mega Millions jackpot on Friday night.The winning ticket was sold at the Speedy Café Speedway gas station on East Touhy Avenue in Des Plaines, Illinois outside Chicago. 20 tickets won a  Million for matching all 5 none in NJ.