Tuesday September 13 News Updates

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- N.J. weighs bringing back paper bags as unwanted reusable bags pile up a solution could be to amend the law to allow grocery delivery services in New Jersey to use paper bags or cardboard boxes for online orders

- Wall Street has worst day since June 2020 as inflation reading is hotter than expected; Dow drops more than 1,250 points.

- Daniel Goldman, Impeachment lawyer against Trump who recently won a contested Democratic primary seat that includesBoro park and had the suport of Bobov, said he hoped the schools would work to comply with the law, adding that the Times report “paints a damning picture of an inadequate secular education that does not comply with state law.”

- The New York State Board of Regents voted unanimously and without discussion to impose stricter regulations on Yeshivas and private schools, requiring them to start the process of complying with state standards by December 2023.

- Lakewood car accidents increased over bein hazmanim from July & August Faanews posted the data 

August 1 - August 31 a total of 438 crashes resulting in 43 injuries with 16 pedestrians struck and 0 fatalities.

July 1 - July 31 A total of 426 crashes resulting in 56 injuries with 19 pedestrians struck and 1 fatality.

Total for 2022 to date:

Total Crashes nearly 3,500

Fatalities 7

Pedestrian struck 89.

Lakewood officials continue to put blame on county and state for not putting up traffic signals at intersections prone to accidents. Local media played down the daily accidents claiming it is on average for the daily numbers in NJ. See full report

- Reb Chaim Kramer will speak about Uman Rosh Hashana for this coming year at Breslov B"M 423 6th street Lakewood 8:30 pm

 

-Ben Shapiro: "There are 1.1 million students in NYC public schools.The public school system there is a disaster; the NYT has supported policies that promote its failures. So the NYT is laser-focused on 50,000 students in private Hasidic boys schools. There's a reason for that. The media's new war on Hasidic Jewry is merely a metastasized version of the old culture war against evangelical Christians: anyone who rejects the predations of Left-wing pseudo-morality must be targeted. That theme undergirds the NYT investigation.I am very much in favor of solid English, math and science education for students of all stripes. But the NYT's specific focus is extraordinarily telling"

- Visa, MasterCard, Amex to Start Flagging All Sales from Gun Shops Nationwide

- Misaskim spokesperson R' Landau said the mission will continue with a board of directors that will further implement what R' Yanky Mier Z"L has started.

- Russia may strike back with nuclear weapons after Ukraine setbacks, former deputy Nato chief warns Kremlin could respond in ‘unpredictable ways’ to Kharkiv rout. as the Ukrainian counteroffensive continues. Ukrainian forces have recaptured 6,000 square kilometers (around 2,300 square miles) of land since the beginning of the month, which amounts to nearly 10% of the territory lost to the Russian offensive since February.

-  The Moetzes gedolei hatorah of the Degel hatorah faction in E"Y will meet today at the home of Rav Gershon Eidelstein to discuss the list of knesset members for the upcoming elections. For the first time Rav Dov Landau will be in attendance..

- As first reported by FAAnews the  Intersection improvement on Route 9 began last night with nightly road closures beginning in  Toms River Nightly road closures in Lakewood will begin in another few months.

- Rav Don Segal shlita continued his chizuk tour in the US last night addressing the Chicago Jewish community.

- Photos: Hundreds of Jews rallied in Albany  yesterday outside the NYS Department of Education building in  to protest the new substantial equivalency guidelines on private schools Signs read "We will sit in jail rather than change our children's education" "Torah education is not up for negotiation". Spokesperson Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro of the Rabbinical Union said all we ask is that you leave us our parental right to chose the education of our children.