Tuesday September 20 News Updates Lakewood

Weather:82° Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 82F.

Today 24 Elul is the 89th Yartzeit Of the Chofetz Chaim ZTL. Watch video speech from Rav Michoel Sorotzkin shlita on the last words of the Chofetz Chaim before his petira Here

- Lakewood Planning board meeting tonight

- New Kosher delicatessen  "Nostalgia בטעם של פעם"  now open in Lakewood located at Cross River Mill1200 River Ave. STE 8 open daily 4:00 pm - 12:00 am see menu old time traditional food just like bubby used to make.

- NJdotcom produces video about Lakewood cutting down trees in town square tio deter the homeless and asks if it was the right thing to do 

- A Hachnosas sefer torah will take place today in memory of R' Michoel Tzvi Fettman A"H a resident of the Oak and Vine neighborhood in Lakewood who was niftar during the onset of the Covid pandemic The new Sefer will be brought to B"M Tiferes Zvi Yehuda Bluzev - Oak and Vine Lakewood the shul in which R' Michoel used to daven and learn. Ksivas oisyos 4:40 pm at 67 Broadway procession at 6:30

-Updated B"H the issue has been resolved and daled minim will be allowed to be shipped into Canada. 

Earlier today News reports the canadian food inspection agency has banned the commercial shipments of Lulavim, Hadassim and Aravos for arba minim this year. The jewish community council of Montreal is currently working on the issue with the authorities. This is for commercial not important by private individual use.

 - Russia's Putin and Defense Minister Shoigu are expected to address the nation tonight, analysts say Putin moving to forcibly annex Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine to provide option of a pretext for declaration of war and mobilization in Russia if Ukraine doesn’t halt its counteroffensive. Putin's speech allegedly postponed until tomorrow.

- Reporter Jake Turx speaks to  reverend Al Sahrpton in an exclusive Ami magazine he regrets not publicly denouncing Black violence against Jews in the past, while alluding to the Crown Heights riots. Vows to hold himself to a higher moral standard.

- Petition launched to stop new regulations on inspections in Toms River Here

-Elul Awakening: Ground-shaking explosions, 2 weeks of heavy training as Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst will be conducting heavy weapons training through the end of September that will include “high” levels of noise from explosives and munitions training that is expected to be clearly heard and felt in surrounding communities of Manchester, Jackson, Lakewood, Toms River. The training includes mortar fire, howitzer fire and other explosives

-Tefilos for the Kaliv Rebbe of the US who has a serious case of Pneumonia name for tehillim  Moshe ben Raizel

-  Jackson Skating Center on W. County Line rd will be closing permanently on October 3rd.

- Despite the efforts of those who fought to either annul or repress some of the severe guidelines and the efforts of 350,000 who sent petitions, no one listened. Politicians and bureaucrats seem to be smug in their positions and are used to a passively resistant community whose civility is inherent in their makeup because of all the years that they have been grateful for the Medinah Shel Chesed.  "Sometimes, our cozying up to politicians for other items that they afford us with leads them to a sense of invulnerability, even if they were to impose the strictest restrictions upon one element of our society". After all, we need them for other benefits and we won’t bother them about the yeshivos. Often, the fact that they help us in one area may be the very reason that they can hurt us in another area.(Rabbi Mordechai Kemenetzky, Yated Ne"eman)

 - LPD was out in full force last night with a heavy police presence patrolling the streets following a rash of vehicle thefts.

- Due to wedding halls fully booked the local halls will have weddings through wednesday with sheva brachos taking place over Rosh Hashana something that was not that common a few years ago

- Lakewood shopper article Are our children safe on the bus? calls out the busing" The article points out the lack of accountability on public transportation for private schools and yeshivos  with a lack of customer service, a spiritual and physical safety, no financial responsibility for bus companies they get paid regardless of performance for coming late callling out a bussing system that is disorganized and unsafe.

- AKO Kashrus members will host a conference call today as they said  “After Manalapan, kashrus changed, There is no going back to the old way of doing things.” Mishpacha reports from the CRC that  kashrus agencies are suggesting certain changes to the meat protocols that should be considered by AKO members. There have been nine suggestions

One focuses on distributors, another is about who gets to order supply in a restaurant, another is about who is allowed to receive deliveries, another is making sure we have better cameras, artificial intelligence, some sort of auditing system. These are different things that hashgachahs are discussing post-Manalapan, and which we will be talking about together on Tuesday. We will be mechazek each other, and maybe agree to implement some of these suggestions more

Photo: Rav Gershon Eidelstein writing a shtar Pruzbul in front of a bais din