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- Tonight the 78th Chuf Alef Kislev Satmar Event will take place in a tent at the Waterfront Square 500 Kent Avenue Williamsburg Brooklyn the rebbe Rav Aron is expected to deliver the Keynote speech.
- Update he was found safe and sound BH. 17 year old Yeshiva bochur from Yeshivas Rina Shel Torah in Karmiel has gone missing after he went to Miron last night name for Tehilim Refoel Ben Michal Kochava
- Ocean county Library: The Lakewood Branch will remain closed today, December 14th. The branch will have a delayed opening tomorrow, December 15th at 1pm.
- U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates by 0.5 percent to the highest level in 15 years.
- In response to a lawsuit filed by the developer against the Zoning Board, Judge Ford tossed out the boards denial for not writing a proper resolution and has now remanded the application back to the Board or them to reconsider the age restriction lifting request, and then vote, either to deny it or approve it, and then adopt a resolution properly setting forth the reasons and justifications for the denial or approval. full story on Faanews
- Please continue to daven for Mrs. Henya Fedderman, a mother of 13 a chabad shlucha from the virgin Islands who had been hospitalized after she jumped into the water, trying desperately to save her baby. The baby passed away R"L. The mother is currently being transported for care at an Acute Care Hospital in Lakewood, NJ Name for Tehillim is Henya bas Brachah Devorah Leah (COL live)
- Trump to make a major announcement tomorrow on his social media platform Truth Social he says "America needs a superhero I will be making a major announcement tomorrow"
- Going on today at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, NJ the OJBA Expo for the frum community professionals in the construction, management & real estate industries in the greater NY and NJ regions.
- Gov. Murphy pushes vaccines instead of mask mandate as COVID-19, flu cases rise". I don't foresee any mandates in New Jersey unless something dramatically changes. I think people should use their common sense." (Pundits point out Murphy taking a more lax approach after he almost lost the gov race because of his covid lockdowns.)
- Local stores advertising 20 different flavors and varieties for chanukah donuts
- Alef Judaica open now open at Jackson crossing plaza at S. Hope chapel & E. Veterans
- Smokey Hill restaurant now open for Lunch located at shopping plaza Route 9 and Spruce
- Putin has renewed his nuke threat against the West by appearing to ready a nuclear missile for launch. Footage shows a huge Russian Yars rocket able to hit the UK and the US being loaded into a silo at a base near Moscow. The missile has a 7,500 mile range and when nuclear-armed is reportedly 12 times more destructive than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
- Two new polls show Ron DeSantis beating Trump among GOP primary voters. A Wall Street Journal Poll shows DeSantis beating Trump 52% to 38% , USA Today poll shows DeSantis beating Trump 56% to 33%.
- Used car prices are down 3.3% from a year ago but still 'grossly inflated,' auto expert says. Used minivans are averaging $24,992, down 8% from $27,257 in March. Cars 8-13 years old averaging below $16,000 industry experts say of you can wait it out the prices will come down as production increases and dealers have to move cars off their lots.
- Ami Magazine Twitter account attacking Trump "Thank Gd he will never again be elected president". "Today Trump is a private citizen. The election was not stolen and his chances of being elected again are close to zero. So the time has come to move on".
-Ben Shapiro article about modern orthodoxy "Modern Orthodoxy’s Moral Failure" Modern Orthodoxy is in a state of crisis because its leadership class has, in large measure, abandoned its central principles in favor of political expedience. Today, many supposedly Modern Orthodox institutions have moved toward the corruption of Jewish values by infusing the worldview of secularism. Some have entirely abandoned the notion that Torah values are eternal and true. And they have done so in the name of the most dangerous illusion provided by the worldview of secular morality... Judaism allows for the reality of sin, but it does not brook the argument that halachic values ought to be overturned because some are unable to resist sin. Jews are those who accept the Torah, accept the halacha, accept Jewish values – without discomfort, without embarrassment, with pride in a worldview that was born at Sinai and that has stood as the bedrock of Western civilization for three thousand years. More
- Av Beis Din and the Rov of the Satmar Kehila in Antwerp, Belgium, Rabbi Chaim Yosef Dovid Weiss known as the “Chidu” visited the Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita to discuss raising funds for a international pidyon shvuyim organization
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