Sunday January 22 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: Periods of rain. High 43F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 90%.

- Beginning today Sunday, the price of Forever stamps from the U.S. Postal Service will increase from 60 cents to 63 cents. 

- Kol Mevaser interview with Rabbi Yisroel Brog in Cleveland after Levaya of  R' Boruch Taub Z"L. Not a dry eye as Cleveland has not seen such a levaya in a long time. The niftar had plans to fly his mishpacha next week and went to excersize the plane or do a practice run. It was at the airport he met another yid R' Ben who was arranging a flight to NY to a levaye when R' Boruch offered him a ride on the plain. He did a chesed at the end of his life said the Rav

-Sunday off shabbos for bochurim 

- Continued tefillos for the mashgiach shlita who is still hospitalized in Philadelphia and under observation, Mattisyahu Chaim ben Ettil

-A new Keren is being set up for talmidei Chachomim muflagim of Lakewood to fully support them so they can be fully engrossed without any financial worries on their heads. details to come it will be under the guidance of the R"Y Rav Yisroel Neuman shlita

- Lakewood police officers were called to the Exxon station on Rt 9 and county line rd for a car that had been sitting for a while and the driver has not moved. Police determined the individual had died of natural causes or drugs overdose.

-LPD searching for part time crossing guards in Lakewood as several intersections have been without a guard in recent weeks.

- NTSB and FAA continue to investigate the tragic plane crash near Westchester county airport on Thursday night. Media reports officials were able to locate the bodies of the niftarim after the FBI was asked to ping their cell phones.

- Israeli PM Netanyahu has formally fired Shas leader Aryeh Deri after he was disqualified by the Supreme court for serving as a minister in the current knesset. There are reports that attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara was considering declaring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unfit to serve in office due to conflicts of interest stemming from his corruption trial in the proposed judicial reforms. But according to a legal expert, such an outcome is highly unlikely due to both legal and political limitations.

- Israel’s chief rabbi has given a kosher stamp of approval this week to a company looking to sell steak grown from cow cells. The meat is to be considered as  "Parve" which is cultivated meat, grown from animal cells in a lab or manufacturing plant, Aleph Farms says it collects sample cells from a living animal and then grows more in a cultivator that mimics conditions in the animal’s body. This is different from popular plant-based alternatives that do not have animal origins. (Algemeiner)

- Ten people were killed and “at least” ten others were wounded when a gunman opened fire as revelers celebrated the Lunar New Year outside Los Angeles Saturday night at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park a city home to a predominantly Asian-American population the gunman had fled the scene and yet to be caught.

- FAAnews: BMG submits plans for 600 apartments on the Georgian Court property recently purchased. The project includes 6 multi-family buildings with 100 residential apartments in each, playgrounds, and a child care center. There will be new driveways off Carey Street, Cedarview Avenue / Fourteenth Street and Ninth Street. BMG has received $7 million in federal grants for this project. Full story at FAAnews 

Badatz calls for tefillos due to lack of rain