Monday March 13 News Updates Lakewood

 weather: 45° Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall around a quarter of an inch. Tomorrow  Windy. Snow showers will mix with rain at times in the afternoon. High around 40F. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

- Heavy police  presence at Forest Ave and 4th street a suspect with a knife was arrested with the help of Lakewood shomrim.

- BDE: Petirah of  Harav Dovid Zev Ben Moshe Menachem Wicentowsky ZTL of Monsey, Levaya will be Tomorrow Morning  at Bais Medrash L"Torah Rav Feivelsohns yeshiva 10:45am  Kevura in Lakewood.

- Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency Monday in five counties expected to be hardest hit with snow from a nor’easter storm that will also bring heavy rain and wind gusts up to 45 mph through Tuesday morning. The state of emergency will go into effect at 8 p.m. in Bergen, Morris, Passaic, Sussex, and Warren counties.

- Livestream from Lizhensk Here

- Improvement in the condition of Rav Moshe Hillel hirsch shlita who was in the ICU please continue to daven for Moshe HIllel ben Mindel.

- Several New York politicians are renewing legislative pushes to have the state opt out of the twice-yearly time changes. and have reintroduced a bill to make daylight saving time permanent. 

- BDE: Julian Mirman z”l, a 62 year old known Frum Dr who was hit by a car in Los Angeles on Friday night while on the way home from Shul, has sadly passed away (Belaaz)

- Tomorrow at the Lakewood Planning board meeting  there will be several applications for big projects 

A new retail center at Cedarbridge park  for a total of 3 buildings with a total of 115,236 sq feet of retail shopping space with 25 stores and 571 parking spaces.

Beth Medrash Govoha of America Preliminary and Final Major Subdivision and Site Plan for a Planned Educational Campus with 6 apartment buildings and a daycare at the new property purchased from GCU

 118 Ocean Avenue, LLC Spruce and  Vine Avenue  Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan for a daycare 

- Signature bank was planning on opening a branch in Lakewood prior to it being shut down. Many local businesses and tzedakah organizations have assets and funds deposited there.

- Biden says Biden: "Americans can have confidence that the banking system is safe, no losses will be borne by taxpayers, management of these banks will be fired, and  investors in the banks will not be protected."

- BDE: Petira of Rav Meir Weinberg ZT"L R"M in Torah Vodaas for 50 years and mispallel at the Lakewood minyan and Novominsk yeshiva in Boro Park Levaya this morning at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas  11am. He was 88.

- Lakewood zoning board meeting today Monday March 13  watch live stream Here 7pm see agenda Here  more at Faa

- Rav Avrohom Noach Paley who was injured in the terrorist attack in Ramot has gone to visit the kever of his 2 sons H"yd who were killed in the attack for the shloshim and hakomas Matzeiva.

- Yidden flocking to Lizhensk today for the yartzeit of R' Elimelech 21 Adar. Those who are staying local can go to the kever of Rav Meir Weissblum of Shenitza ztl a 7th generation descendent at Floral Park cemetery in Deans, NJ. There will be a tent set up from Monday night until Tuesday evening.

- Adirei Hatorah planning meeting took place to launch 2nd  chizuk event  Hadar Kibluha that will take place after Shavuos in Philadelphia

- Tehilim for Habachur Elozer Berger who was injured in Miron 2 years ago and is undergoing an operation that can improve his health name for tehillim is Elozer ben Reuma. Please continue to daven for Habachur Yossi Reit Yosef Ezriel ben Chaya Michal who was also injured and needs a yeshuah. 

- New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy denies 2024 rumors, says he's '1,000% behind President Biden' despite a NYT profile pointing that he is all in to run for 2024