Wednesday May 3 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 56° Cloudy with showers. High 56F. Chance of rain 60%.

- Update on Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky From Matzav The  overall condition of Maran Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Philadelphia rosh yeshiva, remains unchanged after his stroke earlier this week. Physicians are working on transferring the rosh yeshiva to a rehab facility or Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Boruch Hashem, as previously reported here, there appears to have been no cognitive damage, but the rosh yeshiva’s speech has been affected.

- Moadim Lsimcha Additional Chicken Distribution - Ordering Deadline, Thursday May 4th 2023. To place your order, call the automated phone system 732.415.4290

 Distribution will take place Monday, May 22nd at 2 Stadium Way from 6:30-8:30 pm.

- Jackson Township's Zoning Board is set today, Wednesday May 3, to face - what appears to be - their first ever Yeshiva dormitory application. The application was submitted by Yeshiva Tiferes Talmud, which is apparently owned by Lakewood developer If this dormitory is approved, it may signal the beginning of a new era that dormitories are welcome in Jackson Township, perhaps even more so than in Lakewood. Read more at Faanews 

- Russia threatened nuclear revenge today after accusing Ukraine of trying to assassinate Vladimir Putin in a drone strike on the Kremlin. 

- Federal Reserve raised its interest rates another 0.25%, to a range between 5% and 5.25%, the highest level since 2007. The increase is the 10th straight interest-rate hike since last March.

- FBI records allegedly reveal then-VP Biden was engaged in a criminal bribery scheme with a foreign national. Fox news reports A whistleblower is alleging that the FBI and the Justice Department are in possession of a document that describes a criminal scheme involving then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for policy decisions, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Sen. Chuck Grassley said Wednesday.

- Shiva for Rav Meir Hershkowitz ztl is at 371 Case Rd in Lakewood shachris 7:30, Mincha, 7:15, Maariv 8:50 getting up Monday morning There will be break from 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm to send stories and nichum aveilim messages email Chayanj30@gmail.com

- Recordings of the Levaya  of Rav Meir Hershkowitz ztl call the Chayeinu Hotline: 732-301-4043 dial 1, 8, and 2, For Hespedim in BMG 102 & 103. For Hespedim in Monsey 104. For Hespedim in Eretz Yisroel  105 & 106.

- Bun Burger new location open at Chestnut corner Route 9

- Lakewood residents are continuing to argue in Superior Court that the Lakewood Zoning Board's approval of a cell tower facility on Clifton Avenue should be overturned because Chairman misled the neighbors more at FAA

- Media reports in Lang case lawyers hoping to reform the state school aid formula for Lakewood's unique district asked New Jersey's education chief to impose a deadline on herself to respond the latest court ruling in the 9-year-old case. See more at NJ

- Hatzolah of  Central Jersey joins annual Hatzolahthon campaign ahead of Lag B'aomer this year they are raising funds to  purchase four new ambulances, at a total cost of $1.2 million Donate HERE 

- לקיים בנו חכמי ישראל continued tefillos for:

Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita Shmuel ben Ita Ettel 

Rav Mattisyahu Salomon shlita Matisyahu Chaim ben Ettel,

Rav Moshe Wolfson shlita Moshe ben Freida Rivka

- Vizhnitzer Rebbe shlita of Williamsburg will be coming to Lakewood today with a Kabolas panim scheduled at B"M Toldos MOrdechai 1501 Clifton Ave 10:00 pm 

 - Russia says Ukraine tried to hit Kremlin with drones overnight in an assassination attempt on Putin.

- Philanthropist R' Hershey Friedman has donated $10 million for a new Mikva building in Monroe.

- Today is the Yartzeit of the Brother of Reb Shayala of Kerestirer Rav Yehuda Tzvi ZTL, he is buried in Staten Island at The Baron Hirsch cemetery 2 minutes off the SI Expressway going to Brooklyn or coming back to Lakewood. It is said over that Reb Shayala appeared in a dream and told someone that you can go daven at my brothers kever in New York and will be helped just as if you came to me in Kerestir. The address for GPS is 1125 Richmond Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314. Exit 7 off the SI expressway. The kever is  located on second street and avenue c in the Bais Hachaim a 5 minute walk from the entrance.

Frum community in England will say a special tefilah this Shabbos with the coronation of the new King