Talmidei Chachomim in Suppprt Of R' Langs BOE Choice

Bnai Yeshiva are true-blue, unconstrained by politics, business, or party line. They are emmesdik talmidim of gedolai hadoros past and present.  Harav Eliyohu Levin Shlita, Rav Meir Eisemann, and other Talmidei Chachomim signed letters urging the Lakewood Kehilla to support R' Aron Lang's unwavering efforts to bring tax relief and a fixed funding formula to Lakewood - by voting for Board of Education candidates Avrohom Schubert, Eli Eisenbach, and Yoni Morgenstern. 

Video below details the connection to the Talmidei chachomim

Oif Simchas 17 Cheshvan

 Chasunas:

Swerldloff - Katz Fountain Ballroom

Brog - Krasne Bais Faiga

Wolf - Adler - Lake Terrace

Schoen - Hasenfeld Toras Menachem 

Lieberman- Jackson Kesser Moshe Yehuda 

Tuesday October 31 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: 51° Generally cloudy. Much cooler. High 51F. 

today marks the 22nd yahrzeit of Rav Lazer Schach ZT"L

- Halloween today expect trick or treaters early evening 

- Daily Tehillim for children at 6:45 PM, including stories and Divray Chizuk, led by the renowned Reb Aaron Brustowaky Shlita, live on the Chayeinu Hotline: 732-301-4043 option 9

- Ned Thompson in video message: I know how the conferences work i can guarantee you for sure that Avi Schnall  will never be able to avoid voting the democratic line  to get anything done in the democratic party without voting for the democratic line that is LGBTQ and abortion issues I  will assure you just as i have in the last 11 years  you I will always vote with the moral values of the community of lakewood thank you and vote republican

Asifa in Lakewood last night on the Matzav in Eretz Yisrael:

The Lakewood  R"Y Rav Malkiel spoke on the matzav in E"Y we have to be mishtatef batzaar and know that we must look inwards and strengthen ourselves in areas of weakness which through that will have others be mischazek in those areas  He quoted rav Shach that as much as it is our fault we get caught up in kochi veotzem yadi and  think that the IDF and  American ships will  protect us and  we daven to hashem that they should help us  but these thoughts enter our minds where we rely on them. During the Yom Kippur was r the R:Y said he was there in EY when the first few weeks  everyone saw the IDF was losing but after a few weeks as the tides turned in israel's favor the kochi veotzem yodi was back with words of Kochateinu" Yes the soldiers on the front lines are being moser nefesh but we have to go back to strengthen our emunah in Hashem. There are campaigns for tehillim for soldiers and say brachos  for them

 What we don't see is any campaign to daven for  the youngeleit they should be matzliach he continued if we would be stronger in  emunah the emunah of klal yisrael will be stronger  we also have a weakness of tznius the yesod of tznius is Pnima not going in public and on one hand we are doing great but there is still much to be rectified  such as long sheitels  that look like natural hair  with bright colors if we strengthen in this it would be a chizuk for all of klal yisroel.  Shabbos too we are shomer shabbos  but we rely on kulos such as relying on eruvin in some places  which became a weakness in the fire of shabbos so by them the chilul shabbos goes on in public. In the area of avodah zora there's a question of tikrovas avodah zora in certain clothing yes there are those who say it is not an issue but why do we take a chance  but where is our fear maybe there would not have been a concert where they danced with a buddah getchkeh R"L.  rambam says we have to be mechazek ourselves and it is in our hands to get rid of the gezirah and if not it adds others to not repent from their ways  .

- Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel spoke he said we are living in a very dangerous time not only in Eretz Yisrael but here in the US and all over the world antisemitism can flare up instantly and we can become a Germany overnight. The R"Y recounted that he got a phone call from a very choshuv talmmid chochom who is verssed in the writings of the vilna gaon that this shmini atzeres he a milchama will break out  and this will be the last step of gog umagog as the chofetz chaim said that the 1st ww was the beginning. he reiterated what a nes it was that the terrorissts  had maps of every single shul in the area and they knew the shuls were full on simchas torah with men women and children hashem  sent them to other places  we are living in this time of open nissim but it all depends on where we are holding. the churban of the internet has brought upon so many churbanos in klal yisrael even in the best miahpachos, thousands of people have fallen, even without the chatoim or aveiros   there is the bitul torah, the secular hashkafos  that we emulate. it is a churban and michshol we have to protect ourselves  texting pictures from a simcha publicizing itto the whole world this is the nisayon for us. and nmatter how big a excuse of parnassah or loss of money we justify to have it, it pales in comparicant to the sakana we are facing now we need a shmira our  job is to withstand this nisayon so it will save us.

- Ned Thompson for Assembly: Time's running out, but your opportunity to vote by mail isn't. We can't afford to let Lakewood Rabbi Avi Schnall's Democrat-backed platform take hold in the 30th District. It's time to TAKE ACTION!  Apply for a Mail-In Ballot

- Early voting numbers for Lakewood yesterday 341 total votes 

- Elon Musk: Having children should be incentivized, not be a financial penalty like it is in most countries! We must create the next generation of humans or spiral into oblivion.

- Wall GOP: Avi Schnall of Lakewood is running against Sean Kean and Ned Thomson for control of Wall, Howell, Belmar, Avon, Lake Como, and Farmingdale. Vote Tuesday, November 7th, and stop another Phil Murphy's cronies.

- Howell GOP:  Democrat Rabbi  Avi Schnall is running to represent Howell in Trenton. Yet he’s really only running to represent his hometown of Lakewood! Howell can’t afford to be represented by Rabbi Avi Schnall! Vote no on Rabbi Schnall!

Israel At War Tuesday Oct 31

 Israel at war day 25 refresh page for updates

1:00am Wednesday 

- Tragic 9 soldiers killed HYD

-The The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit has released the names of nine soldiers who tragically lost their lives during a recent operation in the Gaza Strip. 7 died from a anti tank rocket that hit their humvee 2 died when their tank drove over a explosive device

 The soldiers are as follows:

- Lt. Ariel Reich, 24, from Jerusalem

- Cpl. Asif Luger, 21, from Yagur

- Sgt. Adi Danan, 20, from Yavne

- Staff Sgt. Halel Solomon, 20, from Dimona

- Staff Sgt. Erez Mishlovsky, 20, from Oranit

- Staff Sgt. Adi Leon, 20, from Nili

- Cpl. Ido Ovadia, 19, from Tel Aviv

- Cpl. Lior Siminovich, 19, from Herzliya

- Staff Sgt. Roei Dawi, 20, from Jerusalem

This announcement comes in addition to the two soldiers' deaths that were reported earlier, bringing the total number of IDF casualties in this operation to eleven.  

7:30 pm

-The White House admitted Hamas is holding nearly 500 Americans hostage in Gaza. Per U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee  

- The IDF Aerial Defense Array intercepted an aerial threat that was identified in the area of the Red Sea, south of the city of Eilat, a short while ago. No threat was posed to civilians and no infiltration into Israeli territory was identified.

- Violent clashes have been continuing for more than 3 hours in the town of Beit Hanoun" in northern Gaza

-Michael Bloomberg pledged to donate nearly $44 million to MDA, Israel’s emergency medical service. He matched it bringing the total to 88 million. Walmart corp donated 1 million 

- The US and Israel are exploring options for the future of the Gaza Strip, including the possibility of a multinational force that may involve American troops if Israeli forces succeed in ousting Hamas, per Bloomberg.

- During the raid in Gaza Israeli forces eliminated the commander of the Jabaliya centre brigade in Hamas, who is believed to be acting as the overall commanding officer of Hamas units fighting in northern Gaza. 

- In the possession of the security forces were maps captured by Hamas terrorists and in them are precise drawings containing sensitive information of a strategic and important installation in the center of the country, which they intended to reach and occupy. In addition, maps of two settlements were discovered with very disturbing target markings, especially in the aspect of the intelligence gathering that was achieved

- With online rumors of a event in Gaza, IDF spokesman says not to rely or spread any unverified rumors and information as they will issue all facts and update verified news releases.

- New York Times: The Pentagon updates that American commando forces stationed in Israel are assisting the IDF forces in operations to identify and locate abductees in the Gaza Strip, among other things also to locate the American citizens held in the Gaza Strip

- Law enforcement has identified a person of interest in relation to threats of a mass shooting and antisemitic violence at Cornell University. This individual is currently in New York State Police custody for questioning.

- IDF: Over the past day, IDF troops operated in a Hamas terrorist stronghold in Jabaliya, northern Gaza. The stronghold was used for training and execution of terrorism activities. During the ground activity, the troops eliminated approx. 50 terrorists, as well as destroyed entrances to terrorist tunnels and weapons. 

- Egypt's PM says the country is "prepared to sacrifice millions of lives" to ensure "no one encroaches upon" its territory — WSJ

Israel’s Channel 12 news says that a reported Israeli airstrike in the Jabaliya camp in northern Gaza was aimed at, and hit, a “Hamas facility” and that “dozens of terrorists, including senior field commanders, were killed.”

Hamas say they will release foreign citizens in the coming days 

- 2 IDF soldiers killed during Northern Gaza fighting, 20 year old Lavi Lifshitz HYD from Moddiin, 20 year old Roei Wolf from Ramat Gan HYD

- Yemen Houthis officially declares war on Israel. Say they will hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona.

- IDF flattens  several blocks with heavy explosives in Jabalia Northern Gaza  Palestinian media reporting  over 400  casualties 

- A massive barrage  of rockets was fired at Ashdod with 2 direct hits. there are 4 are wounde A 50-year-old man in a serious condition, three others in  light condition.`

- IDF Southern command leader: as troops head deep inside Gaza  "We have one goal - victory. No matter how long and how difficult - the is no other outcome than victory"

-Rockets fall in Tel Aviv no injuries reported

- Rav Dov Landau shlita issued a harsh  letter that was printed in the Hebrew yated Neeman. The paper reports the letter is in response to new initiatives by social activists and frum organizations  and businessmen  who have begun collaborations with organizations and bodies some of which have waged war on the values of the Torah and kedoshei yisrael  and the collaboration has led to initiatives that are of no use and may even cause serious damage in the future by breaching fences.

"We have nothing but the study of the Torah And those who are engaged in other actions attracting weak hearts who pretend that in them we are saved from all the troubles and dangers that surround us should know that they are damaging themselves their children families and others.., Leave, leave the delusions and ideas and imaginations of your hearts and return to Hashem in the Torah, tefilah and teshuva  that He will save us from all the harm and bad that come upon us. The salvation from Hashem will come in the blink of an eye.(See full letter below)

- Sirens sounded in Bnei Brak today with large crowds at the kever of rav Shach on his yartzeit 

- Israeli troops fight ‘fierce battles’ against Hamas in urban areas deep inside Gaza

-Over the last day, during ground operations:

Numerous Hamas terrorists have been eliminated. The IAF struck terrorist targets and infrastructure. IDF combat forces struck approximately 300 targets Terrorist compounds inside underground tunnels.

- Jewish homes in Paris are being marked with Stars of David.

- IDF demolishes West Bank home of exiled senior Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri

- Israeli Combat Aircraft and a “Arrow 2” Anti-Ballistic Missile were launched earlier in order to Intercept a number of Hostile Drones and a Land-Attack Cruise Missile which were Detected over the Red Sea heading towards Southern Israel and Eilat. Rebels from Yemen promise to shoot more missiles

- Over 550 muslim protesters have now been arrested for storming the airport  in Dagastan, Russia “searching out jews” and now face 5-15 years in prison each.

Letter from Rav Landau

BOE Borrowing is Unsustainable

R' Aaron Lang explains why to vote for the fix the formula candidates for BOE-  Eisenbach, Morgenstern, Schubert. We are heading toward financial collapse and it is business as usual in Lakewood. 

Oif Simchas Monday 16 Marcheshvan

Chasunas:

Rosenfeld - Steiner Ne'emas Hachaim

Schonbrun - Landau Toras Menachem 

Seitler - Kaplan Fountain Ballroom 

Mandel - Serbrowski Kesser Moshe Yehuda 

Pinter - Kramer Bais Faiga

- Leromem Asifa at Lakewood public school 8:30pm shuttle buses available. Divrei Hisorirus from Rav Makiel Kotler, Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rav Yerucham Olshin, & Rav Tzvi Meir Silbereberg listen live on Chayeinu live call-in: 712-432-4305 or 712-432-1923

For live English translation: 712-832-5661

Monday October 30 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: 73° Generally cloudy. Slight chance of a rain shower.

- Early voting numbers for Lakewood so far 28 early votes in Lakewood on Saturday, 387 more on Sunday. (David Wildstein) polls are open all week at the township building until 8 pm

- Today marks the 70th yahrzeit of the Chazon Ish Zatzal

- Last Monday of Behab minyan Mincha with krias Hatorah of Vayechal at Rabbi Forcheimers shul 418  5th st 2:10pm

- Asifa tonight on the matzav of Eretz Yisrael at Lakewood high school auditorium 200 Ramsey avenue shuttle buses leaving from yeshiva -parking lots at 7th st and 9th streets from BLue claws stadium, Westgate and Vine st park Tehillim recited by Rav Yeruchom Olshin, Speakers Rav Malkiel Kotler , Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel, Rav Tzvi Meir Zilberberg from E"Y 

- Toms River will be celebrating Halloween trick or treating tonight Oct. 30. from 5:30 - 9pm  The question of whether one can give out candy as there are significant reasons to do so based on darchai shalom and Eiva 

-Congressman Chris Smith went knocking on doors yesterday with Assemblyman Ned Thomson asking people to vote 

-Audio:Wheres is the vaad? where was the vaad? there is no Vaad! Candidate for township Hershel Herskowitz reacts to the vaad sudden care for the downtown 

- UENJ tuition relief formally says to vote for Avi Schnall 

 

 - As election season heats up  lawn signs around lakewood have been taken down faanews 

Israel at War Monday October 30

 Israel at war day 24 refresh page

יהי רצון מלפניך שומע קול בכיות . שתשים דמעותינו בנאדך להיות . ותצילנו מכל גזרות אכזריות . כי לך לבד עינינו  תלויות (סליחות בה''ב) 

7:00pm

- Hezbolah warns if has finger on the trigger after israel targets military installations in Lebanon 

- Israeli ambassador to the UN and his team wore nazi era yellow stars at the UN security council until the UN condemns the atrocities of Hamas 

- Putin blames the lynch mobs at the airport in Dagestan on Ukraine and other western intelligence agencies 

- Rocket barrage from Gaza fired at central Israel this evening 

- Dancing in the streets of kiryat Gat home of the rescued soldier

-The White House announces a series of actions it is taking to combat the “alarming” rise in reported antisemitic incidents on American college campuses since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war.

- Netanyahu: Iran is an axis of evil and terror and is working to finance Hamas. Hamas uses mosques to strengthen its military positions and keep civilians in harm's way. Calling for a ceasefire is a call for surrender, but we will not do that and we will win. We regret that numerous of our friends did not insist on strongly condemning the barbarians We hope to achieve calm on the northern front with Lebanon Thanks to Shin Bet and the IDF for their commitment to freeing all abductees

- The Saudi Arabian Armed Forces and Air Defense Sites across the Country have reportedly been placed into a Heightened State of Readiness following Significant Clashes with Houthi Fighters over the last 24 Hours within the Jazan Region near the Border with Yemen

- Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu: “Just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11. Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of October

- Mossad head was in Qatar last week to negotiate hostage release

- Russia in talks to release 8 of its citizens held by Hamas 

-US continues to pressure israel as it warns of a total humanitarian collapse in the southern gaza strip and Israel must allow more humanatarian aid trucks to enter

12:30

- Another Israeli hostage has been freed rescued by IDF soldiers in a ground operation in Gaza. Sa female soldier Ori Megidish observation soldie as in good health reunited with family no other information provided about the rescue. Her mother did the mitzva hafroshas challah as a zechus for her safe return

- Badatz Eidah Hacharedis called a worldwide yom tefilah today the last Monday of Behab. Time 4pm in EY and 10:00am in NY area. To say tehillim kapital, 13,2081,121,130,142, and yup gimmel middos if there's a minyan followed by reciting parsahs haktores and kabolas ol malchus shamayim.

- Rocket sirens sounded in yerushalayim and surrounding towns on Monday afternoon interceptions over Beit Shemesh 

- NYT reports Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, had stopped eavesdropping on Hamas hand-held radios a year earlier before October 7 attack. Because they saw it as a “waste of effort.” after the massacre the found these radios on the bodies of dead terrorists

- Hamas releases a propaganda video in which three Israeli women held hostage berate Prime Minister Netanyahu, calling on him to secure their release and accusing him of failing to prevent the terror massacre on October 7

- Stabbing attack near the Shivtei Yisrael light rail station in Yerushalayim the victim a police officer is in stable condition the Arab terrorist was shot dead.p

-IDF tanks push further into Gaza were seen on the outskirts of Gaza city.

Overnight, troops eliminated dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in the buildings and tried to attack the forces that were moving in their direction,” In one incident, ground troops directed the Air Force to carry out a drone strike on a Hamas staging ground, killing more than 20 terrorists.

- An estimated 30 rockets were launched from Gaza at Netivot in the latest barrage. There was a direct hit on a home No injuries reported.

- Reserve Soldier from Yerushalayim killed up north when his tank overturned.

Video: Vote For R' Lang BOE Candidates

 R'  Aaron Lang explains the need to vote BOE fix the formula candidates Eli Eisenbach,Yoni Morgenstern Avrohom Schubert.

Letter of support from Rav Eliyohu Levin shlita and talmidei chachomim chavrei hakollel

Oif Simchas Sunday 14 Cheshvan

Chasunas:

Feldman - Weingarten Ateres Reva

Furer- Shwarzman Fountain Ballroom 

Gould - Weiss Bais Faiga

- Agudah siyum at Bellworks

A wake Up call In Golus America

A timely article in the recent issue of the Yated Ne'eman newspaper about how we are to act in Golus even if we have rights.

What Are We Doing to Ourselves?

By: Rabbi Avrohom Birnbaum

Why do we have to arouse the kinah of the people among whom we live? Really, are we that stupid not to have learned the lessons of history, which repeats itself over and over again?......Yes, it is possible that we can win and perhaps we have every right to put in our own politicians in accordance with the law of the land, but that doesn’t mean we should utilize those rights. It doesn’t mean it is the correct Jewish response.

October 18, 2023

After a whole Yom Tov without being engaged in news, going through the news this week was very depressing, not only for the obvious reason of seeing so much tzoras Yisroel, with over 1,300 Yidden murdered in cold blood just because they were Jews and many more wounded, but for another reason as well. That reason is the chilling anti-Semitism that has been revealed here in America. One of the most concerning by-products of the tragedy of Simchas Torah is that it revealed how hated we Jews are by the amoral American intelligentsia.

Yes, we heard about the rallies in cities all over the word, including New York City, on behalf of the Palestinians. The glee and giddiness of those initial rallies over the murder and massacre of Jews in cold blood was chilling, but we cannot say it was unexpected from the audience, who were primarily Arabs. The chanting in Sydney, Australia and London, England by thousands of protestors saying, “Gas the Jews,” or, “Kill the Jews,” was disgusting, but not necessarily a chiddush to those of us who have been following the very concerning transformation of European cities, whether in France, Germany, England, far-off  Sydney, or even Dearborn, Michigan, which are inhabited by millions of expatriates from Arab lands who have not been integrated and who retain their barbaric, rabid anti-Semitism that they were fed from birth.

Sadly, we are not surprised by the moral corruption and bald-faced anti-Semitism of Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and her ilk. That is what they are and that is what they have always been.

A Concerning Trend Among the Intelligentsia

What is far more concerning is the reaction of the intelligentsia: The presidents of Harvard University, Columbia University, and many others. The anchormen and women on many mainstream outlets, such as MSNBC, CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and BBC. It took them about a day after the most brutal massacre of Jews since the Holocaust to go back to their symmetry, their clear attempts to equate the barbaric massacre of peaceful, unarmed civilians with the legitimate response to a declaration of war by Hamas.

Thirty student groups at Harvard put out the following joint statement. “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence. …The apartheid regime is the only one to blame.”

The fact that despite the outrageous statement, the president of Harvard University didn’t distance the official university view from that of the student groups, but instead resorted to unintelligible gobbledygook decrying violence on any side; the fact that subtle messages from so many who are supposed to know better was that the “Jews had it coming to them,” is a chilling reminder about how precarious our situation is even in the seemingly benevolent golus of America.

All these young idiots on elite campuses throughout America who couldn’t even find Israel on a map but are protesting “Israeli aggression on innocent Palestinians” will, in a matter of a few years, be the political and business leaders of America. Think about what that says about our future here in golus America. They have already been almost irrevocably poisoned with Jew-hatred.

This should be a wake-up call for us here in America.

A Wake-Up Call Today…In Preparation for the Future

Fortunately, at this juncture, those leftist views are not reflective of much of the American population. This is really what I want to address in this article. How do we make sure that this cancer of unbridled Jew-hatred doesn’t spread to the rest of America? We, Yidden, especially visibly frum Yidden, have a critical role to play.

Many Americans living all over the fruited plane don’t share that rabid Jew-hatred. They are likely to see through the amoral hypocrisy of the university presidents and the intelligentsia on one condition: That we, with our conduct, do not “reitz them on,” do not give them the impression that we don’t care about them, and do not run roughshod over their sensitivities.

Sunday October 29 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 63° Overcast with rain showers at times.  Chance of rain 50%.

- 13 Cheshvan Hundreds of people travel to Buffalo to daven  at Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef Rabinowitz's Ohel, also known as the "Linzer Rebbe from Buffalo.

- Time changed in Israel now 6 hours behind.US falls back next week 

- With nice weather Residents tool the opportunity enjoying Lakewood scenic lake area for family photos with foliage as backdrop

- Kinus hisoirerus planned for Lakewood this Monday at the Lakewood public school gym with special guest from Eretz Yisrael Rav Tzvi Meir Zilberberg shlita, Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita and Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita will be addressing the maamad 

- Breadberry  Lakewood location opening soon, opening date not anounced yet. Located at Brooklyn rd and E County line.

- Early voting started in NJ in Lakewood polls are open at town hall 3rd and Clifton today 10-6 rest of week 10-8 open until next Sunday. Election day is Tuesday.

- Tonight Agudah Siyum aon Seder Noshim at NameBell Works Address 101 Crawfords Corner Rd., Holmdel, NJ, 07733 US reception starts at 6pm

- Howell Republican committee: "Democrat Rabbi  Avi Schnall is running to represent Howell in Trenton. Yet he’s really only running to represent his hometown of Lakewood! Howell can’t afford to be represented by Rabbi Avi Schnall! Vote no on Rabbi Schnall!"

- R' Aaron  Lang has just filed a Motion again seeking for the Appellate Division to render their own decision on the matter, or at the very least, to set a timetable and enforce it. He calla on everyone to vote for his choice of BOE candidates Eisenbach,Schubert,Morgenstern. More at faanews.com 

-At least 18 people are injured and 2 dead after a mass shooting during a Halloween celebration in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida this morning.

- Politico NJ: Alexander "Avi" Schnall, a rabbi from Lakewood who’s running for Assembly in the 30th District, in a Wednesday filing with the Election Law Enforcement Commission reported raising just $100 but disclosed incurring $33,087 in debt for digital and print advertisements. Republicans alleged in a complaint with the Election Law Enforcement Commission filed Monday that those expenses should have been disclosed on Schnall’s initial 29-day pre-election report, initially filed Oct. 10.

“It is contrary to the entire purpose of ELEC for persons and entities to fund and publish

Israel At war Sunday Oct 29

Israel at war day 23 refresh page

10:00pm

- Israel in talks with Russia to evacuate Israeli citizens out of Dagastan

- US official: Israel limiting Gaza ground offensive to keep from endangering hostages

- Congressman Derick Van Orden, a former Navy SEAL, visited Israel and saw the horrors: "It's ISIS times 1000."

- The Cornell University Hillel in Ithaca New York is advising Jewish students to stay away from a building housing a kosher dining hall, after threats and antisemitic slurs were posted to an online student forum. Police have been dispatched to the building, the Hillel statement says, and the school says that the FBI is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.

-Action in Jenin several terrorists killed

5:45pm

- Badatz eidah Hacharedis calls for a worldwide day of tefillah tomorrow last Monday of Behab

- The Israeli Air Force has reportedly just Intercepted a Hostile Target over the Red Sea

- CNN, the rapid reaction force of the US Marines is movin 2000 men to the eastern Mediterranean.

- Initial Reports of U.S. Airstrikes on Iranian-Backed Militias near the City of Albukamal on the Syrian-Iraqi Border.

- N12 News: "Security official: the event in Dagestan is not over yet. A relatively small number of Israelis and Jews are isolated and secured at the airport. We are working for them to take off from there for an onward  flight to Moscow as soon as the conditions allow."

- Number of hostages held now goes up to 239

- A flight from Tel Aviv landed in Dagastan,Russia as Muslims stormed the airport in an attempt to hurt Israeli passengers, reports say no Israeli citizens were on the flight. They chanted "Allahu Akbar" as they hunt down Jews 

- Rudy Giuliani remarks on pro  palestinian protests in NY: We’ve had antisemitism, of course, but nothing like this,” Giuliani said. “This is hateful, violent antisemitism. And we have to just stand up against it. Even with all this romanticism about, we have to help the Palestinians, of course I don’t want to see them die, but they don’t love us at all. Anytime they can, they’ll carry ‘Death to America,’ ‘Death to Jews’ signs

- Bobov rebbe we are not davening for the tzava to win but for Hashem to watch and protect klal yisrael.

-Hezbollah fired 19 rockets in span of 2 hours,home in kiryat Simona was hit no injuries 

- Over 100 hamas terrorists killed in today's action by IFF

- Under US pressure Israel reopens the second of three water pipelines that provide water to the Gaza Strip, now allowing for a total of some 28.5 million liters a day to flow in.

- IDF says troops killed terrorists on Gaza beach; rockets fired from Strip and Lebanon

- The IDF says ground forces are continuing to operate in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, killing Hamas gunmen and destroying sites belonging to the terror group. 450 targets were hit2 soldiers were wounded one seriously.

- Rocket alert sirens sound in a number of towns and cities in central Israel, including Tel Aviv, Herzliya, Ra’anana, Holon and Hod Hasharon. There are no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

- IDF Spokesman says the military was working to bring home the hostages held in the Strip. “We all doing everything to bring the hostages home. It is a top priority,” 

 

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologizes for an earlier statement in which he seemed to f blame  the security services for failing to prevent the murderous October 7 terror attack.“I was wrong. The things I said following the press conference should not have been said and I apologize for that,”. Earlier leftist have put blame on Netanyahu  that he was warned of Hamasa attack,and the PM was responding to that accusation.

- Donald Trump  “If you spill a drop of American blood, we will spill a gallon of yours"

He gave unwavering support for Israel wiping out Palestinian Hamas militants, as he campaigned in Las Vegas  "Those who chant, 'Death to Israel' also chant always, 'Death to America'." - Former President Donald J. Trump

Motzei Shabbos Lech Lecha 5784 News Updates

- At least 7,000 pro-Palestinian protesters shut down the Brooklyn Bridge during a march through the borough Saturday, openly cheering Hamas terrorists’ barbaric attacks on Israel — and justifying the murders of innocent mothers and babies. The protesters damaged cop cars, and blocked traffic.

- Over 100,000 in London Pro-Palestinian protesters called for an intifada from “London to Gaza” at a huge rally in the capital on Saturday, prompting warnings that permitting such inflammatory language posed a “serious danger” to Britain’s Jewish community.

- Mike Pence drops out of presidential race says now is not his time

- Tonight: Rav Noach Orlowek Mashgiach in Yeahiva Torah Ohr Yerushalayim will be speaking in Lakewood tonoght motzei shabbos divrei chizuk about the matzav in Eretz Yisroel at B"M Kelmwoods 47 Kelmwoods Ave Westgate at 9:30pm. Dial in option for Rabbi Orlowek’s drasha tonight:

Phone #: 720-527-5759

Pin #: 4542599

-Tonight: Rav Bentzion Oiring long time zaka volunteer is in Lakewood there will be a melava malka in his honor tonight motzei shabbos he will give a first hand account of what he saw, 9:30pm, at 199 Ocean Ave.

Over shabbos news in Israel

 Hamas offers hostage deal to swap prisoner a deal that includes releasing all Hamas prisoners in Israeli in return for the release of all hostages

- Elon Musk says he will activate his starling communication to recognized aid organizations in Gaza, Israel criticizes the move, Musk says Israel can see which group is approved to connect.

- An extensive IDF ground raid across the border line of Gaza 150 underground targets were attacked

- Netanyahu and Gallant met for the first time with the families of the abductees

- IDF spokesperson releases certain information about their goals and accomplishments thus far in the incursion.

A joint mission involving multiple Israeli units working in tandem are actively dismantling.

Accomplishing the eradication of many Hamas anti- tank crews, destroying booby trapped areas, and destroying Hamas operational meeting centers.

- Significant number of C-17A Globemaster lll and C-5M Super Galaxy Transport Aircraft from the U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command have been arriving in the Middle East and and Southeastern Europe over the last 48 Hours, as a Sign that the United States is continuing to prepare for a possible Major Outbreak of Hostilities in the Region.

In response to three rockets launches from Lebanon, the IDF is currently striking Hezbollah terrorist targets in Lebanon.

Lakewood Zmanim עש"ק פר' לך לך תשפ"ד

Friday, October 27, 2023 / י''ב חשון תשפ״ד ערב ערב שבת פרשת לך לך

Candle lighting 5:42 pm

Shkiah/sunset 6:00 pm

-Weather shabbos day  82° Sunny skies. Near record high temperatures.

"וקוי ה' יחליפו כח יעלו אבר כנשרים ירוצו ולא ייגעו ילכו ולא ייעפו" ישעיהו מ' הפטרה פרשת לך לך"

There is מחלוקת  between the  אבן עזרא and the רד"ק how to pronounce the pasuk in the haftorah this week, either with a Tzeiri under the Yud as in וְקוֹיֵ or with the Tzeirei under the vov as in וקווי

Those who hope in Hashem will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Hershel Herskowitz: Early Voting Starts

 Township candidate Hershel Herskowitz calls on the entire community to help save Lakewood. " I have a lot of ideas to help Lakewood. But my ideas alone won't be enough. That is why we will need to have town meetings again , and hear everyone's ideas to help improve our town and fix all its problems" Early voting starts this week.

Friday October 27 News Updates Lakewood

 Friday, October 27, 2023 / י״ב חשון תשפ״ד ערב שבת פרשת לך לך

Candle lighting 5:42 pm

Shkiah/sunset 6:00pm

Weather: 77°  Sun and clouds mixed. Near record high temperatures. High 77F

Shabbos day 82° Sunny skies. Near record high temperatures. High 82F

- Several accidents on New Hampshire Ave and  rt 88 causing traffic and roads blocked off.

 - At the levaya of Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi zt'l it was announced that his son RAV Ben-zion shlita  will succeed him as Rosh Yeahiva of Ateres Yisrael.

-Murphy votoes NJ trnpk approved toll hike for now saying he needs more information for why the board is taking this step,” the hike would have been a 3% increae, with elections 2 weks away the dems are looking to maintain control of both chambers a toll hike now would not do good for them but  pundits say it can still happen eventually. 

- Bingo sale side of salmon $6.99

- Rav Noach Orlowek Mashgiach in Yeahiva Torah Ohr Yerushalayim will be speaking in Lakewood this motzei shabbos divrei chizuk about the matzav in Eretz Yisroel at B"M Kelmwoods 47 Kelmwoods Ave Westgate at 9:30pm

- Rav Bentzion Oiring long time zaka volunteer is in Lakewood there will be a melava malka in his honor this motzei shabbos he will give a first hand account of what he saw, 9:30pm, at 199 Ocean Ave.

-BDE: Sheya Mendlowitz A’H, legendary music producer of many Jewish albums and behind many popular shows over the years, including  Hasc concert, was niftar at 61. He was not well for past  few years.(kol Haolam)

- Warehouse coming to prospect st Here 

- After weeks of taking a strong stance for the republican candidate Ned Thompson with articles against the push to have a democrat in the NJ, assembly  the Lakewood shopper newspaper has flipped and says going forward it will support Avi Schnall campaign in the name of achdus and unity 

- BOE candidate R' Yudel Shain endorses R Langs 3 candidates for Lakewood BOE seats more 

- Kinus hisoirerus planned for Lakewood this Monday at the Lakewood public school gym with special guest from Eretz Yisrael Rav Tzvi Meir Zilberberg shlita, Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita and Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita will be addressing the maamad 

Israel At War Friday Oct 27 Updates

Day 21 of War, refresh page

4pm

- ABC News: IDF official says the action in Gaza is not a start of a ground offensive but limited incursion.

UN just adopted Jordan's resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Israel/Hamas war by a vote of 120-14 with 45 abstentions. 

-Biden administration is privately urging Israel against a full Gaza ground invasion, pushing instead a surgical campaign, Washington Post reports

- Spokesman for the U.S. National Security Council, John Kirby has now stated that there will be “No Red-Lines” for Israel.

- Iran threatens: "The fighters in Lebanon are ready with their finger on the trigger for an Israeli ground operation in Gaza"  

3pm

- Tanks enter Gaza, Jordanian official says Israel starts ground offensive 

- IDF ramps up strikes in Gaza, says ground forces to ‘expand’ activity tonight. Reports of gunfire exchanges with hamas

Gaza communications collapse amid bombardments 

Army says it’s hitting underground targets  

- Alex Dancyg, an elderly Holocaust educator Hamas terrorists are holding captive in Gaza is in great danger due to his medical conditions, his son says "We have no time," Mati Dancyg said about his father, who had a severe heart attack a few years ago and requires medication to prevent another. "Every minute that passes without this medicine is dangerous for him."

12pm

- Commander of Hamas' Western Khan Yunis Battalion—was eliminated by an IDF aerial strike. Furthermore, the IDF struck 250+ Hamas targets including a terrorist tunnel network in Gaza that detonated the secondary explosions.

- Spokesman for IDF announced today that Hamas has established an Underground-Terror Complex beneath Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City which is being used as their Primary Operations Base in the Strip with Tunnels connecting a number of other Locations to the Complex.

- Rocket barrage launched at Tel Aviv 2 direct hits with light injuries building catches fire

- Number of hostages at 229

- US strikes Syria sites used by Iran, its proxies after attacks on American troops. 

senior US military official said the precision strikes hit weapons and ammunition storage areas that were connected to the IRGC, which is a US-designated terrorist organization. Two US F-16 fighter jets carried out the sortie on sites near the town of Boukamal near the Iraqi border, the official said.

- IDF says apparent drone strike on Egypt town near Israel launched from ‘Red Sea area’

6 hurt in Taba blast; reports of 2nd projectile hitting Sinai resort, attack comes week after Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen attempted to fire missiles at Israel from Red Sea. Unnamed Israeli officials told Hebrew-language media that the missiles were fired in the direction of Israel.

- IDF tanks, troops briefly enter Gaza in 2nd limited overnight raid ahead of ground op

- Jews in Brooklyn told to hide and stay inside this shabbos afternoon after a pro hamas rally to take place in crown heights. And rather than feeling certain the NYPD will protect them, they are learning the lesson American Jews have almost never felt the need to learn: Stay inside.

In 2023, three weeks after Jews in Israel were set upon by marauders who murdered 1,400 and injured nearly three times that many, in cities around the world and now in New York, the Jews outside Israel are under attack as never before in recent history — rather than finding themselves protected as never before.

No, they must stay inside. (NYP)

Live Broadcast Levaya of Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi Zatzal

Levaya in Yerushalayim 9:00am from Bayit Vegan to Har Hazeisim 

Oif Simchas Thursday י"ב מרחשון

 Chasunas:

Bamberger - Tauber  neemas Hachaim

Blumenfeld - Lehrman Ateres Reva

Bertram - Fink Lake Terrace

Rozen -  Chachamzadeh Toras Menachem 

Schaum- Chapler Kesser Moshe Yehuda 

- Chumash Shiur by Harav Yeruchom Olshin shlita 11:30 pm at B"M Ateres Bracha live 646-726-9977

- Harav Yosef Dovid Korbman Rosh Yeshiva Yeshiva Gedola South Lakewood BE”H weekly Chumash shuir 11:15 pm in Bais Yitzchok (bmg) Ezras Nashim every Thursday night 11:15 pm

Letter from Talmidei Chachomim to vote for R' Aaron Lang BOE candidates in Lakewood

Letter of endorsement by Harav Eliyohu Levin shlita calling on everyone to support the efforts of R' Aaron Lang to bring tax relief and a fixed funding formula to Lakewood The only way to achieve success for the Lakewood taxpayers is by R’ Ahron working with the Lakewood Board of Education. Avrohom Schubert, Eli Eisenbach, and Yoni Morgenstern have volunteered to run for the BOE and give full political support to his lawsuit, (which has already won in the Appellate Division, the second highest court in the state).

Asditional Letter below by Lakewood talmidei chachomim in support of R' Aaron Lang and to vote for the selected endorsed candidates

Thursday October 26 Lakewood News Updates

 Weather: 79° Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. 

 Levaya for Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi zatzal was held in Yeahivas Ateres Yisrael in Modiin tonight. Levaya in Yerushalayim tomorrow morning 9am, 2am in the US metro area. There will be a Video hook up 

- Running in conservative media platforms: Allegedly Mark Meadows worked for the FBI as an informant and wore a wire to record all conversations with President Trump, while he was the Chief of Staff to him.

- After reports of an active shooter The Joint Base McGuire in Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey has given the all-clear no shooter or shots have been fired all activity’s can resume to normal

- Joseph H. Vicari, Director of the Ocean County Board of Commissioners, held a telephone conference with a Verizon corporate representative Wednesday to address a wide-ranging number of issues from dangerously low-hanging utility pole wires to the high cost of cable TV and cell phone service.

- A Coast Guard officer "said the Coast Guard crew, which is armed, is searching for a 15-foot Bayliner boat that Card is believed to own and which is now unaccounted for."

- Thursday of Behab minyan mincha with kroas Hatorah of Vayechal at Rabbi Forcheimers shul 418 5th st 2:10 pm 

- Kinus hisoirerus planned for Lakewood this Monday at the Lakewood public school gym with special guest from Eretz Yisrael Rav Tzvi Meir Zilberberg shlita, Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita and Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita will be addressing the maamad 

- BDE: Petirah of Mrs.Ettie Friedman  A"H of lakewood  at the age of  42 wife of R' Shloime shlita originally from Baltimore. She collapsed  earlier this week and was taken to the hospital when she was niftar early this morning. her maiden name Davidowitz, from  Flatbush. she left behind a family with children, one who is getting married in a few weeks. The Levaya is scheduled for 7:00pm tonight in Lakewood at the chapel off 7th street with kevura in lakewood 

- Effective today a new minimum implemented for schools to provide free lunch which can add more Local families to the program  by lowering the minimum identified student percentage (ISP) from 40 percent to 25 percent. Lowering the minimum ISP will give states and LEAs greater flexibility to offer no-cost meals to all enrolled students if financially viable. Please reach out to your school if they are eligible to enroll. 

- Audio message from Candidate Hershel Herskowitz for Lakewood township commitee

- Maine shooting  suspect still at large  15 hours later  as manhunt continues Dozens of schools, from kindergartens to universities, will stay shut today following the shootings in Lewiston, Maine. The killer is Army Reserve firearms instructor Robert Card. Maine governor says 18 dead, 13 injured in Lewiston mass shootings.

- State records indicate Lakewood ranked 5th statewide in building permits for new housing and 12th for office space development in 2022, out of 567 municipalities in New Jersey. app

- Car accident rates in Lakewood are higher than in neighboring towns, data revals. In 2021, for instance, while there were 5,244 car accidents in Lakewood, nearby Toms River had 3,725, Brick Township reported 2,417 and Jackson reported just 1,288. U.S. Census records show that Lakewood has an adult population of 68,500 residents, while Toms River's adult population is 75,000 residents. Yet, Lakewood saw 29% more car accidents than Toms River last year.(APP)

- Voter drive in Lakewood heimish communities 60 registered in Belz 80 in Oak and Vine full details at faa 

- Online fundraiser for R Aaron Lang fix the funding formula HERE

"Right now, the only way to achieve success for the Lakewood taxpayers is by R’ Ahron working with the Lakewood Board of Education to solve the problems mentioned above. Avrohom Schubert, Eli Eisenbach, and Yoni Morgenstern have volunteered to run for the BOE and give full political support to his lawsuit, (which has already won in the Appellate Division, the second highest court in the state)".

 

Israel at War Thursday Oct 26 Updates

Day 20 Israel at war Refresh page 

יוושעו לעין כל ואל ימשלו בם רשעים כלה שעיר וחותנו ויעלו לציון מושיעים כי אתה רב סליחות ובעל הרחמים 

Destroy Eisav and his father in lay Yishmoel (סליחות בה"ב)

9:45 pm

Crown Heights: Shmira is advising the community to stay away from the area of the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway this Shabbos, October 28th, at 3:00PM where a pro-Palestinian protest is scheduled to take place. Brooklyn for Gaza.

6:45pm

-IDF troops operating in Jenin

-IDF in gaza reports of heavy fire exchanges between soldiers and hamas terrorists in the Sajaya neighborhood 

- A senior Hamas official told The Associated Press on Thursday that the Palestinian group had expected stronger intervention from we need more in order to stop the aggression on Gaza … We expect more.”

4:45pm

- The White House denounced 'antisemitic messages being conveyed on college campuses' in a statement Thursday, condemning students groups that have praised Hamas’ attack on Israel or 'call for the annihilation of the state of Israel.'"

- Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder says that approximately 900 US troops are either in or on their way to the Middle East — but not Israel — as part of “efforts to deter a broader conflict and further bolster us force protection capabilities.”

- Heavy rocket fire targets central Israel sirens sound in Bnei Brak

- A rocket landed  near a highway near Rehovot in central Israel, setting fire to a utility pole.

Medics say there are no physical injuries.

- IDF  killed five senior hamas  commanders today with airstrikes 

- Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reiterated that a ground operation was looming and vowed to win the war, asserting that the country’s next 75 years largely depend on it.

2:00pm

- IDF goes in again with a ground incursion into Gaza

- Israel criticizes Russia for inviting Hamas Delegation

- The Iranian Foreign Minister: "Hamas is ready to release all the abductees in exchange for the release of 6,000 security prisoners."

- Nine Arab countries - Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - issue joint statement condemning the targeting of civilians and violations of international law in Gaza, adding that self-defence does not justify neglecting the rights of Palestinians.

- 19 American service members stationed in Iraq and Syria have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury after rocket and drone attacks from Iran-backed militants last week, according to a Defense Department official.

11:30am

- IDF killed the Deputy Head of Hamas’ Intelligence Directorate Shadi Barud, who was responsible for planning the October 7th massacre together with chief terrorist Yahya Sinwar.

- Rocket barrage targets Tel Aviv area as IDF steps up strikes on Hamas sites in Gaza

- Hamas delegation travels to Russia to consult about Gaza with Iranian and Russian officials

-The IDF deployed a limited ground incursion into Gaza overnight, sending infantry forces and tanks up to a kilometer into the northern part of the Strip, preparing the border area for the “next stages of the war,”The “targeted raid” appeared to be the most significant ground offensive since war broke out earlier this month, as the IDF prepares a full-scale invasion to eliminate the Hamas terror group that rules the Strip.

- Israel will use novel “sponge bombs” as it fights through the network of Hamas tunnels under Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been testing the chemical bombs, which contain no explosives but are used to seal off gaps or tunnel entrances from which fighters may emerge.

-Qatar says any deal to free hostages would not happen unless there's a ceasefire 

- Man arrested by California police after breaking into a Jewish home in Los Angeles and threatening to kill the occupants. The suspect, Daniel Garcia, who was wearing only underwear, kicked in the home’s back door, and was heard yelling “Free Palestine” and “Kill Jews”, per the LAPD. The home invasion occurred at approximately 5AM; the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. 

בד"ה: מרן הגאון רבי ברוך מרדכי אזרחי זצוק"ל ראש ישיבת עטרת ישראל

 אבל כבד בעולם התורה נצחו אראלים את המצוקים ונשבה ארון הקודש

Watch Levaya HERE 2am Thursday 

Update: The Levaya will take place tomorrow Friday morning 9am from his home in Bayit Vegan to Har Hazeisim . Since his son is a ben yochid who will say kaddish the desicion was made to postpone even though I Yerushalayim you usually don't wait.

Torah world is in mourning with the sad news of the Perirah of Harav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi Zatzal Rosh Yeshivas Ateres Yisrael Chaver Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah he was 95. He was hospitalized at Hadassa win kerem in Yerushalayim his condition deteriorated early this morning and he went into cardiac arrest.

Levaya details TBA as a son in currently  in Mexico, additionally due to the war the police are not allowing large gatherings for fear of rockets.

Photos: Satmar Rebbe Chanukas Habayis in Lakewood

 The Satmar Rebbe Rav Aaron Teitelbaum shlita with The Lakewood Roshei Yeshiva shlita at the Chamukas Habayis of the Satmar Bais Mesrash on E. Kennedy Blvd in Lakewood. Pictured with Rav Malkiel Kotler,Rav Yeruchom Olshin, Rav Dovid Schustal, Satmar Dayan Rav Mordechai Betzalel Klein, Skulen Rebbe of Lakewood ,Skver dayan

Photos courtesy of Satmar News

Oif Simchas Wednesday י"א מרחשון

Yartzeit of רחל אמנו

רחל מבכה על בניה see below for famous story of Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz at Kever Rochel

Chasunas:

Aryeh - Epstein Fountain Ballroom

Perlstein - Feldheim Toras Menachem

Lazar - Portowicz Kesser Moshe Yehuda

Leifer - Dick Bais Faiga

Mendlowitz - Herman Neemas Hachaim

Fried - Orlowek Ateres Reva

- Rabbi Milstein’s weekly Chumash shiur is tonight at B"M Ishay Yisroel 110 Miller Rd 8:30 pm

Wednesday October 25 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: 74° Sunshine and a few clouds. High 74F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph.

- Mass shooting in Lewiston Maine 22 dead 50 injured shooting happened in 3 locations bowling alley, Bar and Walmart distribution ctr, Fox News reports suspect in custody. Report: Suspect identified as Robert Card, 40 just finished serving in military.

-Jewish students at Cooper Union College in New York City have been locked inside the library for their own safety. There is a large crowd of anti-Israeli protesters banging on the doors to intimidate them.

- Passing of a prince Last week, America’s yeshivah world lost one of its princes with the passing of Rav Shimon Alster ztz”l. Rav Alster, who fulfilled dual roles both as rosh yeshivah of the Yeshiva Gedolah of Cliffwood, which he founded, and rav of Beis Medrash Torah u’Tefillah in Flatbush, was the quintessential rebbi, guiding, leading and teaching hundreds of talmidim and mispallelim with a blazing clarity and boundless love. Through heartbreaking loss, talmidim remember read Here in Mishpacha Magazine 

- Republicans in NJ could win a majority in the state Assembly for the first time in more than 20 years by flipping seats in just three legislative districts and holding all the ones they control now,” the New Jersey Monitor reported.

- Republican Mike Johnson elected as U.S. House Speaker. He won 220 votes, needing around 217 to become speaker. A deep conservative and , a staunch ally of former President Trump

- Ned Thompson campaign "Honesty and integrity is vital in a political candidate. If you can’t be honest with your campaign finances, how can the voters trust you on the issues?

- Pro hamas demonstrations in Teaneck Englewood and other Jewish communities in New Jersey, Murphy has yet to issue statement 

- NJ Assembly Democrats tweet: "Imagine a world where anyone could obtain a weapon.

Republicans in the Assembly have introduced dozens of bills to increase the availability of these weapons, putting our communities at risk. Gun safety measures save lives".

 - UENJ  meeting  today with Igud hamosdos in get out the vote campaign to parents

-A fundraiser for Zaka was held last night at SALT restaurant in Long Branch hundreds of thousands was raised for the organization in charge of identifying and bringing the victims to kevurah  

-Will tuition releif commitee be controlled by the same LSTA committe helping certain schools more

- Agudah siyum this Sunday at Bell works Q&A Even with the current Matzav?

Not even, but especially! Torah is the essence of our nation and our existence throughout history. In an Eis Tzara l’Yaakov, mimenah yivasheya through Torah and our renewed inspiration and commitment to limud Daf Yomi.

Where and When is The Siyum?

We will celebrate this historic celebration on Sunday, October 29, together with thousands of participants in the main Atrium of Bell Works in Holmdel, New Jersey. 

- Atzeres chizuk and tefillah is planned for this coming Monday by the Leromem organization details tBA

 - In September  all 21 counties saw a drop in new real estate listings, according to the latest Realtor.com data. Statewide, a total of 8,100 homes were listed at a median price of $540,000. Nationwide, a total of 357,956 homes were listed at a median price of $429,500 in September, according to Realtor.com.

Israel At War Wednesday Oct 25

Israel at war day 19 refresh page

11:45 PM

- IDF operated in northern Gaza. IDF tanks & infantry struck numerous terrorist cells, infrastructure and anti-tank missile launch posts. The soldiers have since exited the area and returned to Israeli territory.

10:30

Bernie Sanders: Israel has a right to defend itself against Hamas. But innocent Palestinians also have a right to life and security. I’m calling for a humanitarian pause by all parties so that critical aid can be delivered to the suffering people of Gaza and for the immediate release of all hostages.

- US House of Representatives votes to support Israel and condemn Hamas in 412-10 vote.

6:30 pm

Jewish students at Cooper Union College in New York City have been locked inside the library for their own safety. There is a large crowd of anti-Israeli protesters banging on the doors to intimidate them.

Interesting times at the UN

- UN resolution for ceasefire fails A Russian-drafted UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza has failed to win the nine-vote minimum. Only Russia, China, the UAE and Gabon voted in favor of the draft, while nine members abstained; and the US and the UK voted against.

- Russia and China have vetoed a US resolution in the UN Security Council, a draft American resolution that condemns the Hamas movement and recognizes Israel's right to self-defense, and does not call for a ceasefire.

- New House Speaker Mike Johnson says 1st act will be to pass a resolution supporting Israel.

- Biden threatens Iran with retaliatory fire if attacks on US military bases in the Middle East do not stop “My warning to the Ayatollah was that if they continue to oppose these troops, we will respond. And he must be ready. This has nothing to do with Israel”

Biden press conference:

- Hamas does not represent the vast majority of the Palestinian people and hides behind civilians

- Israel must adhere to the laws of war and do everything it can to protect innocent civilians

- There is no return to the situation that existed on October 6 between Israel and the Palestinians

- We will work to ensure that Hamas does not pose a threat to Israel in the future

- The next stage must focus on the two-state solution, and there is a need to work on greater integration of Israel into the region

- President Biden expresses concern over extremist settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank, emphasizing the need for Israel to protect innocent civilians. 

- 4 lightly injured by direct hit from rocket in Rishon Letzion

- An extraordinary plan is under way to secure the release of all the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip — together with the bodies of fallen Israel soldiers held by Hamas since 2014 — in exchange for greater aid into the Strip and free passage out of Gaza for Hamas leaders and their families, Jewish News can exclusively reveal. more 

- 500 Hamas fighters got 'specialized combat' training  in Iran prior to Oct 7 The exercises were led by officers of the Quds Force, arm of Iran's IRGC.

2:00pm

- Heavy bombardment in Northern Gaza using bunker buster bombs with tank artillery from land and navy

- Report: Israel willing to release thousands of prisoners in exchange for All the hostages 

- Netanyahu promises ground incursion coming soon, despite delays

While he avoids taking full responsibility he says “Everyone will have to give answers on the debacle  including myself after the war,”

He says days of mourning will be called in memory of those killed in the assault.

“All of Hamas members are dead men walking. Together with Gallant, Gantz, the chief of staff and heads of the security organizations, we are working in order to achieve the war aims until victory, without political considerations.” “We have eliminated thousands of terrorists, and that is just the beginning. We are preparing for a ground invasion. I will not share details on how and how much and what the set of considerations are, the majority of which are not at all known to the public.”

Freeing Hostages top priority 

12:30pm

- Reports in Israel media a senior hamas official has been killed rumors that it was Hamas spokesman .

South communities warned of expected heavy rocket barrage from Gaza

- Netanyahu to speak at 8:15 pm

- Israel agrees to delay ground invasion of Gaza so the Pentagon can move "air defenses" to the region  WSJ reports.

- Several Massive Airstrikes by the Israeli Air Force on Western Gaza within the last hour.

- NYT investigation  on Gaza hospital explosion alleges the missile, shown in the video used by U.S and Israeli Intelligence, did not originate from Gaza, and instead originated from Israel the missile "was never near the hospital. It was launched from Israel, not Gaza, and appears to have exploded above the Israeli-Gaza border, at least two miles away from the hospital." basically saying there's no proof  Hamas and Islamic  or Israel was behind the explosion  either

- The student government at Brandeis University, founded after the Holocaust by the U.S. Jewish community, this week voted down a resolution to condemn Hamas.

- UN SEC General: To ease suffering, make the delivery of aid easier & safer, and facilitate the release of hostages, I reiterate my appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

- After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Hamas isn’t a group of terrorists,Israel Foreign Ministry says that ” “Hamas is a despicable terrorist organization worse than ISIS that brutally and intentionally murders babies, children, women and the elderly, takes civilians hostage and uses its own people as human shields.”

- Four rockets were launched from Lebanon into Kiryat Shmona, all four landed in open areas, causing no injuries or damage.

- Gedolei E"Y led by Rav Don Segal call for A Kinus Tefillah For "Tinokos shel Beis Rabban" in ALL Schools in the US and Canada tomorrow thursday of Behab from 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm

- Qatar’s foreign minister says that hostage negotiations continue and it’s still ongoing Israel praises ‘crucial’ Qatari diplomatic efforts

- Turkey pm Erdogan says Hamas not terrorists, they are mujihadeen defending their land  he cancels Israel visit

- Official: Hamas desperate for fuel to power the generators that supply the air system to their tunnels otherwise they will be forced to go out

- Rocket from Gaza exploded along path to Carmel area in Chaifa

- Israel said to hit Aleppo airport again

- 8 Syriam soldiers killed by Israelli air strikes

- A long-range rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip toward the Eilat area. The IDF says the projectile landed in an open area, causing no injuries or damage.

- Last night in Englewood, NJ Muslims gathered to object to last week’s unanimous resolution condemning Hamas. One guy held up a picture of a dead Israeli woman and screamed at Jews

- IDF killed the commander of Hamas’s North Khan Younis Battalion, in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

- Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accuses the United States of “directing” strikes that is being committed in Gaza.”

- IDF spokesman reveals a note found on the body of a terrorist from Hamas encouraging him to carry out a merciless massacre it was given to the terrorists before they left. From the words of the Hamas command emerges an order to kill Jews, to carry out a merciless massacre. The terrorists are encouraged to decapitate, dislodge hearts and livers, and trace the murders of past Muslim leaders who massacred men, sold women and children into slavery and looted cities.

A Timely Messages from Candidate Hershel Herskowitz

Hershel Herskowitz Independent candidate for Lakewood township commitee. Why this election is more than just traffic and taxes. Elections is November 7th  early voting begins  October 28, 2023 – November 5, 2023

HH: The VAAD is 2 businessmen. They are not looking out for you. They benefit by putting people in office that will help them and their friends. Do you think I wouldn't help Yeshiva? I learned in BMG for 9 years. I have Semicha from BMG. Their needs being met are usually in our best interests. The VAAD doesn't care about BMG. They are 2 businessmen that need favors done for themselves and friends. Let's stop all this Chillul Hashem Sinas Chinum Stealing from the Raabim

Oif Simchas Tuesday 10 Cheshvan

 Chasunas:

Wechsler - Chase Ne'emas Hachaim 

Perl - Schlesinger  Toras Menachem

Weinman - Bixenspanner Lake Terrace 

Mann - Bohensky  Fountain Ballroom 

Tuesday October 24 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather.67° Plentiful sunshine.

- Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was granted immunity to testify under oath in Special Counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 case, ABC News reported. Conservative journalists reporting rumors about him wearing a wire. 

- Update: The livestream for the Lakewood Planning Board meeting was not available tonight for some reason it was set to 6am instead of 6pm. Faanews reports there were several conscientious applications on the agenda.

-Tolls on the Garden State Parkway and New Jersey Turnpike will increase 3% in 2024 after Turnpike Authority commissioners approved a $2.62 billion budget Tuesday that raises tolls 3% on Jan. 1, 2024.

-Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) won the race to be the next party nominee for speaker Tuesday but withdrew his candidacy within hours when it became clear that not enough Republicans would support him.

- While schools have been giving answers ad accepting kids for next year there's still alot of couples applying for the first time for primary who haven't got any response or an appointment to meet.

- Lakewood Planning board meeting today at 6:00 . See livestream Here  see Agenda Here 

on the agenda applications for Toras Zev High School building on  900 Wenstrom Avenue, Yeshiva Gedolah of Monmouth County building and dorm  at  160 Doria Avenue, Kollel Kodshim America223 12th Street, Warehouse at 1501 Prospect Street LLC

-Last nights special zoning meeting on Lake Terrace was canceled 

Markaz Daf Yomi MDY will be hosting a shabbos of chizuk next week with R Eli Stefansky at the Armon hotel in CT,

- Nightly road closures at prospect street between Massachustets and Cross st for the next 2 weeks 

- Lakewood UEZ giving $150,000 for LCSW / Lakewood Shomrim new mobile command center,  more from faanews 

Tuition Relief: Will there be a Mechanisim of Accountability

 With talk about tuition relief and the upcoming election, be it through tax credits where companies give money to scholarship funds or vouchers, there's many questions that have people skeptical about it, if and when it becomes a reality.

The first one comes to mind: will schools stop raising tuition or even lower it  once the money flows in ?

How many kids will end up getting it?

will it only go to low income families leaving the middle class holding the bill again?

who will decide which kids get the tuition relief and who does not?

Will the big well connected schools get access to the pot while smaller schools will be left out as was done with busing?

 Just a few years ago during the covid era the schools made a lot of money thru PPP loans and lunch boxes, kids were home for 3 months with no schools, parents were out of work,  yet almost all schools  billed parents for tuition (besides for a select few who gave a credit). 

The following year when people were struggling the schools raised tuition across the board, some going up 1200 a year per child.

It was not done yet, last year after Torah Umesorah made a campaign to raise teacher salaries the parents were under the assumption that the money would come from gevirim and other sources  it turns out that the schools passed the buck and raised tuition again on parents. No one spoke up to defend the parents no one signed any letters calling on schools to have rachmanus. 

 So with all the talk about tuition relief there's skepticism and distrust as to how and what will happen. Did the moetzes and rabbonim have a letter making sure every mossad will not raise a penny tuition when the millions of dollars start flowing in?

Will there be oversight to make sure that the funds are distributed equally to all families and not through a system of pull and protektzia?

R' Aron Lang has been  fighting NJ’s funding formula in court for the last several years which could bring tax and tuition relief to Lakewood, he got no help over the years as he fights this battle himself

will he get helped now? 

Israel at War Tuesday October 24

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11:00 pm

-The NYPD has announced that since the war broke out on October 7th, 3 Islamophobic attacks and 20 antisemitic attacks have been recorded in the city. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 12 attacks against Muslims and 196 against Jews.

- Gen. Eric Smith, the Marine commandant, stated the following for anyone who would target the Marine expeditionary unit deploying near Israel:   “For those that are in the area, if that MEU has to go in, if you target them, someone else will raise your children.”

- After heavy criticism UN sec General António Guterres tweets: After meeting with families whose loved ones have been taken hostage, I reaffirm my call for the immediate and unconditional release of all the hostages held in Gaza. Nothing can justify the killing, wounding, and abducting of civilians by Hamas.

-Governor DeSantis just ordered the University of Florida and the University of South Florida to deactivate their "Students for Justice in Palestine" groups for violating Florida's laws against antisemitism.

8:45pm

- IDF acknowledged it fired at Syrian military installations after rockets were fired into Israel. The army is now operating in 4 areas Gaza, Lebanon,Syria, Westbank

-IDF hits terror targets in Jenin ,reports of  5 terrorists killed.

- US says 24 American soldiers were injured Sunday by the drone attack on a base in Iraq.

7:00pm

- Delta Air Lines said on Tuesday it will cancel all flights to Israel through November 15 because of the ongoing conflict in the region.

- The largest fleet of warships NATO has ever assembled is gathering in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

- According to U.S. Defense Officials, the Army is currently Scrambling to Deploy at least 12 Air Defense Systems to the multiple Countries across the Middle East before the Israeli Invasion of the Gaza Strip is set to soon begin; a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Battery for use against Ballistic Missiles is currently on its way to Saudi Arabia from Fort Bliss, Texas, while at least 11 MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-Air Missile Systems from both Fort Liberty, North Carolina and Fort Sill, Oklahoma are heading to Locations in Kuwait, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

 -The IDF said two rockets were launched at Israel from Syria and fell in open fields.

 -Another 8 Hezbollah terrorists were killed today bringing the number to 40 

- Dubai's Emirates Airlines has suspended its flights to and from Tel Aviv until Nov. 14

- Hamas-run health ministry spokesman  tells al-Jazeera that the Strip is hours away from no longer being able to provide any medical services. pleading for fuel and medical goods. Israel said it will not allow fuel into gaza as it will e stolen by hamas 

- Israeli Flyers Dropped on Gaza Offer Cash for Intel on Hostages he Israeli military began offering cash and protection for anyone who shares accurate information on the whereabouts of hostages held by militant group Hamas.

-The Associated Press (AP), has published a special writing guide for covering the war between Israel and Hamas, for its journalists and the media organizations that use its services, in which it instructs not to use the terms "terror" or "terrorist" to describe the the actions of Hamas members. "The terms terrorism and terrorists have been politicized, and are often applied inconsistently," reads the agency's manual, which directs reporters to detail the course of events instead of using the same terms.

3:30pm

- Over 50 terrorists killed in the last few hours after airstrikes on Jhan Yunis in central Gaza

- The Pentagon says Iran is behind the latest attacks against American bases across the Middle East. “We choose to respond at the time that we are ready to…We are very mindful here that we do not want to see this widen to a regional conflict.”

- The Mir yeshiva program currently in woodbourne at Camp darchei will close up as bochurim were told to return to EY. Yagdil Torah of Yerushalayim was at the zone campus in the Catskills has also told the bochurim to return to EY

- After UNRWA issues warning: If we do not get fuel urgently, we will be forced to halt our operations in the GazaStrip, Israel responds with a photo These fuel tanks are inside Gaza.They contain more than 500,000 liters of fuel. Ask Hamas if you can have some.

- The White House has ordered the Department of Defense to begin preparing Contingency Plans for a “Worst Case Scenario” in the Middle East which could require the Evacuation of Hundreds of Thousands of U.S. Nationals from the Region with Significant Concern for the roughly 600,000 Americans in Lebanon and Israel.

- Russian intelligence service SVR lost contact with seven of its agents stationed in Gaza.

According to a source familiar with the matter, there is increasing concern for the safety of the agents after they have not contacted their operators for two weeks, Makor Rishon reports

- White House: "This is war, it is combat, it is bloody, it is ugly, and it's going to be messy. And innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward."

12:45pm

- Update 10 killed 

Hamas Terrorists infiltrated at the Zikim Beach area to conduct an attack IDF killed 8 of them as search goes on for others

- Israel media reports Missiles fired from yemen and intercepted b the US navy ships were headed for Eilat  where the evacuees from the south are saataying they contained  warheads of 1.6 ton explosives

- Hamas said no more freed hostages until fuel trucks are allowed to enter gaza 

- 3 injured in Cholon from  r hamas rocket hit on serious 2 lightly 

-Netanyahu postpones ground offensive for at least a week possibly2 according to journalist Moti Gilat after the Prime minister met with former general Yitzchak Brick who warned that the home front is not ready and the potential loss of thousands of troops at this time

- The IDF says it has carried out airstrikes against three terror cells and a Hezbollah position in southern Lebanon in the last few hours.

- Ichilov Hospital is attempting to deflect blame after a press conference by freed hostage Yocheved Lifshitz turned into a debacle, with the octogenarian describing her treatment in Hamas’s hands in positive terms. “Ichilov was asked to allow the hostage and her family and the media to speak in an organized and coordinated way. Coaching the family regarding the style and content of the messages is not our responsibility, but that of official security and PR figures, who have been in direct contact with the family,” it says.

- France walks back Macron's statement of making an isis coalition to fight Hamas “The aim is to get inspiration from the international coalition’s experience against ISIS and to check which aspects can be implemented against Hamas as well,” says the president’s office in a statement.

- Israel lashes UN head for ‘shocking’ claim that ‘Hamas attack did not occur in vacuum’ Foreign minister Eli Cohen  has canceled a planned meeting with UN secretary general Guterres.

 minister Benny gantz responded Dark are the days when the United Nations Secretary General condones terror. Absolutely nothing can justify the slaughter of innocent civilians. Now is the time to stand on the right side of history, or be judged by it. Terror apologists cannot speak on behalf of the world.

- Rocket barrage over Beer Sheva, cental Israel and the west bank a direct hit in the shomron  a few lightly injured.

- French President Emmanuel Macron currently visiting Israel brings up the idea of expanding the coalition against ISIS to counter Hamas,“ We are available to include Hamas in the coalition against ISIS depending on what Israel will ask us to deliver.”

- Zakaa spokesman Moti Boktzin collapsed after days of work identifying and bringing bodies to kevurah he is hospitalized and bh in good condition 

- Freed Hamas hostage recounts ordeal, slams Israeli failures, speaks well of captors. Media says her remarks have been damaging to Israel during this time yet point out that her husband is still held captive in Gaza.

- IDF struck over 400 terrorist targets in the past 24hrs: Hamas gunmen setting up to fire rockets toward Israel. A Hamas operational tunnel shaft allowing terrorists to infiltrate Israel through the sea.Hamas command centers used by operatives and staging armaments in Mosques. 

- 130 terrorist were killed overnight 

- El AL flight from NY had photos of hostages displayed on the seats

- In her first public comments since being released from Hamas captivity, Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, tells the Ynet news site that she doesn’t know where she was held after being captured by Hamas terrorists. “They loaded me onto a motorcycle… with one terrorist holding me from the front and the other from behind so that I wouldn’t fall. We crossed the border fence into the Strip, and at first they held me in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, which is close to [Kibbutz] Be’eri. After that, I don’t know where I was taken,” she says.