Wednesday September 4 Rosh Chodesh Elul News Updates Lakewood

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אם יתקע שופר בעיר ועם לא יחרד

- This year there will be 3  3 day yom tov Rosh Hashanah first days Sukkos and simchas Torah 

Moadim L'Simcha of Lakewood   Succos 5785-2024  Lakewood Order Deadline: Thursday, September 5th, 2024 order Here 

- First day of School Jackson LSTA busing has limited  stops in neighborhoods some kids have to walk up to 15 minutes for the bus. Parents were given short notice of the stops

- Rav Dovid Cohen shlita will deliver a Elul shmuz tonight 7pm at BMG in the Beren hall dining room

- Levaya of Reb Yisroel Schenkelowki ZL  in EY watch here 

-  The entire family of Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz just endorsed Trump all dressed in a photo wearing Waltz's for Trump T shirt. This is the greatest troll of the 2024 election

- Some chasidishe schools delay opening due to financial hardships new satmar boys  school in Lkwd has postponed opening as did other schools in Brooklyn and Linden More Here

- School shooting in Georgia: At least 4 dead, up to 30 injured after suspect opens fire at Apalachee High School in Barrow County on Wednesday morning. The suspect is in custody.

- Boys schools begin expect bus traffic 

- Satmar giyus protest will take place tomorrow afternoon in NYC at the Manhattan center on 34th Street. Thoussnds expected

- Keren Olam Hatorah South America dundraiser  the gedolim will leave Etetz Yisrael on Motzei Shabbos first stopping in Brazil and afterwards in Mexico and Panama. Just like their New York trip  there will be a citywide kaabolas panim in all locations. They will travel back to EY before shabbos Ki Setzei.

- The new "Keren Klal yisrael" was founded yesterday at a ceremony in the home of Rav Yaakov Meir Schechter shlita with the attendance of admorim and roshei yeshiva of sefardi and litvish yeshivos. The organization was formed to combat the gezeiras giyus on all fronts that is facing yeshiva bochurim today as they will advocate on their behalf will provide assistance and a hasbara campaign. The mashpia Rav Tzvi Meir Zilberberg was also in attendance 

- Chevron Rosh Yeshiva Rav Dovid Cohen shlita arrived in Lakewood today on a week long trip to the uS on behalf of the Keren Olanm HaTorah, He will be in Monsey from Thursday to Sunday and than travel to Passaic, Miami and Toronto and then back in Lakewood on Wednesday where he is expected to deliver a shiur in BMG before heading back to Eretz Yisrael 

 The Garden State could get drenched with 1 to 2 inches of rain on Saturday, from a potential coastal storm

- Application at the Lakewood planning board next week to create 76 lots off Massachusets and Prospects st behind the highp[oint condominium the Township sold the 10 acre parcel a few years ago applicant is Keypoint Equity LLC Massachusetts Avenue Block 423, Lot 156.01

- Rt 9 construction underway  between Chestnut Street and Second Street for curb and sidewalk improvements.

- Tiger Woods: “Kamala’s fake black accent is embarrassing and extremely offensive.”

Trump assassination: Sen Josh Hawley reveals Most agents guarding Trump during assassination attempt were Homeland Security personnel who took "two-hour online webinar." Whistleblowers have revealed to Sen. Hawley that most agents guarding Trump were not Secret Service, but DHS agents who were trained for two hours on zoom

- RFK Jr. On Kamala: “I don't think that Vice President Harris is a worthy president of this country… I think we need to have a president who can give an interview, who can articulate a vision, who can put together an English sentence”

 - Trump held a meeting with black business owners at his Bedminster, New Jersey home, and one of the men said Trump will make history with black voters

- ISHTABACH - Bringing the Real Shuk Machne Yehuda Experience Live to Toms River! Watch Here 

- Agudah NJ director Rabbi Shlomo Schorr in a interview discusses the Tuition relief that was promised:

Rabbi Yitzchok Hisiger:

Do you feel that tuition relief isn’t a realistic ask at this time? I imagine you get asked this question all the time: "So, Rabbi Schorr, when is tuition relief coming to New Jersey residents?"

Rabbi Shlomo Schorr:

There's no doubt that tuition is the number one concern for Jewish parents, not just in New Jersey, but across the country. We've seen some success in other states, but here in New Jersey, it's a multi-year plan that we just kicked into high gear this past year. We hope that, be'ezras Hashem, we’ll see some progress on this front. How significant and how soon? That remains to be seen, but we're optimistic.

- Vivek Ramaswamy this morning: "Kamala Harris was one of the strongest proponents for a ban on fracking. So much so that when she was in California, she sued the Obama administration over granting fracking permits."

"She didn't just favor the abolition of private health insurance, she was a co-sponsor of the bill with Bernie Sanders for Medicare For All. She said she would end the filibuster in the Senate to ram through the Green New Deal."

- Lakewood Township taxpayers are on the hook to pay the legal fees for the Lakewood Township Police Department,  who have been slammed with a Civil Rights complaint over allegations of racism and retaliation. Full story on faanews.com