Tuesday November 12 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 55° Plentiful sunshine,increased risk of fire spread

- First yartzeit of Rav Boruch Mordechai Ezrachi ZTL

- Elon Musk Tweets: "Threat to democracy? Nope, threat to BUREAUCRACY!!!

- Musk: All actions of the Department of Government Efficiency will be posted online for maximum transparency. Anytime the public thinks we are cutting something important or not cutting something wasteful, just let us know! We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars. This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining 

- Trump announces Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will head the Department of Government Efficiency. (DOGE) It will "slash excess regulations" and "cut wasteful expenditures."

- Trump has announced he will nominate Pete Hegseth to be Secretary of Defense

- Yartzeit of the Buffalo, NY Rebbe, Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef Rabinowitz ztl is this Thursday, groups from Lakewood are  going to daven at the kever which will be open all day to accommodate the crowds

- Trump announces John Ratcliffe  for CIA director Ratcliffe is a former Texas congressman and director of national intelligence. “When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden’s laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American People,” Trump said in a statement.

- Ramapo Precinct #55, in Monsey,NY which has one of the highest Jewish voter concentrations in the country: President Trump won it 966-2.Trump got 99.79% of the vote.(RJC)

- Donald Trump has picked real estate investor and campaign donor Steve Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East.

- A technical error has led to some New Jersey residents receiving duplicate ANCHOR property tax relief checks, according to state officials. The New Jersey Division of Taxation has asked residents who received duplicate payments to return the extra check without cashing it.

- עצירת גשמים Amid one of its driest periods on record, the state of New Jersey will issue a drought warning this week - a move that can eventually lead to mandatory water restrictions in the state if significant rain doesn’t fall soon.(Shlomo schorr)

-At Yeshiva Chaim Berlin the new Rosh Yeshiva Rav Yosef Halioua shlita gave his first shiur klali today

- President Trump is nominating Fmr. Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to IsraelTrump says Mike “loves Israel, and the people of Israel, and likewise, the people of Israel love him. Mike will work tirelessly to bring about Peace in the Middle East!”

- Lakewood PD on Clifton Ave begin clearing out the homeless from the area. Recently many homeless took shelter in the downtown and installed Port a John's along the parking lots

- Giyus update: The IDF plans on sending out 7000 conscription notices to yeshiva students starting this Sunday 

- Last week, Six Flags Entertainment signaled that some of its 42 parks could be targeted for closure if a company-wide review finds reason that includes great adventure in Jackson.

- President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly chosen South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to be Secretary of Homeland Security, CNN reports.

- Lakewood township advances plans for new 300 ton solid waste transfer station. that will have garbage sitting around at the DPW at Cedarbridge and new Hampshire area. Residents signed a petition against it as it will smell up the neighborhood but mayor Ray Coles said it won't smell comparing it to the staten island garbage dumps. See more at faa

- Firefighters are facing “significant challenges” on Tuesday due to gusty winds as they work to contain a large wildfire on the New Jersey-New York border that remains at 3,500 acres, officials said. The wildfire burning in West Milford and Orange County, New York is still 20% contained on Tuesday morning

- Several rabbonaim have told their followers to daven for rain due to the drought a rav in Lakewood suggested that they say ותן טל ומטר לברכה at the bracha of שמע קולנו

- At the Torah Unesorah convention the Edison Rosh Hayeshiva bemoaned that schools no longer push talmidim ro learn בעל פה in all areas be it chumash mishnayis or Shakla Vetarya we no longer see bar mitzva bochurim say their pshetel by heart as they just read it off a paper.

- Klausenberg shteibel at Oak and Vine near Evergreen  has changed the nightly maariv  minyanim to every 30 minutes 6:30 pm to 1am instead of every 20  minutes, starting thus week. Those looking for a minyan at anytime can go to Satmar at Forest ave.

-Lakewood planning board meeting tonight 6pm watch livestream Here see agenda Here  on the agenda discussion to appeal judge ruling allowing the chemdas Hatorah application to proceed with 175 duplex apt at Cross st and James

Application for 76 lots off Massachusetts 

- LDC meeting today 12:30 pm watch livestream Here see agenda Here

Request to allow millions of dollars for the downtown  3 million to fix sidewalks and lighting  1 million for a clean team, 1.75 million grant to replace facades of buildings in the UEZ

- Krispy Kream opened their location in Lakewood today near Bingo. It is NOT cholov yisroel, under the KOA supervision from Passaic,NJ, which is  not on the recommended list of the CRC for kashrus organizations.

- Manhattan judge agreed Tuesday to briefly delay ruling on whether to toss President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in NY trial, until Nov 19.

- The Satmar rebbe rav Aaron Teitelbaum has traveled to Argentina to spend time with the satmar community there.

Chazzan Yossele Rosenblatt Live at Kever Rochel 1939