Friday December 20 News Updates Lakewood

Friday, December 20, 2024 / י״ט כסלו תשפ״ה

ערב שבת פרשת וישב

Candle lighting 4:16 pm

Shkiah/Sunset 4:34 pm

Weather: 41° Showers, steady light rain later in the day Chance of rain 70%

Friday night: 30° Rain transitioning to snow showers late. Snow accumulations less than one inch.

Shabbos day:  35° Some lingering morning flurries or snow showers. Becoming partly cloudy and windy.

- Terror  car ramming attack in Germany when a Islamic Arab from Syria drive into a packed  crowd at a holiday party killing over 10 injuring over 100.

- Party City  stores is shutting down after nearly 40 years, closing all stores. Corporate employees were informed today is their final workday.

- House GOP is splitting the spending bill into smaller pieces, allowing each piece to pass/fail individually 

- Victim from Lakewood plane crash back home from hospital BH

- Netanyahu will not attend the ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp in Poland for fear of being arrested because of the warrant issued against him by the ICC in The Hague

- Negotiations between New Jersey and New York over the congestion pricing plan

New York has offered to put money toward the NJ Transit system and boost funding for anti pollution projects in Bergen and Essex counties, which could see increased highway traffic when the toll takes effect.(sschorr)

- Trump: If there is going to be a shutdown of government, let it begin now, under the Biden Administration, not after January 20th, under “TRUMP.” This is a Biden problem to solve, but if Republicans can help solve it, they will!

- LPD: Motor vehicle accident Cedarbridge and New Hampshire. Expect delays. Avoid area if possible.

Reports of a pedestrian fataly struck

Cedarbridge closed bet MLK and Hurley

-Vizhnitz rebbe shlita of London will be spending this shabbos in Lakewood in the Brookhill area, all tefilos and tish will take place at B"M Shemen L'mincha D'nodpala.

- Torah Umesorah presidents conference underway at the Trump Doral in Miami

- MDY shabbos at Armon hotel in CT

- Rav Shimonn Galei shabbos with supporters at a hotel in Princeton,NJ

- Giyus Updates: Sephardic leading roshei yeshiva issue letter supporting former chief Rabbi Yitzchak  Yosef for his public statements against drafting any bochur even the batlanim that are not learning in yeahivos

-The current draft law plan is to target 10,000 new charedi recruits within the next 2 years and draft up to 50% of all those eligible within 7 years.

- Rav Yitzchok Zilbershtein shlita said the 2 missles that were fired at Ramat Gan from Lebanon (last month) and Yemen are because of the Chilul Shabbos.

- Elon Musk on Thursday sought to blame House Democrats for the failed spending bill that tried to avert a government shutdown posting on X that the “plan b” legislation as a “super fair” and “simple bill” that earned the votes of just two Democrats in the chamber. Additionally 38 Republicans voted against it. JD Vance said democrats wanted a shutdown now they got it.

- Why no FAA drone ban along the Jersey shore?

Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, R-Ocean, questioned why none of the sensitive areas or towns in Monmouth or Ocean counties are included in the list. "I think it's another example of disjointed response from the government," he said. "They're still out there trying to diminish the situation, yet...now they're putting in a hodge podge random network of no-fly zones. I don't understand why they don't just take full measures."

- Newspaper coverage on petirah of Rav Asher Deutsch ZTL, Yated Neeman with full front cover picture and articles, Ami magazine mention on front cover, Moshpacha magazine makes no mention on front cover.

- The New Jersey state Senate voted 38-0 to approve a bill requiring the 2025 primary race in New Jersey be rescheduled from June 3 to June 10 to accommodate the Jewish holiday of Shavuos The bill now heads to to Gov Murphy

 for his signature.

- WABC report on Lakewood plane crash- Several passengers were injured after a small plane crashed on Thursday afternoon in Ocean County, New Jersey. FAA officials said a single-engine Cessna 172 carrying three passengers crashed near Lakewood Township Municipal Airport around 4 p.m. Lakewood Police said first responders found the small plane in the woods by the airport, with several injured passengers.Video from WABC-TV's sister station WPVI showed the damaged plane on the ground not far from the runway It's not clear yet the extent of the injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation by the FAA.