Tuesday December 3 News Updates Lakewood

Weather:43° mainly sunny. High 43

Nearly all of New Jersey will get some light snow Wednesday night into Thursday morning as an Arctic blast of cold air sends temperatures plunging along with dangerous wind gusts up to 55 mph. Northeastern parts of the state and the Jersey Shore are not expected to see snow, the weather service said.

- Heavy traffic in Central Ave and prospect street areas  with road closures 

- Tucker Carlson: American military personnel launched missiles into mainland Russia & killed at least a dozen soldiers."

- The FBI is requesting the public's help in solving the mystery of the recent nighttime drone sightings in Northern New Jersey.

People with information can call 1-800-225-5324 or visit http://tips.fbi.gov and click on “submit a tip” and then use the “other FBI crimes” tab.

- New Jersey Sen. George Helmy announced that he will resign from his seat on Sunday Dec 8, clearing the way for Rep. Andy Kim the senator-elect to take the seat.

 - NYC Mayor Eric Adams dared the left to "cancel" him over working with Border Czar Tom Homan and Trump."Cancel me because I'm going to protect the people of this city."

He says illegals are "committing crimes, robberies, shooting at police, etc..

- New store alert, Dips from Brooklyn opening Lakewood location on Route 9 corner Chestnut at former Crunchtine location (Feder status)

- Looks like there will potentially be a rematch between Assemblyman Avi Schnall and former Assemblyman Ned Thomson for the New Jersey state Assembly seat in the state's 30th Legislative District. Onejesey schorr reports after ELEC showing donatiions to Ned Thompson primary campaign for assembly in 2025

- Shiur Zikaron today in BMG by Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita delivered in the Beren hall on the yartzeit of Rav Aaron Kotler zatzal. This morning the bnei hayeshiva learned mishnayos in a special 10 minute seder liluy mishmash Rav Aharon Kotler ztl and Rav Nosson Wachtfogel ztl who share the same yartzeit on Beis Kislev.

- Elon Musk: Extreme birth rate collapse is the biggest danger to human civilization by farms data shows world birthrate levels

-Kabolas panim today in Lakewood for the Vizhnitz rebbe Rav Mendele from Bnei Brak at the Skver Bais medrash on w. County Line at 7:30pm with attendance of Roshei Yeshiva, Admorin and Rabbonim. The rebbe will speak.

-Lakewood Planning  board meeting tonight 

Watch livestream Here see agenda Here. On the agenda  511 & 515 River Avenue Major Site Plan for a retail addition

Keypoint Equity LLC Massachusetts Avenue to create 76 lots

- Inflatiom has has a major effect on the cost of housing for frum families. Data from Lakewood suggests that the average home is $638,294 which is an 11% increase from the previous year. Of course many hones in Lakewood Toms River Jackson are much higher, one real estate broker said that housing in Lakewood rose by 

125% in just five years. (Menachem Lubinsky Hamodia)

- Last night the Lakewood zoning board narrowly rejected a application for 5 houses on Spruce Street where only 1 house is permitted.

More at Faanews 

- Residents of Trenton, New Jersey and surrounding areas were informed by the local water utility that an employee had been fired for falsifying drinking water data for 15 months meaning the water went unmonitored for contaminants for over a year,(H/TSschorr)

- Come January 1, 2025 New Jersey will begin enforcing new limits on out-of-pocket costs for insulin, asthma inhalers, and diabetes medication.  A package of laws signed last year sets monthly caps on coinsurance and copay costs for treatments for diabetes, epinephrine auto-injector devices (EpiPens), and prescription asthma inhalers. 

For a 30-day supply, the legislation ca hps insulin products at $35, EpiPens at $25, and asthma inhalers at $50. Coverage of these drugs is also excluded from health plan deductibles. 

- Update on Od Yoter Tov song the Rabbi who called it apikorsus retracts calling it a misunderstanding.Rabbi Avraham Deutsch, the  Chief Rabbi of Ma'ale Adumim, has addressed the recent controversy surrounding the song "Hashem Loves Me." To set the record straight: The media had misrepresented Rabbi Deutsch's position. In a recent meeting, recorded privately, Rabbi Deutsch explained that his understanding of the song had completely changed upon learning its true origins. "I deeply regret my previous statements," he explained. "I had mistakenly assumed the song came from secular sources. Now that I know it was written by a respected Torah scholar, I see things differently."

- South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol has declared martial law citing the need to remove pro-North Korean elements and to restore public order amidst political turmoil. This declaration, which has led to the prohibition of all political activities including media operations and public assembly, has sparked significant controversy and fear among the public, especially regarding civil liberties. The South Korean parliament has voted to defy this declaration, indicating a deep political rift over the president's actions.