Sunday February 16 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: Periods of rain. Becoming windy in the afternoon. 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a half an inch. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.

NWS: There is a marginal risk of severe weather today. High winds up to 60 mph

Snow storm forecast for Thursday 6-12 inches.

- Pro Palestinian protest planned for Boro Park this Tuesday @6pm. Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein tweeted: The Hamas sympathizers have decided to “flood” our peaceful neighborhood of Boro Park. I demand that 

NYPD and NYC Mayor take immediate action to prevent this hateful, targeted protest against our local Jewish community. It is YOUR responsibility to protect our neighbors and keep our streets safe! Hate has NO PLACE in our community!

- The biggest clusters of outages were reported in the southern counties, from Camden to Cape May counties.

- 6:20 pm Power outages: Thousands of JCP&L customers in the Lakewood area without power from wind storm knocking down wires and trees. 

Debris in the roadways as garbage cans and other objects blown into the streets.

- Approximately 37,000 customers are without power across New Jersey as heavy winds, with gusts of up to 70mph, are whipping the state, ahead of an expected cold front.

High winds are expected to persist through Monday. (Onejersey)

- 6 pm high wind  gusts  over 35mph  dark skies lights flickering

- Trump: "Our country is doing well again, and we have spirit all over the world. We brought it back, and it's been less than four weeks." –President Donald J. Trump at #Daytona500 

- Power outages  Clifton Ave E County line area. Restoration at 4:30

- Bde: Petirah of Mrs. Marcia Solomon A”H. She was the mother of Avi Solomon. Levaya today Sunday, at the Lakewood chapel  4:30 PM.

- Trump attends the Daytona 500 speedway first with a flyover on airforce one followed by the beast motorcade with a short drive around the track.

- Genazym  Judaic auction today some items in the catalog include Rav Chaim Kaniensky's siddur starting bid at 85k, historical Letter from the baal Hatanya starting bid at 500k watch live here

- Hachnosas Sefer Torah today to at B"M zichron Bintomin procession at 2:45 pm from 112 East 8th Street, to the shul Rabbi Bitton, 701 Princeton Ave Lakewood 

- Local supermarkets roll out the Purim shalach manos section with purim less than a month away falling out on Friday this year.

- LSTA now requiring all parents to sign  B6T forms for next year transportation, online only with no option to fill out a paper form. Schools sent home notes that they will have kiosks set up for those without access.

Several Lakewood parents claim this new rule by the LSTA is not accurate and breaking community standards. They say paper submission still remains a standard in some NJ districts,and the LSTA can't force everyone to submit online.

- Giyus: Former sefardi chief Rabbi Uitzcbak Yosef, says any mother who sends son to IDF even if hes not learning will have to answer in the next world for it.

- Signs in Lakewood shuls over shabbos from several botei din including the Bais Horaah in Lakewood, Bais din Novarshik in Brooklyn Botei din in EY, are calling on those who recently  allowed a kohen to marry a giyores to please come forward to a bais din of their choosing to explain their position and proof as thus far they have not publicized or shown proof behind their psak

- Update: Tehillim for the injured in the Crown Heights fire on erev shabbos,at the dormitory for Israeli bochurin. Names for Tehillim: Shmuel ben Devorah Leah, Shmuel ben Mirav, Hillel ben Hila, Boruch Yehuda ben Yehudis

- Tour of Artscroll headquarters and factory watch behind the scenes tour how seforim and books are printed special tour by Feder media Here

A group of Breslov teens were reportedly trying to reach the kever of the Amora Rav Ashi, which lies on the border dividing Israel and Lebanon. They were apprehended by security forces. The group claimed that the kever was realy on the Israeli side but the fence was pushed back because Hezbollah was a threat for all the years. Now they want to  reopen the site  for those who want to go.

- Less than 24 hours after being freed from 498 days in Hamas captivity, Sasha Tropanov put on tefillin in the hospital with Rabbi Berel Lazar, thanking Hashem for his miraculous release. 

- The U.S. Army Black Hawk crew may not have heard critical air traffic control messages instructing it to fly behind the commercial regional jet it ultimately collided with midair at Reagan National Airport in Washington on Jan. 29, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.

- Divorce Data from boys who learned in BMG: From a shalom bayis column in the voice magazine this week:  Running the numbers 3,221 boys got married in the last 3 years. out of those there were 29 divorces, that's a .9 percent divorce rate of couples within first 3 years of marriage. 12 years ago running the numbers it was higher at 1.8 percent. Percentage widlsw that is 12 for every 1200 marriages. We do hear of more divorces today but that's only because the number of marriages has increased tremendously Boruch Hashem

- Following a court-ordered arbitration hearing held today, Lakewood taxpayers are on the hook for $100,000 in damages due to a crash caused by Traffic Safety Officer more

- The U.S. Department of Education just notified the education departments in all 50 states that they have 14 days to remove ALL DEI programming from ALL public schools, warning that institutions that fail to comply face losing federal funding.