Friday March 28 News Updates Lakewood

 Friday, March 28, 2025 / כ״ח אדר תשפ״ה

ערב שבת פרשת פקודי  פרשת החודש

candle lighting 6:59 pm

 shkiah/sunset 7:17 pm 

Rosh chodesh NIssan is Sunday 

weather today hi of 65 and cloudy

 shabbos day hi of 83° Partly cloudy dropping down to 55 on Sunday

- RFK Jr. has just announced the Trump Admin will now allow states to BAN food stamps (SNAP) from be used for soda

“We’re not eating food – we’re eating food-like substances,” RFK Jr. said “It’s called the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program. It’s supposed to be nutrition! It’s NOT supposed to be food-like substances that are actually poisoning us!”

- Mir yeshiva שבת של מיר events as the hanhala traveled to participate in chizuk events across many citie Rav Binyomin Cohen will spend shabbos in Jackson, Rav Yoel Rabin shlita will spend shabbos in Manchester and Sunday night Rav Yosef Elefant shlita will speak in Lakewood at Yeshiva Ohr Olam off Vermont avenue 

- Bais Medrash Ginzei Yosef Mihaltz will host a yahrzeit seuda Melava Malka for the admor m'Verdan ZTL Divrei chizuk from Harav Malkiel kotler shlita motzei shabbos 614 Ocean avenue 

- Devastating 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar, causing widespread destruction. Hundreds feared dead as buildings collapse and roads are destroyed. Tremors were felt in Thailand with structures damaged  and casualties reported as well.

- Rav Aaron Feldman writes Letter and signed his name  that Yated Neeman neewapaper  is OK and not part of his  boycott call whwnhe spoke in BMG: "After receiving clarification from the editor of Yated Neeman that the advertisements for weretz Hakodehs by Yated Neman were placed with great regret without authorization I hereby let it be known that my statements made in Lakewood NJ on the past 19th of Adar do not apply to the newspaper Yated Neeman."

- Asbury Park Press reports on Seasons kosher supermarket opening in Toms River 

'Explosive growth of the community'  Seasons, a kosher supermarket chain, opened a new location in Toms River due to the increasing demand from the growing Orthodox  The store had its "soft opening" on Monday. A grand opening is scheduled for Sunday with a ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. and tastings, clowns, face painting and a magic show from 1 to 5 p.m. Seasons, a kosher supermarket chain, opened a new location in Toms River due to the increasing demand from the growing Orthodox Jewish population in the area.'Explosive growth of the community'

The Orthodox Jewish community makes up an estimated two-thirds of Lakewood’s 140,000 residents. Community leaders say there are more than 5,000 Orthodox Jewish families in Jackson, another 2,000 in Toms River and smaller enclaves in Brick, Manchester and Howell.

- The iconic, 22-story building in Bergen County, which formerly housed the Sheraton Mahwah Hotel, is tentatively slated for demolition on Sunday, April 27, Mahwah officials said at a recent council meeting.

Prior to being built in 1986, the property was the site of a large Ford Motor Company assembly plant. The demolition is expected to take 30 seconds.(One Jersey)

- Trump: I just finished speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney, of Canada. It was an extremely productive call, we agree on many things, and will be meeting immediately after Canada’s upcoming Election to work on elements of Politics, Business, and all other factors, that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

- According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel shared sensitive intelligence on a Houthi terrorist targeted in a U.S. strike, as described by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz in an unclassified Signal chat with Trump administration officials.

The report, citing two U.S. officials, also noted that Israeli officials expressed frustration when the information was leaked to an Atlantic journalist.

- Trump: Washington, D.C., must become CLEAN and SAFE again! We need our Great Police back on the street, with no excuses from the Mayor, or anyone else. The House should take up the D.C. funding “fix” that the Senate has passed, and get it done IMMEDIATELY. We need to clean up our once beautiful Capital City, and make it beautiful again. We will be TOUGH ON CRIME, like never before. I will work with the Mayor on this and, if it does not happen, will have no choice but to do it myself. Washington, D.C., will be better, safer, and more beautiful than ever before!

A  chalitzah ceremony took place this past week in Baltimore, performed by Rav Chaim Pass, Rosh Yeshivas Heichal Tzvi Aryeh and a Son in law by Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman. Rav Chaim Pass’s brother, Reb Asher Anshel Pass, of Baltimore, was niftar , leaving behind no children Rav Moshe Heinemann and other dayanim presided over the ceremony.