Wednesday March 26 News Updates Lakewood

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- CIA claims to have found the ארון הקודש

 Declassified CIA document from Project Sun Streak, dated 1988, claims that the Ark of the Covenant was discovered through remote viewing. The document describes the Ark as a wooden, gold, and silver coffin-shaped object with a six-winged angel, located underground in the Middle East and guarded by entities.

Remote Viewing is the process of using extra-sensory perception/non-local perception in altered/meditative states of consciousness to perceive objects and environments from a distance, which ties into quantum entanglement and the idea that everything is fundamentally connected. 

In the bestseller book All for the Boss,

Rebbetzin Ruchoma Shain writes that a farmer was plowing a field in Israel when the ground suddenly opened before him. Descending into the hole, the farmer saw a resplendent golden treasure klei hamikdash buried there. Afraid to tell people lest they take him for a madman, he kept the matter a secret. The discovery haunted him, though, and on a visit to America he consulted with Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Herman.

After verifying the man’s integrity, Rabbi Herman instructed his son to bring a letter about the matter to the Chofetz Chaim, along with a map from the farmer. When he looked at the letter and map, the Chofetz Chaim went into the kitchen, lit a match, and burned the documents, saying, “It may be that the vessels are there, but the matter should not be publicized.”

-Tonight gridlock traffic  9 closed bet pine and Central ave.

-President Trump announces a 25% terrific on all cars not made in the USA. will go into effect on April 2. Details of the Trump auto tariffs:

 It applies to light vehicles AND some auto parts as well, including imported engines, transmissions, powertrain parts, and electrical components, per an administration statement

-  Chassidishe rabbonim gathered in Monsey to tackle the high costs of marrying off their children which is putting people into debt even the middle class or those  who have decent paying jobs. They discussed changing the standards and lowering the pressure by still keeping it bakokodik. The goal is to have all expenses from the initial shidduch through sheva brachos  between  $43,000 to  $55,000 A large communitywide asif for Rockland county will take place after Pesach. 

- BDE: Petirah of Rabbi Dovid Schonbrun Z"L from Flatbush/Lakewood at the age of 77  mechanech and  Daf Yomi Magid Shiur at the Viyelipoler Shul in Flatbush. Levaya tomorrow morning in Lakewood at the chapel 10am

 Karoline Leavitt announced Elon Musk and his team will be investigating how a fake news reporter was added to the Signal group “Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this… to ensure it never happens again.”

- Bingo Pesach sale extended until April 1st.

- DWD final pre Yom Tov sale this Wednesday march 26 at Bnos Orchos Chaim 440 Oberlin south 5-8:00 selling children's shabbos shoes hosiery for men ladies kids pajamas Stretchies  yarmulkas mens and boys white shirts boys performance tees all at wholesale prices

- Sefardi Jewey from all across EY will hold a massive atzeres tomorrow in Yerushalayim shmuel hanavie neighborhood to protest the giyus draft targeting their boys.40,000 are expected 

- Despite wholesale price of eggs dropping, they are still high at the local store shelves.

- Assemblyman Avi Schnall was interviewed by a local businessman regarding the dangerous roads in Lakewood and safety of pedestrians and children crossing the streets. The interviewer spoke passionately about the terrible job done by the current township committee members and that its time to replace then and vote them out ASAP. They are like gabbaim who failed to do their jobs. Schnall does not defend them. They discussed placing speed cameras around schools which is currently not legal anyways in NJ. The tuition relief was not discussed.

 Listen Here In Yiddish (beware of some inappropriate language) 

- President Trump will hold a press conference at 4pm ET to announce tariffs on the auto industry, says White House press secretary

- Josh Gottheimer told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday. Paper bags would return to grocery stores in New Jersey were he elected governor “Obviously, I’m against plastics and I want material that can decompose quickly ... but paper bags should be a choice for people who go to the grocery store.”

- Tefillos for the Kalev rebbe shlita of Williamsburg whose been hospitalized  the rebbe suffers from parkinsons and communicates with a device through his eyes name is Moshe ben Raizel 

- Manischewitz is launching a food truck that will be hitting the streets of New York and New Jersey starting this Thursday selling kosher food.

- Lakewood Middle School teachers demand better discipline in 'unsafe and untenable' school.Seventy-one teachers signed a letter to Superintendent Laura Winters demanding action about ongoing middle school student misbehavior. Winters insisted on teachers taking a survey instead about the situation.

Previous reports cite high teacher turnover and "high levels of distrust" in the district.

Between 2019 and 2024, more than 100 staffers had left the district each year, officials said. With about 500 on staff that means 20% were leaving annually, nearly triple the state average of 8%.(APP)

- New Jersey Senate Republicans: New Jerseyans are already feeling the pain of skyrocketing utility bills—and another 20% increase is coming thanks to Biden’s radical green agenda & Murphy’s Energy "Disaster" Plan. We have been warning about this for years. Higher costs, lower quality of life—NJ deserves better

-WAR Drums  in the past 48 hours :

- 3 B2 bombers landed at Diego Garcia Air Force Base, joining 4 others that have already been there for 7 years. - 3 KC135 refueling aircraft that took off from the Guam Air Force Base also landed in Diego Garcia. - 4 B52 bombers completed a quick takeoff exercise in the last 48 hours. All this power joins hundreds of fighter jets on 3 aircraft carriers making their way into flight range. Yemen and Iran are on notice