Tuesday May 6 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: 70° Showers early, then partly cloudy for the afternoon Chance of rain 70%.

- Giyus: Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir on Tuesday night ordered the IDF’s Human Resources Command to initiate a new maximal drafting of charedim to help with the widening invasion of Gaza and the ongoing war effort.

To date, the army has sent out 24,000 summons since summer 2024 for tens of thousands of draft-age eligible Charedim, only a fraction of whom have agreed to join the military.

- India bombs Pakistan launches missle attack. Pakistan has vowed to retaliate. India says it targeted nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan administered-Kashmir hitting terrorists infrastructure.

- Trump’s initial response to India’s strikes on Pakistan’s ‘terror infrastructure’:

'It’s a shame. We just heard about it. They’ve been fighting for decades—centuries… hope it ends quickly’

- United and other Foreign Airlines Extend Suspension of Tel Aviv Flights through next week to May 13. Possibly effecting those planning to go for lag Baomer.

- Treasury Secretary Sean Duffy responds to Newark airport fiasco says ."Trump and him are going to fix this. Last week, I unveiled USDOT’s plans to supercharge our air traffic control workforce, and we have way more to come.

America is building again, and that includes a new state-of-the-art air traffic control system to usher in the golden age of aviation

He blamed Biden for Celebrating Transit Equity Day. Chairing the Equity Council. Stopping racist roads. Building bike paths. Funding studies on gender non-conforming people.This is the cr.. Pete Buttigieg focused on instead of fixing the problems with Newark and our entire air traffic control system. Buttigieg and Biden didn’t lift a finger to fix our air traffic control system. They knew about this mess, but they were too busy celebrating equity and the green new deal. Buttigieg put lives in danger. We’ve got a plan to fix it.

-Trump says he will have a very big announcement before his trip to the Middle East next week.  "It'll be one of the most important announcements that has been made in many years about a certain subject." "A very BIG announcement" "And it's really positive"

- Trump announced today, an immediate halt to U.S. bombing of Houthi targets in Yemen.  

Claims Houthis have "capitulated" and are seeking peace.

- As of 9:30 this morning, 98 flights have already been cancelled into and out of Newark Airport, with another 124 delayed.

- Keren Olam Hatorah 2.0 Rav Dov Landau shlita expressed an unwavering desire to participate once again, saying he wants to do everything he can for Keren Olam HaTorah. Rav Dov requested tefillos from the tzibbur that he should have the strength to travel once more to America on behalf of the yeshivos.

- Deja-Vu: Lufthansa Accused Of Antisemitism Again See story on DansDeals

- Lakewood township to upgrade the sound system in town hall auditorium starting mid June possibly canceling zoning and planning meetings in July. Meanwhile the township meetings are still virtually and is not effected by this construction.

- Trump: I look forward to meeting the new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney. I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one simple TRUTH — Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 Billion Dollars a year, in addition to giving them FREE Military Protection, and many other things? We don’t need their Cars, we don’t need their Energy, we don’t need their Lumber, we don’t need ANYTHING they have, other than their friendship, which hopefully we will always maintain. They, on the other hand, need EVERYTHING from us! The Prime Minister will be arriving shortly and that will be, most likely, my only question of consequence.

-Please daven for Malka bas Yuta Tzipora a Lakewood girl undergoing surgery this morning 

-Lakewood Planning board meeting today 6pm

Watch live stream Here see agenda Here

•Lakewood Investments, LLC, Williams Street: request for a design waiver for sidewalk

• Vermont Holdings 2, LLC, Evergreen Boulevard Minor Subdivision to create four lots

 • Cong. Hazon Ovadia, Pine Street Block 774.01, Lot 6.03 Preliminary and Final Major Site Plan for a synagogue

• TIPICO Cheese Products Company, Inc

490 Oberlin Avenue South for a addition 

- Recap Last night at the zoning board 

Yeshiva Toras chaim and Nezer Hatorah dorm application were not heard, Lanes Mills development were told to come back with a bigger size shul and less density to increase guest parking  "You have 74 homes with 74 basement apartments which is 158 families. How can you provide a shul with space for only 116 members??," the Board immediately questioned. Faa reports.

Aisle 9 warehouse faced heavy opposition from board members and told to come back with updated plan to expand retail

Vine and Spruce began testimony for  4 lots with variances, to continue next meeting.

Rt 70 application approved,a resident spoke about danger of having children live off a state highway with cars going 55mph,the board brushed off those concerns.

- Spa 42 shvitz with locations in Brooklyn coming to Lakewood opening a location with a restaurant 

- WZO: At a Q&A with YU Roshei Yeshiva they repeated the claim from the frum media that the Asifa and maamad in Lakewood Yeshiva against WZO  where Roshei yeshiva spoke was set up by the  conservative movement who orchestrated a anti wzo campaign.See here minute 38. The remark was made to prove a point that you don't have to be nispoel from gedolim if they can say a shtikle Torah but don't know the next line of the gemara.

- Giyus: Committee to begin writing the law in preparation for a vote.  According to news reports the new version will be harsher than previous ones will have more sanctions and quotas more than 50%. The frum parties will not be able to vote on it. Some pundits suggest chairman Yuly Edelstein is purposely doing it to get back at Netanyahu and bring down the govt.

-Lag Baomer. Belz rebbe have instructions forbidding his bochurim from going to Miron this year on Lag Baomer day. He did permit the yeshivos to allow them to go on the days leading up to Lag Baomer.

- Trump: We won two World Wars, but we never took credit for it — Everyone else does! All over the World, the Allies are celebrating the Victory we had in World War II. The only Country that doesn’t celebrate is the United States of America, and the Victory was only accomplished because of us. Without the United States, the War would have been won by other Countries, and what a different World it would be. Therefore, I am hereby declaring a National Holiday in celebration of the Victories of World War I, where the Armistice was signed on November 11, 1918, and World War II, where the Victory date was May 8, 1945. We will not be closing the Country for these two very important Holidays, November 11 and May 8, World War I and World War II, because we already have too many Holidays in America — There are not enough days left in the year. We were Workers then, and we are Workers now! Documentation to follow. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!