Friday June 13 News Updatea Lakewood

 Friday, June 13, 2025 / י״ז סיון תשפ״ה

ערב שבת פרשת בהעלותך

Candle lighting 8:09pm

Shkiah/Sunset  8:27pm

Weather 77°A mix of clouds and sun

Friday night: 63° rain developing after midnight. Chance of rain 80%. Rainfall around a quarter of an inch.

Shabbos day:  67° A steady rain in the morning continuing in the afternoon. High 67F. Winds Chance of rain 70%. Rainfall around a half an inch.

- Rav Moshe Hiller Hirsch shlita currently in Chicago said it is important to say Tehillim after every tefila and on shabbos as well

- Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of America: We ask that every kehillah add the following chapters of Tehillim at the end of davening each day until the danger passes: chapters 80, 121, and 20.

- This shabbos  18 Sivan is the 10th Yartzeit of Habachur Chaim Rosenberg Z"L (Kenny) He was niftar 1p years ago at the age of 36 while learning in BMG please learn l’illui nishmas Chaim Yitzchok ben Yaakov z”l.

-Chevron Rosh Yeshiva Rav Dovid Cohen shlita spending shabbos in the Lakewood area

- Khal Ateres Yeshaya will have a 30 minute seder before mincha minyanim today 

- Former Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman has endorsed Democrat Mikie Sherrill for Governor.

- Judaica plaza vrand reopening  extravaganza Motzei Shabbos, 10:30 PM–1:00 AM – 15% off all seforim in honor of Adirei HaTorah

- Jackson: Ken Bressi to fill the council seat left vacant by the recent passing of Councilman Scott Sargent.

-Keren Olam HaTorah has announced the postponement of its United States fundraising campaign.

- Freehold raceway track has been sold Raceway RE Partners, a New Jersey-based real estate group, announced Wednesday that it has purchased the 58-acre property. Preliminary plans do not include bringing back horse racing. Instead, the developers want to create a “family-friendly” community destination.

- New poll puts Mamdani ahead of Cuomo for first time in NYC mayor's race The survey—conducted by Public Policy Polling for Justin Brannan’s city comptroller campaign, and first reviewed by Politico—put Mamdani 4 points ahead of Cuomo, beating him 35% to 31%. The results fall closely within the poll’s 4.1% margin of error

-About 50 inmates at Delaney Hall, the ICE detention facility in Newark, banded together and pushed down the wall of a dormitory room when meals were hours late, a lawyer told NJ Advance Media.

- Continued tefilos for Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita who is hospitalized shmuel ben Itta Ettil 

- Giyus: Rav Ezriel Auerbach met with the Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Rav Malkiel Kotler shlita and shared a letter written by his father in Law Rav Elyashiv 15 years ago where he wrote against joining the so called army tracks that are geared for frum people. Where he decries frum people serving under the porker oil who seek to destroy the Torah.

- In light of the escalating security situation, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch instructed that chaderim, yeshivos ketanos, and all other Torah institutions should remain closed until further notice, in compliance with the guidance of security authorities.

- Trump: The Appeals Court ruled last night that I can use the National Guard to keep our cities, in this case Los Angeles, safe. If I didn’t send the Military into Los Angeles, that city would be burning to the ground right now. We saved L.A. Thank you for the Decision!!!

- A widely touted nonpartisan effort to register Jewish voters for the Democratic primary succeeded in persuading only a small minority of Lakewood voters to change their party affiliation, said Schorr, who pegged the number at some 250 voters. “It’s very difficult to get people, especially Orthodox Jews, to become registered Democrats,” Schorr told JI. “They’ll vote, maybe, in the election but to change their affiliation from Republican to Democrat, that you’re not going to get them to do.”

A local Democratic strategist argued that the disappointing results of the Orthodox turnout effort need to prompt a re-assessment of the strategy. (JI)

Even as Gottheimer won his home county of Bergen in northern Jersey, he underperformed in Orthodox communities there and elsewhere in the state, such as Edison and Cherry Hill, said Schorr. “I think they could have done better just from the initial numbers I’ve seen,” he told JI. “The Lakewood area delivered, but other places did not.”

- A small amount of unaffiliated voters went for Gottheimer in Lakewood out of more than 20,000 unaffiliated Orthodox voters suggesting that only a small fraction of them had declared as Democrats in order to vote in the primary. according to Jewish insider

Gottheimer won more than 5,000 votes from the Orthodox community, out of 6,855 democrat votes With nearly 3,000 registered Democrats in the Orthodox community

Even if he had sought to mobilize those Orthodox voters earlier in the primary, Gottheimer still would have come up short. “None of that would have made a difference,” Shlomo Schorr told Jewish Insider, given the outcome on Tuesday. “We just don’t have the kind of numbers to flip such a lopsided race, obviously.”

“Had Gottheimer been competitive with Sherrill in the rest of the state, his advantage among the Orthodox community could well have put him over the top,” Dan Cassino, a political scientist and pollster at Fairleigh Dickinson University, said. “Orthodox voters are a reliable source of votes, and Gottheimer put a lot of effort into securing their support. In a game of inches, that could have been decisive, but this race wound up not being a game of inches.”

-A MESSAGE FROM AGUDAS YISROEL OF AMERICA

Israel has launched a major military action against Iran, designed to disable the Iranian nuclear threat. Iranian retaliation is expected. Rachmana litzlan!

As we all understand, these are extraordinary times. Let us gather together in our batei knesios, batei medrashos, and homes to pour out our hearts in fervent tefila to the Shomer Yisroel that He protect the yoshvei Eretz Yisroel and all of Klal Yisroel from the evil designs of our enemies. And, as the footsteps of Moshiach get louder and louder, let us recall our mandate to be metzapim lyshua, yearning for the ultimate redemption, may the Go'el Tzedek arrive speedily in our days!

Rav Ezriel Auerbach at Chabad in Cyprus

At a local hotel