Friday June 20 News Updates Lakewood

 Friday, June 20, 2025 / כ״ד סיון תשפ״ה ערב שבת פרשת שלח

candle lighting 8:11 pm

shkiah/sunset 8:29 pm

Shabbos mevarchim chodesh Tamuz Rosh Chodesh is Thursday & Friday

Weather: 85° Sunshine and a few afternoon clouds

Shabbos day 88° Partly cloudy. 

Longest day of the year today

- Rav Yitzchok Yosef shlita will speak in Lakewood Sunday night at Lutzk BM

Rav Moshe Hillel Hirssh shlita will ne speaking at the Lakewood minyan in Boro Park on shabbos day

- Trump says "intelligence community is wrong" that Iran is not building nuclear weapons.

- Trump: Many people have been asking what is going on with Harvard University and their largescale improprieties that we have been addressing, looking for a solution. We have been working closely with Harvard, and it is very possible that a Deal will be announced over the next week or so. They have acted extremely appropriately during these negotiations, and appear to be committed to doing what is right. If a Settlement is made on the basis that is currently being discussed, it will be “mindbogglingly” HISTORIC, and very good for our Country. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

- Update from Philadelphia Earlier today the Rosh Hayeahiva was in respiratory distress and had To go back to the hospital. B"H his condition is now stabilized 

- Tehillim: Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita was taken back to the hospital  name is Shmuel ben Ita Ettil

- This shabbos is the shloshim for the three lakewood yeshiva bochurim who paased taken away in a tragic car accident 

- Madison title: The company announced the B"H they are in good standing with Fannie may and will be able to work with them as a vendor

 

-Rav Moshe HIlel HIrsch and Rav Don Segal will be spending shabbosi bn Boro Park on behalf of Keren Olam haTorah

-Rav Dovid Cohen shlita will be in Deal, NJ for shabbos as will Rav Yitzchok Yoseh

-An 11-foot great white shark nicknamed Dold surfaced off the New Jersey coast on the first day of summer.

- 2 El Al rescue flights took off last night from Newark and JFK back to EY. The next flights have not been announced yet. Priority us based in essential needs and when previous tickets were booked.

There are no scheduled flights back from Israel

-- More people are reporting issues while leaving via Jordan for now it seems the smoothest way is from Taba to Shaem E Sheikh Airport (kol Mevaser)

- Gas prices went up 15 cents 

- Trump: Zero Border crossings for the month for TRUMP, verses 60,000 for Sleepy, Crooked Joe Biden, a man who lost the 2020 Presidential Election by a "LANDSLIDE!" Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let the work begin! What this Crooked man, and his CORRUPT CRONIES, have done to our Country in 4 years, is grossly indescribable! MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

- Agudath Israel calls on everyone to Thank president Trump for Standing with Israel in its Time of Need

This is after the president was previously attacked by agudah at their conventions and other platforms since his first term as president.

Agudah now seems to have reveresed course and provided the following message template:

Dear President Trump,

As an Orthodox Jewish American I want to thank you for standing with Israel in its time of need. Israel currently faces an existential threat from a genocidal Iran. Our brothers and sisters in Israel, including hundreds of thousands of American citizens, keep heading to bomb shelters as Iran rains downs ballistic missiles on civilian neighborhoods. We appreciate the critical assistance of the United States in protecting innocent lives and your public support of Israel’s right to defend itself.

Thank you for everything you have done and are doing to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb that would threaten Israel and the free world.

- At a Keren Olam HaTorah in Brooklyn Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsh speaks about the antisemitism in the world and importance of supporting Torah in EY.

Lakewood and Chevron Roshei Yeshiva travel on behalf of the Olam HaTorah