Friday June 6 News Updates Lakewood

Friday, June 6, 2025 / י׳ סיון תשפ״ה

ערב שבת פרשת נשא

Candle lighting 8:05 pm

Shkiah/Sunset 8:23 pm

Weather: 85° Mostly sunny. 

Shabbos day 78° Cloudy early with thunderstorms developing later in the day Chance of rain 70%.

-D-day 81 years since American forces stormed the beaches of Normandy France that led to the liberation from Nazi Germany

- Gerrer rebbe shlita heades to the US this Motzei shabbos on behalf of Karen olam HaTorah

- Jack Ciattarelli was in Lakewood today at pizza plus on 4th and Clifton meeting and greeting local residents as he campaigns for Governor as republican candidate.

- Trump: I am pleased to announce that Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, and United States Trade Representative, Ambassador Jamieson Greer, will be meeting in London on Monday, June 9, 2025, with Representatives of China, with reference to the Trade Deal. The meeting should go very well. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

- U.S. jobs report beats expectations for third straight month, adding 139,000 jobs in May 2025. Unemployment rate remains at 4.2%.

- FBI Director Kash Patel told Joe Rogan that agents just located Dr. Fauci’s personal phones and devices used during the COVID response—a discovery he called a “great breakthrough” in the federal investigation into the virus’s origins and Fauci’s role. Patel confirmed the contents will now be examined to determine the extent of the deliberate deception that occurred during the pandemic.

- Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California

- Adirei Hatorah: Rav Ezriel Auerbach shlita will be spending shabbos at the New Central/Central CT area

Many Scramble for tickets as it has been sold out. There's several watsapp chats for private ticket sales.

Singers this year Zanvil Weinberger Heshy Weinberger, Meir Adler on Keys, Yanky Daskal.and others.

Rav Ezriel Auerbach spoke this morning at Kollel Ohr Shmuel in Lutzk watch Here

- Trump: Prices are down, income is up, our Border is closed, gasoline is CHEAP, inflation is DEAD — Our Country is BOOMING! Companies are pouring into America like never before!

- Israel: Four IDF soldiers were killed and five were injured in a building explosion in Khan Yunis, Gaza

- Cnn: phone call with President Trump: "I'm not even thinking about Elon. He's got a problem. The poor guy’s got a problem.... No. I won't be speaking to him for a while, I guess, but I wish him well."

ABC: Trump "not particularly" interested in speaking to Elon Musk, he says this morning but said Musk wants to talk to him. Trump says Musk is "the man who lost his mind," but did not seem angry about the fight.

- NJ primary 5 days to go, and an additional 22,188 New Jerseyans voted on the second day of in-person early voting yesterday. With nearly 291,000 mail ballots returned, nearly 340,000 New Jerseyans have voted in the primary so far.

- ICE agents raided a home in Howell yesterday and arrested several individuals . ICE agents were also spotted in Lakewood 

- WZO: Reform movement celebrtaes win with top spot of 48,000 votes. Thats 16,000 more votes than the last election, The slate said the result shows that the Reform movement is the leading voice of American Jewry. “This is more than just a win for our slate it is a resounding mandate for the values we champion,” Rabbi Rick Jacobs, President of the Union for Reform Judaism, said in a statement.

- 20,000 votes were thrown out considered as fraudulent in the WZO elections. No slates were named yet. 

- Ocean county gains with  more registered Republicans according to latest data:

Democrats: 96,060

Republicans: 192,773

Unaffiliated: 180,145

Ocean County lost 3,479 unaffiliated voters between the 2021 and 2025 gubernatorial primary elections. The county lost 5,487 registered Democrats, and gained 28,094 Republican voters in the same timeframe.

Nj media.

Details on the new beautiful Aron Kodesh at Yeshiva Ateres Shlomo saidbro be the most magnificent Aron kodesh in the world - the construction of which was completed this week in the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva:

• Its construction is estimated at tens of millions of dollars

• Entirely handmade

• Construction lasted 3 and a half years, and involved 350 artists from 12 countries on 3 continents.

• Dimensions: Area of ​​120 square meters, length 20 meters, height 6.5 meters

• Materials: Over 2 tons of pure silver. The gilded silver parts are covered with a huge amount of pure 24 karat gold.

• Mezuzah: At the entrance to the Holy Room - the smallest mezuzah in the world, measuring 2.7 x 2.7 cm, an exquisite work of art

• Copper fence: The  Ark is surrounded by a 4-ton cast copper fence, cast in a dedicated factory in Stuttgart, Germany.

According to media reports the project was sponsored by a Bobover chasid who decides to donate it a few years ago, after Rabbi Shalom Ber gave up on allocating land in Bnei Brak after a dispute.