Wednesday June 4 Isru Chag Shavuos News Updates

Weather: 87° Sunny. Hazy.

- The FAA implemented a ground stop at Newark Liberty International Airport on Wednesday evening due to ongoing staffing shortages, holding all inbound flights at their origin.

Newark airport has been limited to 28 arrivals and departures per hour due to construction and staffing issues, with plans to increase this to 34 once runway testing is completed and the runway is certified by June 10.

- Adirei HaaTorah has reissued some Shul tickets as they were accidentally separated and seated together. If you bought one second hand check that it's valid.

- Day 1: New Jerseyans cast 26,836 in-person early votes yesterday; 14,439 from Democrats and 12,397 from Republicans.(RyanDubick)

- President Donald Trump has just signed a new travel ban affecting citizens from 12 countries. These countries are: Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen

- Federal judge Gordon Gallagher of Colorado, appointed by Biden, has ordered a halt to the Trump administration's plan to deport the wife and five children of Boulder terror suspect Mohamed Soliman.

- New Minyanim in Brisk , Rav Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik inaugurated a new  building over Shavuos, The new upper Bais Medrash, seating 350, will now host a third minyan  for shachris  led by his eldest son, Rabbi Yankel Soloveitchik, joining the 2 daily existing minyanim  He said theres no reason to go to the nearby zichron Moshe shtieblach warning against wasting time there late at night there will also be a late minyan for maariv/

- Adirei HaTorah: Rav Ezriel Auerbach shlita on his way to the US for the Adirei event on Sunday in Philadelphia he will arrive tomorrow morning in Lakewood and visit local yeshivis mesivtos and chadorim. 

- Israel media aired a phone call between Netanyahu to Rav moshe Hillel Hirsch in a recorded conversation:Netanyahu said I am connected to the Olam HTorah my grandfather was a rabbi. Unfortunately, there is judicial criticism of the conscription law. Netanyahu  said he dismissed then-IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in order to advance the conscription law for Haredim, according to a recording aired on Channel 13 

Israeli Media reports the phone call was not to be leaked, a  statement from Rav Moshe Hillels court  "We were shocked to hear about the leak of a conversation that took place between Maran Rosh Ha-Yeshiva Shlita and Prime Minister Netanyahu. The conversation was personal and its leak to the media is a serious act by people who, for political gain, act irresponsibly and do not hesitate in any way, even in a way that harms the leadership of Maran Rosh Ha-Yeshiva Shlita.

- President Trump posted that he had a call with Putin; he said he might be able to help with Iran. President Trump called out Iran on the “slowwalking” of its response and added we need an immediate answer 

- Shas party expected to back Knesset’s dissolution, stripping coalition of majority

Netanyahu meets Edelstein, claims standoff with Haredi parties on enlistment law is solvable

- Suspect pulled gun on someone at MLK st across from Center street heavy police activity on the area suspect arrested 

- New Jersey Turnpike to Replace Tesla Chargers After Contract Expires The agency that runs the highway said it was switching to another company to provide chargers that work for electrical vehicles other than just Teslas. elon musk responded “Sounds like corruption” 

-Faa: Gottheimer votes against yeshiva tuition relief: In a shocking betrayal of Orthodox Jewish families struggling with rising tuition costs, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Rep. Josh Gottheimer cast a no vote on the Republican-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” — legislation that includes billions in federal school choice funding. The bill was recently touted as a “historic opportunity” by Agudath Israel’s Director of Federal Education Affairs Avi Schnall - who is also an assemblyman - for its proposal to provide unprecedented tuition relief for yeshiva families across New Jersey. 

Full story here

- Chasuna season resumes the busy June season fron Shavuos to Shiva Asar BTamuz. The new schrohn wedding  halls on Oak st. will open at the end of June.

- Giyus: Rav Dov Landau refused Netanyahu's request to have a conversation with him: "There's no point in talking. Enough has been said already."Amit Segal

 Rav Lando informed Degel's Knesset members this morning that he supports the law to dissolve the Knesset after hearing the list of sanctions that MK Yuli Edelstein wants to include in the draft law.

- Giyus: Senior United Torah Judaism officials say the meeting with Yuli Edelstein was a complete failure, and that Moshe Gafni has been instructed to leave the government and work to dismantle it.

- Senior Likud minister: "Edelstein is in cahoots with Naftali Bennett, he is making unrealistic demands that are clear to everyone that will not pass the charedi test, he has a goal of dismantling the government."

-WZO Elections in England  for the World Zionist Congress have been delayed amid concerns about allegations of voter fraud.“We are currently still in the process of verifying voters. elections have been postponed and the actual voting period for the UK election to July 6-10.”

- Trump: With the exception of the rigged presidential election of 2020, the autopen is the biggest political scandal in american history!!!

- United  airlines says it will slash Newark airport fares to win back travelers after airport chaos. United  DO says that flying from Newark Liberty is “going to be the cheapest it’s probably ever going to be in history. I don’t really like that, but you ought to book.”

- Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi:” No enrichment, no deal.”

-Trump: ADP NUMBER OUT!!! "Too Late" Powell must now LOWER THE RATE. He is unbelievable!!! Europe has lowered NINE TIMES

- A Yeshiva bachur was  injured after he was hit by a driver in Jackson on 2nd day shavuos while walking South New Prospect Road near Citadel Drive in the afternoon. Police  found the bochur lying on the side of the roadway with serious head trauma. He was transported to Jersey Shore University Medical Center where he remains in stable condition. His name for tehillim is Aharon ben Sarah. The driver fled the scene but was apprehended a short time later  the Spring Lake man was arrested and found to be in possession of drug paraphernalia

He is currently being held at the Ocean County Jail pending a detention hearing.

- BDE: Petirah of Mrs. Miriam Rubin A"H wife of kozhnitz rebbe shlita from Seagate and daughter of the Kosov rebbe ztl of Boro park who was niflar last year She passed away from the machla R"L at the age of 40. Levaya in Boro Park today at the kosov B"M 1355 55th st.

- Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Democratic candidate for governor is suing interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba  and a Homeland Security official for malicious prosecution and defamation following his arrest outside a migrant detention center last month. 

- Nj Primary voting this week.

The state added 9,407 registered voters in May, 

The state added 2,768 Republicans, 2,226 Democrats, and 4,472 unaffiliated voters last month, according to voter registration data. May was a respite for Democrats, whose onetime million-voter lead has now fallen to about 827,000. (NJ Globe)

- Primaries: Both Assembly seats, two-year terms, are up for election in November. Both primaries are uncontested. The Republican candidates are Sean T. Kean and Edward H. Thomson III. Kean is one of the current assemblymen. The Democrats are Alexander "Avi" Schnall and Claire Deicke. Schnall is the other current assemblyman.

Rav Ezriel Auerbach shlita at the airport heading to the US (photo M. weisberg)