Thursday July 24 News Updates Lakewood

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-  Agudas yisroel of America hosted a kinis harabonim conference  on over 225 rabbonim who had am opportunity to seek guidance on petson on current issues from members of the moetzes gedolei Hatorah.

- Trump: The Radical Left Democrats are doing everything in their power to distract and obfuscate from our GREAT six months of service to America, results of which many are saying is the BEST six months in Presidential history. They have gone absolutely CRAZY, and are playing another Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax but, this time, under the guise of what we will call the Jeffrey Epstein SCAM. As things are revealed and, I hope will take place quickly, you will see that it is yet another Democrat CON JOB. Hopefully, the Grand Jury Files will put an end to this HOAX. Everyone should see what is there, but people who are innocent should not be hurt. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

- Trump: After many years Australia has agreed to accept American Beef! For a long time, and even though we are great friends, they actually banned our Beef. Now, we are going to sell so much to Australia because this is undeniable and irrefutable Proof that U.S. Beef is the Safest and Best in the entire World. The other Countries that refuse our magnificent Beef are ON NOTICE. All of our Nation’s Ranchers, who are some of the hardest working and most wonderful people, are smiling today, which means I am smiling too. Let’s keep the Hot Streak going. IT’S THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA!Trump: 

- US Attorney Habba: Donald J. Trump is the 47th President. Pam Bondi is the Attorney General. And I am now the Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

I don’t cower to pressure. I don’t answer to politics. This is a fight for justice. And I’m all in. 

- Local officials in Princeton said 15 people were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in town early Thursday morning.

- In a sharp attack against Charedi programs in the IDF, Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch spoke in front of thousands of yeshiva students: "It is forbidden to be tempted to leave the yeshiva, even for a frum Hesder program or for all kinds of people offering proposals"

-Mikie Sherrill has picked Dale G. Caldwell, the president of a small centenary College in Warren County, a Methodist pastor, and former school board member in New Brunswick with a long history of government service, as the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor, the New Jersey Globe has confirmed.

- Macron: France will recognize a Palestinian state, at the UN General Assembly in September.

- Today is the 13th yartzeit of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv ZTL. Mazel tov to all bar mitzva boys named after him

- The 9 days begin this shabbos Rosh Chodesh Av

- Mesivtos and yeshivis begin Bein hazmanim today .

- Toast cafe in manchester will have extended hours for the 9 days open 8-9

- President Trump announced that Columbia University will pay a fine and compensation totaling $220 million for the protests against Israel on its campus last year.

- More homes hit New Jersey’s housing market last month compared to the same time last year, according to the latest figures from Realtor.com. A total of 10,004 homes were listed statewide in June, making for an increase of over 6% compared to the same time last year.

- The New Jersey state Assembly and Local Government Committee is holding a rare summer hearing today Thursday on the bill that would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism within the state of New Jersey. hundreds of people in attendance. Four overflow rooms have already been made available.(SSchorr)

- Trump; Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so! I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before! The better they do, the better the USA does, and that’s good for all of us. We are setting records every day, and I want to keep it that way!

- Hulk Hogan wrestling icon and staunch outspoken Trump supporter has died at 71 years old today

- Thailand–Cambodia Border Erupts in Deadly Clashes. Thai & Cambodian soldiers have exchanged heavy fire along their disputed border near Ta Muen Thom temple, escalating tensions to their worst point in over a decade

hai Army: Many casualties in a bombing by the Cambodian army at a hospital in the Phnum Dong Rak district

- Israel finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich slams United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzhak Goldknopf after he says it’s none of the Haredi community’s concern if other Israelis are dying while fighting in a war while they refuse to join.

“Goldknopf, you should be ashamed. Our sages taught us that anyone who does not grieve for the public’s distress will not see its consolation. The immense pain of the bereaved families who lost their loved ones in our existential war is not the pain of religious Zionism. It is the pain of the people of Israel,” tweets Smotrich, the chairman of the Religious Zionism party.

- Desiree Grace, a longtime federal prosecutor, said she intends to assume the role of U.S. attorney for New Jersey on Saturday, despite effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to “remove” her from office just hours after her appointment.

- Agudah’s Washington Office will be moving to Capitol Hil

- Kol Mevaser reports A 9-year-old boy nearly drowned a few weeks ago at the newly developed Zimmerman's Bungalow Colony in the Catskills. CPR was performed on site, and he was airlifted to the hospital in serious condition.

In response, residents gathered and took on a kabbalah as a zechus for his recovery. They noticed that the pool’s mechitzah wasn’t fully enclosed due to the uneven terrain and immediately resolved not to swim until it was properly secured. Within a week, contractors completed the work and fully enclosed the area.

Amazingly, the boy was discharged from the hospital the very next day, fully recovered. A seudas hoda'ah was held last Shabbos, and CPR training was arranged to better prepare for emergencies in the future.