Weather: 91° Scattered thunderstorms this morning, then mainly cloudy during the afternoon with thunderstorms likely. Potential for severe thunderstorms. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near an inch.
- Severe thunderstorm warning extended until 7:30pm
Roads and homes flooded across lakewood cars stuck in rain waters, kids taking boat rides
- Trump: Israel ‘agreed to necessary conditions to finalize’ 60-day Gaza ceasefire
- Flash Flood warning issued until 9:00pm
- Emergency alert system sends messages to all phones dangerous and life-threatening situation now do not travel unless fleeing the area.
- Heavy flooding on Lakewood and Jackson roads waist high water. Ridge area heavy flooding. Authorities are warning motorists not to try to drive through flooded streets
- 4:30pm The National Weather Service in Mount Holly NJ has issued a
Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northeastern Ocean County in southern New Jersey... Southeastern Monmouth County in central New Jersey...
Until 515 PM EDT. At 425 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Lakewood, or near Toms River, moving northeast at 15 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts.
- States can OPT OUT of the private school scholarship education credits just passed in the bill meaning BLUE states such as NY and NJ may do just that with democratic governors
The program allocates $5 billion annually in tax credits to support the scholarship program, with the option to increase the cap by 5% each year. The program is set to sunset at the end of 2029 unless renewed by Congress.
- President Trump: If Mamdani interferes with ICE, we will arrest him.
-President Donald Trump revealed Tuesday that he was moving forward with his plan to reopen the infamous Alcatraz federal prison in San Francisco.
President Trump officially nominated interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey
Alina Habba for a full four-year term, the White House announced. Her nomination now moves to the U.S. Senate.
- School choice survives and remains in senate bill
OU Advocacy thanks senator Ted Cruz for fighting for school choice to help all American families.
Agudah email: Earlier today, the United States Senate voted to include a permanent and unlimited scholarship tax credit in the budget reconciliation bill.
The groundbreaking school choice proposal survived two attempts to eliminate it and was forced to be revised, but the bottom line for you, it’s still in!
If passed, we expect this credit to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in K-12 scholarships for our communities alone! The revised version allows every taxpayer to receive a credit of up to $1700 and removed the annual cap on donations among other changes. This means that if every person and every community comes together to contribute towards the chinuch of the next generation, we can raise hundreds of millions of dollars in tuition scholarship funds each year at no cost to the donors. The bill now moves back to the House for a vote before it can be sent to the President for his signature. The tax credit would take effect January 2027.
- U.S. Senate passes Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" 51-50 with Vice President Vance breaking the tie. It will now be sent to the House of Representatives and if it passes there, to President Trump to sign.
- TRUMP pres conference today
"The people of NYC would be crazy to vote for the Communist Mamdani"
"Elon Musk is upset over losing the EV mandate"
"We could have split the Big Beautiful Bill up but we'll get more this way. I think we're gonna do okay"
- John Thune says Senate Republicans have a deal with Lisa Murkowski to pass Trump megabill’
- Cops pulling Iverson cars in Jackson om S. New Peospect rd.
- Oif Simchas: Last night in the surrounding Lakewood area there were 20 weddings besides for their local lakewood halls there were smaller weddings in other halls and venues as well as a few in tents in Jackson addison park and Bellworks שיזכו לבנות בית נאמן בישראל
-Walmart will be competing with Amazon prime day and announced they will have deal from July 8.- 13 Amazon extends Prime day this year for 4 days from July 8-11
- New hall in Lakewood held its first wedding last night and the 2nd adjacent hall will be ready in 6 weeks see video below
- Prroperty Taxes to increase for Lakewood homewoners average $600 a year
Lakewood homeowners face hundreds of dollars in new property taxes under proposed budgets The $298 million township spending plan, released on June 26, includes a 12% tax increase and the hiring of 55 more township employees.App reports
The average homeowner will be paying an additional 500 more a year besides for more increases from the BOE and fire dept which could be an additional $200.
Lakewood Mayor Ray Coles said state aid is well below what it should be as the fourth most-populated municipality.Most of the new municipal staff will be added to the Department of Public Works, with 27 new hires, and the police department, which is adding 15 new officers and other staffers'. Officials also blamed Trump for cutting down on federal funds and less state grants to Lakewood The township received nearly $14 million less in federal and state grant money, including a $6 million reduction in federal grants that officials blamed in part on President Donald Trump’s budget cuts for assistance to cities. APP
- A undated letter has surfaced from Rav Yiosroel Reisman Rav Ari Marburgur and Rav Yonnason Binnyomin Weiss shlita that they were asked by the Lakewood Rosh hayeshiva to delve into the sugya pertaining to the peak bais din on kehuna but for personal reasons have declined to get involve and not the fault of either side as there was no hesitation at all from both sides and no one is to blame.
- A house in Lakewood has hit the open market with a listing price of $7,9 million located in the. Brook Hill area.
-REPORTER: "Are you going to deport Elon Musk?"
TRUMP: "We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies."
- Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlita was asked in what should people be mechazek these days. He said men should avoid bittul Torah and women should let the men learn and not cause them bittul Torah. Single girls should strengthen in Emunah.
- Gov. Phil Murphy signed the state budget shortly before midnight, a new, record $58.8 billion state budget. The budget is backed by higher taxes on gambling, smoking, and high-end real estate sales in New Jersey.
The budget is $727 million than the proposed plan Murphy introduced in February, and spends $1.5 billion more in taxpayer money than it collects in revenue.
The final budget also included about $500 million in last-minute pet or “pork” projects or in communities that are Democratic strongholds.
- The new budget includes an unexpected handout to the nursing home industry that was quietly slipped into the measure. It blocks reforms aimed at improving poor-performing nursing homes.
- The realty transfer fee will double from 1% to 2% on homes and commercial properties sold for $2 million to $2.5 million. The fees will rise to 2.5% on homes sold for $2.5 million to $3 million. For homes that sell for $3 million, the fee will triple to 3%. And for homes that sell for more than $3.5 million, the fee will go up to 3.5%. The higher fees are projected to net the state $282 million.
Assemblyman Paul Kanitra, R-Ocean, urged his colleagues to vote no because of the realty fees. With “15% to 20% of homes in New Jersey are valued at $1 million or more...All you are really doing is hurting 1 in 5 New Jerseyans right now and grabbing more money out of the pockets.
Assemblyman Schnall voted yes.
- Trump: Elon Musk knew, long before he so strongly Endorsed me for President, that I was strongly against the EV Mandate. It is ridiculous, and was always a major part of my campaign. Electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one. Elon may get more subsidy than any human being in history, by far, and without subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and head back home to South Africa. No more Rocket launches, Satellites, or Electric Car Production, and our Country would save a FORTUNE. Perhaps we should have DOGE take a good, hard, look at this? BIG MONEY TO BE SAVED!!!
- Giyus: Starting this August, 78,000 Charedi yeshiva students will be under conscription orders - a huge number that covers almost the entire population of yeshiva students of conscription age. The IDF began sending another 54,000 orders to the Haredim today. These orders will be added to the 24,000 orders that have already been sent, and thus the "pool" of Charedim who did not receive draft orders will be emptied.
The new budget includes an unexpected handout to the nursing home industry that was quietly slipped into the measure.
ReplyDeleteAnd now we know why Avi Schnall was elected. And we all are going to pay for it.
Avi Schnall voted yesterday with the democrats to increase taxes while the powerful industries get some state funding but the average lakewood resident will see his taxes go up and still waiting for tuition relief
ReplyDeleteWhy was everyone told to vote him in
The real question is, why did anyone listen?
DeleteIt's going to be closer to $1000 tax increase for Lakewood
ReplyDeleteThank you to the vaad and all those who pushed everyone to vote for Miller and Lichtenstein its clear as day more residential construction equals more taxes on the rest while the rich guys profit off the poor. And the biggest chutzpah is those who tell us who to vote for are tax exempt or get tax abatements
Now adding another 600 apartments without paying taxes will cost millions in public work services.
How is this yashrus
It's not. Stop listening and vote for change.
DeleteNow is the time to be in CHS or Healthcare business.
ReplyDeleteThis is Lakewood the rich and powerful feast of the backs of the working poor using and abusing their bloc vote to get grants and favors for themselves and convincing the olam that they have their best interests in mind.
ReplyDeleteThe proof is in the pudding as they say.
Taxes are going up just for local services as a direct result of all the new developments.
For years officials lied that allowing more building will add more revenue to the tax rolls. We'll now people can't afford to live day by day as they have to raise taxes to service all the new construction.
This is an outrage:
The entire Lakewood leadership should own up for this terrible AVLAH that they supported and fooled everyone with
I wasn't fooled, why were you?
DeleteNote that under the revised bill, states will need to choose to opt in to the school choice program. Ciatarelli for governor!
ReplyDeleteStates need to opt-in EVERY year. (The states list of scholarship organizations needs to be submitted annually). Even if the NJ Governor currently has the power to opt-in, the legislature will surely take that away asap and require legislature approval.
DeleteNote that under the revised bill, states will need to choose to opt in to the school choice program. Ciatarelli for governor!
ReplyDeletewill I as a HUD tenant get effected with the property tax rise?
ReplyDeleteSay you need to move to a larger home, the tax may cause the rental price to rise out of your range
DeleteI don't have any official income so I have no range. I am looking for a 4 bedroom in presidential estates
DeleteYou have no clue how HUD works
Deletethe Vaad is an extension of our Daas Torah rabbanim in this town, please do not attack the Vaad as you attack Daas Torah
ReplyDeleteThats what they will have you believe, but the truth is very different. Why don't you approach the daas torah and ask them.
DeleteIt sure is.
DeleteWe need to attack both.
The Torah is not in the hands of Vaadim or extensions.
Those are both manufactured terms. As fake as each other.
DeleteWho’s the vaad and why don’t they put their names on any letters the same way a kol koreh does?
DeleteUntil they do the vaad can say whatever they’d like. Shkoyachhhhhh
I am really scared for klal yisroel with the tuition scholarship fund the people in charge of it and the Rishei HAmsodos will have an unlimited pool of resources and will not have to answer to any parent body and the school acceptance issue will get worse and worse
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand they will no longer be able to plead poverty and righteous dignity and demand we vote according to their whims. Finally it will be clear to everybody The reality that schools are a business and they are businessmen looking out for their bottom line.
DeleteSeems like any institution w the word VAAD or haVAAD, becomes corrupted
ReplyDeleteIt's a mishna end of sotah bais havaad yiyeh lez.....
DeleteThis tuition bill will do absolutely nothing no one is saving a penny from this despite all agudahs webinara and self congratulations. The school already raised tuition this year by 2-3 k the most savings is up to 1700 per kid but the schools will make more money while parents will struggle
ReplyDeleteDon't be fooled by the people who deceive you again and again
You're reading it wrong. The max credit for the DONOR is $1700. It says nothing about how large the RECIPIENT's scholarship can be.
Delete(Example: If 1000 taxpayers give $1700 each to an SGO, that organization now has $1.7 million to give out as scholarships to qualifying individuals for qualifying expenses. As of now, it's up to the SGO to decide how much to give per recipient. That may change with additional regulation or state legislation)
"The program allocates $5 billion annually in tax credits to support the scholarship program, with the option to increase the cap by 5% each year. The program is set to sunset at the end of 2029 unless renewed by Congress."
DeleteThat was in the House version of the bill. The Senate version contains no limit on total annual credits, and no sunset.
It's permanent and unlimited (limited to $1700 donation credit per taxpayer, but unlimited as to how many taxpayers can donate and get credit).
- A house in Lakewood has hit the open market with a listing price of $7,9 million located in the. Brook Hill area
ReplyDeletePlease report accurately. Its not a house. Its Dr K's mansion
Can someone please explain what is the big deal about these new wedding when Bais Faiga Has been charging almost the same with better options and more guests.
ReplyDeleteWhy are we limiting peoples simchos with rules and restrictions when for a few more thousand dollars there's regular takana standards
It’s not a few thousand extra, it’s one thousand dollars in total cheaper than Bais Faiga.
DeleteWhere is Dr K moving to? Or is he taking his practice elsewhere??
ReplyDeleteThe parent bodies should each organize their own scholarship fund...otherwise tuition will just drift up and the money will be allocated most effectively in the direction conducive to the interests of the people in charge...
ReplyDelete