Tuesday July 29 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 97° Sunny. Continued hot and humid

heat advisory remains in effect until 8 pm edt wednesday...heat index values up to 104 degrees expected.

The National Weather Service has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Tuesday, July 29, 2025. This means the air we're breathing could pose health risks, especially for those 

- TSUNAMI ADVISORY in effect for the California coast residents are told to Stay away from the water!, beaches and waterways! Remain away from shore until local officials give all clear.

-Trump: Due to a massive earthquake that occurred in the Pacific Ocean, a Tsunami Warning is in effect for those living in Hawaii. A Tsunami Watch is in effect for Alaska and the Pacific Coast of the United States. Japan is also in the way. Please visit https://tsunami.gov for the latest information. STAY STRONG AND STAY SAFE

- Tsunami simulator shows the potential waves that could reach the US West Coast

- Tsunami has been CONFIRMED via ocean buoys - this is no longer theoretical but an active tsunami propagating across the Pacific.

- Fox: "The tsunami has been confirmed... We do have confirmation that there is a tsunami that's occurring right now. It's out over water"

"All of Hawaii right now needs to be on VERY HIGH ALERT... This is a level up. This is a higher risk right now than we have along the west coast"

- Parlor meeting for Tomchei  iShabbos at the Woods 2 Walker Drive

-  A Massive magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia. Tsunami warnings issued for Russia, Japan, Guam, Hawaii, and Alaska

- The U.S. Justice Department has filed a brief defending Alina Habba’s appointment as acting U.S. Attorney of New Jersey, asserting that President Trump – and not the state's federal judiciary – has final say over who holds the office, (NJGlobe)

- Update from Philadelphia yeshiva on the condition of Maran HaRav Shmuel Kamenetsky shlit”a.

 Due to the enormous public interest in the health of the Rosh Yeshiva shlit”a, we would like to provide a more detailed update on his condition and progress.

On Sunday, the doctors informed us that the Rosh Yeshiva was in deep septic shock, and many systems were shutting down. At that time, we were told by the doctors that al pi teva there was virtually zero chance for recovery, the only way would be a miracle.

  Sunday, Klal Yisrael held urgent atzeres tefillos  in Yerushalayim, Lakewood, Brooklyn, Toronto, the Catskills, Monsey, Detroit, and many other cities.

  Monday morning, to the wonder of the doctors, the Rosh Yeshiva showed slight improvement. The blood pressure rose slightly and his systems began to perform. Over the day, there was slow, incremental progress.

  In an update on Monday afternoon, the doctors exclaimed in wonder “nissim, only nissim and tefilla could have done this”. They informed us, that although the Rosh Yeshiva is still in critical condition, while on Sunday the only way was al pi nes, now, there is a potential path for recovery even al pi teva. In the words of the lead doctor “The Rosh Yeshiva is walking a tightrope. Incredibly, he made it halfway across the tightrope, but is still balancing on the tightrope”.

We ask the oilam:

Please continue your tefillos for Shmuel ben Ita Etil.

He has had nissim to reach this point, but is still in critical condition. It is the tefillos of Klal Yisrael which has brought the Rosh Yeshiva to this point, and in the zechus of our tefillos the Rosh Yeshiva will have a refua sheleima iy”H.

Please continue to be מתפלל for שמואל בן איטא עטיל בתוך שאר חולי ישראל as we beseech Hashen לקיים בנו חכמי ישראל

- Jack Ciattarelli calls out Murphy for freezing child care funds from CHS:

"UNACCEPTABLE! Governor Murphy mismanaged the state budget, which is up $23 billion - 70%! - since he took office, to fund his far left agenda, and now the victims of his mismanagement are children and families, as he slashes funding for the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). My opponent supports Murphy's budget, which means millions of dollars will continually be wasted on a liberal agenda while programs like CCAP are cut. Under my administration, we will make funding child care and the CCAP a priority."

- Employee killed in Midtown shooting  yesterday identified as Cornell grad Julia Hyman a"h she was 26 and the second Jewish victim 

-TAG mobile will be in South Lakewood this afternoon at Todd plaza from 1:00pm - 4:00pm

-  Tonight is the Yahrtzeit of Reb Chaim Oizer Grodjinsky ztz"l. A Special Feature about his final days and a fantastic insight into the Nine Days was just given by Rav Michoel Sorotzkin during his weekly Shiur in Lakewood watch and listen HERE

- Continued tefillos for Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky shlita who is hospitalized in Lakewood Shmuek ben Ita Ettil.

- CNN : Shane Tamura, the man who killed four people in Manhattan last night and then committed suicide, had in his pocket a letter he wrote before his death stating that he suffers from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated blows to the head and common among football players. Tomura, a former football player, wrote that he requests his brain to be examined after his death. Other media outlets reported that he tried to attack the NFL league offices in Manhattan last night.

- Bde: One of the victims of the shooting attack in Manhattan has been identified as Blackstone’s Wesley LePatner, a"h 43, Michal Ziva bas Aryeh Leib a proud member of the Jewish community, deeply involved with UJA‑Federation and Jewish education in New York. She was a member of the Altneu shul in NYC and on the board of The Abraham Joshua Heschel School, leaves behind a husband and 2 children. 

-Traffic noticeably lighter in Lakewood as day camps begin with summer vacation and no nightly weddings

- Democrat Mikie Sherrill holds an 8-point lead over Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the latest poll on New Jersey’s governor’s race, with about three months to go before Election Day on Nov. 4. The poll released Tuesday by Fairleigh Dickinson University shows 45% of the state’s likely voters back Sherrill, compared to 37% for Ciattarelli in the election to decide who succeeds outgoing Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy.

- New Jersey Senate Republicans: NJ Democrats’ radical energy mandates have driven our utility bills through the roof. Their policies have shut down reliable, affordable energy and now threaten both our power supply and our wallets. We can’t become the California of the East Coast

- Measles outbreak in Yerushalayim the Badatz Eidah Hacharedis issues call for families to vaccinate.

- BMG freezer for Sunmer zman opens B"H chasanim getting engaged. 

The shidduch initiative to have girls wait a year back from seminary to start shidduchim has failed to get implemented as the campaign did not get backing from gedolei roshei yeshiva in the US.

- All-time record at  Ponivezh Yeshiva: 66 weddings  of talmidei hayeshiva to take place during bein hazmanim after Tisha B'Av  The yeshiva is adhering to the clear instruction of Rav Lazer Shach, zt"l, not to hold weddings during the month of Elul

- A new election for two candidates seeking seats on Toms River Fire District 1's Board of Commissioners is slated to take place Sept. 20 after a state appellate panel tossed the results of the February fire election.

 -Tefillos for A 10-year-old girl is in critical condition after a tragic boating accident in Miami, where a barge crashed into a youth sailing camp boat, killing 2 other children. Daven for Arielle Itke bas Rivka Aliza.(KH)

- Giyus: Plans are being held for a massive gathering of all Rabbonim across tge spectrum on the conscription draft gezeira possibly this Wednesday in Yerushalayim they are expected to announce the next steps in the campaign against conscription of yeshivah students to the IDF.

- Last night at the zoning board meetings the board approved residential homes on 7th street a suplex to support a congregation neighbors came out in support of the application noting that the alternative of putting a shul will be worse as there's no room for parking.

-Trump: I have been briefed on the tragic shooting that took place in Manhattan, a place that I know and love. I trust our Law Enforcement Agencies to get to the bottom of why this crazed lunatic committed such a senseless act of violence. My heart is with the families of the four people who were killed, including the NYPD Officer, who made the ultimate sacrifice. God Bless the New York Police Department, and God Bless New York!