Wednesday July 30 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 97° Sunshine this morning. Scattered thunderstorms developing this afternoon. Continued hot and humid. Chance of rain 40%.

Heat advisory with Heat index values up to 104 degrees expected.

here is a marginal risk of severe weather today.

- Trump: Wow! Canada has just announced that it is backing statehood for Palestine. That will make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them. Oh’ Canada!!!

- Yartzeit today 5 Av  of the Ari Hakodosh thousands gathering in tzefas at his kever.

- With a change in routine and schedule especially with hot weather It’s important to keep the safeguards and implement reminders not to forget a child in the car. Even for bein hasdorim in the afternoon as there was an incident yesterday in Lakewood of a forgotten child that was B"H found by a police officer after remaining in the car for 24 minutes.

The father said he simply forgot due to a change in routine. The child was hospitalized and released.

 A good deterrent is for the Morah to call after a pre set time if the baby does not come after 10:15 am. It should be mandatory to take attendance each morning and call both parents if baby or child is not there by 10:30.

-Today: presentation is scheduled to be made Wednesday, July 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM in the Lakewood Township Municipal Building to review Lakewood’s planned Downtown CLIFTON AVENUE STREETSCAPE and Lighting Project (Concept Plans) This presentation is open to the public.  Lakewood Municipal Building Courtroom First Floor 231 Third Street

Lakewood, NJ 08701

 AND LIGHTING PROJECT (CONCEPT PLANS).THIS PRESENTATION IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

LAKEWOOD MUNICIPAL BUILDING COURTROOM First Floor 231 Third Street

Lakewood, NJ 08701

- Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman at the gathering of  leaders today: A Charedi who joins the army does not come out Charedi from the army. There is an absolute  issur on joining the army, and one must be willing to give their life for this.

- Despite pressure from President Trump, the Federal Reserve maintains its key interest rate unchanged for the fifth consecutive meeting. Jerome Powell just said Trump's tariffs are making some goods more expensive and that inflation "expectations" have moved up as a result of surveys. Rates unchanged.

- Giyus: The IDF says it has completed sending out an additional 54,000 draft orders to ultra-Orthodox men who are eligible for military service and have not yet enlisted

Currently, approximately 80,000 Haredi men between the ages of 18 and 24 are eligible for military service and have not enlisted.

 With a change in routine and schedule especially with hot weather It’s important to keep the safeguards and implement reminders not to forget a child in the car. A good deterrent is for the Morah to call after a pre set time if the baby does not come after 10:15 am. It should be mandatory to take attendance each morning and call both parents if baby or child is not there by 10:30.

- NY/NJ community emergency response organizations — Hatzalah and Hatzulas Nefashos, Shmira and Shomrim, Chavivim and Chaveirim— from the tri-state area are alerting of the dangers of mistakenly leaving a child in a car r”l following a string of tragic accidents. Read more  Here

- Trump: It‘s time to indict Obama, the traitor, for treason.“ Trump says Barack Obama should face a military tribunal, these hearings were done at Guantanamo Bay for terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks

- Trump: Senator Grassley, you know what we the people would like for you to do! Please help push forward President Trumps wonderful nominees so he can make this nation even greater than he is already doing for the American people! We are depending on you, Senator Grassley! Let’s do this, sir

- The Red Bank man charged in a drunk driving crash that killed a woman and an 11-year-old girl in Lakewood this week, is in the United States illegally, according to federal immigration records. That information was withheld by the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office in their press release this weekend, but records obtained by Shore News Network confirm that the driver has an active ICE immigration detainer.

- Giyus: A gathering of leading rabbonim and roshei yeshiva from across the chareidi world including prominent figures from the Litvish, Sephardic, and Chassidic sectors taking place this evening in Maaleh HaChamisha for a major conference on the IDF draft. The gathering opened with the recitation of the Thirteen middos

- Monmouth and Ocean County's homeless population increased by 21% in 2025, according to a study released July 29, in a sign that the region's soaring housing costs are beyond the reach of more residents. Officials this summer have taken steps to clear out homeless encampments that have emerged: in woods off of Route 70 on the edge of Lakewood; and in a municipal parking garage in Toms River.

- Giyus: Rav Yitzchok Yosef shlita launched a public condemnation of the new proposed draft law and the political figures behind it, asserting that the legislation is fundamentally against halachah and lamenting what he described as the betrayal of Torah values by chareidi representatives in the Knesset. He recalled how his father, Rav Ovadia Yosef zt”l, wept over the threat of forced enlistment of bnei Torah

Rav Yosef criticized the heads of the chareidi parties for the understandings reached between the chareidi factions and Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein, warning of dire implications. “Who knows what kind of law will emerge? One of the great rabbanim of our generation told me they want to write into law that all yeshiva students are technically obligated to enlist but receive a deferment. That’s against the Rambam! Will our representatives vote for a law that goes against halachah, against the Rambam?”

-A Story of Hashgacha Pratis – Lakewood, Last Thursday

It was one of those in-between days school was over, but camp hadn't started yet. A Lakewood mother wanted to do something fun with her children, so she decided to take them bowling. When they arrived, however, she was told the entire bowling alley had been rented out by a day camp. Not giving up, she tried another bowling location again, no luck. It too had been rented out to a camp. 

She then decided to go boating at the lake, but once there, they were told it was too busy and another camp had taken up all the boats. Feeling a bit defeated, she figured she'd treat the kids to slush and then stop by a toy store to lift their spirits.

Instead of going to a store near her home in the oak and Vine neighborhood, she chose to drive a bit further to the  a Toys  store at  a durther shopping plaza

After leaving the toy store, her young son ran ahead to what he thought was their car to check if his slush had melted but he mistakenly ran to a different vehicle that looked just like theirs.

When the mother caught up to him, she realized he had gone to the wrong car. As she approached the car he had opened, she was shocked to see a small baby inside sweating heavily from the heat. The baby had been accidentally left behind.

The mother immediately called a nearby supermarket to see if anyone recognized the license plate. A short while later, the baby's mother came rushing out. She was beside herself, realizing in horror what had happened, and thanked the woman profusely for saving her child's life. She explained that she always double-checks and takes precautions not to forget a child and usually locks her car too, but somehow, this time she forgot the baby and the car had remained unlocked as well.

In the end, it was clear: what seemed like a day full of frustrating detours and failed plans was really a chain of events orchestrated by Hashgacha Pratis, leading this mother to the right place at the right time to save a child's life.(Kol Mevaser)

-A letter from  some Lakewood rabbonim regarding the  Bais Havaad in response to the kol Korei issued against it by gedolei haposkim. The rabbonim write that while they have no intention to get involved or take sides being that the BD has agreed to have the matter of heter kehuna reviewed by a agreed upon bais din therefore they will resume using the services of the bais Havaaad for all matters including gittin and finances. Interestingly the kol korei still stands and the poskim and Rav Elya Ber Wachtfogel shlita have not retracted their original signatures