Monday August 11 News Updates Lakewood

Weather: 87° Lots of sunshine

- An estimated 200,000 people in Paterson, Haledon, North Haledon and Prospect Park were without water for a fourth day on Monday as a crew struggled to repair a pipeline break at Hinchliffe Stadium in the city. Water was still gushing from the 30-inch pipe during a 12 p.m. press conference at Hinchliffe Stadium as mayors of the four municipalities asked residents for patience as the crisis dragged on.

- NY Gov Kathy Hochul visited the Satmar Girls Camp “Machne Bais Rochel” ןמ South Fallsburg she was greeted by hundreds of girls and held meeting with Satmar askanim 

- NYP: New Jersey’s electric bills tripled this summer  and could cost Dems the state. The policymakers pushed the policies, but didn’t build the safety net, or the replacement energy sources, first.Instead, families face a double squeeze. Their bills are rising, and so are the taxes funding the very lawmakers who forced costs up.

Voters are rightly asking: What am I getting in return for this crushing cost of living?

“NJ Property taxes are up 6.3%,” he said — on top of what had already been the nation’s highest. “Car insurance up 15%. Home insurance up 17%. Health insurance up 19%.“I don’t know how non-dermatologists are living in New Jersey,” he concluded.

That question — how are we expected to live here? — is why the solidly blue Garden State is rapidly turning purple.

--Jack Ciattarelli : TRIPLED!! Rebecca in Highland Park just saw her monthly electric bill triple to more than $1000. Why? Because Trenton Democrats, with the approval of my opponent Mikie Sherrill, shut down six electricity generation plants around the state, stopped burning natural gas, and didn’t expand our nuclear capabilities in South Jersey. Who pays for their energy master plan disaster? You do. 

It all changes when I’m Governor. IT’S TIME.

- President Trump : "My father always used to tell me...'Son, when you walk into a restaurant & you see a dirty front door, don’t go in. Because if the front door is dirty, the kitchen is dirty also.'...If our capital is dirty, our whole country is dirty."

-  President Donald Trump extends China tariff deadline by 90 days. 

-A Suspect has been arrested in Friday’s brutal attack on a frum father Montreal he was apprehended With the help of Chaverim/Shomrim

- Giyus: Rav Dov Lando,and the Gerrer Rebbe are leading an initiative for an international gathering of a million Charedim simultaneously across the world to protest the draft

another initiative is to have people pull all their money out of the israeli banking system 

- Crews finishing up work on the new traffic signal at Broadway and Rt 9 by Evergreen so time set yet for when it will go live

- Route 9 south from Toms River to the Lakewood border has been paved and restriped 

- Giyus: Rav Dov Landau was asked what the American frum community should do in response to the drafting of yeshiva bochurim he said for the time being they should daven but more information will be coming shortly its a process that will go forward in stages 

-MK Meir Porush is continuing his hunger strike protesting the IDf draft due to his doctor's recommendation he will be drinking water 

- Giyus: Following the breakdown in negotiations with the IDF regarding the Chabad agreement, voices within the Chabad Rabbinical Court are growing stronger, calling for a sweeping directive to all Chabad followers to cease reporting for duty and to "prepare to go to prison rather than to the army."

- The Lakewood Police Department is proud to announce the launch of a brand-new Public Portal to enhance community engagement and streamline access to important public safety resources. The portal is now live and can be accessed directly at LPDNJ.com.

- National night out in Lakewood is tomorrow at the Blue claws stadium free Pizza, Ices, BBQ, and Other Refreshments will be provided! Under Rabbinical supervision – Pizza & BBQ in separate locations 4-pm - 8 pm

-NJ State prosecutors sought pretrial detention last month for an undocumented immigrant accused of killing a woman and her daughter in a drunken driving crash in Lakewood, but a Superior Court judge denied the state’s request. Judge wendel Daniels sided with Luna-Perez’s lawyer. He ordered Luna-Perez released but confined to his Red Bank home with an ankle monitor, barred him from operating a vehicle, and ordered a substance abuse evaluation. 

- Jack Ciattarelli: The DNC is dumping $1.5M into Mikie Sherrill’s campaign. Why? Because she’s in trouble. She’s not from New Jersey, doesn’t understand our state, supports radicals like Mamdani, and is using this race as a stepping stone for her own ambition. I’m in this for one reason: to fix New Jersey — tackle the affordability crisis, keep our communities safe, end sanctuary cities, and more.

- President Trump will be working with Congress to BAN "no cash bail" NATIONWIDE

- Trump says that he may take control of New York, Chicago and other cities just like DC.

- Trump:” We're going to have a meeting with Vladimir Putin and ... probably in the first two minutes, I'll know exactly whether or not a deal can be made”

- US Sec Def: "This morning, we've mobilized the D.C. National Guard... You will see them flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming week."

- This past Friday afternoon, the Satmar Rebbe Rav Aaron was taken to the Ellenville Hospital in the Catskills after not feeling well. the Rebbe underwent a series of tests and BH there was  no cause for concern the rebbe made it back to Satmar camp in Swan lake before shabbos with a police escort 

-JD Vance called on Elon Musk to come back into MAGA before the Midterms.  “I think it's a mistake for him to try to break from the president - my hope is that by the time of the midterms, he's kind of come back into the fold”

- The attorney for a Lakewood resident has filed a motion to dismiss charges against him stating that Kubani’s limited English led to what was a misunderstanding he “was seeking a day laborer to clean his car’s carpet, a common local practice,” Jacobovitch wrote in the legal filings. “He approached a 15-year-old on a bicycle, asking, ‘Do you want a job cleaning the car?’” Criminal intent has not been established, the lawyer wrote. “No evidence suggests Kubani invited (the boy) into the vehicle, directed him to another location or attempted to isolate him,” Jacobovitch said in the legal filings. A “substantial step” must be taken toward committing one of those acts for a charge to be sustained, he said. “The charge rests on an ambiguous interaction open to misinterpretation,” Jacobovitch wrote. The next hearing is scheduled for Aug. 18 at the Ocean County Courthouse. APP