Monday August 18 News Updates Lakewood

 weather: 72° Cloudy skies. Cooler and less 

- Jackson Planning Board  Approves kehilas Brookwood Shul Building in Brookwood 3 marking a first for the township, to construct a shul within a residential neighborhood.

The shul, to be located at 9 Lehigh Boulevard, will include a nearly 3,000-square-foot bais medrash and a 2,000-square-foot multipurpose assembly area. In total, the building will span approximately 9,000 square feet and will provide 50 parking spaces.

- Gedolei yisroel call for a world wide Yom Tefillah in responde to the Gezeiras Giyus, this Thursday Yom Kippur Koton erev Rosh chodesh Elul mukdam.

- Thousands of Satmar chasidim followers of Rav Zalman Leib shlita are protesting today in Manhattan opposite the Israeli consulate in NYC against Gezeiras Giyus and desecration of graves in Yehud 

- Trump confirms he had a "good meeting" with European leaders, followed by a call with Putin, a meeting between Putin and Zelensky is being arranged, potentially followed by a trilateral with Trump.

- Trump, Zelensky, and European leaders' meeting ends after only 1 hour and 40 minutes.

- BMG full construction expansion of the Forest Ave Bais Medrash expected to br ready for coming Elul zman.

- Giyus in the US: 

The IDF is planning on asking Jewish diaspora communities to encourage Jewish youth to join the IDF due to a severe manpower shortage. estimated at 10,000–12,000 missing from the IDF’s ranks, The IDF Manpower Directorate even believes that the total potential of draft-age recruits (18-25) from large Jewish diaspora communities is over 10,000, according to Kadosh.  the IDF has initiated a dedicated campaign in recent months targeting young frum residents of foreign countries, offering them the opportunity to join the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces. The campaign, focuses on Charedi communities abroad where there has been relatively high responsiveness to recruitment so far  including: the United States, France, and South America. (Lechatchila)

- Donald Trump says that the USA will be involved in providing security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace agreement on ending Russia’s war.

- Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky gives an upbeat assessment of talks with US President Donald Trump and says they discussed security guarantees. “We had a very good conversation with President Trump, and it really was the best one  or, sorry, maybe the best one will be in the future,” Zelensky says at an expanded meeting with European leaders.

-Hurricane Erin is currently east of the Bahamas, heading north. While most forecast models don't have the season’s first hurricane making U.S. landfall, the impact of the major hurricane will unsettle conditions along the coastline, according to the National Hurricane Center.The week of Aug. 18 will not be a good time for beach goers, as dangerous rip currents are expected along most of the U.S. East Coast, including the mid-Atlantic region, according to a statement by the National Weather Service (NWS).

- Gridlock traffic this morning on Lakewood die to road closures and construction traffic was crawling on rt 88, rt 9, Cedarbridge etc..

- Trump: A big day at the White House. We have never had so many European Leaders here at one time. A great honor for America!!! Lets see what the results will be??? President DJT

- Former knesset Minister Meir Porush was asked what he has to say about the charedi failure in not passing the recruitment law and responded: "As for myself, if I stand before the Heavenly Court, I have an answer." he blamed other figures: "A public figure cannot always do everything he thinks; it has very broad implications."

- The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities took action to help Garden State ratepayers deal with the rising cost of electricity. The board formally approved $100 utility bill credits announced by Gov. Phil Murphy in June These credits will reduce bills for residents by $50 in September and $50 in October.

- Ruby shoe sale will take place this coming Sunday in Lakewood 

- Powerball jackpot $605 million drawing tonight 

- Following a four hour hearing on Friday, Pennsylvania District Court Judge Matthew Brann said he will issue a ruling later this week on whether acting New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba has the right to continue in her role.“It’s very likely that Ms. Habba is going to be the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey,” Brann said, adding his ruling would likely be appealed before the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.(onejersey)

- Trump: I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster, and yet I have to read & listen to the Wall Street Journal, and many other who truly don’t have a clue, tell me everything that I am doing wrong on the Russia/Ukraine MESS, that is Sleepy Joe Biden’s war, not mine. I’m only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further. It would have NEVER happened if I was President. I know exactly what I’m doing, and I don’t need the advice of people who have been working on all of these conflicts for years, and were never able to do a thing to stop them. They are “STUPID” people, with no common sense, intelligence, or understanding, and they only make the current R/U disaster more difficult to FIX. Despite all of my lightweight and very jealous critics, I’ll get it done — I always do!!! President DJT

-Trump: I am going to lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly “Inaccurate,” Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES, which cost Ten Times more than accurate and sophisticated Watermark Paper, which is faster, and leaves NO DOUBT, at the end of the evening, as to who WON, and who LOST, the Election. We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED. WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections. 

- Court  hearing  scheduled today  for local  youngerman who was arrested last month without due process 

At the Satmar protest today in New York City in front of the Israeli consulate