Wednesday August 13 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: 90° Partial cloudiness early, with scattered showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon. Chance of rain 50%.

There is a marginal risk of severe weather today.

- Jack Ciattarelli:  Electric prices in New Jersey are through the roof  and my opponent fully backs the failed radical energy agenda that’s driving them up.

As Governor, I’ll scrap the unrealistic energy master plan and failed wind farms off the Jersey Shore, increase natural gas generation, expand nuclear power, and deliver common-sense solutions for cheaper, reliable energy.

It’s time to make New Jersey affordable again.

- Rav Shmuel Eliezer Stern shlita from the great Chasidishe poskim spoke at the nightly protest in front of prison 10 "We survived the Holocaust in which 6 million Jews were slaughtered, we arrived here, and here our errant brothers, who have sunk to the depths, compete among themselves over who can stab more knives into the Torah-observant Jews in eretz Yisrael We overcame the Holocaust, we will overcome them too.

- Trump: There will be severe consequences if Putin does not agree to stop the war after the meeting on Friday

-Giyus: Rosh Yeshivas Slonim Yeshiva, Rabbi Mordechai Berezovsky, at the emergency gathering of talmidim "From this gathering, a proclamation goes forth to the nation and the world, we are loyal to Hashem and His Torah, and we are ready to joyfully pay any price for this loyalty." 

- Bike4chai underway today team Lakewood that has 47 riders raises $2,470,851.89 out of a $2.5 million goal from 3068 donor

- Satmar planning large protest next week in Manhattan opposite Israeli consulate regarding gezeiras giyus and desecration of kevarim in Yehud. The rebbe Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum is expected to participate.

- GOP gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli visited the Kosel today, as his trip to Israel continues ahead of the November election.

- Giyus: The Slonimer rebbe shlita gathered his chasidim for a fiery speech to thousands of yeshiva bochurim and kollel yungeleit at an emergency gathering in response to the looming draft decree and the recent wave of arrests targeting bnei yeshivos. “They can imprison us, impose sanctions, and cause us suffering,” the Rebbe said, “but when we know that these blows have brought us closer to our Father in Heaven, when we merit to be His beloved, that is the truest happiness in life. And compared to that privilege, what are all the threats worth?”

- BDE: Rachel Aliza Nisanov a"h, 13, daughter of Queens rabbi Shlomo Nisanov, was tragically killed Tuesday afternoon in a jetski accident in Florida, Her sister, 16 year old Aviva Bracha Nisanov, remains in critical condition. The sisters are students at Bnos Malka in Queens.

- Petirah of Mr. Bob kirschner obm of Lakewood was deeply interwoven with the town of Lakewood, N.J., where he was born. his grandfather was the personal driver of Rav Aharon Kotler ztl Bob was instrumental in designing and rehabbing the Sheldon Wolpin Lakewood Historical Museum, which opened in 2012. He also donated multiple items to the collection of memorabilia telling Lakewood’s history. Bob also assisted his wife Fran with her career in public relations at Frantasy Enterprises, . Together, Bob and Fran dedicated over 70 years to education and public service. Levaya today at sons of Israel 11:am 

- Trump tells Zelensky and European leaders that conceding Ukranian territory will be necessary — Axios

- Trump: Very unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, “Putin has already won.” What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught. Look at all of the real news that’s coming out about their CORRUPTION. They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country. But it doesn’t matter because we are winning on everything!!! MAGA

- Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist NYC assemblyman, leads the 2025 mayoral race with 82% odds on Polymarket 

- U.S. places secret tracking devices in AI chip shipments to detect illegal diversions to China and other destinations under U.S. export restrictions — Reuters

- Trump: Just out, irrefutable proof that Adam Shifty Schiff “APPROVED PLAN TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO DAMAGE DONALD TRUMP.”

- From the Tisha Bav shmuz of Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen shlita in Lakewood:

It’s creeping in men darf aroisreisen di goyishkeit.

We see it in the sports leagues, where boys talk about who was the star player instead of the star gadol. Little kids are playing against each other in uniforms  we’ve become like the goyim.

We see it when ladies jog around the lake not dressed tzniusdig a Yiddishe mamme must look like a Yiddishe mamme. Yidden don’t look like Yidden anymore.

And we see it in the extended kiddushim on Shabbos, lasting over an hour and a half, where people drink, come home half-drunk, close their eyes, and sing hisoirerus niggunim. That is the yetzer hara, ruining the holiest day of the week with these social kiddushim. Listen here 

          Tzedek delegation in Washington DC