Friday September 12 News Updates Lakewood

 Friday, September 12, 2025 / י״ט אלול תשפ״ה

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Candle lighting 6:52 pm

Shkiah/Sunset 7:10pm

Weather: 77° Abundant sunshine

Shabbos day 78° Sunshine and clouds mixed

- Selichos motzei shabbos in BMG 1:00 am drasha at Bais Aaron  B"M

-Moderna, Pfizer stocks fall as Trump officials reportedly link COVID shots to child deaths

Stocks of COVID-19 vaccine makers take a dive following Washington Post report, while Moderna stresses multiple agencies have backed their safety.

- Kevias Mezzuza and Hachnosas Sifrei Torah today before shabbos at the new Belz Bais Medrash in Toms River at 6:40 pm.

- Restore New Jersey, a super PAC backed by the Republican Governors Association, is placing an initial $1 million advertising buy over the next week to boost New Jersey Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli, (onejersey)

-Alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson threatened to kill himself rather than surrender after being confronted by his dad.

-A two-vehicle crash in Toms River Ocean County left two people dead and a child hospitalized late Thursday night, authorities said. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that officers from the Toms River Township Police Department responded to the intersection of Hooper Avenue and Fischer Boulevard at approximately 8:45 p.m. on September 11 following reports of a serious collision.

- Trump  on Charlie Kirk suspected assassin: "I think, with a high degree of certainty, we have him in custody." 

Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin is 22-year-old Utah local, Tyler Robinson.reports indicating that a minister who is also in law enforcement spoke with the suspect’s father, who convinced his son to turn himself into police early on Friday.

Tyler Robinson reportedly drove over 3 hours from Orem, Utah to the Washington, Utah area, near the southwest corner of the state, where he was eventually captured.

Tyler Robinson a radical leftist "One of the shell casings read Fascist."

- Last night, Lakewood Township voted on the 2025–2026 budget, which includes an 11% property tax increase for Lakewood homeowners. During the virtual meeting, the budget was read aloud by a pre-recorded audio, and neither the mayor nor the committee members acknowledged or discussed the significant tax hike. At the conclusion of the meeting, the committee offered condolences to the mayor on the recent passing of his father.

-Admor M' Forshay will be in Lakewood/Howell on Sunday for Kabolas Kahal

- The diyun for the Heter Kehuna at the bais Havaad is set to take place this coming Sunday 1st day of Selichos

- Madaanei Zahav appetizers from Yerushalayim now available at Tapas restaurant on Erev shabbos located rt 9 Toms River

- Outrage, Shock and fury swept through the crowd as hundreds of chasidim gathered outside Prison 10, raising their voices against the continued arrests of yeshiva bochurim by the IDF. These boys whose only “crime” is their dedication to Torah are being dragged from their homes and thrown behind bars.

 14 bochurim were detained by military police at Ben Gurion Airport as they prepared to travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah, and nearly twenty are already languishing in prison cells.At the protest they declared that these precious bochurim will stand as our saneigorrim in Shamayim this Rosh Hashanah. Their sacrifice will be our merit

- The city of Passaic, NJ has passed a new rent control law that cuts the maximum annual rent increase from 6% to 3% and ends vacancy decontrol, meaning landlords can no longer raise rents to market rates when a tenant moves out. The changes are intended to prevent landlords from pushing out tenants to raise rents.

- President Trump has announced that George Soros and his entire network will be investigated under RICO charges.He claims Soros is behind the funding, training, and radicalization of young people, fueling terror and extremism.

- Asbury park,NJ residents hit with a new  $1,500 increase on their tax bills because of the increased school tax, with the average homeowner's annual total property tax bill climbing $1,537 from last year.

-Two people were stabbed in the dining hall of a hotel at Kibbutz Tzuba in the Yerushalayim Hills on Friday. A 50-year-old man sustained life-threatening injuries, while a 23-year-old man was moderately hurt. The arab terrorist  was a 42-year-old man from Shuafat who worked at the hotel. 

- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses internet conspiracy theories that Israel was behind the deadly shooting of pro-Israel conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Wednesday, telling the Newsmax outlet that the accusation is “insane.”

adding sarcastically, “Israel also changes the orbit of the moon, Israel pushes the sun.” Netanyahu calls Kirk “a great human being, a great champion of free speech, free debate, freedom.”

- Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlita paid a shiva call to his nephew Rabbi Uri Metzner on the loss of his son, Rabbi Yisrael Metzner hy"d31, who was murdered in a terrorist attack in Ramot. "Oy OY OY  we need a lot of rachamim, you have offered a sacrifice for all of  klal Israel, be strong, HKBH, chose you, happy is the one who bore you."

- A Gloucester County firm has emerged as the front-runner to become Lakewood’s Board of Education attorneys as the ongoing search to replace ousted former board counsel Michael Inzelbuch continues.App reports.

- In honor of Charlie Kirk messaging of how he powered down over shabbos and went offline several Jewish media personalities have tweeted they too will observe shabbat by staying offline from sundown Friday.