Friday, October 31, 2025 / ט׳ חשון תשפ״ו ערב שבת פרשת לך לך
Candle lighting 5:37 pm
Shkiah/sunset 5:55 pm
Weather: 58° Decreasing cloudiness and windy. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph. NWS “Gusts of 40-50 mph will blow around unsecured objects and may down tree limbs, potentially resulting in a few power outages. Wet ground and remaining foliage on trees may heighten the threat for tree damage.”
Shabbos day 60° Intervals of clouds and sunshine.
Yartzeit of Rav Shimon Shop today
Motzei shabbos Yartzeit of Rochel Imeinu
- Move back the clock Day light saving time is ending motzei shabbos when we fall back to Standard Time from Daylight Saving
- A federal judge in Rhode Island has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to continue funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) using its contingency reserves.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on the challenges travelers, and Air Traffic Controllers, are all facing as the government shutdown continues - "If you're delayed, if you're cancelled... call Chuck Schumer."
- The New Jersey Department of Health announced that, based on current spending patterns, funding for WIC benefits and services will continue without interruption through November 2025.
- Long lines at the polls today with people taking advantage of erev shabbos to go vote
- MDY live daf yomi shiur this Sunday in Lakewood with R Eli Stefansky at the Beru hall 9:00 pm
- Sunday Yarchei kallah event for Talmidim of Rav Nissan Kaplan at Bell works
-Election Rally Weekend in Lakewood:
Two major political events are planned in Lakewood this Sunday as campaigns make their final push before Election Day.
At 1:00 p.m., Turning Point USA, the Charlie Kirk foundation, will hold a “Get Out the Vote” rally at Ocean County Park.
At 3:00 p.m., Jack Ciattarelli will headline a rally in downtown Lakewood at Clifton Avenue and 3rd Street (Town Square), joined by New York Congressman Mike Lawler, marking the final day of early voting.
- In the final stretch before Election Day, Lakewood residents are being flooded with campaign mailers and political messaging as both state and local races heat up. One postcard from the Jack Ciattarelli campaign featured an image of a $1,700 check, promoting his promise to opt into the Trump tuition tax credit a benefit he says voters would receive only if he’s elected, noting that Rep. Mikie Sherrill opposes the measure.
Meanwhile, in Toms River, tensions rose after an antisemitic mailer was circulated. The flyer drew swift condemnation from candidates in that local race, who denounced the message as hateful and unacceptable.
Robo calls begin Motzei shabbos
- Six separate polls were released on Thursday, giving Democrat Mikie Sherrill an average lead of 6% in her race against Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the close New Jersey governor’s race.
- Gas prices jump back up by 15 cents now over $3 a gallon
- Keep in mind it is Holoween weekend trick or treaters may come to your door for nosh
- Instacart said today Friday it will offer SNAP beneficiaries 50% off their next grocery order as the government prepares to cut off food aid payments.Any customer who placed an order in October using a SNAP/EBT card will be eligible for the discount, which will be available even if the government makes the payments as planned on Nov. 1, the company said
- Eruv campaign launched alerting lakewood residents that one may not carry by crossing Rt 9. After An Official eruv has been constructed in south Lakewood near Oak n Vine that goes over route 9 something that the Roshei Yeshiva have never allowed before in Lakewood several Chasidishe rabbonim have signed a letter approving of this new eruv
-Fox News host Sean Hannity held a town hall last night in Point Pleasant, NJ with Jack Ciattarelli. They criticized New Jersey's high taxes, cost of living, and the state's fiscal stability. Ciattarelli pledged to rescind the state's immigrant Trust Directive sanctuary cities and end "cashless bail" if elected
- The Trump administration has reportedly authorized strikes on Venezuelan military sites, with the attacks expected to begin at any time. - Miami Herald
-Howell: A QuickChek convenience store and fuel station will take the place of an old bank branch at the corner of Route 9 and Strickland Road. right across from the 7-11 The township's Zoning Board approved the application this week Another QuickChek is on the northbound side of Route 9 south of the Interstate 195 interchange.(APP)
- With SNAP benefits expecting to run out due to the govt shutdown In an announcement yesterday late in the afternoon Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin, Gov. Phil Murphy and Senate President Nick Scutari said they would be “accelerating the delivery of food and hunger grants” to food banks throughout the state.
- Giyus: The military’s top lawyer, Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, who commanded the arrest operation against yeshiva bochurim studying Torah as well as against IDF soldiers in a vile false accusation is being dismissed from her position in disgrace a few hours after the Atzeres rally as a criminal probe was launched after she had approved the leaking of a surveillance video from the Sde Teiman detention facility, which purported to show soldiers severely abusing a Hamas terrorist
- The United tates to restart Nuclear Testing in Atlantic City,NJ after Trump orders dept of war to keep up competition with other countries
- More photos of the Atzeres yesterday in Yerushalayim HERE
- Trump: As I have said for years, OBAMACARE IS A DISASTER! Rates are going through the roof for really bad healthcare!!! Do something Democrats!!!
- Nathan Slifkin goes on the attack following yesterdays Atzeres : How many people have the charedi leadership killed so far, by projecting an attitude that the laws of science are irrelevant, Hashem looks after them, and rules are for goyim? Let's see - there's the 45 dead in Meron, God knows how many from reckless driving, and now one teenager dead and another in serious condition after hundreds of charedim irresponsibly climbed cranes and buildings under construction. It's a microcosm of the catastrophe that charedi society will cause to Israel as a whole, with their approach that even as they become a third of the population they don't need to help with national defense or contribute to the economy.
- In an interview with TVOL Jack ciatterelli says about Plastic Bags: He would bring them back “on day one.”
He opposes allowing customers to pump their own gas.
He promises to fight antisemitism aggressively by appointing state leaders familiar with Jewish community needs, creating an Advisory Council on Jewish Affairs
Lakewood & School Funding:
He plans to overhaul the funding formula so money follows the student, reduce state control over high-performing districts, and expand school choice and charter options. in a interview with TVOL Jack ciatterelli says about Plastic Bags: He would bring
- Giyus: Rabbi Moshe Tzadka shlita, leading Sephardi rosh yeshiva, has issued an updated draft of resolutions following the atzeres, adopting a tougher tone: there will be no compromises or quotas for drafting chareidim, nor will frum boys not currently in yeshiva be drafted.
- Update: Contrary to earlier reports, The Brisk R"Y R Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitcik did actually participate in the Atzeres against giyus yesterday and skipped his daily shiur in order to go with the bnei yeshivah to the rally.
Waist length flowing locks obscure the decolletage are a mitzvah haba baveira.
ReplyDeleteWhy give the koifer slifkin any air time. Nobody remembers he exists. Why remind.
ReplyDeleteWell put.& he keeps regurgitating the same vapid barks over & over.
DeleteLet's not forget which American 'gedolim' refused to remove their approbation on his books, even after the kefira within was publicized.
DeleteWhat you probably meant to point out was that there are gedolim who do not consider what he wrote to be kefira.
DeleteHe actually wrote a lot of excellent, well-researched books. The one about his view of the evolution of species was questionable, even though the views he cited were not his own but mainly of Rishonim, and there was disagreement among great talmidei chachamim as to whether it was a problematic to publicize it today. Everyone just keeps repeating what they heard from the next guy in the coffee room, uncapable of doing their own research
DeleteAnother Johnny-come-lately
DeleteHe & his publications were rather lightweight ,but that's ancient stuff anyway.
Since that bygone period he has been a pathetic jerk & loser milking his minor episode to turn himself to an anti- frum hero.He uses any & every issue of all & sundry that has no connection issue to oppose those more orthodox than him.Anybody who can cogently debate with him he has either blocked or whines adolescently how he was abused by the ban. As if other who are adults haven't suffered way more,but move onward.
It gave the windbag a career.
As R A Feldman (his defender back in the beginning) stated about him: Slifky wasn't necessarily an apikorus because of his stuff then,but he sure proved himself over & over an apikorus for everything since
well put nb
DeleteA PC knee-jerk Peter Pan
Please be maavir sedra before leining so I can hear the balkora instead of you
ReplyDeleteOnce again, the Vaad and its affiliates are urging everyone to vote “to show Lakewood’s strength.” But after all these years, we have to ask whose strength?
ReplyDeleteThe Vaad has turned the bloc vote into a tool for power, not representation. State money and grants keep flowing to Lakewood, yet the average taxpayer sees nothing but higher bills and overcrowded streets. Meanwhile, insiders and their cronies benefit from pet projects and security funds and grants while real community needs go ignored.
Until there’s a legitimate Vaad, chosen through fair and transparent elections al pi Shulchan Aruch, talk of a “strong vote” is just another way to prop up a corrupt system. Lakewood’s true strength will come only when its people take back their voice.
If Scnall loses it will be obvious the Vaad has no power.
DeleteHe's not loosing he wants to win with big margins to justify his camlaign promise of free tuition that never happened. If he gets alot if votes he will say to his critics HaHah
DeleteGantz Klal Yisroel participated (except for the peleg, as usual...) Such achdus! If nothing else is accomplished, the entire Atzeres was worth it just for the feelings of achdus that it generated. At the end of the day, we know we can count on each other in emergencies. (Except for the peleg of course)
ReplyDeleteNot really achdus, there were no speeches allowed because they could not agree on what should be said, they all disagree on how to go about the new law. Then who's going to be in charge and where are they going to sit, so they couldn't sit together either there was no Central dais every rebbe say on his own. What beautiful achdus
DeleteMr Slifkin. Where you in the Army?
ReplyDeleteA bochur commited suicide, unfortunatly he wanted to go noticed, so he used the opertunity.
As for the cranes, there were speaches, except telling people not to climb cranes & go on rooftops. Also those who didn't listen should not come down themselves, fire department will come up to get them down.
Everyone at the ralley was moicheh, yet out of nearly a million possibly a hundred or so, where up there.
Is the glass full or empty are you so farbissen?
you know in every society there is an element who doesn't listen, that doesn't make them the whole society.
Like the Russian collusion hoax, a network of self-appointed councils and organizations suddenly emerges every election season, all unanimously endorsing Ciattarelli and proclaiming “unprecedented achdus.” It’s a coordinated PR stunt first flooding the media with stories about Lakewood’s unity, then launching a campaign claiming that “the eyes of the nation are on us” to pressure everyone to vote. In reality, it’s all about keeping the political connections and funding pipelines open for those already in power, while the average resident gains nothing.
ReplyDeleteDon’t be fooled , always follow the money. Look at how much they’ve sunk into Schnall’s re-election campaign, plastering every visible space with his picture on that yellow background even the front and back covers of magazines and newspapers, WhatsApp statuses, billboards, and websites. They’re not doing this for nothing.
ReplyDeleteThey want to show Trenton how many votes they can control, and once their man Schnall wins, he’ll deliver the goods to his handlers. The governor’s race doesn’t matter much to them this is about demonstrating how much political power they can wield.
Meanwhile, the community is being used again so the powerful can keep securing more benefits and laxed regulations for their industries more grants for pet projects, more diverted resources all taken from the rightful recipients: the Lakewood taxpayers.
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DeleteWhich acidic rabbis approved carrying across route 9?
ReplyDeleteWho pays for all the advertising? It should be public knowledge. There seems to be plenty of money available for this cause and there was no collection/Raise-it campaign.
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