Thursday Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan News Updates

 Weather: 62° sunshine and clouds mixed

Frost advisory in effect from 2am to 9am Friday Temperatures as low as 34 will result in frost formation.

חדש עלינו את החודש הזה לטובה ולברכה לששון ולשמחה לישועה ונחמה לפרנסה ולכלכלה לחיים טובים ולשלום

1 Cheshvan: Yartzeit of R'Yisrael Shapira ZTL, the Bluzhover Rebbe

- Major airports issue ground stops due to air traffic controller staffing shortages amid government shutdown

- Trump  terminates all trade negotiations with  Canada:

"The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT"

- Andrew Cuomo's odds of winning the New York City mayoral race fail to budge on Polymarket after Mayor Eric Adams made his official endorsement for Cuomo.    

 Socialist Zohran Mamdani currently has a 92% chance of winning the upcoming election.  

- Mishpacha White House reporter Jake Turx asks Press Sec. Karoline Leavitt if Trump plans to build the Bais Hamikdash" being that Trump is the greatest builder of our time has the subject of rebuilding the holy temple in Jerusalem come up"  she responded that it has not. 

-Sen Chuck Grassley: Just received this doc from DOJ Proof that Biden Atty General Merrick Garland+ Deputy Atty General Lisa Monaco+ FBI Dir Chris Wray all PERSONALLY APPROVED opening Arctic Frost This investigation unleashed unchecked govt power at the highest levels

- Two B-1 bombers of the US military flew today in the international airspace near the border with Venezuela as part of an effort to increase pressure on the Maduro regime. Last week, a similar show of force was conducted—with B-52 bombers and F-35 aircraft

- Winter zman begins today in BMG with chavrus tumul the yeshiva will be learning maseches Gittin.

- Senate blocks Republican bill to pay federal workers during shutdown, with only 3 Democrats voting yes

-  Lakewood Elections: Faa news reports assemblymanAvi  Schnall voted yes for Pride month this past June 2025 after abstaining in 2004.  In 2024 when the NJ Legislature voted to make June LGBTQIA Pride Month, Schnall did "not vote" on the bill. When Schnall  on the Library Bill,  famously said that “Daas Torah advised him that abstaining is the same as voting no.” In 2025, the NJ legislature again voted on making June 2025 “Pride Month.” This time Schnall voted yes, according to the NJ Legislature voting tally. More Faanews

-N.J. turnout at 7% with almost 425,000 ballots cast  New Jersey voters have returned 424,234 mail-in ballots as of Thursday morning, according to a VoteHub analysis of county-level data  an increase of 19,899 ballots since October 22.(NJGlobe)

- TRUMP will make an “announcement” in the White House State Dining Room at 3PM today

-Schools begin to give interviews for parents who applied for primary next year  acceptance letters already going out

- The latest Fairleigh Dickinson University poll shows that Mikie Sherrill holds a seven-point lead over Jack Ciattarelli, with just 3% of voters saying they’re still undecided.

- The massive Atzeres tefillah protest scheduled for Sunday in EY has been postponed for later in the  week.

-Republicans are driving voter registration across New Jersey and particularly in Monmouth and Ocean counties, according to state election data. There were about 1.7 million registered Republicans in New Jersey as of Oct. 1, a 17% increase since 2020 and a nearly 40% increase since October 2016.

- Lakewood township committee meeting today 5:30 pm watch livestream Here 

 see agenda Here 

 On the agenda

Appropriating $5,790,000 Bond for various Capital omprovements and the acquisition of Vehicles And Equipment, 

-A 5 year tax abatement for 512 Chestnut llc

- overpayment of taxes totaling $114,935.75 to be refunded to various property owners 

-Lakewood township has been awarded a legislative grant from the State of New Jersey in the amount of $8 million.to support public health and safety. 

-A flashing light beacon will be installed at the intersection of Route 9 and Ford Avenue/Finchley Boulevard in front of presidential estates

-Appointment of CFO John E. Barrett for a 4 year term

-Appointment of Danielle Peacock, as Tax Collector, for a four-year term 

Public comments during the meeting can be sent via email to  comments@lakewoodnj.gov

-Article on the four bochurim Z"L The atmosphere at four consecutive levayos in Lakewood on Sunday was a mixture of agony and shock. A stunned tzibbur gathered in the Lakewood High School gym, at nearby Sons of Israel chapel, and at Kamenetz of Lakewood to pay kavod a:charon to four young men, snatched from their families’ embrace in the prime of their lives. Listeners clutched tissues, many rocking back and forth in their chairs in mourning. More

Nichum Aveilim

Shiva for Miss Leah Gitty Ruvel A"H is at 27 Kingsfield dr  in Westgate Shachris 8am, Mincha 1:45pm, Maariv 7pm. getting up Tuesday am

Shiva for Habachur Shlomo Abba Cohen z”l is at 31 Ponderosa Pine River Lakewood Shachris 8am Mincha 1:45 pm Maariv 9 pm  getting up Motzei shabbos

Shiva for Habachur Chaim Simcha Grossman Z"L will be in Lakewood until wednesday noon at 74 Tova Drive shachris 8 am Mincha 1:45 pm, Maariv 8:45 pm Thurs and Friday in South Fallsburg at 24 Estate drive 

getting up Friday before shabbos

Shiva for Habachur Yaakov Kilberg Z"L is at 120 Hearth Ct E Lakewood. Shachris 8am, Mincha 1:45 pm, Maariv 8:30 pm getting up Friday before shabbos

Shiva for  Habachur Aharon Nosson Lebovits Z"L is at  132 Spruce street Lakewood 

Shachris 8am, Mincha 1:45pm, Maariv 9pm

getting up Friday before shabbos

- Agudah NJ director interview In Lakewood Jack ciatterelli has strong Orthodox Jewish support… but again, he must have turnout. Only 12,000 voters in Lakewood came out to pull the lever for him four years ago. “He needs triple that, or get at least 30,000 this time around,” Schorr says.

- New Jersey voters have returned 404,335 vote-by-mail ballots, according to an analysis by VoteHub. Of those ballots, 254,088 (62.8%) are from registered Democrats, 88,396 (21.9%) from registered Republicans, and 61,851 (15.3%) from unaffiliated or third-party voters.

Ocean: county 62,609 mailed, 28,249 returned (45.1%); 46.0% Democratic, 37.9% Republican. Democratic return rate 52.8%, Republican 46.4%. (Njglobe)

- NJ Drone mystery continues the ny Post reported that an unnamed private company had taken credit for the bizarre phenomenon.But the company, identified by NJ Advance Media as an aerospace company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, denies any role in the sightings and says it has never flown its aircraft over New Jersey.

- Giyus: Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlita remarked to the arresting of yeshiva bochurim “This is a matzav that we never in the world imagined would happen, that it would come to such a matzav. Rishus and cruelty! And the ones who committed ‘crimes’? Their crime was simply learning Torah. Have you ever heard of such a thing?!”“It would be fitting for every one of us to cry day and night over this. The Shechina Hakedosha is surely in tremendous pain.” “But bezras Hashem, they will not succeed. We have a hidden koach the heart of a Yid will never give up on Yahadus. The Torah Hakedosha is our lives. Ki Heim Chayeinu viorech yameinu “We will not concede! We will publicize this throughout Israel and abroad. We’re calling out to our brothers abroad—do not be silent. You should know that this tzarah will reach you also. Don’t think that you’ll be exempt.”

-The Lakewood Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ) has seen a  surge in business participation, with 294 new businesses joining the Lakewood UEZ since August 2024 a 177% increase over the previous year’s new member count.

-Mayor Eric Adams will endorse former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for mayor, in hopes of slowing the momentum of Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee.

- In a press conference attended by FBI Director Kash Patel, New York DA says a widespread sports gambling investigation uncovered "one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States."