Sunday January 4 News Updates Lakewood

)Weather: 36° Sunshine and clouds mixed. 

Tonight Northwestern counties have the best chance at seeing up to a half-inch of snow. The southern half of the state is likely to remain dry.

Temperatures are forecast to warm up throughout the week hitting close to 60° for Shabbos along the Jersey shore.

- Trump has again threatened Iran tonight with strikes if protesters are killed in the streets.

According to a report, Khamenei has already prepared an escape plan to Moscow with twenty high-ranking regime officials in case of a coup d'état.

- Israel’s security cabinet has approved a new military operation against Iran, reportedly dubbed “Operation Iron Strike.” Timing and specific targets remain undisclosed

- Over the past few hours, U.S. President Trump has made threatening remarks directed at Cuba, Iran, Mexico, Colombia, Greenland (EU), and India

- President Trump sent a strong warning to the government of Colombia “Colombia is very sick too, run by a SICK man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the U.S.”

“He’s not going to be doing it very long.”

“There will be an operation by the US and it sounds good to me!”

- Satmar Rebbe Rav Aaron Teitelbaum will depar tomorrow for Palm Springs, California, where he will spend the winter. He is expected to return on Thursday of Parshas Beshalach.

- Giyus: A kabbalas panim was held today in Bnei Brak to welcome two yeshiva students who were released from IDF prison after being jailed for draft evasion. Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch and Rav Dov Landau attended the event to personally greet the bochurim.

Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch said the release of the two yeshiva bochurim was a moment of joy, but stressed that entering the army inevitably harms spirituality and is therefore forbidden. He argued it is wrong to demand spiritual sacrifice, as some claim the charedim should give up a little on ruchniyus.The only reason the Medina is surviving is because Torah study sustains the State of Israel, and said chareidi Jews must firmly oppose military service.

- NYT: Iran’s leadership is in crisis, struggling to handle protests without force, while internal leaks reveal President Pezeshkian blaming Supreme Leader Khamenei, exposing deep divisions at the top

- Tefillos for Rav Dovid Magid shlita previoisly R"Y of Bayone yeshiva who is in need od rachmei shamayim after suffering a medical episode motzei shabbos. Name is Elchonon Dovid Aryeh Leib ben Ita Faiga

- Shop Rite Can Can sale this week through Jan 10

- United Refuah HealthShare is closing February 1st enrollment on Monday

- Rav Shimon Galei shlita isbin Lakewood and the Tri‑State area  this week and will be spending Shabbos with supporters at a hotel in New Jersey.

- Mikie Sherril: I’ve heard from so many New Jerseyans how rising costs are keeping them up at night, so I am on a mission to deliver a more affordable NJ... If there’s something you want me to know about how government can better serve you, fill out our transition survey at http://NJ.Gov/GovElect

- As the mesivta admissions season approaches, and with out-of-town schools having already begun, schools and rebbeim seek to avoid the difficulties experienced in previous years.

All parents, mesivtas, menahelim, and rebbeim are asked to adhere to the following agreed-upon guidelines:

Parents should not request applications before January 15

• Mesivtas should not send applications before January 18

• Fathers begin February 4 at 9:00 AM

• Each   father should be given 10–15 minutes

• Menahelim and rebbeim should be available throughout the process

There are 80 in town mesivtas in the Lakewood area with about 35 located out of town 

- Rabbi Reuven Feinstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Staten Island, shares memories of growing up in the Bronx, facing antisemitism, and learning emunah and dignity. He reflects on his father, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein zt”l, and a home of Torah, humility, and love. Watch Here

Please daven for Sholom Reuven ben Shima

- Today is the Yartzeit of Rav Nosson Nuta Netkin ZTL was a 19th-century meshulach from Yerushalayim and the son-in-law of Rav Yosef Zundel Salant. Known as a great baal middos and for his distinguished yichus, he traveled to America on shlichus to raise funds for the yishuv hayoshon in Eretz Yisrael. He was niftar in New York in 1891 during his shlichus and is buried in Union Field Cemetery. His kever is regarded as a makom tefillah to this day with senior Ameeican Roshei Yeshiva who davened there. 

- Representatives from CHEMED Health Center in Lakewood recently visited frum hospitals in Eretz Yisrael, including a five-hour tour of Laniado Hospital in Netanya and a meeting at the home of the Sanzer Rebbe. The visit was featured in an article in Ami magazine. There has been some discussion about opening a hospital in Lakewood, but no details or timelines have been announced.

- Giyus: Today there was a huge enlistment of Charedim into the IDF About 350-400 Charedim enlisted into charedi frameworks. Most of them into combat roles! (Chashmonaim, Netzach Yehuda, Paratroopers, MAGAV and more).

This is still not meeting the targets of about 470

- New Jersey had the highest outbound migration for the eighth straight year, with 62% of moves leaving the state. While young professionals and families are moving in, older residents and retirees are leaving due to lifestyle changes and high living costs. Similar trends are seen in New York and California, with 58% outbound rates

- U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee condemned New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for criticizing a U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, accusing Mamdani of siding with a drug trafficker and mocking him for showing solidarity with Maduro.

- Giyus: Rav Yitzhak Yosef shlita  former chief Rabbi said  last night: "I have a grandson who received a draft order, he tore it up, put it in the toilet just as I told him, I told him not to leave the yeshiva, not to get home so they wouldn't arrest him."

- Giyus: Shas party threatens to oppose 2026 budget unless coalition passes the Giyus Charedi draft exemption bill

- New Jersey will eliminate more than $86 million in medical debt for over 53,000 residents under the Murphy administration’s sixth round of medical debt relief, Governor Phil Murphy announced. The effort is part of the state’s partnership with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that purchases outstanding medical bills and abolishes them instead of collecting payment

- Marco Rubio calls Maduro’s capture a strike against foreign meddling in Venezuela, says U.S. aims to block rivals from fueling instability, not take oil, and signals tougher pressure on Cuba.”

- Venezuela  Delcy Rodríguez became interim president and condemned the raid as illegal, calling it a “Zionist tint,” while Trump suggested the U.S. might temporarily “run” Venezuela.

Trump said U.S. troops won’t stay in Venezuela if VP Delcy Rodríguez “does what we want” after a U.S. raid captured Maduro.

- Rav Dov Lando today in Bnei Brak explains why they are hopeful in the draft law: We are making a very strong effort, through the representatives (in the Knesset), so that God forbid yeshiva students will not stop their Torah study without exception

Letter for a efficient esivta Farher system

Mr. Elliot Shem Tov launches campaign for Mayor of Jackson.