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- Trump says Venezuela will be turning over "30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil to the United States of America," sold at market price with the money controlled by Trump.
- Giyus: At the Atzeres in Yerushalayim, the Rosh Yeshiva of Porat Yosef, HaGaon Rav Moshe Tzadaka, called out: “Do teshuvah. Instead of proclaiming that everyone must go to the army, proclaim that everyone must go to the yeshivos you are corrupting the Am Yisrael.”
- New Jersey saw significant crime reductions in 2025, with 559 gunshot victims a 28% drop from 2024 and the lowest since tracking began in 2009, Gov. Murphy announced. Fatal shootings fell 31% to 107, and motor vehicle thefts declined 9% statewide, according to NJ State Police data.
- B"H The R"Y Rav Reuven Feinstein shlita has come home after hebwas hospitalized .
- U.S. President Donald J. Trump and his team are discussing a range of options - including potential military force - to acquire Greenland, clearly stating that the territory is a “National Security Priority” of the United States, the White House said in a statement to Reuters.
- European leaders from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on January 6, strongly reaffirming Greenland's sovereignty and the collective nature of Arctic security within NATO.
- Dow closes above 49,000 points for the first time ever, S&P 500 also closes at record high.
-Levaya for Habachur Yosef Eisenthal ZL will take place tomorrow 10:30am at Yeshivas Ohel Torah - Ponovezh in Ramot 4.
- Name of the bochur is Yosef Eisenthal ZL 14, from the Ramot neighborhood of Yerushalayim he was learning in yeshiva Ohel Torah.
Tehillim:
Update a 14 year old bochur was killed R"L
Several people were critically injured after a bus driven by a arab ran over pedestrians following the Atzeres on Yirmiyahu/Bar Ilan streets. Police are investigating if thos was intentional spokesman says initial assessment this was not a terror attack. The driver was arrested.
- A editorial in Israeli Yated Ne’eman exposes a deep split in the chareidi community over the IDF draft law, criticizing Agudas Yisroel and defending the legislation as necessary to protect full-time lomdei Torah. Chassidic newspapers oppose the law, while Yated warns that arrests could push youth to enlist, highlighting a waning of Litvishe authority and growing communal divisions.
- BDE: Petira of Rav Avrohom Shmuel Schindler, Z”L, of Lakewood (Chestnut area) / Crown Heights, at the age of 90. A talmid of Rav Hutner, ZT”L, he served as a rebbe at the Yeshiva on Eastern Parkway and later as menahel of Yeshiva Ohr hameirof New Rochelle now peekskill. Levaya today in Lakewood, at the chapel off 7th St, 2:00 PM followed by Kevura at the Lakewood bais Olam
- Giyus: Large atzeres protest today in yerushalayim against the draft law the stage is set up on Rechov Yirmiyahu Aperion intersection near Tzefanya street. 50,000 are expected including factions of the sefardi yeshivos the Eidah hacharedis The Bnei Torah faction and mashpim Rav Meilich Biderman Rav Yaakov Meir Shechter Rav Tzvi Meir Zilbererg and other Admorim.
- Giyus: Following reports claiming that Chacham Moshe Tzadaka does not fully oppose the draft law, his students asked him directly. He reacted with shock and strongly denied it, calling the reports a complete lie and condemning whoever spread them.
To hear coverage of protest in Yerushalayim Kol Zaaka 605-313-6884 (Yiddish)
- In response to the rise of LLC-owned single-family homes in New Jersey, an Assembly committee advanced a bill by Assemblyman Alex Sauickie to increase transparency in deed recordings and help municipalities hold owners accountable. The bill would require LLCs owning rental residential properties to disclose their registered agent when recording a deed.
- Lakewood Township Planning Board reorganization meeting tonight appointing Raymond Coles, Yechiel Herzel, Justin Flancbaum, Albert Akerman, Hector Fuentes, Moshe Neiman, David Hehmeich (Alt 1), Moshe Luwish (Alt 2). Terms range from 1–4 years. watch livestream Here 6pm
- Today at 4:30 PM begins the period of Tekufas Teves. Halachic sources note that during the tekufos especially Teves there is concern for danger in exposed food and water. The Shulchan Aruch (Yoreh De’ah 139:8) mentions that water at the onset of a tekufah can be harmful, and the Rema adds that placing iron over the food or in the water can remove the danger. Accordingly, in Sanz Chassidus it was customary to cover all food and drinks and place a sheet of iron on top.
- Hilton is removing a franchised Minneapolis-area hotel from using its brand after it barred immigration agents and falsely claimed it had reversed the policy. The move followed backlash after Homeland Security released an email showing the hotel canceled agents’ reservations ahead of an enforcement operation.
- Edge conference of ABA executives taking place today at the Meadowlands convention center in New Jersey
- Gedolei HaTorah in America convened in Lakewood on a grave matter of the Serious dangers inherent in “artificial intelligence,” which has already penetrated the kosher phones used by the chareidi public in the United States, and it has already caused many casualties R"L.
At the conclusion, it was decided to proclaim a Yom taanis and tefillah to arouse parents of bochurim and seminary students to distance themselves from the use of AI-related phone technology, which involves severe issurei Torah and poses a serious danger of addiction and dependency. Among those participating were Rav Eliyahu Ber Wachtfogel, Rav Malkiel Kotler, Rav Yerucham Olshin, Rav Dovid Shustal, Rav Yitzchok Sorotzkin, and the Admorim of Rachmastrivka, Skulen, and others.
- Trump: We’re getting rich because of tariffs, by the way. I hope everyone understands that. They HATE to report it.""We're going to have over $650 billion poured into our country or coming in shortly because of tariffs.”
- Sixteen homeless residents staying at a Toms River motel were told Jan. 5 that funding for their housing has been extended through Jan. 31, with Ocean County covering the costs, according to Monarch Housing Associates.
- The Moetzes of Agudas Yisrael in EY will convene to decide whether it will support Bismuth’s draft exemption law. Expected to attend are the Admorim of Gur, Vizhnitz, Sanz, Boyan, Seret-Vizhnitz, and Modzitz.
From Belz it was reported that the Admor wishes to attend.
Rav Moshe Tzadka
Video: Atzeres in Yerushalayim today on Gezeiras Giyus
Biala Rebbe from EY visits Rav Malkiel Kotler in Lakewood
Asifa about AI on phones. (Credit to the photographer)
Pray all you want. No way to get rid of AI. Filtering and banning etc only worked for so long. An entirely different approach is now necessary.
ReplyDeleteBH there are solutions. Safecell already has phones with AI blocked and constantly updated by TAG. From what I hear, Safecell is very involved in helping to find solutions (as they have been in the past with technology issues). They are very much on top of these things (they may have even been at this meeting).
DeleteContrary to the hype AI is not a new entity but rather a Improvement on the existing technology at some point the old technology will no longer be available same thing like broadband and one way or another everything will be AI or it's next iteration SI. It is rather shortsighted to just try to ban every new step of the inevitable March
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DeleteHere's the problem. Any kid can go to walmart, buy a used laptop for $100, go to the library or any other place with free WIFI, and download an ocean of inappropriate materials. TAG cannot change human behavior.
As long as we insist that Bochurim must delay marriage past what biology and the Shulchan Aruch dictates, we are guaranteeing that a large percentage of Bochurim will become addicts. It's that simple.
2:15 - Even if they can only push it off a few years, is it not worth it?
Delete2:22 - yes, people can do whatever they want. But there is still value in helping those who don't want to do aveiros to keep away.
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DeleteLet's say that there is a company which sets up shop in Lakewood and starts advertising and selling motorcycle helmets for Bochurim. I think most people wouldn't be OK with it.
The reason people wouldn't be OK with it is that people shouldn't be on motorcycles in the first place, and by selling motorcycle helmets you are a) implying that motorcycles are safe and b) that helmets offer sufficient protection, when they don't.
When you push filters on Bochurim who should be married, you are a) implying that being single is safe and b) that filters offer sufficient protection, when they don't.
Pushing filters, like pushing motorcycle helmets, offers a false sense of security.
Many kids discover access to shmutz at a much younger age than even you would want them to be married. And marriage is absolutely not a cure or prevention.
DeleteI would want them to get married young enough that those situations could be avoided. Marriage doesn't guarantee anything. But it is the most important protection.
DeleteTwo weeks late and counting . .
ReplyDeleteWouldn't AI be less dangerous than regular Internet, if anything? Major AI platforms won't generate explicit content, so what exactly is the issue? It seems a bit like Ger selling a GPS device with a special hechsher or the people smashing up Rav Kav stations at shuls in Israel purely because they have screens.
ReplyDeleteThey can call a live phone chat on AI and have a full relationship with a AI robot.
Deleteanyone fighting the Zionists has a tremendous zchus, its the ultimate mitzva to fight zera Amalek, I wish I had this zchus.
ReplyDeleteYou are quite literally a Rodef!
DeleteThe anti-Zionists used to accuse the the Zionists of being chasud on retzicha. Now the anti-Zionists boast about how retzicha is an aspiration of theirs. R’L But then they whine about why they hate us.
DeleteIs this guy an Arab who comes onto this site to spew shtussim like that?
DeleteReally? You wish you were dead from an incident of blocking a bus at a hafgana? Are you for real?
AI is replacing the Rabbonim that's why they r getting so nervous
ReplyDeleteAI is not replacing the Rabbonim. Rabbonim are not getting nervous
DeleteRabbonim are rightfully concered because AI is a serious problem affecting our pure youth.
AI is replacing doctors, therapists, and inane internet commenters too.
DeleteBut Rabbanim's job is for the intellectually advanced, and those people will always be able to tell the difference between AI and real intelligence.
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ReplyDeleteTariffs on foreign goods are paid by the American receivers of those goods. The tariff money comes from inside your country, not from outside it. (A tariff is essentially a tax.) Trump's statement is nonsense.
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