Friday April 24 News Updates Lakewood

Friday, April 24, 2026 / ז׳ אייר תשפ״ו

ערב שבת פרשת אחרי מות-קדושים

Candle lighting 7:26 pm

Shkiah/Sunset 7:44 pm

- Weather: 64° Partly cloudy

Shabbos day 51° Rain likely. Chance of rain 90%. Rainfall around a half an inch.

- Admor Khal Chasidei Yerushalayim shlita will be spending Shabbos in Lakewood with tefilos and Tish at the Strulowitz Bais Medrash Daas Kedoshim 8th and Madison

- Vizhnitz Rebbe Rav Mendele will be spending shabbos with Chasidim at a Hotel in New Jersey

- The Loitzk rebbe will be spending shabbos at a hotel in Pennsylvania near Scranton 

- Miron Lag Baomer event may be cancelled this year :Home Front Command issued a directive to halt preparations for the Lag BaOmer event. The event is scheduled to take place in 10 days.  Due to the escalation in the north, despite ongoing infrastructure work at the site,the directive includes halting all preparations for the mass gathering.

- Lakewood school district moves to lay off 162 teacher's aides and may outsource The BOE move comes as the state is seeking to take control of the district, which still owes more than $143 million to the state and has asked for another $138 million loan. (APP)

- Adirei HaTorah: Bnei yeshiva of BMG will be completing a Siyum HaShas in memory of Rav Shimon Frank zt”l, a youngerman who was niftar before Pesach. The siyum will take place at the Maamad Adirei HaTorah a week after Shavuos at the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia (formerly the Wells Fargo Center).

- A local paper says it will be more careful with its choice of words following criticism over a headline last week that stated there were “too many children” in an article about a shortage of classroom space.

- Lakewood Girls high school admissions are currently underway, with schools sending out acceptance letters later than usual.

- Emergency room visits for tick bites in New Jersey have been rising at an alarming rate in recent years, with 169 emergency room visits so far this year up from 133 visits during the same period last year, or a 27% increase.

- Childrens women and teens warehouse sale this Sunday at American dream mall Address location

- NYC landlords warn that soaring insurance costs and widespread rent nonpayment are forcing owners to sell buildings at steep discounts—sometimes up to 90%—with over 5,000 properties nearing financial collapse as officials debate a potential rent freeze.

- Tom Kean Jr., a Republican congressman from New Jersey, has not appeared on Capitol Hill for close to two months, with aides attributing his absence to unspecified medical concerns.

Concern about Kean’s status has intensified as Congress deals with a string of illnesses and deaths among members, all while operating with razor-thin partisan margins.

The Holmdel Nj school district is looking to lay off staff, eliminate courtesy and late busing services and raise taxes to close a budget shortfall of about $5.3 million.  

- A U.S. Army Special Forces soldier involved in the operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was arrested yesterday after allegedly using insider information to place prediction-market bets that earned more than $400,000.

-The Kremlin: Putin may come to Miami for the G20 summit

- A bipartisan group of Senators on Tuesday introduced the Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act to help Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients use their benefits to buy rotisserie chicken. It would not increase funding or SNAP participant eligibility, or “allow all hot foods to be included for purchase.”