Thursday June 26 News Updates Lakewood

 Weather: 85° Partly cloudy.

shabbos will be rainy

 Boys Schools have half today as yeshiva camp starts Monday 

- Tehillim gathering tonight in BMG as Lakewood The roshei yeshiva call on the talmidei hayeshiva to learn and daven for refuah sheleima for the Brisk Rosh Yeshiva Rav Avrohom Yehoshua Soloveitchik. There will be Tehillim Betzibur at Bais Mesrash Bais Yitchok 10:50 pm.

- Trump: The Communists are finally making their move. I’ve been waiting and preparing for this for a long time. It’s easy to be a Communist — All you have to do is say, “I’ll give you everything,” but that means you’re taking it away from others that have earned it. Over thousands of years, that Ideology has not worked once. The game is on. Enjoy watching! President DONALD J. TRUMP

- Giyus: Mir  Yerushalayim Yeshiva will hold a public atzeres tefilah and protest at Kikar Zaks near Zhville this coming Sunday in response to the arrest of a bochur who is a talmid in Mir at a enlisting office in Beer Sheva when he went to arrange a deferment. The atzeres will officially be a public machaah but no other form or protest If the bochur is not released by Sunday the atzeres will proceed 

-  At Today's Lakewood Township Committee meeting, it was business as usual although Mayor Ray Coles debuted a new beard. Otherwise, there wasn't a single public comment. The committee again defended its continued reliance on virtual meetings, noting that Committeeman Menashe Miller was able to participate remotely from Germany, where he is serving on military assignment. 

What wasn't discussed was the option many municipalities have adopted: holding meetings in person while also offering Zoom for remote participation. Neighboring towns have long returned to in-person meetings out of respect for their residents. Meanwhile, Lakewood officials have continued meeting virtually, with critics arguing they have remained largely inaccessible to the public since the COVID era.

- Relatives of a  frum 75-year-old kosher bakery owner found shot dead near a Queens park lake last month said they suspected the “visibly Jewish” man was targeted in a hate crime – as investigators and family bumped the award for any leads on the slaying to $20,000. NYP

- Although an agreement has been reached on the topline number for the $60.7 billion Fiscal Year 2027 state budget, New Jersey’s top Democrats are still working out many details and the process again appears poised to stretch to the eve of the government shutdown deadline of July 1st.

- A majority of Israelis oppose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported deal with ultra-Orthodox parties Shas and United Torah Judaism to swiftly advance some of their legislative agenda in exchange for supporting coalition priorities, according to a Channel 12 poll. The two Charedi parties have denied the existence of a deal, despite widespread reports on its details. The survey finds that 62% oppose the agreement, while just 23% support it. Even among coalition voters, 22% say they oppose the deal.

-Giyus:  IDF has decided to establish a charedi  base City" at a cost of tens of millions. It will be built in the Jordan Valley, will include training for all Charedi tracks, officers' courses, fighters and combat supporters. It will have an external compound for women, mikvaos and shuls. And this is happening despite failing to meet Charedi recruitment targets.channel 13

- Reports of additional ICE arrests in Lakewood today at a car mechanic shop off Route 88, following activity yesterday in which workers were detained at a grocery store off Clifton Avenue.

- Thousands are heading up today to the Catskills for the official start of summer.

Traffic alerts are in effect around the MetLife Stadium area due to World Cup games taking place today. Motorists are advised to avoid the Turnpike and Route 3 and instead use alternate routes.

- Lechem sourdough bakery from Lakewood opened a location in the Catskills in MOnticello off Broadway 

- Deal Nj more restaurants opening CASA dairy Italian kosher restaurant is now open Located at 232 Norwood Avenue, Ocean, NJ 07755

Slices pizza moved to another location on Norwood 

-Tehillim for Rosh HaYeshiva, HaRav Reuven Feinstein, shlita who is having a procedure today Sholom Reuven ben Shima

-Tefilos in Brisk: Continuous tefilos took at Brisk Yeshiva, the Kosel and in Meron for a refuah sheleima the recovery of Brisk Rosh Yeshiva Rav Avraham Yehoshua ben Ettil Soloveitchik.

Venezuela earthquake: Authorities reported that the death toll from the two powerful consecutive earthquakes that struck the Latin American country has risen to 188, while the number of injured stands at 1,520.

-Lakewood township commite meeting today remote only watch livestream Here

 See agenda Here 

Items on the agenda 

-The addition of two new NJ Transit bus stops along southbound Route 9. The proposed stops would be located near 6th Street and 4th Street, with the request now moving to the NJDOT for final approval.

-Public sale of property

Block 1139, Lot 1 – Vacant 0.918-acre property at Havens Ave / Vine Ave / Broadway (R-12 zone) Sale price: $3,000,000 minimum bid

-Accepting a 25k Energy Plan through a NJBPU grant to help align the township with New Jersey’s goal of 100% clean energy by 2050

-A 5 year Tax abatement to Towbin Realty, located at 850 Towbin Avenue

-No Parking along Park avenue MOnday - Friday at Gratter building from Park Avenue and Second Street and extending 764 feet south.

-No Parking on Massachusetts 50 feet both sides of Payne street 

-Vacating “paper street” from public use known as Beaumont Street

Publi can comment  during meeting via email comments@lakewoodnj.gov

- Day trip ideas Free tour at Amazon warehouse fillfilment center age 6 an older must schedule in advance here 

- North Jersey police are warning of a rise in thefts targeting Honda and Acura vehicles, with criminals stealing airbags and crash sensors in quick break-ins. Similar cases in Clifton and Teaneck have led to arrests and increased police patrols.

-The Lakewood Board of Education challenged New Jersey’s planned state takeover of the district during its first court hearing, calling the intervention a “drastic” and “extreme” measure. State officials argued the takeover is being carried out through the proper legal process. No witnesses testified during the brief hearing, with further proceedings expected. App

-  El Al Airlines will suspend its Tel Aviv-Moscow flights for the coming days due to developments between Russia and Ukraine and recent aviation incidents in the region, a spokesperson says.

- Members of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah in Eretz Yisroel, in a special letter, have joined the call of Rav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlita to observe a taanis dibbur at the beginning of the sedorim, as a zechus to strengthen the fight against the enemies of Yiddishkeit. The letter was signed by Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman, Rav Berel Povarsky, Rav Aviezer Pilz, Rav Dovid Cohen, and Rav Lazer Yehuda Finkel.

-The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a Hawaii law in a 6-3 ruling that barred people with concealed-carry permits from bringing firearms onto private property open to the public  such as stores, restaurants, hotels, malls, and gas stations, unless the property owner gave explicit permission. 

- New York Attorney General Letitia James criticized the Democratic Party's progressive wing, warning that efforts to reshape the party could deepen internal divisions. Her comments came after Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory and endorsements of several progressive candidates.

- Rent control vaad in Yerushalayim Roshei yeshiva and Kollel heads Launch Housing Committee to Curb Rent Hikes for Kollel Families A new "Housing Committee" (Va'ad Diyur) to address sharp rent increases affecting avreichim on several streets including: Panim Meiros Sorotzkin, Menachem Meishiv, Zayist Ra'anan, Imrei Bina, Toras Chessed, and Divrei Chaim. Organizers say landlords have been exploiting the local housing shortage, placing a heavy financial burden on kollel families. The new committee will now set and oversee rental price guidelines for kollel apartments in the area. Under the new rules, kollel or yeshiva students who rent without the committee's approval risk losing their right to study at participating yeshivos and kollelim. The notices are signed by numerous rosh yeshivas and kollel heads who say they will enforce the regulation among their talmidim

- New IRS data reveals NJ has bled a staggering $48.25 BILLION in taxable income since 2004 as residents and businesses flee our crushing tax structure. Just last year, another $2.8 billion walked out the door to states like Florida and Pennsylvania.

- The Postmaster General announced the USPS will NOT deliver mail-in ballots to states that refuse to comply with President Trump’s executive order and provide lists of eligible voters.

- US Supreme Court deals blow to activist judges by allowing the Trump administration to Block "asylum seekers" from entering America In a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that asylum seekers standing in Mexico have not “arrived in the United States” under immigration law, meaning they aren’t entitled to inspection or allowed to apply for asylum until they actually cross the border.

- Just 7% of voters, mostly young and white, led Mamdani’s NYC socialist election surge.

- The heads of the Hesder Yeshivos announced that yeshiva students will enlist in the Armored Corps in August.After a meeting with the IDF Chief of Staff and senior military officials, and following a special discussion on the integration of female soldiers in combat units, the yeshiva heads decided that Hesder students will proceed with their scheduled enlistment into the Armored Corps as planned.