Weather: 85° A good deal of sunshine.
Extreme heat watch, advisories issued for 9 counties with highs near 100 in forecast for Wednesday and Thursday
reminder the 9 days begin tomorrow night Rosh Chodesh Av
Today, 28 Tamuz is the 14th yahrzeit of Rav Yosef Shalom Elyashiv zt"l.
- Trump: ABC Fake News and its shaky anchor, David Muir, said that the Reflecting Pool was drained to address Peeling Paint (there is no paint, it was slashed with a knife, or box cutter, high grade colored waterproofing liner - it was VANDALISM!) and Algae Blooms (also caused by Vandals, but removed long ago!). In other words, the story was FAKE NEWS, but heavily slanted away from the real cause of the problem, Vandalism. It will be fixed soon, and better than ever. 60 monuments and fountains have been cleaned and fully renovated in D.C., and crime is at record lows! Washington has never looked better, or been safer! President DJT
- The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote this week on a bill making Daylight Saving Time permanent, after clearing the House Rules Committee this evening.
If enacted, sunrise in New Jersey would take place after 8am for approximately 67 days in the winter, with the least occurring at 8:19.
The bill will also need to pass the Senate before it can reach President Trump's desk. (Shlomoschorr)
- Lindsey Graham's sister Darline Graham Nordone officially named interim US Senator from South Carolina after her brother's passing
- NJ Assembly GOP: NJ's data broker bill was introduced and passed in two days.
Within hours of being signed, campaigns on both sides panicked. The law threatened to shut down companies that sell voter data critical to how modern campaigns operate.
The administration issued emergency guidance Friday delaying enforcement. The Legislature may need to fix a law it never properly read. L.
- Trump will be addressing the nation on Thursday at 9 PM.
- The Knesset plenum approved Basic Law by a vote of 63-52 the law states that “Torah study is a fundamental value in the heritage of the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
As expected: The Movement for Quality Government will petition against the law.
- JCP&L says it has completed power restoration following the severe Fourth of July weekend storms that knocked out service to more than 400,000 customers. The utility said approximately 5,700 workers participated in the recovery effort, replacing more than 500 utility poles, 600 transformers, and nearly 31 miles of wire. JCP&L added that it plans to invest $6.8 billion over the next five years to strengthen the electric grid and improve reliability during future storms.
- A decision by the Bnei Brak Municipality: Separate sidewalks for men and women will be designated along sections of King Solomon Street and Ezra Street near simcha event halls. Acting on the instructions of local rabbonim, the municipality will actively enforce the separation. Municipal officials say more streets could follow (channel 13)
- Community wide boys learning programs continue in local shuls as boys camps begin this week
- Several Lakewood-area fleishig restaurants will be offering special pareve menus during the Nine Days,
- With the new school year approaching, several Lakewood girls schools have yet to announce their official start dates, while some have scheduled the first day of classes for Wed Sept. 2. This year's calendar gives students just over a week of classes before Rosh Hashanah begins on Sept. 11
- Lakewood Township will host U.S. Customs and Border Protection Global Entry interviews on Tuesday, Aug. 18, marking the first time the interviews have been offered in Ocean County. A limited number of interview slots will be available through a lottery for Lakewood residents who receive conditional Global Entry approval by July 31. Selected applicants will complete their in-person interviews at the Lakewood Municipal Building. To apply for the “Global Entry Lottery,” please email GEL@lakewoodnj.gov and provide the following information, in full, for each applicant: - Name - Address - Date of Birth - Email Address
- Global Entry conditional approval PASSID. (This can be found in your Global Entry Program account profile and/or email communication see more info HERE
- Beth Medrash Govoha (BMG) is accepting applications for winter Zman 5787. Bochurim interested in applying must submit their applications by Wednesday, July 15
- Nichum Aveilim: Shiva for Rav Yechiel Drillman ZT"L is at 29 Poinsetta Ct (Country Place) Lakewood. Shacheis 8 am , Mincha 1:45 pm, Maariv 9:30 pm
- Giyus: Leading Sephardic rabbonim and roshei yeshiva have issued a strongly worded letter opposing legislation that would temporarily freeze the arrest of draft-age yeshiva students, warning that it would place the Torah world under unprecedented government oversight. They argued the bill would empower the state to monitor yeshivos, conduct surprise inspections, and require roshei yeshiva to report on student attendance, calling on the chareidi public to firmly oppose what they described as a dangerous threat to the independence of Torah institutions.
- U.S. Capitol Police just arrested a man who was armed with a firearm at the North Barricade outside Congress.
- Giyus: The wife of Nehorai Ben David, a Bat Yam yungerman arrested after reporting to an IDF induction office to resolve his draft status, claims he was unexpectedly detained and is being mistreated in military prison. She alleges he has faced degrading treatment, limited family contact, and restrictions on tefillah, while the family has retained legal counsel as he serves a 20-day sentence. Israeli authorities had not issued an official response at the time of publication.
- Hours before his sudden death, Sen. Lindsey Graham reportedly told confidants he wasn't feeling well a person urged the senator to seek medical attention immediately but he planned to do so after a scheduled television appearance. He reportedly joked, "I can't die now," citing unfinished work on Russia sanctions, Iran, and Israeli-Saudi normalization. He died several hours later at his Washington, D.C., home following what his office described as a brief and sudden illness.
- Giyus: IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has sharply criticized proposed legislation that would effectively freeze the enlistment of most yeshiva students for seven months, calling it incompatible with the military's operational needs. In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Israel Katz, and committee chairman Boaz Bismuth, Zamir warned that having IDF officers approve exemptions from arrest for draft evasion would undermine trust in the military, deepen inequality, and create a rift with soldiers who have carried the burden of the war over the past two-and-a-half years.
- One of Yerushalayim's most well-known shuls, Zichron Moshe, is set to undergo a major renovation and expansion that will include a new network of shtieblach modeled after Bnei Brak's famous Itzkowitz shul. The multi-phase project will upgrade the main bais medrash, expand existing shtieblach, improve restroom facilities, add an internal staircase connecting the lower and upper levels, and modernize the building to better accommodate the thousands of mispallelim who use the shul each week. Construction is expected to begin in the coming days.
- Trump: I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina. This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly! President DONALD J. TRUMP
- New Jersey's new e-bike regulations, which take effect July 19, are already drawing criticism from bicycle shop owners who say the rules are hurting business. The law requires riders to be at least 15 years old, obtain an e-bike or driver's license, register all e-bikes, and insure motorized bicycles. Some retailers say sales have dropped sharply, with customers reconsidering purchases because of the new requirements. NJ12
- New Jersey ranks third in the nation for fatal crashes involving aggressive or careless driving, according to a new LendingTree analysis of 2024 federal crash data. Nearly 45% of the state's 638 fatal crashes were linked to road rage or aggressive driving, while New Jersey also recorded the nation's highest accident rate at 31.5 crashes per 1,000 drivers. The report cited the state's dense traffic and heavy commuter volume as key factors contributing to unsafe driving behavior.
- In honor of Senator Lindsey Graham, a big supporter, the U.S. Senate should pass the Clarity Act. China, and many other countries, would like to take complete and total control of this major financial “happening,” as well as A.I., where we are now leading, but where they are fighting hard. Don’t let China win on either subject!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP
- A former Manchester Township school superintendent will receive more than $500,000 through two settlements resolving his discrimination lawsuit over his termination He claimed he was fired because of his toeva lifestyle while the school district maintained he was dismissed for failing to disclose a prior DUI conviction on his job application.
- A proposal for a warehouse for plastic bottle and container manufacturing on Fairfield Road, in Howell will be continued tonight Monday, July 13.
-A lucky New Jersey Lottery player has won a $1,332,203 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot after purchasing the winning ticket at Country Farms on Route 70 West near Whitesville Road in Toms River/Lakewood border. The ticket matched all five winning numbers in Thursday night's drawing.
At the kever of Rav Elyashiv today on his yertzeit
Lindsey Graham didnt die a sudden death, he was poisened by Russia on his trip to Ukraine! Dont kid yourself!
ReplyDeleteEven if that is not true, RUssia wants you to believe it.
DeleteANy Senator thinking of supporting sanctions against Russia is now more likely to be scared to do so.
better than supporting Ukrainian NAZIS
DeleteMaybe it was Iran.
DeleteThat was my first suspicion when I heard he just came from Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteTzorchei tzibur construction is permitted during theee weeks.
Last year I saw fleishig restaurant under vaad selling meat dishes during nine days. Asked the manager, said vaad allows it. Where I come from, vaad does not allow. In fact, I know of no other vaad that allows it (though one used to allow owner to schedule a siyum, of questionable validity. Even they stopped it )
President Trump must really hate Ambassador Nicki Haley, who's the front runner to succeed Senator Lindsey Graham.
RY have been required to supervise talmidim reports for giyus for many years (decades). Obviously, they've been slacking off.
If there isn't enough time for Global Entry appointments, our valuable City Council should insist on another two-theee days of appointments. Nursing Home owners should not be the one who need this service.
so much bad news I am reading, shmad from the IDF, the IDF chief commendant wants more frum bochurim under his command, yungerman arrested instead of being with his family and in his own house, we must cry on Tisha Bav to end this 78 year old tzar the medina, the shmad, the Zionists. oy mey hoyu lonu that our dor has this in our midst.
ReplyDeleteHe's baaack.
DeleteFamilies of solders serving are crying over their fathers, husbands, and children
While charedi slackers are busy gorging themselves on meat boards, yapchik, and kugels. And slurpees.
Maybe the yeshivot should move to aza and suriah, where they're automatically exempt from serving.
Even better, Iraq Egypt and Paras.
Maybe Shweitz, where shechita is not allowed. Belgia too, in a couple of years. Belgia and Ireland --no brit millah. (I don't know, Mayor Mandami will ban brit millah too, as soon as they can fabricate a scandal.)
you should serve in the IDF as hard as Yair Netanyahu does from his nightclub in Miami with his Norweigen Christian girlfriend, dont fight in IDF and you wont cry, simple
DeleteFrom a real settler zionist:
Delete"Jewish settlements in the area were all surrounded by big security fences and suffered from theft and terror attacks. Neria was way outside the wire, living in a tent with his wife and kids, herding his sheep. The sheep I bought belonged to his partner Tal Inon, a very tall, slim teenager who spoke Hebrew with a markedly Yemenite pronunciation and was wearing his tefillin even though it was mid-afternoon. We discussed Orwell’s Animal Farm; Tal Inon mentioned that Boxer the Horse, whose ideal was to work harder in order to implement Napoleon the Pig’s utopian vision, reminded him of the Mizrohnik Religious Zionist party line"
The only way biderech hatevah the zionist regime will end is through the death of hundreds of thousands of jews or worse. Your davening for the end of Medina means your davening for the murder of jews. You are thus a rasha gamur.
DeleteAs Maran RY ztl said: he pleaded that medina should come to an end, but Heaven will make no Jew gets hurt in the process
DeleteAnti-Zionist propaganda frequently accuses the Zionists of engineering Yidden getting killed in order to make their state. Whether that is true or not is highly debatable but it is not debatable that many anti-Zionists today would be happy to see Yidden get killed for their cause of anti-Zionism. I’ve seen people with long beards who don’t identify with the Neturie Karta express their apathy towards Yidden getting killed too many times to think otherwise.
DeleteLakewood should consider adopting simcha hall takanos similar to those in Bnei Brak Some halls, especially those located at the cheder require guests to walk nearly 10 minutes from the parking lot along a narrow path, often in the dark. That raises both safety and tznius concerns, particularly for women, children, and the elderly. Better lighting, shuttle service from remote parking, or improved access should be part of the conversation to make simchos safer and more dignified for everyone.
ReplyDeletePathetic - you cant walk 2 minutes? You can use the exercise it may help your mental health too!
DeleteWhat were they thinking when they designed these halls
DeleteIts not a 2 minute walk from the parking lot older people. Can't do the long walk it's a yichud situation with girls and ladies in high heels walking alone and slow along the building in the dark and narrow sidewalk
. Lakewood deserves better than this
Yichud is only assur if one of the two is wearing high heels.
DeleteChidush of the day.
Lakewood should not consider adopting different sides of the streets for different genders.
DeleteIt is a terrible idea.
The only time couples can talk is on the way in and out of weddings. Should they be separated then too?
Women should not be out of the house -- Ramban
Delete"The only time couples can talk is on the way in and out of weddings. Should they be separated then too?"
DeleteEven better?
We can make mixed seating chasunas like Rav Aharon did!
9:53,
DeleteHe wasn't happy about it. He was very unhappy when he attended a Young Israel (or was it Tzeiri A"I) that was mixed seating. At first he didn't notice, but when it was brought to his attention he wasn't happy
Highly unlikely story. There were virtually no separate seating events in his day.
DeleteAnd if you think R Aharon wouldn't have made his chasunas separate if he felt it was wrong, you don't begin to know him.
3:36 chap,
DeleteDirectly from R YM Hirschman. There's actually more to the story, that you would find farfetched. But chose to keep it simple for now.
R Breuer, to be candid on the other hand, wasn't happy when they started making weddings separate seating.
DeleteHe reportedly stated: when else will young men and young women have a chance to properly meet?!
He was a very different personality, dealing with a different clientele, and coming from a different weltenshaaung
It's not impossible by the way and won't be too bad to be paradoxically mekayem shine'hem
Rav Moshe did like Rav Breuer. At HIS mixed seating chasunah, he put the singles together for the same reason. The simple truth is that the Litvish Gedolim sat with their wives together with other Gedolim and their wives. They were fine.
DeleteIts primarily a Chassidic thing has become the norm.
Rav Dovid Feinstein had mechutamim from Breurs and they would invite him to the annual dinner. He looked forward to the chance top sit with his wife!
Maybe Cohen Y can ask Rabbi Hirshman if Rav Aharon looked sad at his chasunas because they were not separate seating . I imagine he was there.
DeleteThere should be a shuttle
ReplyDeleteWhat happens if a man needs to get to a house or business that’s on the ladies’ side of the street, or vice versa?
ReplyDeleteEveryone can be practical and make exceptions. But we don't have to lower standards for them
Delete“Lower standards”? When did separate public sidewalks become a “standard”?
DeleteCorect. Separate sidewalks are not a standard.
DeleteRav Moshe and Rav Yaakov and Rav Gustman would have rolled their eyes at the notion.
11:02,2:33
DeleteKelm had separate sidewalks.
Guess which of the aforementioned spent a while there.
Correct. Rav Yaakov spent some time in Kelm, but he still would have rolled his eyes about Bnei Brak. Rav Yaakov used his mind and while he had respect for Kelm, he didn't adopt everything that he saw there.
DeleteThe triefe madina can end TODAY and allow Moshiach to come if we let it become the 51st state of the usa
ReplyDeleteNo problem. Israel has my permission to become the 51st state TODAY. Most Israelis would prefer that too...On the flip side Moshiach does not need that to happen to be "allowed" to come....Reb Shlomo Lorincz writes that the Brisker Rav told him that the anti-Zionist haskafa that claims the Sotton props up the state of Israel to prevent Mosiach from coming is kefira and avoda zora. It implies that Hashem would send Mosiach but the Sotton overpowers him by keeping the medina to prevent that R'L Of another flip side (not said by the BR) some of the endless, endless, endless kitrug of Klal Yisreol said by anti-Zionist may be a factor in preventing Mosiach. They certainly work very hard for the Sotton...
DeleteParadoxically, whenever Israel's independence is even the slightest bit appears impugned eg Potus asking Herzog in order to pardon Netanyahu, Israeli media and officialdom go absolutely wild, worse than expelling 20 ambassadors
DeleteDoubt that. How would that resolve it?
ReplyDeleteProblem is bigger than the medina.Those whose tentacles from behind are in control of the medina, have ways to still be largely in control of the jewish people even after the medina would end