Monday August 17 News Updates

Weather: 88° Cloudy early with peeks of sunshine expected late. A stray shower or thunderstorm is possible. 

- Likud Primary Vote Count Begins: Likud has begun counting ballots from 503 polling stations across 107 locations. Tens of thousands of forms are being reviewed by local committees before a general count at the control center, with final results expected in the morning and party officials predicting surprises in the candidate list. 

- AOC is distancing herself from past positions on defunding police, prison abolition, & decriminalizing border crossings ahead of a potential 2028 run. Axios

- Rav Avrohom Yehoshua Solovwitchik delivered shiur today for the new zman as he takes up a new residence closer to the yeshiva.

- The New Jersey Department of Treasury has started the process of sending eligible New Jersey residents their ANCHOR benefit confirmation letters. These letters are for homeowners and renters who meet the eligibility requirements for the tax year 2025

- Moadim LSimcha order deadline today for upcoming Yomim Tovim

- Lakewood residents can register their bicycles for free through the LakewoodPDConnect app. Registration helps police identify and return lost, stolen, or recovered bikes

- Rides today at Hearthstone park in Lakewood for a fee.

- Georgian Court University in Lakewood expects about 2,000 students for the 2026–27 academic year, with increases in both freshman and transfer enrollment. Nursing programs are seeing especially strong demand.

Moishas supermarket in Howell expected to open before the yom tov shopping season. No word yet on when.

- A Middlesex County resident has become New Jersey’s first confirmed case of Zika virus since 2020, according to the state health department

- BDE: A 7-Year-Old Dies After Beit Shemesh Stabbing: A 7-year-old boy critically wounded in a stabbing at his home in Beit Shemesh was pronounced dead at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. His 4-year-old brother was also stabbed and remains in serious condition. The Two children reportedly injured in attack by mentally disturbed neighbor, police on the scene as investigation continues.

- New Jersey - today is due date number 1 !! Voter records are due to House Representatives from New Jersey by 5:00pm. House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan and House Administration Chair Bryan Steil gave NJ Secretary of State Dr. Dale Caldwell until 5:00pm today to produce a massive trove of physical and digital records.

- BDE: Reb Hershel Landau Z”L, Rosh Hakuhol of Shenya and Longtime Proprietor of Landau’s Grocery in Boro Park.

- New Jersey’s food insecurity rate jumped 75% in four years

- Municipalities and school districts owed New Jersey’s public worker health programs nearly $50.5 million in arrearages earlier this year, months before experts recommended steep rate increases for health plans that insure hundreds of thousands of school and government workers.