Motzei Shabbos Ki Savo News Updates

BDE' Petira of The Komarna Rebbe of America, Rav Yehoshua Safrin ZTL at the age of 91. Levaya Sunday 11 am at shomrei hadas in boro park and kevura on har hazeisim. The rebbe was one of the last talmidim of Rav Reuven Grozovsky in Beis Medrash Elyon and was a great talmid chacham in his own right.

- Tonight Motzei shabbos there will be a community wide event with divrei chizuk at Neemas Hachaim hall a hachama for the Yom Hadin. 9:45pm  by Rav Yosef Elefant shlita of Mir Yerushalayim 

- Continued tefillos  for Golda Chana bas Leah Shaindel and her 5 year daughter Rochel bas Golda Chana who are in stable condition after they were hit by a  car on Erev shabbos in parking lot in front of NPGS Jackson, driven by unlicensed driver. 8 month old baby Yitzchok Rosenberg A"H who was niftar at the scene had a levaya right before shabbos 

Jackson: Police charge driver with .manslaughter  charges and arrested another. Prosecuters said 20-year-old Maria CobonGuzman was driving a Ford Fusion when she hit the baby’s stroller and the baby’s mother. The baby died, while the mother and her 5-year-old daughter were hospitalized in stable condition. CobonGuzman, who investigators say had never held a driver’s license, was charged with manslaughter and other offenses. A second woman, 22-year-old Ariadna Lazaro-Flores, was charged with allowing CobonGuzman to drive despite knowing she was unlicensed. Both women are being held at Ocean County Jail pending detention hearings.

- A few days before girls schools begin there's still an untold amount of girls not placed both in elementary and high school. In previous years Lakewood roshei  yeshiva would tell schools not to open until everyone was placed.  As of now no such order has been given with schools having orientation on Monday.

- Selichos begin next motzei shabbos

- Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef called Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara “crazy” over her concerns about election campaigning at Rabbi Ovadia Yosef memorial ceremonies. He said, “This will not pass quietly. God will give her the punishment she deserves” and “God will destroy her.

- NBC News crew reportedly beaten with clubs by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, leaving five journalists injured and their 

- Dozens of  yiddin demonstrated on Shabbs in Yerushalayim tzfas and Bnei Brak as buses drove in to the lots before  shabbos is over.

- Update scheduled for  this Thursday: Report: Roshei Yeshiva and Chasidishe rebbes to meet with president Trump. The report says that a group of Admorim and Roshei Yeshiva will be received by President Trump at the White House. They will use the opportunity to advocate for various matters and to thank the president for all the benefits enjoyed by the frum Jewish community. In recent days, the logistical details of the historic visit, which is expected to take place next week, have been worked out. Those reportedly invited include the Satmar Rebbes, the Skverer Rebbe, the Bobover Rebbe, the Bobov-45 Rebbe, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Monsey, Rabbi Malkiel Kotler, rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha Lakewood, and others. 

- Media coverage of the LSTA crisis raises serious questions about possible political retribution against Lakewood by Governor Sherrill’s administration. Lakewood voters overwhelmingly voted against Sherrill in both the primary and general elections, and since then, the State has taken actions that have made it increasingly difficult for Lakewood officials to secure alternative sources of funding.

Lakewood officials have therefore questioned whether the State is deliberately restricting the Township’s options because of its political opposition to the Governor. While there is not yet proof that Sherrill personally ordered these actions as retaliation, the repeated state decisions that have blocked or limited Lakewood’s efforts to obtain alternative funding raise legitimate concerns about whether political considerations are involved.