Sunday August 2 News Updates Lakewood

Bein Hazmanim Summer 5786

Weather: High: 84 ° Mostly Cloudy then Chance T-storms Tonight. Multiple rounds of thunderstorms and heavy downpours that could trigger flash flooding are expected to begin tonight and continue through Monday across New Jersey. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. 

Monday: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 11am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11am. 

- Free carnival today in Pine Park 1-4pm three event is promoting apartments at a new housing development in Yerushalayim near Ramat Eshkol. 

- No winners for powerball 700M Jackapot, next drawing is Monday night 

- Giyus: Netanyahu at a closed session “The temporary detention law was intended to lower tensions and increase the number of enlistments from the charedi community. In practice, it did not succeed, and therefore there will not be such a law in the next government. After the elections, we will establish a broad national government that will immediately pass a comprehensive conscription law that meets the needs of the IDF. Anyone who is not studying Torah will be drafted, or go to prison

- Lakewood Driver Alert: Use extra caution at Route 9 & Main Street. A newly installed median has caused more than 10 flat tires and several damaged vehicles because it's difficult to see, especially at night. Chaveirim has placed temporary reflective cones until the state completes the project. 

- Senate committee to vote on holding Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he pleaded the Fifth 111 times.

- Arson attack in Montreal: Nöam, a popular kosher restaurant in Montreal, was burned down last night at 3 am. Surveillance video reportedly shows a mean pouring something before walking away. Police are investigating it as arson. 

- Lakewood Tax increase wont go down because of land sales.. While Lakewood residents are facing a significant property tax increase, the township is also set to receive approximately $28 million from the sale of airport property to CHEMED for its planned medical village. While residents wonder why those proceeds can't be used to offset the township's budget deficit and reduce the tax burden. According to a Lakewood official, as reported by The Voice of Lakewood, because the property belonged to the airport and was acquired with federal aviation funding, federal regulations require that the proceeds remain dedicated to airport purposes. The money must be used within the airport system, such as replacing runways, improving infrastructure, or constructing airport-related facilities, rather than being deposited into the township's general fund.

- A chosson from Eretz Yisroel who was seriously injured in a car accident near Monroe has been flown back to Eretz Yisroel after being hospitalized at Westchester Medical Center. He will continue his rehabilitation there. He is still in need of a complete refuah sheleimah. Please continue to daven for Meir Pinchos ben Hadassa Esther.

- The Vivaser daily news bulletin in Lakewood will not be published on Sundays of bein Hazmanim.

- 50 years after the Entebbe hostage, Uganda has unveiled a statue honoring Lt. Col. Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu at the old Entebbe Airport terminal, the site where the Israeli commander was killed while leading the IDF mission that rescued dozens of hostages in 1976.

- "Skip the Stuff" law takes effect in New JerseyA new law now in effect in New Jersey prohibits restaurants and other food businesses from automatically giving customers napkins, plastic utensils and condiments. Now, customers have to request them.

- Dr. Simone Gold: Six-foot “science” invented out of thin air. Masks as theater. No clinical trials. Contradictions stacked on top of contradictions. Fauci and the entire medical bureaucracy treating the American people like lab rats while the truth was censored.We said it from day one. They called us dangerous. They destroyed careers, silenced doctors, and harmed millions.The greatest public-health fraud in modern history will not be memory-holed. Accountability is not optional.

- A New NJ bill could potentialy shut out Teslas Vehicles from Jersey. S1677/A3968 would require every autonomous vehicle in New Jersey to use LiDAR and radar. That would effectively block camera-only systems like Tesla's unless they're retrofitted, making autonomous vehicles more expensive and limiting consumer choice.

- Mordechai Ben David MBD on a recent interview  on the teef teef podcast was asked if its true that the Ribnitzer rebbe who he was close to served as the mohel to MK Avigdor Lieberman back in Russia. MBD said he dosent know but he quipped in Yiddish that they should have cut his head, adding her hopes he does teshuva. The Yisrael Beiteinu party strongly condemned the statement, saying: "The Rebbe would have been ashamed that his name is being used to incite murder. This is a moral disgrace.

- UTJ lMK Yitzchak Goldknopf criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the issue of ultra-Orthodox military draft legislation, saying Netanyahu failed to fulfill commitments to regulate the status of yeshiva students. Goldknopf said his party would only join a future government that passes a law addressing exemptions and protections for Haredi religious students.

- Over 250 Yidden from the Surrounding Zichron Moshe neighborhood demonstrated shabbos morning in Yerushalayim in front of a café  on Agripas street that remains open on shabbos. Police kept them away from the store. New reports say the establishment is owned by Jews for J.

- Today  in the Catskills Hanochas Even Hapina for a new Kollel in Woodridge  under the leadership of Rav Avrohom Gurwitz ahkitaof Gatshead. 2 pm on Silver Lake rd.