Tuesday September 15 News Updates Lakewood

Day 4 of עשרת ימי תשובה 

Weather: 72° Plenty of sunshine.

Today 4 Tishrei Yartzeit of Rabbi Avraham ben Yechiel Michel Danzig (1748–1820) "The Chayei Adam"He was a prominent dayan in Vilna.

- Anchor Tax rebate checks begin to arrive in the mail.

- Degel HaTorah party reportedly partnering with the MDY shiur to get back supporters who may have moved to other parties. Israel media says a Prominent Rosh Yeshiva may attend the shiur.

- BDE:Petirah  of Tanchum Portnoy A”H, of the 5 Towns community. Tanchum Portnoy, composed the beloved melody for Eitz Chaim sung in shuls around the world. He composed it at just 22 years old. Since then, his melody has become part of the soundtrack of Jewish life, sung by generations as the Torah is returned to the Aron Kodesh. It was later popularized by leading chazzanim and musicians, including his good friend Shlomo Carlebach, and became a cherished part of Shabbos in shuls across the world. Born July 22, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, he was a longtime resident of Lawrence, New York, and his kevurah was in Beit Shemesh, Israel. He is survived by his wife and his children. More 

His father  Rav Eliezer Portmoy was a talmid of Mir yeshiva in Poland and was instrumental in securing the documents to help the yeshiva escape to Japan during WW2.

- Congressman Jeff Van Drew: Elections can come down to one vote. So when hundreds of noncitizens cast ballots in New Jersey, we asked a pretty simple question: how did this happen? Instead of answers, the state has stonewalled us every step of the way

- Mashgiach Rav Reuven Hechster shlita will deliver a shmuz today during Mussar seder at BMG

- Keren Olam HaTorah hosts a gathering of thousands of seminary girls in EY  attended by gedolei Yisroel who addresed the large crowd ahead of a fundraiser  that will take place tomorrow

- BDE: Petirah of R’ Shui Englard Z”L, of Lakewood,  Arlington area, after a brief illness he was 50 years old.  He Talmid of Yeshiva Torah Temima and a magid shiur for Oraysa.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rivka Englard (nee Oberlander), and their five daughters. The Levayah is today in Lakewood 4:00 pm at the Arlington Shul 501 Arlington Ave followed by Kevurah in Lakewood

Watch Levaya livestream HERE

- Lakewood planning board meeting today 6:00pm on the agenda:

-Bais Reuven Kamenitz, 831 Ridge Avenue – request to  modify approved fencing

-Bais Medrash Toldos Yehuda Stutchin new shul building application 1314 Madison Avenue  corner 14th st.

-Gefen Construction 165 Ridge Avenue Block 

Minor Subdivision to create four lots.

- Tax Increase: Lakewood township will hold a special meeting on Sept 17 and 23 to adopt and vote on the 2026 budget. After they revised it and cut it down by $7.5 million in spending. The tax levy on lakewood homeowners stays the same at $114 million. Taxes will increase tremendously for the municipal portion alone. Fire taxes went up as is the school and county taxes.

- Sefardi chief Rabbi HaRav Yitzchak Yosef shlit"a, on the minhag of Kapparos

- To be meticulous with poultry that has veterinary supervision.

- It is obligatory to be meticulous regarding conditions of preventing cruelty to animals.

- It is preferable to do Kapparos with money, as was the practice of his father Rav Ovadia Yosef zt"l.

The amount for this year: 35 Shekel.

- Kikar reports. For the first time since the split within Gur and the establishment of the Pnei Menachem community led by Rosh Yeshiva Rav Shaul Alter, a historic development has taken place. A precedent-setting compromise agreement has been signed between the two sides. The agreement includes Gur representatives taking responsibility for past incidents, along with an explicit commitment to maintain peace and prevent similar incidents from happening in the future.

Earlier today Rav Shaul Alter kehila held a ceremony for a cornerstone  laying on rechov Torah Metzion the future site of their new Bais Hamedrash of mosdos Pnei Menachem. (See video below)

- Manchester Township Council removed a provision from a redevelopment plan on Sept. 14 that could have allowed the construction of a large-scale data center on a former mining quarry on the Jackson-Manchester border.

- Trump: Everybody knows the Crooked Joe Biden FBI didn’t do what they should have with respect to the Lunatic who shot me in Butler, PA. By the time I got into Office, on January 20th, most of the information was missing, altered, corrupted, or gone. New info was just found! Why wasn’t it seen long ago? This was all a Democrat Plot, to get me out of the Election, that failed. Dirty Cop Christopher Wray should pay a price for the way he handled this assassination attempt, and certainly for the things he said. GOD BLESS AMERICA — MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

- Shidduch crisis: The number of single young men in the U.S. has surged to a record high, as the “male loneliness epidemic” intensifies.

- TAG Lakewood is expanding its internet-filtering program to internet-connected vehicles, as many newer cars now have built-in Wi-Fi, browsers and entertainment systems. Tesla owners can register for filtering at cars.tag.org. Starting Sept. 16, TAG will have a dedicated car-information line at 732-952-4824 (4TAG) for questions and vehicle-specific guidance. The general email is lakewood@tag.org. TAG notes that vehicle filtering is a developing service and staff are still being trained on the available solutions.

- At his Shabbos Shuvah drasha, Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlit”a delivered a strong warning about the dangers of the internet and technology, urging the public to strengthen themselves in prishus and distance themselves from these nisayonos. He also spoke about the 80 bochurim who spent Yom Tov in military prison, and emphasized the need to stand firm against pressures threatening the Torah community. He further called on everyone to strengthen their Shabbos observance and regularly learn Hilchos Shabbos, explaining that since Rosh Hashanah fell on Shabbos this year and there was no shofar, the zechus of Shabbos is especially important to sweeten the dinim.

- A 40-hour work week would be a thing of the past under a new proposal.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and Rep. Mark Takano, D-California, reintroduced a bill that would establish a 32-hour work week for Americans with no loss of pay or benefits. The 32-Hour Workweek Act would also require overtime pay at time and half for workdays longer than eight hours and overtime at double a worker’s regular pay for days where they on the job longer than 12 hours.

- FBI arrests a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man accused of preparing a mass shooting on behalf of ISIS

- At the Links event last night in Jackson there was a Q&A session with Rav Yaakov Bender Rav Shalom Kamenetzky and R' Nussi Muller a question was asked what would it take for the rabbonim to spend Rosh Hashana in Uman, it did not receive a response.

- Speaker Mike Johnson warns voters that Democrats are focused on "political retribution" as he draws a sharp contrast over what each party would do with power.

Johnson says Republicans want to stay on course, while accusing Democrats of seeking to reverse GOP tax cuts, pursue amnesty for illegal immigrants, reopen the border and restore taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants."That's quite literally what they're going to do if you give them the reins back. We can't do that."

- Trump: Republicans just got another bad decision from the United States Supreme Court, one that the Court System took forever to give, and then blamed it, in part, on no time left to implement a solution to our totally CORRUPT and out of control Mail-In voting “disaster,” which is a laughing stock all over the World, and where we are the only country that has to endure such a Nation Destroying SCAM. Justices Alito and Thomas, legends both, strongly disagreed with this horrible, highly political, ruling. It is a big loss for Republicans, and America itself, and makes cheating by the Radical Left “Dumocrats,” on Mail-In Ballots, a much easier thing to do - And now they have an open field to do so! The Supreme Court has really let our Country down! Certain Justices are petrified of these crazed and depraved Democrats, and are totally unable to show the courage necessary to save our America. Their horrible decision on Tariffs will be costing the U.S.A., for many years to come, Trillions and Trillions of Dollars. They didn’t even state, “money paid does not have to be paid back,” much to the benefit of entities that truly hate our Country, and have been RIPPING IT OFF FOR YEARS, unnecessarily costing us, immediately, Billions of Dollars. Likewise, the Supreme Court’s Decision on Birthright Citizenship is a complete and total disaster for America, and has already led to massive corruption with respect to “citizenship” in our Country. The damage done to America is incalculable, and they know this, just as everyone else does - It is an irreparable and unrecoverable harm! The Court’s inability and unwillingness to do the right thing for our Country will go down, in a very negative way, in the annals of History. This Supreme Court is bullied and cajoled by the Radical Left into making decisions that have set America back at least a hundred years. These are not the people I interviewed to serve on the United States Supreme Court, they are merely a shell of their original selves, a Court that is costing the United States Trillions of Dollars with shockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won’t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal. It is a Court that will go down as having rendered some of the most destructive, hurtful, and damaging decisions in our Country’s history. It is not easy for me to write this criticism of the United States Supreme Court - it will likely cost me dearly for years to come - but I feel it my obligation and duty, as President, to do so for the America we love! Thank you for your attention to this very important matter. God bless the U.S.A. President DONALD J. TRUMP

Video: At the הנחת אבן הפינה for Mosdos פני מנחם in Yerushalayim on Rechov תורה מציון