Wednesday October 14 News Updates

Weather: 81°  Thunderstorms likely this morning. Then a chance of scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. Chance of rain 70%

- Video of chavrusa Tumul at BMG Here

- Bingo crazy deals sale going on now Gefen instant soup $9.99 8pk Tissues $5.49

- Coming Soon from Artscroll "At the Heart of Lakewood - Rabbi Yisroel Schenkolewski"The Quiet Force Behind America's Torah Capital

- Ami Magazine will not be sold in Crown Heights stores this week following the magazine’s front-cover feature of  Rav  Lazer Shach zatzal on his 25th yartzeit. Crown Heights stores have reportedly united in a decision not to carry this week’s issue. (Shechuna news)

- Giyus: 143 charedi "draft evaders" were arrested by the police between July and October, but were released on the spot because the army did not arrive within half an hour.According to Ch13, the IDF arrested only 15 charedi draft evaders (excluding those arrested at border crossings) out of a pool of 70,000 draft evaders, compared with 14 non-Charedi draft evaders out of a pool of 10,000.

- Lakewood Residents Facing Sticker Shock as New Tax Hikes Kick In for November Lakewood residents are feeling the pain as new tax increases take effect following approval by Mayor Coles and the Township Committee. Homeowners paying monthly mortgages are receiving notices showing increases of over $200 per month due to escrow shortages. The reported 2026 municipal tax increase of 14.4 cents per $100 of assessed value means an additional $48 per month for a $400,000 home and $60 per month for a $500,000 home in municipal taxes alone. School and county taxes are separate and could add to the burden.With official tax bills expected after Election Day, residents should be prepared for the financial impact.

- Last night at the Lakewood Planning Board meeting, the three applications for warehouses on Cedarbridge Avenue and 60 homes off New Hampshire Avenue were postponed until the next meeting. The board heard several smaller applications and approved them, including a proposal to allow the basement area of the new shopping center off Avenue of the States to be used as additional retail space for certain stores. A board member opposed the proposal, arguing that the space would not be adequately regulated and that, within a few years, the entire basement could become retail space, leading to insufficient parking. Despite the objection, the board voted to approve the application.

- Jackson council meeting last night voted on approval of affordable housing overlay ordinances despite opposition from residents

- President Trump has recently demanded that Senate Majority Leader Thune bring the U.S. Senate back into session for a vote on the Sunshine Protection Act, which seeks to make daylight saving time permanent nationwide, Thune told Trump senators, who are on recess until mid November, would never come back to Capitol Hill for this and shot the idea down.(Onejersey)

- A 10-year-old boy was killed R"L after a burning object was propelled from an exploding recycling bin  that was lit aand struck him as he left a school on Nadvorna Street. Firefighters suspect children may have ignited the bin while playing and thrown in a container that exploded from the heat, but the cause remains under investigation

-Trump: Massive Oil, Gas, and Mineral Exploration is getting ready to begin in our new and beautiful Greenland! There are Experts that are saying that the amount of easily available Oil is far greater than that of almost any land, anywhere in the World and, even more importantly, from a Security Purpose in the Defense and Offense of both the United States of America, and Europe, is second to none. Any future attack on the United States will have to come across Greenland, where our Defense will routinely knock down drones, missiles, or any other form of weapon not yet even conceived. It gives us time, location, and sightline, like nowhere else in the World! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP

- Brian Flanagan, the 47-year-old chief of the Ridgeway Volunteer Fire Company in Manchester, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while working in a New Jersey Turnpike construction zone early Tuesday, prompting an outpouring of grief from regional fire services.

- At a time when Lakewood residents are facing major issues a significant and potentially unaffordable tax increase, a school busing disaster, public school students receiving free courtesy hazardous busing while regular frum children have to pay, some kids are still not in school, new parents navigating registration for primary, traffic accidents, and November elections for local and federal, you would think these matters would be front and center in Frum media coverage and community leadership discussions. Instead, the media seems consumed with nonstop coverage of a FedEx delivery driver singing Yiddish songs, with repeated stories, follow-ups, and videos. There is nothing wrong with enjoying a feel-good story, but where is the same level of attention to the issues directly affecting Lakewood families? Families are facing rising living costs, and other. Challenges Shouldn't the issues affecting our children's education, our family's finances, and our community's safety deserve just as much attention?

- A proposed development on Spruce Street at Washington Avenue in Lakewood is now heading to the New Jersey Appellate Division, FAA News has learned.Attorney Jan Meyer, Esq., representing neighboring property owners who have fought development proposals at the site for years, has now filed a Notice of Appeal seeking to overturn the Lakewood Zoning Board's approval permitting four single-family homes on the property. Faanews.com

- U.S. consumer inflation accelerated in September, with prices rising 0.6% from August and 3.7% from a year earlier, above expectations for a 3.6% annual increase. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, rose 0.3% for the month and 2.6% year-over-year, also hotter than expected, as elevated energy prices helped drive the increase.

- Zelensky says he has been betrayed by Trump, that Elon Musk and Trump deliberately blocked Starlink in Ukraine overnight and that people have been killed as a result. "I am sure they knew what they did, absolutely. Because it was 1am at night, Starlink was blocked by SpaceX and the United States," he tells Piers Morgan. "This decision will bring a lot of human losses. Of course, people will die." He said interceptors that rely on Starlink did not work, and that "this is not the right side of history."

- Rav Meir Tzvi Bergman delivered an emotional message to United Torah Judaism lawmakers on Tuesday, declaring that protecting yeshiva bochurim must remain their overriding priority in the upcoming Israeli elections. During the meeting, MK Yaakov Asher pledged that the party would refuse to join any government that fails to reach an acceptable arrangement safeguarding the status of yeshiva students. Rav Bergman told the lawmakers that the continued existence and protection of the yeshiva world must guide their political decisions.“We must understand that everything that concerns us revolves around the yeshiva bochurim,”.