Month September 2020
The day after Yom Kippur, the recent surge of COVID cases in Lakewood has continued to rise, with well over 1,000 infections. The uptick in cases has been ongoing for… Read more » The post Lakewood’s Second COVID Outbreak Continues… Continue Reading →
Israelis longing for an end to the nationwide lockdown heard on Wednesday evening that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said “our exit strategy [from the lockdown] will be slow this time,… Read more » The post Netanyahu: Exit Strategy Could a… Continue Reading →
[Public Notice] In accordance with the Open Public Meetings Act, P.L. 1975 c. 231 this is to advise that the Lakewood Board of Education will hold a Meeting on Wednesday, October 21, 2020. Executive Session at 6:30 p.m. and Public… Continue Reading →
Head-scratching perplexity about U.S. democracy in Australia and Denmark. Disdain for “chaos” and “insults” between America’s presidential contenders in a Chinese Communist Party tabloid. A European market watcher’s warning of… Read more » The post World Reacts with Surprise, Worry… Continue Reading →
Kuwait’s Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah was sworn in Wednesday as the ruling emir of the tiny oil-rich country, propelled to power by the death of his half-brother after a long career in the security services. At age 83,… Continue Reading →
U.S. private employers stepped up hiring in September, but diminishing government financial assistance and a resurgence in new COVID-19 cases in some parts of the country could slow the labor… Read more » The post U.S. Private Payrolls Increase More… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Commission on Presidential Debates says it’s adding new “tools to maintain order” to the upcoming debates after a chaotic first debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Trump’s frequent interruptions of the Democratic presidential nominee… Continue Reading →
Chesed of Lakewood is reporting that their extremely active program – “The Sukkah Exchange” – is receiving an unprecedented number of requests for Sukkahs. Currently, over 100 families across the tri-state area are waiting for Sukkahs. The most frequent given… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden continued their debate-stage clash from afar on Wednesday as they competed for working-class voters in the Midwest and elected officials in both parties — and the debate commission, too — sought to deal… Continue Reading →
President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden continued their debate-stage clash from afar on Wednesday as they competed for working-class voters in the Midwest and elected officials in both parties — and the debate commission, too — sought to deal… Continue Reading →
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators have arrested and charged a man in connection with the shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies earlier this month as they sat in a squad car, authorities said Wednesday. Attempted murder charges were… Continue Reading →
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday attacked U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden for saying that the South American nation should suffer “significant economic consequences” if devastation of the Amazon rainforest continues. Biden said during Tuesday’s… Continue Reading →
The New Jersey State Police announced today enhancements to the Firearms Application and Registration System (FARS), which further streamlines the paperless process to purchase a handgun. Beginning Thursday, October 1, this new enhancement to the FARS application process will make… Continue Reading →
Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin has granted the first pardon as part of the special process for those in debt because of fines and financial difficulties caused by of the coronavirus… Read more » The post Rivlin Pardons Pandemic Debtor appeared… Continue Reading →
A bid for High Court intervention to override a measure passed by the Knesset to empower the government to clamp down on political demonstrations during the health crisis got a… Read more » The post High Court Considers Petition to… Continue Reading →
Ronnie Gamzu may be on his way out as the coronavirus czar, but not before he leaves his mark on the struggle to contain the pandemic. Gamzu proposed on Wednesday… Read more » The post Gamzu Wants Tougher Penalties for… Continue Reading →
Dear members of Lakewood, A few months ago, if anyone would have told me we would be heading toward March again, or even a tiny fraction of the horrors that happened, I would never have believed you. Purim was a… Continue Reading →
In school or not, your preschooler can now learn and explore, with full time access to Morah Chaya’s interactive videos. After her striking success in keeping preschoolers across our community entertained with wholesome content during the initial outbreak of the… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The rabbinic leadership of the Sephardic Orthodox Shas party called for prayer services to be held outdoors only to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. It marked the first time that the Shas Council of Torah Sages… Continue Reading →
Last night, Rebbetzin Reitza Brim’s 5 year old son asked her a routine question: “Mama, I’m hungry. What’s for dinner?”. When she heard that question, she ran out of the room in tears and locked herself in the bathroom to… Continue Reading →