Month June 2022
A 19-year-old was indicted in connection with a fatal boat accident in Toms River. Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced on that June 22, 2022, Juan Fernandez, II, 19, of Towaco, New Jersey, was indicted by a Grand Jury… Continue Reading →
Turkish media on Thursday revealed that Turkish intelligence authorities thwarted the abduction and murder of Israelis in Istanbul. According to the reports, members of an Iranian cell planned to kidnap a former Israeli ambassador and his wife who were staying… Continue Reading →
United Airlines will cut about 50 flights a day out of Newark, New Jersey, to reduce long delays that the airline blames on airport construction and other issues. The cuts– about 12% of United flights in Newark — will start… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Let’s make a long story short, and together let’s prevent this story from a tragic ending. Avram Moshe Kleinerman is a 16-year-old bochur in Israel. He disappeared almost three months ago. Rabbonim and Mekubalim have assured the terrified parents… Continue Reading →
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), a stalwart champion for Israeli sovereignty and security, today slammed the Biden Administration for its unprecedented move to establish a separate diplomatic office to Palestine in Israel’s capital. “The Biden Administration’s egregious decision to create a… Continue Reading →
A 17-year-old boy pleads guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an Israeli man who was visiting Baltimore for a wedding last year. Rasheed Morris, 17, is the second of three people charged in the May 2021 shooting… Continue Reading →
This week’s Lakewood Police Department blotter. SHOPLIFTING Monday, June 20, 2022 at Patrolman Mark Gibson was dispatched to Singin Gas Station for a Shoplifter. Upon arrival, he learned that the suspect had fled the scene. Through his initial investigation, he… Continue Reading →
The Russian military extended its grip Thursday on territory in eastern Ukraine, capturing two villages and vying for control of a key highway as it seeks to cut supply lines and encircle frontline Ukrainian forces, British and Ukrainian military officials… Continue Reading →
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced Thursday, amid renewed debate about the legacy of its World War II-era… Continue Reading →
The New Jersey state Senate Law and Public Safety Committee advanced a package of bills on Thursday aimed at tightening the state’s already strict gun laws – coming on the heels of today’s supreme court ruling striking down the New… Continue Reading →
The Supreme Court gave Republican legislative leaders in North Carolina a win Thursday in an ongoing fight over the state’s latest photo identification voting law. The 8-1 decision doesn’t end the more than three-year dispute over the voter ID law,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the U.S. market, the latest blow to the embattled company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping. The action is part… Continue Reading →
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement: “The Supreme Court’s sweeping decision striking down New York’s 100-year-old gun permitting law is not only wrong but wildly out of step with the American… Continue Reading →
The Frum Lakewood woman whose photo was published last year on the Asbury Park Press website alongside a caption considered by many to be racist and misogynistic, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper, Gustavo Martinez – the reporter… Continue Reading →
DETROIT (AP) — High gas prices have Wallace Reid looking for a new career. Reid, who drives for Uber and Lyft in New York, fills up his Lexus at least three times a week. He pays around $95 each time,… Continue Reading →
Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced Thursday, amid renewed debate about the legacy of its World War II-era pope. The documentation… Continue Reading →
Dear friends, As we are all too well aware, government funding to our yeshivos is extremely limited. One of the few sources of funding available for our children is for students in need of compensatory education. Over the last decade… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] I write these words not as a rebbi, a film producer, or a motivational speaker, but as a grateful talmid. When I was a young bachur in need of support, my beloved rebbi, Rav Dovid Trenk zt”l, was there… Continue Reading →
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday thanked Turkish authorities for their cooperation in allegedly foiling attacks against Israeli citizens in Turkey, and warned Israel would not “sit idly by’ in the face of threats to… Continue Reading →
A judge gave final approval Thursday to a settlement topping $1 billion for victims of the collapse of a Florida beachfront condominium building that killed 98 people, one of the deadliest building failures in U.S. history. The decision by Miami-Dade… Continue Reading →
Governor Phil Murphy moments ago released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling this morning. “Based on a deeply flawed constitutional methodology, a right-wing majority on the United States Supreme Court has just said that states can… Continue Reading →