Frum News From The Greater Lakewood Area

Month May 2024

Police Dismantle Pro-Hamas Encampment At University Of Chicago [VIDEOS]

Police cleared a pro-Hamas tent encampment at the University of Chicago on Tuesday as tension ratcheted up in standoffs with demonstrators at other college campuses around the U.S. — and increasingly, in Europe. Protesters numbering in the several hundreds had… Continue Reading →

Details of UK Military Personnel Exposed in Huge Payroll Data Breach

LONDON (AP) — The names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach at a payroll system used by the U.K. defense ministry, officials said Tuesday. The… Continue Reading →

Ukraine Says It Foiled Russian Spy Agency Plot To Assassinate President Zelensky

Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained… Continue Reading →

Should ‘From the river to the sea’ be allowed on Facebook and Instagram? Meta’s Oversight Board is considering the question

(JTA) — The social media company Meta is adjudicating whether a key phrase used by pro-Palestinian activists constitutes acceptable speech. The company’s Oversight Board, an independent body tasked with reviewing Meta’s content moderation decisions, has taken up the question as… Continue Reading →

WATCH: Trump Tears Into Biden’s Antisemitism Response: “Hope You’re Listening Israel”

Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue. Trump’s attempts to claim a moral high ground against antisemitism come as… Continue Reading →

Intense Final Preparations In Kerestir As Klal Yisroel Prepares For Historic Shabbos Yahrtzeit Of Reb Shayeleh Zy”a

The quiet village of Keresteer in Hungary, and most notably the famed Reb Shayeleh’s Guesthouse, is teeming with activity this week as preparations reach a fever pitch ahead of the 99th yahrtzeit of the legendary tzaddik and master of yeshuos,… Continue Reading →

Tonight: LPD Car Seat Check Event

The LPD car seat check event will be taking place between 5-8pm tonight at 733 Cedarbridge Avenue, (across Blueclaws). The events are scheduled to take place on the first Tuesday of each month – due to fire house availability. Certified… Continue Reading →

Deadline for Businesses to Apply for Their Share of Massive Credit Card Company Settlement Looms

NEW YORK (AP) — A deadline is looming for millions of businesses who may be entitled to a payout in a $5.5 billion antitrust settlement with Visa and Mastercard. The settlement stems from a 2005 lawsuit that alleged merchants paid excessive… Continue Reading →

Australian Boy Shot By Police After Stabbing Was In Deradicalization Program Since Causing School Explosion

A 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in the Australian west coast city of Perth had been engaged in a deradicalization program since he detonated a homemade explosive device in a school toilet block… Continue Reading →

ALLY OR FOE? As US Blocks Arms Delivery, Admits It Ceded To Leftists In Report On IDF’s Use Of Arms In Gaza

In recent months, the Biden administration has blocked the sales of thousands of precision weapons to Israel, the Wall Street Journal reported. Ironically, the delay of the shipment  — 6,500 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kits that turn bombs… Continue Reading →

US Seeks Information From Tesla on How It Developed and Verified Whether Autopilot Recall Worked

DETROIT (AP) — Federal highway safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how and why it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles equipped with the company’s Autopilot partially automated driving system. Investigators with the… Continue Reading →

New Bill Would Create A Second Degree Crime of Home Invasion Burglary in New Jersey

A new bill introduced by New Jersey state Senator Vin Gopal would create a second degree crime of home invasion burglary, subject to the No Early Release Act (NERA), and the third degree crime of residential burglary, which would not… Continue Reading →

Rescuers Contact Some Workers Alive In Rubble Of Deadly Building Collapse In South Africa

Rescue teams trying to find dozens of construction workers missing since a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have made contact with 11 people buried alive beneath the mangled wreckage, authorities said Tuesday. One man… Continue Reading →

Freed Israeli Hostage to Leave Hospital After Five Months

(JNS) – Some five months after being freed from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, Elma Avraham is set to be released from hospital, Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center announced on Tuesday. Avraham, who celebrated her 85th birthday during her hospitalization,… Continue Reading →

White House Calls on Hamas Leader Sinwar To Hold Press Conference Explaining His War Aims

The White House is demanding Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to hold a press briefing and answer questions from the public regarding his intentions in the ongoing Gaza war. This comes after Israeli officials labeled Hamas’s response to the latest hostage… Continue Reading →

FOR SHAME: Neturei Karta’s Terrorist-Loving Yisroel Dovid Weiss Burns American Flag [VIDEO]

Yisroel Dovid Weiss, a leader of Neturei Karta in the U.S. who runs around the world to kiss notorious terrorists and Holocaust deniers, isn’t content with supporting the world’s worst miscreants – he has to oppose the country that provides… Continue Reading →

Police Break up a Pro-palestinian Student Protest in Berlin as Demonstrations Spread Across Europe

AMSTERDAM (AP) — German police on Tuesday broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University earlier in the day, the latest such action by authorities as protests that have roiled… Continue Reading →

Lakewood Police Weekly Blotter

DWI/MVA April 25, 2024, at 8:30 p.m., Officer Anthony Amoroso responded to a three car Motor Vehicle Crash on Cross Street. While on scene, Amoroso noted that one of the drivers, Jerry Rojas Leal, 21, from Bronx, N.Y. was exhibiting… Continue Reading →

INSANE: Turkish terrorist who attacked police traveled to Israel with official delegation

(JNS) — The Turkish terrorist who carried out an attack in Jerusalem this week, moderately injuring an Israeli policeman, was visiting the Jewish state as part of an official delegation organized by Ankara’s Ministry of Religion, the HaKol HaYehudi news… Continue Reading →

“ASTOUNDING:” Rep. Lawler Blasts NY Board of Regents For Ignoring Antisemitism On College Campuses

Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17) ripped into the New York Board of Regents for not placing the issue of antisemitism on their agenda for their meeting on Tuesday. “It is astounding to me that the New York Board of Regents did… Continue Reading →

Putin Begins His Fifth Term As President, More In Control Of Russia Than Ever

Vladimir Putin began his fifth term Tuesday as Russian leader at a glittering Kremlin inauguration, setting out on another six years in office after destroying his political opponents, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and concentrating all power in his… Continue Reading →

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