Weather: Tonight low of 3° Partly cloudy. Gusty winds diminishing after midnight. Low 3F. Winds could occasionally gust over 40 mph.
NWS Advisory Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken.
- KABOLAS PANIM at BMG this Sunday for the newly appointed Mashgiach Rav Reuven Hechster Shlita as he joins the hanhalas Hayeshiva. It will take place Sunday 6:50 pm at Beren hall
Three 22-year-old yeshiva bochurim were rescued in stable condition after falling through ice in Jamaica Bay near Far Rockaway on Friday afternoon. NYPD and FDNY units carried out a dramatic multi-agency rescue, pulling the men from 36-degree water and airlifting them to nearby hospitals. All three survived and are expected to recover.
-Melava malka Parlor meeting Zichron Chana Leah Rabbi Helberg Westgate at 31 Kelmwoods divrei Pesicha Rav Moshe Yosef Ruvel shlita divrei Chizuk Rav Nochum Binder Shlita
- Costume closeouts Purim store open tonight from 8pm - 11pm at 27 S. Hope Chapel in Jackson former Walgreens near Kalamata.
- Mesivta Farhers is still ongoing with many bochurim still not placed yet.
- Lakewood receives $2 Million in federal tax dollar funding from Chris Smith for infrastructure projects recently approved by the township. Faa news reports this was initially supposed to be paid for by the developers. Which brings the question why isn't federal dollars going to existing lakewood infrastructure in need of repairs. Soo full story at faanews.
- President Donald Trump said Washington had “very good talks” with Tehran on Friday, after the two sides began indirect negotiations in Oman’s capital Muscat that could avert a military escalation.“We’re going to meet again early next week,” he added.
- U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner paid a high-profile visit Monday to the USS Abraham Lincoln, in an implicit warning of the Trump administration’s dual-track approach of diplomacy and deterrence as tensions with Iran continue to simmer.
- Giyus: Military police arrested a youngerman in Ofakim for Draft dodging. There's been protests in the area with a heavy police response.
- The bomb threat at Georgian Court University on Thursday in Lakewood was the work of a minor from Hazlet, New Jersey, who has since been arrested and charged, according to the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office
- Netanyahu will be moving up his trip to Washington and arriving this Tuesday to meet with President Trump on Wednesday - instead of his planned the week after. The reason for this unusual change of schedule is an urgent discussion with the President on Iran.
U.S. stocks rallied sharply on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossing the 50,000 threshold for the first time as investors shook off earlier technology-sector losses and returned to risk assets.