Friday, April 10, 2026 / כ״ג ניסן תשפ״ו

ערב שבת פרשת שמיני אסרו חג

candle lighting: 7:12 pm

 Shkiah/sunset 7:30 pm

Weather 63° sunny

tonight: 50° partly cloudy skies 

shabbos day 65° Sunny skies.

Shabbos Mevorchim chodesh Iyar Rosh chodesh is Friday and Shabbos (those holding first half of sefira can get haircut and shave next Friday)

Molad is Friday morning, 18 minutes and 14 chalakim after 5:00 am

Reminder no music for those who keep first half of sefira

- Updated AKO Post-Pesach Shopping Information 2026 Here 

- No soughrdough challos available at stores due to short schedule 

- Nichun Aveilim: Shiva for Rebbetzin Reva Halperin A"H is at 705 Valley Dr. Lakewood her brothers Rav Dovid and  Shlomo Feivel Schustal shlita are sitting at same address.

- Nichum Aveilim: shiva For Mrs. Beatie Solomon A"H of Brooklyn is at 1459 58th st in Boro Park. Her sons are R' Yaakov Schwartz of Lakewood R' Yossi, R' Moshe Akiva Schwartz. 

- ICE agents arrested an undocumented Mexican man in Jackson, New Jersey, on April 1, despite Governor Mikie Sherrill’s ban on masked enforcement officers. Officials said the qman had been deported twice before and also faced prior domestic violence charges.APP

- New Jersey Human Services Commissioner has announced that his Department has fully reopened the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), restoring access to all eligible families seeking child care assistance. All new enrollments were frozen last August due to a funding shortage. In her proposed $60.7 billion state budget for Fiscal Year 2027, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill included an additional $18 million for the program, which is projected to support for up to 77,500 children, or 2,500 more than the current year's budget.(Shlomoschorr)

- New Jersey drivers who have a vehicle inspection sticker set to expire between April and July of this year will get a three-month grace period due to the closure of the Newark Inspection Station this weekend. Vehicles with April expirations will now be extended to July, May stickers are good until August, June stickers are extended to September and July stickers are valid until October. (Onejersey) 

- BDE: Petirah of Hagaon Rav Chanoch Friedman zt”l, Rosh Kollel and Av Beis Din of Beis Yechiel in Har Nof, who passed away while in the US. He was known as a iluy a respected talmid chochom and marbitz Torah a mechaber sefoeim and was one of the youngest talmidim of Rav Aharon Kotler Zatzal. The levaya was scheduled for Friday at 2:00 p.m. at Congregation Adas Yeshurun, 3050 W Touhy Ave, Chicago, with a second levaya planned in Lakewood on Sunday 10 am at BMG, followed by kevurah in Eretz Yisrael.

- Report Lakewood Police say that drones spotted over sensitive areas during Pesach were part of an authorized security operation. The effort involved local police, county and state law enforcement, and Shomrim, providing coordinated aerial and ground coverage across Lakewood during Yom Tov. Specific monitored locations were not disclosed.

- BDE: Petirah of Rav Avrohom Altman zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Ateres Tzvi in Ashdod, passed away at the age of 94 after collapsing at his home. He had recently been weakened but was still able to daven in his bais medrash over Pesach. The levaya was held at Yeshivas Ateres Tzvi in Ashdod, and continued to Har Hamenuchos in Yerushalayim for kevurah.

- A tragic incident occurred at Tzanz Beach in Netanya on Friday, where two brothers were caught in the water. One was rescued in critical condition and taken unresponsive to Laniado Hospital in Netanya, while the second remains missing as search and rescue operations continue.

- Emergency teams, including ZAKA and Magen David Adom, are conducting intensive efforts along the shoreline and surrounding waters. Please be mispallel for: 

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