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May 7, 2017 · The township, once a popular Jewish resort nestled in the Jersey pines with three lakes providing year-round recreation, is now the state's fifth largest city - crowded, congested and still...
Aug 29, 2019 · Since about 2015, and possibly even earlier, as the Orthodox Jewish population of Lakewood has continued to multiply—half of its 102,000 residents are Orthodox Jews and the other half includes Hispanic or African-American—tensions have also been growing with their neighbors.
Feb 18, 2022 · In Lakewood — an Ocean County township that is not especially close to either Manhattan or Philadelphia — Rabbi Aharon Kotler, a Talmid chacham, or learned man, who left Europe at the outset of the Holocaust, planted roots.
Oct 16, 2014 · The predominantly Hasidic village of Kiryas Joel in Orange County, N.Y., is the poorest town with more than 10,000 residents in the country. Many of the Jewish poor do accept forms of public ...
That release showed that Hasidic Williamsburg was the fastest-growing Assembly district in New York state, while in New Jersey, increasingly Haredi Lakewood grew at the highest rate of any city...
Sep 5, 2019 · Since about 2015, and possibly even earlier, as the Orthodox Jewish population of Lakewood has continued to multiply — half of its 102,000 residents are Orthodox Jews and the other half includes...
Apr 25, 2018 · A look at the explosive growth that has made BMG a leading institution for Orthodox learning in the U.S. and changed Lakewood.
Jun 27, 2019 · Another group of Orthodox Jews in Lakewood are Hassidic Jews. They follow a form of Orthodox worship that emerged in the 1700s, and identify strongly with their European hometowns where their...
Apr 2, 2018 · For decades now, Lakewood has been a thriving hub of Orthodox Judaism, whose tenets predispose its adherents to live communally. For practical religious reasons, observant Orthodox Jews...
Nov 26, 2018 · You might say Lakewood -- a northern Ocean County township whose Orthodox Jewish population has exploded in recent decades -- is experiencing growing pains. But Rabbi Aaron Kotler, who holds...
