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- Lakewood is home to a huge Orthodox Jewish community and the rapid growth has engulfed the town, igniting tensions between the religious and secular societies on many levels.
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Aug 5, 2017 · Lakewood is home to a huge Orthodox Jewish community and the rapid growth has engulfed the town, igniting tensions between the religious and secular societies on many levels.
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...
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...
For many years, the Lakewood yeshiva has been the central and most respected academic institution within the community of Ashkenazi Lithuanian Orthodox Jews in America, and the town of Lakewood...
Nowhere is Lakewood’s Jewish population more self-segregated than in its schools.
- Becky Hendricks
Nov 15, 2022 · In fact, the town started off as a small Jewish resort amid lakes and woods but became known in the latter half of the century for its many yeshivas, Jewish academies for Talmudic study.
Feb 17, 2023 · (For clarity’s sake, this article will broadly refer to Lakewood’s ultra-religious Jewish community as “Orthodox,” but there are important divisions within the Jewish community in Lakewood and elsewhere.)
