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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...
- I spent 2 weeks in Lakewood. This is what I saw. - nj.com
Lakewood is home to a huge Orthodox Jewish community and the...
- I spent 2 weeks in Lakewood. This is what I saw. - nj.com
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.
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A new housing development is just getting started off Broadway Ave. in the south part of the town. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) For large Orthodox families, Lakewood has become a cheaper and more attractive alternative to living in Brooklyn, where housing prices are far higher. The town has approved 1,200 new houses and 40...
A yeshiva student keeps an eye on his children Yocheved and Binyomin on a street of new homes. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) A driveway is full of kid's cars in front of a new home on the town's east side. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) The town has had a population explosion with more than 100,000 p...
Women push baby carriages on a busy sidewalk along 2nd Street. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) In a crowded downtown, the different communities of Lakewood meet. After finishing cutting the grass for a church on E. 4th St., Clarence Lampkin, left, talks to friends Pedro Sepeda, center, and Fernado Natal. (Aristide Economopoul...
Pastor Thomas E. Simpson, Sr. gives a Sunday sermon at the Intercessory Tabernacle Ministries, a church in Lakewood. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) A preacher's call Pastor Thomas E. Simpson, Sr. says he has received numerous offers to sell out but he wants to stay put. "I keep telling them the church is not for sale," said ...
During a family outing at Pine Park, yeshiva student David Horowitz waits to catch a football thrown by his eldest son Shmuel, 9, as his wife, Devora, and daughter, Rivka, watch. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Pine Park is one of the few places in Lakewood where residents from all of communities find common ground, although ...
A deer on the campus of Georgian Court University. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) A quiet campus Georgian Court University, a private Catholic school, was built on a former railroad magnate’s estate, on the shores of one of the lakes that gave Lakewood its name. People wait for the start of the musical "Hairspray" at the his...
Early in the morning, day laborers wait at the municipal parking lot trying to get work in construction or landscaping. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) There is a growing community of temp workers in Lakewood, many gathering each morning to wait to be hired for construction or landscaping jobs. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Ad...
Lakewood Mayor Raymond Coles, left, sitting alongside Deputy Mayor Menashe Miller, tells people during the Township Committee meeting that the town is going to provide additional funding to the school district to keep the high school sports programs and school librarians. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) The council Lakewood s...
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...
Oct 16, 2014 · Lakewood, which sits about 10 miles from the Jersey Shore and 80 miles south of Manhattan, was once a WASPy summer village. It’s now at least half Jewish, and the newcomers here have created an...
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...
Apr 2, 2018 · For decades now, Lakewood has been a thriving hub of Orthodox Judaism, whose tenets predispose its adherents to live communally.
