The Lakewood 24/6 site shares the following information from one of its readers regarding tomorrow’s elections in New Jersey: “I just got off the phone with the rosh hayeshiva, Rav Aryeh Malkiel Kotler shlita. “He told me the following. Maran Rav Aharon Leib Shteiman shlit”a stated that the oilam should vote for whoever will be better […]
Kiryas Yoel, New York – Lakewood, New Jersey: Kol Koreh Below. According to the Lakewood Mashgiach for KJ Poultry, Reb Ahran Kaneivsky, the chicken is Nevaila. According to Satmar they are doing Bedikos that are not required in America. Update: According to Lakewood:
A Rav from Lakewood visited the Bais Hashchita in Kiryas Yoel and found […]
“The Sons of Israel Synagogue by Davis, Brody and Wisniewski, under construction for an Orthodox congregation in Lakewood, New Jersey, recalls some of the Polish synagogues in its in form and its originally planned exterior.” NextBook.org
Be it people buying last minute chametz, new clothing for Yom Tov, or wine for the Seder - YWN takes you there in this exclusive photo essay that covers what erev Pesach is like in Lakewood - all the way from mechiras chametz to the burning of the chametz in Lakewood Cheder, and everything in […]
Many Orthodox Jews have been drawn to Lakewood by the prestige of the town’s yeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha, one of the largest rabbinical colleges in the world. The yeshiva was founded in 1943 by a Polish-born rabbi, Aaron Kotler. In 1962, when Rabbi Kotler died, the school had 250 students. It now has about 5,000. […]
