Multiple coronavirus diagnoses have been confirmed in Lakewood, N.J., The Lakewood Scoop reported Thursday. Lakewood has one of the highest concentrations of Jews in the United States, with an estimated 59% of the population Jewish, according to a 2011 study. While many of Lakewood’s synagogues had shut down as the coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the…
Synagogues around the country have shut their doors to daily because of the coronavirus pandemic, but some, particularly among Hasidic and other Orthodox strains of Judaism, are taking extraordinary measures to find ways to stay open. One Orthodox synagogue in Lakewood, New Jersey — which has one of the highest concentrations of Jews in the…
(JTA) — Facebook has removed a page that opposes the expansion of the Orthodox population around Lakewood, New Jersey. The page, called Rise Up Ocean County, had been called anti-Semitic by local leaders. “We’ve been clear that this page trafficked in hate that has no place in NJ,” state Attorney General Gurbir Grewal wrote Wednesday…
John Bolton is perhaps the most in-demand person in Washington, D.C. If he testifies in the impeachment hearing, he could change the course of history. But Bolton may sooner show up in the suburban town of Jackson, N.J., than on the floor of the Senate. That’s because Dr. Richard Roberts — an Orthodox Jewish philanthropist…
Updated January 21 Public officials and Jewish community members in New Jersey were hearkened after learning that a Facebook page accused of fomenting anti-Semitism among residents of a town with a large Orthodox Jewish population had been suspended by the social media network. But it turned out that page administrators had temporarily taken it down…
On a county road south of the Haredi hub of Lakewood, N.J., sits an old egg farm that is at the heart of a lawsuit over anti-Semitism that could seriously impact a suburban town’s bottom line. The farm, dormant since about 2005, is one of a dwindling number of undeveloped lots in an area that…
(JTA) — More than 100 car tires have been slashed in the heavily Jewish town of Lakewood, New Jersey, over the past several days. All of the cars involved were reported to belong to or be used by Jews, ABC News reported Monday. Security footage broadcast by ABC showed a person in a hoodie using…
The Lakewood Yeshiva is in New Jersey, but it’s the Texas of Talmud academies. Everything is big, from festivals to real estate deals. Its airy study halls can hold hundreds of bearded men in black pants and crisp white shirts, their fringes swinging at the waist as they spend their days in prayer and study….
אין די בערלינער קאַפֿע־הײַזער האָט די אינטעליגענץ געשמועסט, געלײענט צײַטונגען און געשפּילן שאַך.
די שאַפֿער פֿון דער אָפּערע שטעלן זיך פֿאָר די ווירקונג פֿון שפּרינצעס טויט אויף אירע שוועסטער און צייטלס אייניקל.
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