You've made it. The drive is over, the kids have stopped asking "are we there yet" (mostly because you're there), and you're standing in front of your Lakewood villa with the key code, a car full of luggage, and a week of…
Lakewood, New Jersey offers something for everyone. From big city excitement to quiet suburban life, Lakewood provides many exciting and enjoyable activities.
Climbers find thrills at the local climbing center, while children adore spending a day at Lakewood BlueClaws baseball stadium and…
If you want to understand Lakewood, skip the history books and go grocery shopping on a Friday morning. The energy is unmistakable: carts piled with challah and chickens, kids negotiating for treats, everyone moving with the cheerful urgency of people who share…
It happens to every careful traveler sooner or later. You're standing in a rental kitchen, holding a pot, and a question blooms in your mind: Was this used for milchig or fleishig? Or you open a cabinet and find a container of…
Lakewood, New Jersey's fastest growing municipality, is experiencing unprecedented expansion due to a widespread boom. Unfortunately, this has created unique challenges such as strain on infrastructure, increasing affordability issues and creating strain between different groups.
Over the next nine days, NJ Advance…
Every frum family has its own relationship with technology, and it's usually been worked out carefully at home: the filters, the rules about phones for kids, the Shabbos boundaries, the "no devices at the table" policy that everyone honors except on the…
Traveling with a baby or toddler introduces a special kind of packing physics. The child weighs 25 pounds. The equipment required to keep the child alive and happy weighs approximately 400 pounds. And somehow, it all has to fit in the car…
There's a particular kind of packing optimism that strikes before a long trip. You stand in front of the open suitcase, doing arithmetic: Two weeks... if everyone wears everything twice... if the kids don't destroy anything... And then reality sets in, and…
Lakewood has experienced dramatic expansion over the years. Its population soared to 93,000, becoming New Jersey's fifth-largest municipality. Lakewood remains primarily Orthodox with the majority of residents affiliated with Beth Medrash Govoha (BMG).
NJ Advance Media examines Lakewood's challenges and opportunities.
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There's a special sweetness to a three-generation vacation: zeidy telling stories the kids have heard twelve times and still request, bubby's lap being the most contested seat in the villa, the whole mishpacha around one table. These are the trips everyone remembers.…