Every community talks about chesed. In Lakewood, chesed has infrastructure — organizations, hotlines, warehouses, volunteer armies — operating at a scale that has to be seen to be believed. If you ever need help in this town, you will not have to…
Seven-fifteen on a Tuesday morning in Lakewood: the streets fill with kids. Backpacks, lunchboxes, bikes, scooters, school buses — thousands of children streaming toward dozens of schools, while their fathers head to shacharis and their mothers start the beautiful chaos of the…
It's hard to believe, standing on a busy Lakewood street in 2025, that this was once a sleepy resort town where New Yorkers came to escape the summer heat. But the grand old hotels are still there in the history books —…
Here's a statistic that tells you everything about Lakewood: there are shuls here you could walk past every day for a month and never notice — tucked into houses, basements, converted garages, strip malls. Some estimates put the number in the hundreds.…
Every town has a Shabbos. But Shabbos in Lakewood is something visitors talk about for years afterward — the quiet, the walking, the feeling that an entire town has agreed, all at once, to stop.
If you're planning your first Shabbos here,…
If you stand quietly on a Lakewood street on a weeknight around nine o'clock, you'll hear it: a low, rolling hum, like a beehive the size of a neighborhood. That's the sound of thousands of men learning Torah at the same time…
There's a moment that happens to almost every first-time visitor to Lakewood, and it usually happens within the first hour of arriving.
You're driving down Clifton Avenue, maybe a little lost, looking for the street your rental is on, and at a…
Summer vacation season is fast approaching and with it comes family trips to the Jersey Shore. In order to maximize your beach trip experience, we consulted with a group of realtors and Shore experts to assist with planning a successful beach visit.…
Jewish families flocked to Morristown's Ginty Field for the annual Jewish Summer Festival, an event that showcased community, culture and activities of interest to all participants.
Simchat Torah marks the completion of one annual cycle of weekly Torah readings and commencement of…
New Jersey's fifth most populous township offers an astonishingly diverse community. However, it faces unique challenges that set it apart from other towns.
An increasing Orthodox Jewish population in this district is creating a busing crisis, as district officials have arranged private…