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Category Archives: Lakewood
When Do Big Rabbis Become Small Rabbis?
In his third lecture on Rabbi Chalom Messas for Torah in Motion, Rabbi Marc B. Shapiro says: I don’t think Rabbi Yitzhak Abadi has any following. He learned his whole life in the Litvisha world. Rav Abadi was the posek … Continue reading
Posted in Lakewood, Marc B. Shapiro, R. Yitzhak Abadi
Tagged chalom, har nof, kotler, Marc B. Shapiro, torah in motion, yeshivot
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Lakewood Yeshiva Student Dies Of Percocet Overdose
Report: Lakewood, NJ – Hatzolah responded about 11:00am Shabbas morning to East End Avenue, for reports of a teenage boy who was unconscious and didn’t wake up, from a drug overdose. After Hatzolah trying to work on the child to … Continue reading
Posted in Drugs, Lakewood
Tagged drug overdose, hatzolah, lakewood nj, percocet overdose, yeshiva student
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Black – Jewish Tensions Running High In Lakewood, New Jersey
This is the natural order of things. The black and Jewish communities have little in common, despite all the rhetoric to the opposite. Jews who are immersed in Judaism have little interest in reaching out to blacks while almost all … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks, Lakewood, Race
Tagged baseball bat, center neptune, jersey shore university medical center, lakewood new jersey, university medical center, welsh farms
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Lakewood To Require 11-Men Minyans?
A minyan means a prayer quorum. In orthodox Judaism, you have to have ten men in a room to say certain prayers. Chaptzem writes: "Lakewood is considering implementing a new 11 man minyan takunah. If this new takunah is approved … Continue reading
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Smoking On Shabbs While Studying Talmud
Here’s a blog: Photo of the perfect candidate to be The next GODOL HADOR of Lakewood Tsunami Hit Lakewood! The entire Frum World is in SHOCK! Lakewood just got a taste of their own medicine – a product of their … Continue reading
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Tagged con man, drek, frum, godol hador, goy, lakewood nj, marshal, monster, own medicine, perfect candidate, shock, talmud, Torah, tsunami, velt, virtue, vosizneias com, yid, yiddishkiet, youngster
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Lakewood Yeshiva Bocher wanted for armed robbery
Rotenberg (PHOTO PROVIDED) App.com reports: HOWELL — A 19-year-old Lakewood man has been identified as the suspect sought by authorities in an armed robbery at Reich Jewelers, where two employees were held at gunpoint and forced to fill duffel bags … Continue reading
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Tagged 2004 acura tsx, acura tsx, armed robbery, arrest warrant, birch street, bocher, duffel bags, heathwood, hot car, jewelry store robbery, lakewood police, law enforcement agencies, miller road, mysterious call, police detective, rabbi michael, rotenberg, rottenberg, street lakewood, unlawful purpose
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Fake Jew Arrested In Lakewood, New Jersey
Video report. JewishInfoSpot reports: Natan Levi, so was he known, was a full time Lakewood Yeshiva man until he was arrested by the FBI last week. Mr. Ted Larry Floyd, a Christian from Kansas, finally busted by the FBI after … Continue reading
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Tagged community synagogue, daughter age, drug trafficking, jew, jewish community, jewish education, jewish religion, jewish school, jewish women, lakewood new jersey, levi family, mr ted, natan, orthodox women, red flag, sephardic, study group, talmud, Torah, Yeshiva
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Lakewood Community Rocked By Non-Jewish Man Posing As Jew!
From The Yeshiva World: (Lakewood Staff Writer – YWN) The Lakewood Jewish community is shocked after learning that a “Frum” man living in the heart of Lakewood, was anything but Frum. A source tells YWN, that a family has been … Continue reading
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Tagged 6 years, charade, dead person, FBI, forest park area, handcuffs, jew, jewish community, jewish man, jewish roots, lakewood community, lakewood nj, levi, mr ted, natan, rsquo, screeching halt, study partners, Torah, yeshiva world
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