Reuvain Borchardt
By Reuvain Borchardt US Senator Andy Kim (D-NJ) visited Agudath Israel’s Lakewood office to learn about Agudah’s Zahav program, which provides support and resources to seniors, and Yahalom, which assists families of children with special needs. While organizations often invite legislators to their offices, this was a rare case of the […]
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Rav Bunim Schreiber’s remarkable first visit to Lakewood By Reuvain Borchardt The Keren Olam HaTorah delegation boasts some of the greatest tamidei chachamim and tzaddikim from Eretz Yisrael, most of whom are well-known and revered by the American Torah community. Yet one of the revelations of this trip has been Rav Yisroel Bunim Schreiber, rosh yeshivah of Yeshiva Nesiv […]
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Living in chutz laAretz, we can sometimes feel apart from our brothers in Eretz Yisrael. We anxiously follow the news, and they are never far from our tefillos, but they remain far away, on the other side of the world. With the arrival of the gedolei hador, that distance disappeared. Here we relive the highlights […]
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By Reuvain Borchardt Ten years ago, the Lakewood Student Transportation Authority was created to solve one of the community’s most pressing challenges: busing thousands of children to school safely and efficiently without any dedicated state support. As the organization marks its first decade and looks ahead to its next, LSTA Director Rabbi […]
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Thirty thousand people packed the Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia and another 6,000 filled a satellite location at the CURE Insurance Arena in Trenton for the fifth maamad of Adirei HaTorah, the historic movement to honor those who have dedicated their lives to studying Torah in the kollel of Beth Medrash Govoha. “We are gathered […]
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Dr. Robert Shanik and Dr. Ira Haimowitz of Pediatric Affiliates reached out to The Voice to express concern over the growing reliance on urgent care centers and other forms of convenience-based medicine, which they say is contributing to fragmented care and, in some cases, substandard treatment. By Dr. Robert Shanik and Dr. […]
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By Reuvain Borchardt As housing construction proliferates and traffic increasingly worsens, just about every proposal for a school, dormitory, shul, or zoning variance now sparks fierce opposition from neighbors. For the past three decades, Moshe Neiman has had a front-row seat to Lakewood’s explosive growth—and to the at-times bitter battles over what […]
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By Reuvain Borchardt Rabbi Avrohom Zelasko discusses building the Library of Chayei Yisrael, the largest shul otzar in Lakewood It’s 6:30 a.m., and a maggid shiur at one of the top local yeshivos is at the sefarim shrank of the heintege roshei yeshivah. His shiur has been handling a shverer Meiri for […]
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By Reuvain Borchardt Tyler Oliveira, the YouTuber who made videos depicting chareidi Jews as welfare abusers and leeches on society who “invade” communities in New York and New Jersey, tried visiting Israel this week but was denied entry. And it all might have been due to a couple of Lakewood men who […]
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By Reuvain Borchardt Menachem is living the life he envisioned when the native Brooklynite moved to Lakewood 21 years ago. He has a top job in a successful local company. He has a wife who works part-time and seven wonderful children. He has plenty of relatives and a great group of friends, most […]
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