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Please note: It’s important to call any location in advance to confirm hours, availability, and pricing. Some discounts on admission can be found at com, groupon.com, and theoceancountylibrary.org/museum-pass-program. Stay safe and have fun! The Voice does not take responsibility for any errors listed below or the kashrus of any establishment.   Special for Pesach 5784 […]

Our prayers come in many different shapes and forms. There are the requests we made when we were younger for outcomes that were so inconsequential but felt so important at the time. Please help me win the raffle. Please could rebbi pick me. Please make it sunny today. There are the frantic, whispered Please help […]

As we kick off the pre-Pesach shopping season, we take a look back at the stores that aren’t just stores. These nostalgic shops have watched Lakewood morph and mature, emerging as an epicenter of frum commerce. Through upgrades and upheavals, they’ve managed to maintain their small-town, old-time, warm, and friendly feel while keeping current in […]

Elisheva Braun There are three things you can be in Lakewood, goes the highly prejudiced, profoundly offensive joke: A gaon, a gvir, or a gornisht. What of the frum world’s middle class, the caste that can claim neither shiny Range Rovers  nor 18-hour sedarim? In the exalted ordinariness of their frum lives, a number feel […]

Elisheva Braun Ubiquitous? Yes. Mysterious? Maybe. A source of melded pity and pride? Oh, absolutely yes. Welcome to the world of meshulachim, quiet witnesses to Lakewood’s homes, halls, and hearts. When three meshulachim showed up at the Voice office a couple of weeks ago—a marvelous sampling of a venerable Yerushalmi, middle-aged Sefardi, and young, wiry […]

His fire and fortitude in the beis midrash were legendary. He fought like a lion for those who couldn’t fight for themselves. Love and expectations were his signature style of chinuch. The multifaceted life and work of Rabbi Meir Hertz zt”l Elisheva Braun Meir Hertz was born in 1948 Haifa, amid the raging throes of […]

Relief or rip-off? The lab-grown diamond phenomenon Elisheva Braun When I first tumbled down the rabbit hole of lab-grown diamond research, I texted Chana Miriam*, my hilarious and much-loved second cousin who’d married off two sons, Did you buy Vivi and Malka lab-grown diamonds? Writing an article about the topic. You can’t do that, she […]

Longtime mohel Rabbi Shlomo Golish discusses his sacred craft M. Brejt It’s the most important moment in a child’s life, but one he’ll never remember. It’s a fleeting cry of pain amid shouts of joy. It’s a celebration of a new start that’s part of the longest chain in our history. “Zeh hakatan gadol yihyeh…” […]

A Conversation with Relief Director Rabbi Binyomin Babad Zahava Emanuel Until about 20 years ago, Rabbi Binyomin Babad’s résumé looked fairly typical: yeshivah, kollel, a stint at Agudah. So what convinced a Lakewood yungerman to get into the mental health field two decades ago, before therapy was a buzzword? And what caused him to open […]

The Voice of Lakewood Presents… The High School Play A Drama in Three Acts S. Pruzansky Cast of characters Tenth-grade teacher and sewing head: Sari Weinman* Ninth-grade teacher: Leah Kleinman* Twelfth-grade teacher: Rivky Rudel* Mother of the main part: Chaya Rivka Katz* Mother of three high school girls: Esther Shreiber* Play director: Chani Panish Ninth-grade […]