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The 2026 Chol Hamo’ed Fun Guide   Important notes Always call locations in advance to confirm hours, availability, and pricing. Discounts may be available at beentheredonethattrips.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 nor for the kashrus of any establishment. Tip: Holders of […]

Congressman Jeff  Van Drew:   It’s not every day that you hear about people celebrating in the streets while bombs fall on their country. Yet that uncanny image is now ubiquitous in Iran, where the majority of citizens have welcomed the strikes against the regime that has oppressed them for decades. In a wide-ranging conversation […]

From childcare funding to yeshivah costs, Sherrill’s first spending plan could shape the community’s future Governor Mikie Sherrill’s first budget address in Trenton was an event marked by several notable firsts. The proposal itself set a record with a $60.7 billion spending plan for Fiscal Year 2027, the largest state budget in New Jersey history. […]

    A conversation with Menachem Yablonsky of Spotless Car Cleaning Years in business: 5 Branches: 2. This year we’re expanding to Brooklyn. Employees: Last year we had 10 workers cleaning cars.   Main source of business: We do mostly commercial work, where companies or schools hire us to Pesach clean their employees’ cars.   […]

Rabbi Spiegel on Kashrus, Mesorah, and Raising the Next Generation David Fried   “Pesach isn’t just about what we eat—it’s about who we are and the example we set for the next generation.” —Rabbi Spiegel     Heilige roots “It all started with my grandfather, the Ostrov-Kalushin Rebbe, Reb Pinchas Eliyahu Spiegel,” says Rabbi Baruch […]

Rav Micha Cohn on How a Ben Torah Should Approach Drinking Meir Kass   R’ Moshe Klein* sat with his family at his brother-in-law’s dining room table, surrounded by laughter, clinking cups, and Purim music blasting through the home. R’ Moshe—known by family and friends alike as a serious, disciplined ben Torah—had come determined to […]

By Isaac Shadpour, as told to Reuvain Borchardt     You may know me as the guy who writes for The Voice and runs the LNN status, which puts me at the center of all the hock in town.   I enjoy living in the Lakewood area — just across the border in Toms River, […]

  BY Shaul Sofer A monumental and historic gathering was held in Bais Medrash Govoha’s Beren dining room on Sunday night as roshei yeshivah, yungerleit, bachurim, and young boys gathered to hear the first shmuess of the new mashgiach, Rav Reuven Hechster. As the epicenter of the yeshivah world in the Diaspora, BMG holds large […]

  By Reuvain Borchardt         The Tu B’Shevat season means the opening of the freezer door.   It means a fresh batch of young men entering the shidduch marketplace, a flurry of dates, and b’ezras Hashem, a wave of engagements. It means vorts, flowers, jewelry, talleisim, and sheitels.   And for many […]

Rabbi Shlomo Lewenstein discusses shidduchim, from personality profiles and possibilities to perfect partnerships     By Reuvain Borchardt       It’s just weeks into a cold winter, but Lakewood is about to enter a deep thaw.   It’s the annual Tu B’Shevat ritual of the opening of the BMG freezer door as a new […]