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Greeting the Dawn While the world sleeps, the call of Torah resounds at Kollel Mashkimim Elisheva Braun The latest night owls have staggered off to bed. Homes are dark, streets eerily silent. Even Route 9, the road that never sleeps, is still. As the nation slumbers, sixty passionate men are stoking the flames of Torah. […]

“If we bring Yiddishe kinderlach back to shemiras Shabbos, Hashem will grant us zivugim hagunim” The Lakewood Shabbos Project The last six weeks have been filled with turmoil, upheaval, and pain for all of Klal Yisrael. On Simchas Torah 5784, the world as we knew it changed dramatically. As news of the terrible atrocities that […]

Lakewood’s haven for the mature and young at heart “It’s the highlight of my month.” “Every meeting gets better—the content, the friendship, and the atmosphere.” “We love Connections—but we want more.” These are the sentiments commonly expressed by so many attendees of Connections, the monthly lunch-and-learn gathering for the 55-plus community. It’s no secret that […]

Specialist Shmuel Zaidman aids and enlightens Medicare customers Health insurance of any kind often has the unique ability to confuse and confound even the sharpest of minds, constantly sowing seeds of doubt. Am I paying too much? Does everyone pay such a big premium? How does anyone afford this? Medicare only further befuddles the average […]

Lakewood’s 150,000-plus residents face a host of pressing challenges, including traffic and school transportation issues. But primary among them is the rising cost of tuition and school-related expenses, which place a heavy, oftentimes unbearable, financial burden on the backs of Lakewood families. Fortunately, there’s a plan that addresses Lakewood’s biggest financial stressor—one that has been […]

Elisheva Braun Have employment trends reversed? A look at layoffs. “Pack up your things. You are no longer employed here.” Perel blinked. She’d known the severe lack of sleep in the past week was unhealthy, but was it really causing her to hallucinate? Was that her boss, breathing heavily at the entrance to her cubicle, […]

For the first time ever, the Lakewood kehillah is presented with the unprecedented opportunity to elect a frum resident to the state Assembly. Upon the urging and guidance of our generation’s leading rabbanim and roshei yeshivah, Avi Schnall, who has led Agudath Israel’s New Jersey branch for the past nine years, threw his hat into […]

Meir Kass Words fail. The horror, depravity, and callous inhumanity emerging in photos, videos, and news reports from Eretz Yisrael have left me speechless, unable to remotely convey the sheer brutality of sonei Yisrael nor encapsulate the depth of heartbreak and terror wrought upon our brethren since Shemini Atzeres/Simchas Torah. Still, I will try. While […]

Chol Hamoed Sukkos Trip Guide Please note: Stay safe and have fun! The Voice does not take responsibility for any errors listed below or the kashrus of any establishment. Special for Chol Hamo’ed Sukkos 5784 Carnival sponsored by Kollel Ner Avrohom (Dr. Roberts) Details: Nosh and prize giveaways, circus show, Chicago Boys, the Rope Warriors, […]

From the Machzor’s Pages Its pages are curled with age, letters rippled with previous years’ tears. Or maybe they’re new—crisp leaves, jet-black, pure white. The machzor holds our secret moments. It catches our desperate supplications, our hushed awe and wonderment, our prayerful whispers of longing for connection. In this piece, some of the people you’ve […]