Rabbi Moshe Zev Weisberg, a spokesman for the Lakewood Vaad, said the arrests also brought "heightened awareness" and people who want to "do the right thing," according to an NJ 101.5 report. The Vaad, which means council in Hebrew, is an influential body of Orthodox rabbis and businessmen who ...

Eruvin already exist in Jewish neighborhoods of Lakewood, Deal, Long Branch and the North Dover area of Toms River, as well as most major cities in the United States. For Jackson's growing Orthodox Jewish community – estimated to include more than 500 families – permitting the eruv means official ...

State and federal authorities are investigating Jackson, probing whether it discriminated against Orthodox Jews on recent land-use issues. Jackson Mayor Michael Reina on Wednesday pledged his support for the coalition, as did Hollis R. Towns, regional vice president of news for the Gannett New Jersey ...

Cipriani said the Justice Department is focused on the land issues, which as they have in other towns around Lakewood, have been an increasing source of friction between the Orthodox Jewish community and other residents. The conflicts in Toms River have led to a ban on real estate soliciting in the ...

That means that in an Orthodox community mired by scandal over financial fraud, most recently in the New Jersey township of Lakewood, one of the top priorities became freeing a fraudster. Rubashkin's defenders claim their work simply rights a wrong — the fact that he was targeted by prosecutors and ...

LAKEWOOD, NJ — With the window for applications to the state's Medicaid amnesty program now closed, members of the Lakewood Vaad said the ... The Asbury Park Press reported the Vaad, the group of rabbis who are the religious leadership in the Orthodox Jewish community in Lakewood, said the ...

Critics of the eruv (and of me) write me in emails or through Twitter that I don't get what happens when Orthodox Jews take over a town: the reduced property values and ratable base, the decimation of schools and the overcrowding of houses filled with large families. They talk about Lakewood, a Jersey ...

Township officials signed off on an interim settlement allowing members of the Orthodox Jewish community to seek permission from utility companies to build ... Discussions about real estate solicitations, a Lakewood-based first aid squad and construction of schools and dormitories have boiled over into ...