Goldberg, Rabbi Meir. «NJ Orthodox: Lots of variation in Lakewood’s Jewish community», Asbury Park Press, June 27, 2019. Accessed February 6, 2022. «Lakewood’s Orthodox Jews have created an economic engine that employs tens of thousands of Jews and non-Jews alike, including construction, tech, health care, real estate, law, medicine, finance, service and home repair industries and more.»
Weiss, Steven I. «U.S. gets another Orthodox mayor»Архивная копия от 7 февраля 2022 на Wayback Machine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 12, 2006. Accessed February 6, 2022. «That’s certainly the case in Lakewood, where Meir Lichtenstein was inaugurated as mayor in January. Orthodox Jews make up nearly half of the village’s 70,000 residents, and they often vote as a bloc, with a council of leaders determining whom they should support.»
Di Ionno, Mark. «How Lakewood became a worldwide destination for Orthodox Jews»Архивная копия от 7 мая 2017 на Wayback Machine, The Star-Ledger, May 7, 2017. Accessed May 12, 2017. «It is Friday in Lakewood. A few thousand young men in black suits and wide-brimmed black hats are rushing toward Beth Medrash Govoha (BMG), the world’s largest yeshiva outside of Israel… The yeshiva has about 6,500 students, equal in enrollment to the College of New Jersey.»
Peterson, Iver. «Tragedy Forces Town To Face Its Divisions; Breaching Barriers of Creed and Culture»Архивная копия от 7 февраля 2022 на Wayback Machine, The New York Times, August 19, 1995. Accessed June 20, 2016. «The community is not withdrawn in politics, however. The Orthodox vote as a nearly solid bloc, making them the dominant political power in Lakewood, and a power that can only grow: Leaders of the yeshiva community, which had about 400 members in 1968, expect their numbers to top 27,000 by the turn of the century.»
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Stilton, Phil. Jack Ciattarelli visits Lakewood, making a pitch for the Lakewood bloc voteАрхивная копия от 7 февраля 2022 на Wayback Machine, Shore News Network, May 31, 2021. Accessed February 6, 2022. «New Jersey candidate for Governor Ciattarelli this week visited Lakewood to lobby for that town’s large and highly coveted 'bloc vote'. In politics, the Lakewood Orthodox Jewish community often votes as a bloc, but not always, guided by a council of rabbis and business owners in the growing city called 'the VAAD'. The Lakewood vote can often make or break a candidate’s campaign and Ciattarelli knows that.»
Di Ionno, Mark. «How Lakewood became a worldwide destination for Orthodox Jews»Архивная копия от 7 мая 2017 на Wayback Machine, The Star-Ledger, May 7, 2017. Accessed May 12, 2017. «It is Friday in Lakewood. A few thousand young men in black suits and wide-brimmed black hats are rushing toward Beth Medrash Govoha (BMG), the world’s largest yeshiva outside of Israel… The yeshiva has about 6,500 students, equal in enrollment to the College of New Jersey.»
Peterson, Iver. «Tragedy Forces Town To Face Its Divisions; Breaching Barriers of Creed and Culture»Архивная копия от 7 февраля 2022 на Wayback Machine, The New York Times, August 19, 1995. Accessed June 20, 2016. «The community is not withdrawn in politics, however. The Orthodox vote as a nearly solid bloc, making them the dominant political power in Lakewood, and a power that can only grow: Leaders of the yeshiva community, which had about 400 members in 1968, expect their numbers to top 27,000 by the turn of the century.»
Weiss, Steven I. «U.S. gets another Orthodox mayor»Архивная копия от 7 февраля 2022 на Wayback Machine, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 12, 2006. Accessed February 6, 2022. «That’s certainly the case in Lakewood, where Meir Lichtenstein was inaugurated as mayor in January. Orthodox Jews make up nearly half of the village’s 70,000 residents, and they often vote as a bloc, with a council of leaders determining whom they should support.»
Stilton, Phil. Jack Ciattarelli visits Lakewood, making a pitch for the Lakewood bloc voteАрхивная копия от 7 февраля 2022 на Wayback Machine, Shore News Network, May 31, 2021. Accessed February 6, 2022. «New Jersey candidate for Governor Ciattarelli this week visited Lakewood to lobby for that town’s large and highly coveted 'bloc vote'. In politics, the Lakewood Orthodox Jewish community often votes as a bloc, but not always, guided by a council of rabbis and business owners in the growing city called 'the VAAD'. The Lakewood vote can often make or break a candidate’s campaign and Ciattarelli knows that.»
