Va'ad Harabonim of Lakewood

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Va'ad Harabonim of Lakewood ("rabbinical council of Lakewood") is a rabbinical organization of Orthodox rabbis in the town of Lakewood, New Jersey. The organization, which represents the large Orthodox Haredi community in Lakewood, is primarily political, endorsing candidates for office and communicating the needs of the community to elected officials. It may also occasionally be involved in specific inter-community affairs.

Lakewood has a large Haredi population and is home to the largest Talmudic Academy in the United States, Beth Medrash Govoha. The community maintains a large and unified voting block and Lakewood is the only municipality in New Jersey with a significant non-Jewish population to have an Orthodox Jewish Haredi mayor, Meir Lichtenstein. The Vaad is instrumental in the unity and voting power of the community, and maintains a level of hegemony within Lakewood politics.

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• Beth din
• Posek
• Shulkhan Arukh
• Torah Judaism
• Vaad

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