Lakewood is also home to Beth Medrash Govoha, a Haredi Yeshiva, which is one of the largest yeshivas in the world.

Beth Medrash Govoha, the largest Yeshiva ( Rabbinical Academy ) in North America, is located in Lakewood with an enrollment in excess of 5, 000.

* Rabbi Aharon Kotler ( 1891 – 1962 ), founder of the Beth Medrash Govoha yeshiva and a pre-eminent authority on Torah in the 20th Century among Haredi Jews.

* Rabbi Shneur Kotler ( 1918 – 1982 ), rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha.

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Two people can be considered to have spearheaded the kollel philosophy and outgrowth in today's world-Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the founder of Beth Medrash Govoha, America's largest yeshiva located in Lakewood, New Jersey, and Rabbi Elazar Shach, one of the most prominent leaders of the Jewish community in Israel until his death in 2001.

The largest U. S. kollel is at Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey, with over 1500 kollel scholars attached to the yeshiva which is 4700 strong in total, large kollels also exist in Ner Israel Rabbinical College numbering 180 scholars and in Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin of over 100 scholars.

* Rabbi Aaron Kotler, of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, New Jersey

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* Aharon Kotler, rosh yeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha

* Shneur Kotler, rosh yeshiva, Beth Medrash Govoha

Rabbi Perr, an alumnus of Yeshiva Beis Yosef-Novardok in Brooklyn, Beth Medrash Govoha, the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, and Mesivta Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin, founded the Yeshiva of Far Rockaway in 1969.

Beth Midrash (; also Beis Medrash, Beit Midrash, pl.

Rabbi Ahron Soloveichik died in 2001, and Yeshivas Brisk of Chicago became defunct a few years later as a Mesivta but remains active today as a Beth Medrash under Rabbi Ahron's eldest son, Rabbi Moshe Soloveichik.

Carlebach studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin in Brooklyn, New York, and Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, New Jersey.

* Rabbi Naftali Reich, Executive Vice President, a graduate of Gateshead Talmudical College with smicha from Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, NJ.

* Lakewood East, officially Beth Medrash Govoha of America in Eretz Yisroel is located in Ramot.

He arrived at Beth Medrash Elyon in Upstate New York, every Thursday and remained awake all night preparing for the Friday Talmudic lecture.

He was survived by his sons, Rabbi Chaim Grozovsky and rabbi Shamshon Grozovsky and his son-in-laws, Rabbi Don Ungarisher, the Rosh Yeshiva of Beth Medrash Elyon and rabbi Levi Krupenia.

There are several synagogues and Jewish congregations in Rhawnhurst including Ahavas Torah, Beth Medrash Harav, B ' nai Israel – Ohev Zedek, The Lubavitcher Center, Ner Zedek Ezrath Israel, and Congregation Mesilat Yesharim.

She subsequently founded and became the dean of a major seminary for Jewish women in Jerusalem known as Beth Jacob of Jerusalem ( BJJ ) which caters to young women from Haredi families in the United States.

Later on Isaac returned to Ratisbon, and then settled for some time in Vienna, where he held the position of Av Beth Din and rosh yeshiva.

Klein served as rabbi at Kadimoh Congregation in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1934 – 1953 ; Temple Emanu-El, Buffalo, New York, 1953 – 1968 ; Temple Shaarey Zedek, Buffalo, ( which was created from the merger of Emanu-El with Temple Beth David in 1968 ), 1968-1972.

Beth Chayim Chadashim, established in 1972 in West Los Angeles, was the world's first explicitly-gay-and-lesbian-centered synagogue, resulting in a slew of Reform congregations being established along similar lines, including Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City, Bet Mishpachah in Washington, D. C. and Congregation Or Chadash in Chicago.

* 1984 – Beth Allen, New Zealand actress

Rabbi Chaim Weiner succeeded Louis Jacobs as head of the New London Synagogue, but when Weiner was appointed head of the new European Masorti Beth Din in 2005, Jacobs returned.

William O ' Dwyer died in New York City on November 24, 1964, in Beth Israel Hospital, at the age of 74 of heart failure.

New Albany is home to Temple Beth Shalom, the Columbus Jewish Day School, the Chabad Center for a Jewish Tomorrow, and central Ohio's newest Jewish Community Center.

In 1933, Dr Albert Hyman, heart specialist at the Beth Davis Hospital of New York city and C. Henry Hyman, an electrical engineer, looking for an alternative to injecting powerful drugs directly into the heart, came up with an invention that used an electrical shock in place of drug injection.

In October, a foundation run by Karan donated $ 850, 000 to New York's Beth Israel Medical Center.

Rivera was born at Beth Israel Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lillian ( née Friedman ), a waitress, and the late Cruz " Allen " Rivera ( October 1, 1915 – November 1987 ), a restaurant worker and cab driver.

Schneerson died at the Beth Israel Medical Center on June 12, 1994 ( 3 Tammuz 5754 ) and was buried at the Ohel next to his teacher and father-in-law, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, at Montefiore Cemetery in Queens, New York, in 1994.

Another 12-patient multihospital kidney exchange was performed four weeks later by Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, New Jersey, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

* Temple Beth Sholom ( Cherry Hill, New Jersey )

He is buried next to his wife and parents in the Temple Beth El cemetery on Pine Ridge Road in Buffalo, New York.

Leon Klinghoffer was buried at Beth David Memorial Park in Kenilworth, New Jersey.

The New Jersey court ruled that the surrogacy contract was invalid according to public policy, recognized Mary Beth Whitehead as the child's legal mother, and ordered the Family Court to determine whether Whitehead, as mother, or Stern, as father, should have legal custody of the infant, using the conventional ' best interests of the child ' analysis.

Mary Beth Whitehead responded to an ad placed by the Infertility Center of New York in the Asbury Park Press seeking women willing to help infertile couples have children.

Mary Beth subsequently refused to return the baby to the Sterns and left New Jersey, taking the infant with her.

* Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey

* Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, New York