Jackson has been through a really rough time. I feel for the residents of Jackson who watched their town change relatively rapidly with an influx of religious Jews whose customs and appearance seemed strange and foreign to them. When Jackson residents began seeing hundreds of Orthodox Jewish families moving in to enjoy the space, beauty and relative tranquility of Jackson, they didn’t quite know what to make of it.
First they got upset when these families started buying a lot of homes in the area and then when they started doing things in town that made it easier for them to observe their religion. Namely, putting up eruvim, which is a symbolic, nearly invisible fishing-like wire that creates borders within which they can carry objects on the Sabbath. Next, the Jewish community set about to secure essential dormitory space to house students who study their holy books in seminaries.
A Lakewood elementary school was temporarily placed on lockdown Tuesday morning after a student threatened another with a box cutter, officials said.
District spokesman Michael Inzlbuch told New Jersey 101.5 that a fifth-grade girl at the Oak Street School threatened another with the aluminum box cutters around 10:30 a.m. The weapon went undetected by the school s metal detector.
The school was placed on lockdown for about 15 minutes, Inzelbuch said.
School security personnel responded to the situation initially and police were called, according to Inzelbuch, who said no one was injured. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office is reviewing the incident.
Lakewood police did not immediately return a message from New Jersey 101.5 on Tuesday morning.
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Another family in the burgeoning New Jersey city of Lakewood is facing child endangerment charges for having a party despite the governor’s order banning large gatherings. It was the third time in three days Lakewood police had to break up a prohibited event in the city’s huge Orthodox Jewish community, and the second time in three days that parents. coronavirus Mar 5, 2020
A Lakewood man, whose mother reported him to police for acting erratically in the home, is in the Ocean County Jail following an attack on police officers inside the home.