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Lakewood East


"Lakewood East", officially Beth Medrash Govoha of America in Eretz Yisroel, is a Yeshiva near Jerusalem headed by Rabbi Yaakov Eliezer Schwartzman, (a grandson of Rabbi Aharon Kotler, the founder of the Lakewood Yeshiva,) and is officially a branch of that Yeshiva. It was formerly in the Kiryat Itri neighborhood of Jerusalem, and is now in Ramot. It is comprised of a senior Beis Medrash for post graduate level Yeshiva students, along with a Kollel.