Beth Medrash Govoha (Lakewood Yeshiva) בית מדרש גבוה (לעיקוואד ישיבה)

Beth Medrash Govoha ("BMG", the Lakewood Yeshiva) is a Litvish yeshiva in Lakewood, New Jersey, founded by Rabbi Aharon Kotler in 1943. It is the second-largest yeshiva in the world after the Mir in Jerusalem, with 9,657 students as of 2024. It began in 1942 as a 20-member kollel in White Plains, New York, the first kollel in the United States; when Rabbi Kotler arrived from Europe, the kollel asked him to lead it and he agreed on condition it move away from New York City. Rabbi Malkiel Kotler has been rosh yeshiva since 1982. Learning is organized in over 200 small chaburos.