Lakewood East, officially Beth Medrash Govoha of America in Eretz Yisroel (בית מדרש גבוה דאמריקא בארץ ישראל), is a yeshiva in Jerusalem, headed by Rabbi Yaakov Eliezer Schwartzman,[1] son of Rabbi Dov Schwartzman and the eldest grandson of Rabbi Aharon Kotler,[2] founder of the Lakewood Yeshiva.

In 2004, it moved to its present location in the neighborhood of Ramot.

[3] It is composed of a senior beit medrash for post-graduate-level yeshiva students, along with a kollel.

In early 2015, the "Lakewood East" absorbed 28 Israeli students and gave them their own section of the yeshiva.

[citation needed] Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, father-in-law of Rabbi Schwartzman,[4] was the mashgiach ruchani of Lakewood East until his death in April 2005.