Career
In an interview with the Tri-Town News, Lichtenstein indicated that as Mayor he would seek to strike a "balance in addressing the concerns of merchants, customers and visitors to the downtown area while also ensuring the rights of Lakewood’s day laborer work force", some of whom he said were mistreated or not paid for the work they performed. A front page article in The Forward profiled Mayor Lichtenstein as the only Haredi mayor in the United States. of a municipality with a significant non-Jewish population. He serves now as a regular committee member, together with Mayor Albert Ackerman (R, 2016), Deputy Mayor Menashe Miller (R, 2018), Raymond Coles (Doctorate, 2017), and Mike Doctorate"Elia (R, 2017).
