Memory Lane: Harav Sholom Podoliefsky, zt”l

A number of weeks ago, we profiled chevra Bnei Yisroel of Boro Park, which is nearly one hundred years old. In this time, it did not have all that.... read more

In Honor of the 20th Yahrzeit: A Look Back at Yomim Tovim by the Bobover Rebbe, zt”l

Memory Lane: 20th yohrtzeit of Rav Naftoli Tzvi of Bobov, zt”l

YS GOLD This week will mark twenty years since the passing of a great tzaddik who resided in Boro Park, and was central to relocating.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Avrohom Dovid Blumenkrantz

Onward with our journey into old Boro Park, we meet a vestige of prewar Poland, an ardent Amshinover chossid who was one of the rarer immigrants.... read more

Memory Lane: The Worka-Otwotzker Rebbe

Rav Yaakov Dovid Baruch Kalish, a scion of Vorka, was named for one of his holy ancestors. He was born on 20 Elul, 1905, in the town of Falenica,.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Meir Yehoshua Peikes

Standing on Principle Rav Meir Yehoshua was born to his father Reb Binyomin Peikes in the city of Lomza in the year 1867. He.... read more

Memory Lane: Congregation Bnai Israel of Boro Park

The congregation with which we deal here today is not to be confused with its somewhat more senior counterpart; Congregation B’nai Israel of.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Menashe Magolis

A scion of generations of Rabbonim, descended from the royalty of Lita, and the son of one of America’s most senior Torah leaders, Rav Menashe.... read more

Memory Lane: The Explosion Heard Throughout the City

In the summer of 1987, a calamity took place on 18th Avenue in Boro Park. The younger ones among us will not remember it, but anyone who was in.... read more

Memory Lane: The Gvodzitz-Sadigerer Rebbe

It was the late 1960’s, and the Jewish presence in the Bronx was declining due to a variety of factors. It was then that the Gvodzitz-Sadigerer.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Shloime Zev Zweigenhaft

In the aftermath of the churban, Boro Park was a center of she’eris hapleitah—the heroic warriors who rebuilt from the ashes in such a.... read more

Memory Lane: Sternklar’s Grocery, Blazing a Trail of Shmiras Shabbos in Boro Park

In Boro Park of today, one cannot find an establishment open on the holy day of Shabbos. But in Boro Park of the 1940’s, the precise opposite.... read more

Memory Lane: Rabbi Chaim Yitzchok Pupko

At the corner of East Fourth Street and Avenue I, on the outskirts of Boro Park, stands a tiny shul called Damesek Eliezer. This was Rabbi Chaim.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Chaim Fink

Sanok Rav Chaim was born in the Galician town of Sanok (pronounced Sunik) in the year 1912. His father, Reb Elya Tzvi hired.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Shmuel Hubner

The year was 1942, and in an attic in Nazi-occupied Antwerp sat a talmid chochom... writing Torah—as though the world around him was not.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Yitzchok Eizik Liebes

A ga’on of the caliber ubiquitous in prewar Galicia, a remnant of a rare breed of old-time Galician Rabbonim who had learned under the greatest.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Yosef Tovia Levy, An Ashkenazi Rov for the Sephardic Community

The year was 1893, and a young lad of seventeen from Russia alighted the ship from Hamburg, Germany. He landed on Moore Street—an.... read more

Memory Lane: Yitzchok Dovber Ushpol

Congregation Anshei Lubavitch of Boro Park, incorporated in 1914, had at its helm a rov by the name of Rav Yitzchok Dovber Ushpol, an ardent.... read more