Memory Lane: Boro Park’s Candy Shops
There was a time when Boro Park residents could get by celling sweets, cigarettes, soda and newspapers on old, rickety shelves—and would draw.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Meir Cohen, Menahel of Agudas Horabonim
Within the annals of Agudas Harabonim—the organization to which most of America’s orthodox Rabbanim belonged to for more than a century—the.... read more
Memory Lane: Agudas Yisroel of Boro Park (Zeirei)
Perhaps the most important Shul in postwar America, the epitome of the rebirth of Torah Jewry following the Holocaust, was Agudas Yisroel of Boro.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yisroel Isser Friedman, zt”l, The Krenitzer Rov
‘Isser’l Der Masmid’ Meir Yisroel Isser was born in the year 1900 in the.... read more
Memory Lane: Gustave S. Roth, Philanthropist and Torah Supporter
Birth of a Patron Gustave S. Roth, a native of Ratzky, Poland was a scion of the old Ratkowsky family. His father, Reb.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Nosson Nota Bilitzky
A scion of the most prestigious families in Lita, tracing their lineage through generations of Rabbonim, to the greatest luminaries of the Torah.... read more
Memory Lane: Webster’s Pond
“Webster’s Pond” was alternatively known as “Twin Ponds” was located at 49th Street and 10th Avenue, the site that is now Maimonides.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Moshe Stoll
A great philanthropist and talmid chochom in Boro Park of yore was Reb Moshe Stoll of Congregation Shomrei Emunah. Today, we take a glimpse into.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yoel Summer
The Bielsker Iluy Born in the Polish town of Bielsk in the year 5725 (1865), Yoel became known as the “iluy of Bielsk.”.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Anschel Wainhaus
Rav Anschel was one of the primary founders of the Mirer Minyan, and one of its revered pillars for four decades—spending every possible moment.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Chaim Pesach Fettman
Among the postwar generation of Hungarian Holocaust survivors in Boro Park lived a tzaddik, ga’on, nistar, and mekubal. Rav Chaim Pesach.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Roginsky
It was in the aftermath of the Churban, and of the thousands of Novaradoker talmidim, from the dozens of Novaradoker yeshivos throughout Russia.... read more
Memory Lane: Remembering the Tragic Loss of R' Lazer and Mrs. Miriam Papier
This weekend marked the Yiddish anniversary of the tragic deaths of R' Lazer and Mrs. Miriam Papier, who were.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Mendel Guzik
Rav Mendel Guzik was the founder of the Vaad Harabanim of New York, an organizing body that contributed much to Jewish life in New.... read more
Memory Lane: Ladder 148-Engine 282, Boro Park’s Century-old Firehouse
It has served as a house of protection for Boro Park, and a home for New York’s Bravest charged with speeding toward danger in the case of a.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Simcha Zissel Halevi Levovitz, zt”l
Rav Simcha Zissel was a pillar of the postwar Mirer chaburah, a ba’al mussar and Rosh Yeshiva, a son of Rav Yeruchom Levovitz, the Mirer.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yaakov Eliyahu Rabinowitz
On the outer edge of Boro Park lies Congregation Bnei Israel of Linden Heights, which is nearing its 100th anniversary. Throughout its century of.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Daniel Goldstein, Z”l, A Pure Voice of Prayer and Piety
The Goldstein family is a Boro Park legend, having lived in Boro Park for close to a century. In that time, their dedication and mesiras nefesh.... read more
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