Memory Lane: Rav Avrohom Kellner
In a previous installment in the history of Boro Park of yesteryear, we chronicled some of the close-to 100 year.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Chaim Pinchos Lubinsky
Boro Park of yore was home to one of the largest waves of she’eiris hapleitoh in the world; men and women who’d seen the worst atrocities in.... read more
Memory Lane: Congregation Kesser Israel, A Sanctuary in Mapleton Park
Melting Pot in MapletonThe neighborhood of Mapleton Park was developed around the year 1910. It used to encapsulate greater.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Aaron Gordon & Louis Kalmanowitz; Bridging the Mir and Boro Park
In Dos Yiddishe Licht (founded by Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt) we read: “Boro Park Active for Mirrer.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Dovber Rivkin, Pioneering Boro Park, Educating Generations
In the early 1930’s Rav Moshe Dovber Rivkin arrived in Boro Park from Yerushalayim with his Rebbetzin. While Rav Rivkin would serve as a Rosh.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Sender Shmuel Teitelbaum, Kolbusover Rav
A Scion of Sighet goes WestRav Sender was born to his father, Rav Aryeh Leibush, who was a son in law of Rav Chaim Yonah.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Aaron Yehuda Weintraub, zt”l, Lisobiker Rov
An interesting phenomenon of the aftermath of WWII was the existence of world-class Ge’onim, masmidim, and talmidei Chachomim who were common.... read more
Memory Lane: The Beitcher Rov
The Beitcher Rebbeim—scions of the courts of Sanz, Ropshitz, and Dzikov—came to Boro Park in the 1930’s, when the sum of bearded Yidden in.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yoel Halpern, Yaslo Rov, zt”l, From Bergen Belsen to Boro Park
A Scion of Rabbinic Royalty Rav Yoel was born in Krakow in the year 1900. His father was Rav Matisyahu Chaim Halpern, who.... read more
Memory Lane: Shomrei Shabbos Anshei Nowogrod
In 1922, a group of men began davening at 1420 50th Street. They founded a society by the name of Shomrei Shabbos of Borough Park. The shul would.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yerachmiel Kumin
Sometime in the 1930’s, a scion of Lita’s illustrious Torah families, graduate of its elite yeshivos, and personal secretary to the Chofetz.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Mordechai Gimpel Hakohen Wolk
Rav Mordechai Gimpel came to America in the 1920’s, and founded the first mossad hachinuch for girls in Boro Park, in addition to his incredible.... read more
Memory Lane: Rebbe Yisachar Berish Rubin, zt”l, The Dolina Rebbe
The Dolina Rebbe—a saintly figure, scion of the greatest Chassidic dynasties—came to the United States in 1923, and settled in Boro Park.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yaakov Yechiel Traube
In recent weeks we have profiled two great Boro Park Rabbonim who served at Knesses Israel/Hebrew Community of Boro Park, located at 1323 42nd.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Benzion Dovid Taubenfligel
In last week’s article we wrote about Rav Grossman who served as the rov of Maimonides Hospital (1958-1973). He directly succeeded another Boro.... read more
Rav Yaakov Aryeh Grossman, zt”l
From Biyalistok to Boro ParkLast week we profiled Rav Yitzchok Waltman who served Knesses Israel/Hebrew Community of Boro Park,.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Shlomo Chaim (Herbert) Port of the Boro Park Torah Center
A scion of Rabbinic families hailing from the Lithuanian Torah world, Rabbi Port experienced tragedy at a young age—losing his father Spanish.... read more
Memory Lane: The Biegeleisen’s of Boro Park II
Last week we profiled the rich heritage of the Biegeleisen family among Galician Jewry, their extremely reluctant arrival in America, and their.... read more
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