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Captured Moment: The Posek’s Beis Medrash

YS GOLD On 16th Avenue in the center of Boro Park stands a beis medrash which was led by one of the previous generation’s great.... read more

Campground Construction #1: What's New at Machne Bnei Belz

Welcome to our new column, offering a closer look at camps that quietly transformed over the winter. Tucked between the mountains and woods.... read more

Memory Lane: Morris Kulok

An iconic edifice--hearkening back to the glory days of Boro Park's great temples stands on 48th street at 15th avenue. It is the domed.... read more

Captured Moment: The Lag BaOmer Hadlakah in Boyan

YS GOLD This week will mark the great and exalted hillula of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai which is celebrated by Yidden throughout the.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Yehuda Stamm

On the outskirts of Boro Park, at 6510 17th Avenue, there stood a Shul by the name of Congregation Bnai Jacob of Mapleton Park. There, Rav Yudel.... read more

Captured Moment: The Iconic Newsstand

YS GOLD Many Boro Park residents will recognize this photo from an iconic corner in Boro Park where a newsstand has stood for many.... read more

Memory Lane: Temple Beth El

The edifice has stood at the corner of 48th Street and 15th Avenue in Boro Park for more than one century. For more one hundred years.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Leib Waldenberg, The Plotzker Rebbe

One of postwar personalities of Boro Park was the Plotzker Rebbe, a ga’on from a city of ga’onim, who resided in the center of Boro Park.... read more

Captured Moment: The Rebbe’s Bais Medrash

YS GOLD This week’s captured moment takes us to the center of Boro Park where the neighborhood’s longest serving chassidishe.... read more

Under the Verrazano Bridge: Exploring the Hidden History of Fort Wadsworth

Beneath the Verrazano Bridge, where Brooklyn meets Staten Island, two historic forts stand. Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth, rich with historical.... read more

Captured Moment: The Belzer Matzoh Bakery

YS GOLD This week’s captured moment takes us to New Utrecht Avenue, where the Belzer Matzoh Bakery used to be.... read more

Memory Lane: Rabbi Yosef Gabriel (Ralbag)

It was the year 1930, and at 1265 45th Street in Boro Park, there resided a Rabbi Joseph Gabriel who was born in Jerusalem in the year 1891. It.... read more

Captured Moment: The Run on Municipal Bank

YS GOLD This week’s captured moment takes us to the center of Boro Park, to a building that we have profiled in recent weeks. It was.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Aaron Meir Krauz, The Sopron-Edeliner Rov

Leading Cong. Bnei Israel for a number of decades was Rav Krausz, the last rov of Sopron, who had a rich tenure as a rov in Sidney, Australia, and.... read more

Captured Moment: The 105-year-old Shul

YS GOLD This week’s captured moment takes us to the center of Boro Park, to an iconic shul that many of our readers will recognize..... read more

Declutter Diaries: Pre-Pesach Kitchen Reset

Welcome back to Declutter Diaries! Before we start kashering and swapping in Pesach essentials, let’s take stock of what’s actually in.... read more

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