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
Memory Lane: The Biegeleisens of Boro Park (I)
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The legendary first family of mochrei seforim have now been engaged in this holy work of putting holy books into the hands of.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yosef Mordcholowitz
We have written in the past about Rabbanim and Admorim, who needed to fight to keep open their Shuls that they.... read more
Memory Lane: Seltzer; An Important staple in Boro Park of Yesteryear
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Seltzer was once the beverage of choice for Boro Parkers of yesteryear, and many can.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Yosef Rubin - the Kimplunger Rov
This week saw the petirah of Reb Yankel Rubin, the son of Rav Moshe Yosef Rubin, of one of Boro Park’s most prominent rabbonim, known as the.... read more
Memory Lane: R’ Yisroel Isser (Israel) Andron—An Educator and Activist in a Fledgling Boro Park
Readers of this column—as well as most of our community—are surely familiar with the famed “All for the Boss”, the work of Rebbetzin.... read more
BONUS Memory Lane: The Fire at Sfas Emes, When Boro Parkers Mourned Burned Sifrei Torah
Yehuda Alter
As we continue to mourn the churban of the beis hamikdosh, we recall a tragic.... read more
Memory Lane: Congregation Tifereth Israel
Yehuda Alter
Last week’s article focused on the early history of Congregation Tifereth Israel and its founding in 1907. While.... read more
Memory Lane: Congregation Tifereth Israel
Yehuda Alter
The following account is about a congregation that was begun one afternoon in the year 1907 by one individual who endeavored to.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Peretz Yogel
Last week, we profiled the Brooklyn Talmudical Academy, an outgrowth of Boro Park’s Yeshiva Etz.... read more
Memory Lane: Brooklyn Talmudical Academy
by Yehuda Alter
Recently we profiled Rabbi Moshe Shulman, z”l, who was a pioneer in Torah chinuch in America from the early 1920’s.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Mordechai Harlig, Nephew and Confidante of Rav Meir Shapiro
Rav Mordechai Harlig—one of the closest people to his uncle, the Lubliner Rov, who was mentioned here last week. A true old time Galicianer Rav,.... read more
Memory Lane: Siyum Hashas 1968, Echoes of Lublin in Boro Park
Yehuda Alter
Fifty-five years ago, the 7th Siyum Hashas, took place in Boro Park, and saw a massive crowd that overflowed out of.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Avrohom Shapira, zt”l , Perpetuating the ‘Beis Medrash of Rebi Meir’
The name of the Lubliner Rov, Rav Meir Shapiro, is a household one. Less well known is his brother Rav Avrumche, younger than him by one year, who.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Shulman, Sowing the Seeds of Torah Education
As we emerge from the holy days of Shavuos and Kabbolas haTorah, we profile an early Torah educator in Boro Park of yore.
Moshe.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Tzvi Aryeh Levi, Champion of Torah Education
A Heavenly Messenger
For as long as there was a yishuv of Yidden in Eretz Yisroel, there was a concept of a sehlucha.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Zvi Gottesman, Spared from the Massacre
Continuing our historical journey into the history of the one-century-old Beth Israel of Boro Park—which has now stood at the corner of Eleventh.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Hershel Stollman, zt”l
Rav Stollman served as the longtime rov of Beth Israel of Boro Park and was a students of the great yeshivos in Europe who transmitted Torah.... read more