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
Memory Lane: Rav Meir Shapiro and his Boro Park Host
Among historians, the legend has existed for years that, during his famed visit to America in 1926-1927, Rav Meir Shapiro spent a Shabbos in Boro.... read more
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
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