Memory Lane: R’ Shmiel Roth, President of Agudath Israel of Boro Park
MuncaczReb Shmuel was born in the town of Muncacz, Czechoslovakia, in the year 1923. His.... read more
Memory Lane: The Skver-Machnovka Rebbe
Beginning in the 1930’s, Boro Park was home to Rebbe Menachem Nochum Twersky, known as the Skver-Machnovka Rebbe,.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Weinberger, Matzoh Pioneer (II)
Last week, in our first installment of our profile on Rav Moshe Weinberger, we wrote about his early life and his.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Weinberger
In honor of the Yom Tov of Pesach, we profile a unique and important personality from Boro Park of yesteryear.... read more
100 Years Since the Passing of Rav Hillel HaKohen Klein, Rov and Activist in NYC
YS GOLDThe sixth of Nissan of this year marks one century since the passing of Rav Hillel HaKohen.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Kehos Borek
The Mashgiach of the Yeshiva Beis Yosef-Novaradok in Boro Park for decades, a giant of Torah and mussar was Rav.... read more
Memory Lane: Lake Sunset Park , “Bit of Man-Made Paradise”
“How many persons, who daily pass 41st Street and Fifth Avenue, pause for an appreciative moment at this beauty.... read more
Memory Lane: R’ Noach Hakohen Millner
In the year 1930, resided in the apartment building at 914 47th Street, and presented himself to the census takers.... read more
Memory Lane: Chazzan Berele Chagy
One of the most legendary chazzonim of all time was Cantor Berele Chagy who hailed from Russia, where he was.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Ezriel Halevi Segal
In the aftermath of the terrible Churban Europa, many Rabbonim and ga’onim streamed into New York. They had been.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yaakov Thumim, Altstadter Rov
The Altstadter Beis Medrash on 52nd Street in Boro Park is an institution that is many decades old, and was headed.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Yosef Mordechai Baumol, zt”l
The Rabbonim of the Baumol family of Krościenko (pronounced Kroshtzinka), Galicia, were renowned, brilliant.... read more
Memory Lane: The Aleksander Rebbe
He was a scion of the most illustrious dynasties of Polish Chassidism, and he warmed the hearts of his brethren in.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Mendel Brachfeld
Boro Park in the postwar era was home to many of the she’eris hapleitah, those remnants from the ashes of the.... read more
Memory Lane: Agudas Yisroel Snif Chofetz Chaim
Situated on the outer edge of Boro Park, in the Mapleton section of the borough of Brooklyn, the shul has been here.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Alter Yechezkel Horowitz
Rav Horowitz served as the esteemed Viener Dayan of the Kehillah in Boro Park. A ga’on in Torah and yiras.... read more
Memory Lane: R’ Dovid Turkel
Agudas Yisroel on Fourteenth Avenue was a bastion of askonus and rebuilding from the churban in the Boro Park.... read more
Rav Yechiel Michel Fried
Krasna RovThis past spring marked the thirtieth yohrtzeit of the Krasna Rov, a ga’on and tzaddik who left this world at the.... read more
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