Memory Lane: The Worka-Otwotzker Rebbe
Rav Yaakov Dovid Baruch Kalish, a scion of Vorka, was named for one of his holy ancestors. He was born on 20 Elul, 1905, in the town of Falenica,.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Meir Yehoshua Peikes
Standing on Principle Rav Meir Yehoshua was born to his father Reb Binyomin Peikes in the city of Lomza in the year 1867. He.... read more
Memory Lane: Congregation Bnai Israel of Boro Park
The congregation with which we deal here today is not to be confused with its somewhat more senior counterpart; Congregation B’nai Israel of.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Menashe Magolis
A scion of generations of Rabbonim, descended from the royalty of Lita, and the son of one of America’s most senior Torah leaders, Rav Menashe.... read more
Memory Lane: The Explosion Heard Throughout the City
In the summer of 1987, a calamity took place on 18th Avenue in Boro Park. The younger ones among us will not remember it, but anyone who was in.... read more
Memory Lane: The Gvodzitz-Sadigerer Rebbe
It was the late 1960’s, and the Jewish presence in the Bronx was declining due to a variety of factors. It was then that the Gvodzitz-Sadigerer.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Shloime Zev Zweigenhaft
In the aftermath of the churban, Boro Park was a center of she’eris hapleitah—the heroic warriors who rebuilt from the ashes in such a.... read more
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
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