Memory Lane: The Bobover Beis Medrash; Rebuilding the Lost Glory
Boro Park’s largest Beis Medrash has for decades been the Bobover Shul, located on 15th Avenue and 48th Street,.... read more
Memory Lane: The Railroads of Boro Park
Perhaps the greatest factor in the growth of the neighborhood of Boro Park in the early part of the Twentieth Century was the introduction of the.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Shmuel Eliezer Strauss
In studying the history of Congregation Ohel Abraham Mishkan Joseph—one of the oldest Shuls in Boro Park, having.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Shmuel Alter
The author of the legendary 20-volume Likutei Basar Likutei in which he painstakingly gathered gems and vignettes from throughout the entire.... read more
Memory Lane: Dairy Stores of Boro Park Then and Now
There was a time when Boro Park stores could get by selling a select few specialty items—a time when people,.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Elias Karp
For decades, there was an iyun shiur given in Agudas Yisroel on 14th Avenue by Rabbi Elias Karp, a close talmid of Rav Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz,.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Meir (Morris) Rokowsky
Morris Rakowsky—a native of Switzerland, and hero of Hatzolah rescue during the war—was a leader of the.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Moshe Aaron Reguer
A high school diploma issued in 1941 by Yeshiva Etz Chaim of Boro Park has a number of important signatories—including the head of.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Abraham Neustein & Rabbi Yechiel Mekler, Two Rabbonim of Beth Israel
The story of a Shul can, in a sense, be told through its rabbonim, and the more-than-one-century-old Beth Israel of.... read more
Memory Lane: R’ Yitzchok Meir (Irving) Bunim
Perhaps the best way to describe this legend of activism is by the title of his son Amos’ book on his life: “A Fire in His Soul.” This.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Aharon Kreiser
A masmid otzum who never stopped learning since his days in Kobrin, Baranovitch, and the Mir, Rav Kreiser was.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi (Yeshayahu) Simon Glazer
We have noted that Congregation Beth El of Boro Park moved into their grand temple in the year 1922. While it is.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Avrohom Yaakov Brill
The rov of Chevra Bnei Yisroel on 15th Avenue between the years of 1933 and 1943 was Rav Avrohom Yaakov Brill, a literal genius who hailed from.... read more
Memory Lane: Woolworth’s
An institution that hearkens back to simpler times in Boro Park, and is one of the select few establishments that withstood the many changes that.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Shloime Figa
As we have noted before in this collumn, Boro Park was home to a prominent Novaradoker contingent which began with the establishment of Yeshiva.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yosef Pinchos Levinson, The Chizever Rov
One of the great “Alte Mirers” to survive the war and transmit the aura of the Mir to Boro Park of yesteryear was the Tchizever Rov, a go’on.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Alter Avrohom Eidel Poplack
Rav Poplack had an incredible life story, and resided for many years in Boro Park of yore. OlkenickAlter.... read more
Memory Lane: Aaron Dovid Egoz, Prominent Yiddish Writer and Editor
In researching our shtetl of Boro Park over the years, we came across more than one Yiddish article on the.... read more
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