Memory Lane: Rav Eliezer Eichler
Last week profiled Rav Avigdor Regenbogen, a leader of the Chortkover chassidim in Boro Park. This week, we fast-forward by a couple of decades to.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Avigdor Regenbogen, Bridging Chortkiv and Boro Park
The leader of the Czortkower chassidim in America was Rav Avigdor Regenbogen. Today, we take a glimpse into his.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Menashe Frankel, zt”l
The Last Lizensker Rov14 Adar (I) marks the 56th yohrtzeit of Rav Menashe Frankel. Following his harrowing survival of.... read more
Memory Lane: The Liska Rebbe
In the year 1947, Boro Park was comprised mainly of the “old-timers,” those who had settled here away from the bustling and congested old.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yisroel Kravitz
In recent weeks, we have been chronicling the history of Kesser Israel/Congregation Crown of Israel, which has been located for close to one.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Shimon Scher
Crown of Israel was founded in the early 1920’s, and entered their current building in 1928. The first long-term Rabbi of the shul was Rav.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Shmuel Kalman Mirsky
A child of Yerushalayim, this brilliant mind came to America and settled in Boro Park. He fused brilliance and piety, and his brilliant Torah.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Avrohom Kellner
In a previous installment in the history of Boro Park of yesteryear, we chronicled some of the close-to 100 year.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Chaim Pinchos Lubinsky
Boro Park of yore was home to one of the largest waves of she’eiris hapleitoh in the world; men and women who’d seen the worst atrocities in.... read more
Memory Lane: Congregation Kesser Israel, A Sanctuary in Mapleton Park
Melting Pot in MapletonThe neighborhood of Mapleton Park was developed around the year 1910. It used to encapsulate greater.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Aaron Gordon & Louis Kalmanowitz; Bridging the Mir and Boro Park
In Dos Yiddishe Licht (founded by Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt) we read: “Boro Park Active for Mirrer.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Dovber Rivkin, Pioneering Boro Park, Educating Generations
In the early 1930’s Rav Moshe Dovber Rivkin arrived in Boro Park from Yerushalayim with his Rebbetzin. While Rav Rivkin would serve as a Rosh.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Sender Shmuel Teitelbaum, Kolbusover Rav
A Scion of Sighet goes WestRav Sender was born to his father, Rav Aryeh Leibush, who was a son in law of Rav Chaim Yonah.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Aaron Yehuda Weintraub, zt”l, Lisobiker Rov
An interesting phenomenon of the aftermath of WWII was the existence of world-class Ge’onim, masmidim, and talmidei Chachomim who were common.... read more
Memory Lane: The Beitcher Rov
The Beitcher Rebbeim—scions of the courts of Sanz, Ropshitz, and Dzikov—came to Boro Park in the 1930’s, when the sum of bearded Yidden in.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yoel Halpern, Yaslo Rov, zt”l, From Bergen Belsen to Boro Park
A Scion of Rabbinic Royalty Rav Yoel was born in Krakow in the year 1900. His father was Rav Matisyahu Chaim Halpern, who.... read more
Memory Lane: Shomrei Shabbos Anshei Nowogrod
In 1922, a group of men began davening at 1420 50th Street. They founded a society by the name of Shomrei Shabbos of Borough Park. The shul would.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yerachmiel Kumin
Sometime in the 1930’s, a scion of Lita’s illustrious Torah families, graduate of its elite yeshivos, and personal secretary to the Chofetz.... read more