Memory Lane: Letters from a German POW to Boro Park

The year was 1919, and it was the heat of World War One. In faraway Tomsk, deep in Siberia, sat a German prisoner.... read more

Memory Lane: Louis (Leibish) Borgenicht, Patron of Torah Institutions

Louis Borgenicht was one of the most prominent of Boro Park’s philanthropists. As his matzeivah reads, he was a.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz’s Visit to Boro Park

Kamenitz in Dire Straits In the year 1897, Knesses Beis Yitzchok was established on the outskirts of Slabodka, and in the.... read more

Memory Lane: R’ Pesach (Pacy) Feldman

He was an accomplished architect who made Shuls and Mosdos haTorah his priority. He was a pillar of the Mirer.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Chaim Grozovsky

A beloved einikel of Rav Baruch Ber Leibowitz, who had merited to spend years in his holy glow, Rav Chaim Grozovsky.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Shloime Hakohen Kleinman

Rav Shloime Kleinman served as the rav of Knesses Israel/Hebrew Community of Boro Park, located at 1323 42nd.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Naftoli Ullman

Congregation Shomrei Emuah has been a feature of the Boro Park community since the year 1908. The “downstairs” section has always served as a.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Rephael Aryeh Bunimowitz

Among the many plaques affixed on the walls of Congregation Shomrei Emunah hangs a memorial to one Rav Rephael Aryeh Bunimowitz, “Rebbe fun.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Dovid Aaron Soloveitchik

The following entry appears in Hamo’or in 1961: “In Boro Park, following a lengthy illness of a number of years, Rav Dovid Aaron Soloveitchik,.... read more

Memory Lane: Morris Kulok

An iconic edifice--hearkening back to the glory days of Boro Park's great temples stands on 48th street at 15th avenue. It is the domed.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Yehuda Stamm

On the outskirts of Boro Park, at 6510 17th Avenue, there stood a Shul by the name of Congregation Bnai Jacob of Mapleton Park. There, Rav Yudel.... read more

Memory Lane: Temple Beth El

The edifice has stood at the corner of 48th Street and 15th Avenue in Boro Park for more than one century. For more one hundred years.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Moshe Leib Waldenberg, The Plotzker Rebbe

One of postwar personalities of Boro Park was the Plotzker Rebbe, a ga’on from a city of ga’onim, who resided in the center of Boro Park.... read more

Memory Lane: Rabbi Yosef Gabriel (Ralbag)

It was the year 1930, and at 1265 45th Street in Boro Park, there resided a Rabbi Joseph Gabriel who was born in Jerusalem in the year 1891. It.... read more

Memory Lane: Rav Aaron Meir Krauz, The Sopron-Edeliner Rov

Leading Cong. Bnei Israel for a number of decades was Rav Krausz, the last rov of Sopron, who had a rich tenure as a rov in Sidney, Australia, and.... read more

Memory Lane: Harav Sholom Podoliefsky, zt”l

A number of weeks ago, we profiled chevra Bnei Yisroel of Boro Park, which is nearly one hundred years old. In this time, it did not have all that.... read more

In Honor of the 20th Yahrzeit: A Look Back at Yomim Tovim by the Bobover Rebbe, zt”l

Memory Lane: 20th yohrtzeit of Rav Naftoli Tzvi of Bobov, zt”l

YS GOLD This week will mark twenty years since the passing of a great tzaddik who resided in Boro Park, and was central to relocating.... read more