Memory Lane: Rabbi Dovber Marton (II)
Bridging the old and the newA name in one year Last week we began to tell the story of Rabbi Dov Ber Marton, a child of a.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Dov Ber Marton
As we have noted in these lines, First Congregation Anshei Sfard of Borough Park was established in the early part of the 20th Century, and was a.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Eliezer Heller, z”l, a Chassidishe Yid in Boro Park of 1905
48 Orchard Street, on the Lower East Side, was home to five shuls housed, which served the chassidim who immigrated from Russia. One of them was.... read more
Memory Lane: Rabbi Yosef Fischman, z”l, longtime gabbai of the Sfardishe Shul
By: Yehuda AlterWhen we reflect on what it means to spend more than half a century of ones’ life completely immersed in the needs of.... read more
Memory Lane: Historic Thirteenth Avenue
BY: Yehuda Alter In our chronicling of the early years in Boro Park, we have been telling the stories of some of the ba’alei.... read more
Memory Lane: Harav Shlomo Golshevsky, Advocate for the Youth in Boro Park
Rav Golshevsky, although European-born, and a graduate of its greatest yeshivos, he was not the first in his family to serve as a prominent Rav in.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Eliyahu Mordechai Finkelstein, Pioneer in chinuch
The first official Rav of the 107 year old Sfardishe Shul was most likely Rabbi Eliyahu Mordechai Finkelstein, a ga’on who did much for the.... read more
Memory Lane: Beth Israel of Borough Park (II)
In last week’s installment of our Boro Park of yesteryear column we became acquainted with some of the early history of this venerated.... read more
Memory Lane: Beth Israel of Borough Park
August-November of 1919, the history of Congregation Beth Israel of Borough Park was fashioned, and the ripples of the dedication and passion of.... read more
Memory Lane: Chevrah Anshei Lubawitz of Boro Park
In the year 1920, the wealthier members of Congregation Beth El on 12th Avenue and 41st Street broke ground for a grand new temple at 48th Street..... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Shmuel Tzvi Wein, zt”l, The Vyzoner Rov
Rabbi Ben Zion Eisenstadt, the famed biographer and historian of Rabbonim of the last two centuries writes regarding Rav Wein: “Of the Rabbonim.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yaakov Meir Kahana-Shapiro - Part 2
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Memory Lane: Rav Yaakov Meir Kahana-Shapiro - Part 1
The Kahana-Shapiro family traces its roots to Krakow of yore, where their famed ancestor and patriarch, Rav Nosson Nota Spira, known as the.... read more
Memory Lane: The Zeks; Six Friends from Boro Park in the 1920’s
This story is about a tight knit group of friends who spent their blissful childhood in Boro Park of yesteryear…close to a century ago. As we.... read more
Memory Lane: Rav Yehuda Altusky, zt”l
It is rare—even among the great Rabbanim that we profile here—to meet a Rav who came to America at the turn of the century, and lived to raise.... read more
Memory Lane: The Skverer Admorim of Boro Park
In the year 1929 there arrived a Rebbe, a leader and a shepherd in the neighborhood of Boro Park. In those early days, when Boro Park was far from.... read more
Memory Lane: Reb Yissaschar Thau
Standing up for the Honor of Shabbos in 1922On November 11, 1922, a letter appeared in the Yiddishes Taggeblat column “licht un.... read more
Memory Lane: Harav Meir Shimon Pinsky, zt”l
The “downstairs minyan” in the basement of the Sfardishe Shul was where the old-time European men found their place in the chevrah.... read more