Iconic Williamsburg: Gottlieb’s Restaurant
YS Gold With the passing today of Reb Shulem Yosef Gottlieb, proprietor of Gottlieb’s Restaurant on Roebling Street,.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: The 90th precinct
YS Gold The New York Police Department’s 90th precinct, which serves the northwestern portion of Brooklyn that mainly consists.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Aharon Dovid Burack
One of the most important Rabbonim in America of his time, a truly brilliant Rav and marzbitz Torah, Rav Aharon Dovid Burack bears an indelible.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: The Big Satmar Shul on Rodney Street
The address of 152 Rodney Street in Williamsburg strikes a chord for tens of thousands of Satmar chassidim as the spiritual home of the Divrei.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Simcha Abeles
As we continue our sojourn through the history of the Jewish community in Williamsburg of yore, we come upon the area a wee bit south of the Moore.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz
He was a legendary figure in old Williamsburg—a builder of Torah in America like few others. Rav Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz, the menahel of.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Reb Yosef Rosenberger and His Shatnez Laboratory
Very little has changed at 203 Lee Avenue in Williamsburg in the eighty years or so since Reb Yosef Rosenberger, the hero of this forgotten.... read more
NEW COLUMN! Iconic Williamsburg
"Iconic Williamsburg" is a new weekly feature on W365 which takes us to the personalities, the shul's, the landmarks, the rabbonim, and.... read more