Iconic Williamsburg: Rabbi Chaim Gelb
The famed minyan Torah Vodaath on Wilson Street was packed for mincha with hundreds of Yidden—as it was every afternoon—and rushing between.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Harav Mordechai Meir Zilberman, zt”l
Referred to as the zekan Harabanim of America, and the head of the Rabbanim of Williamsburg, Rav Silverman came to.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Levi Yitzchok Landman, zt”l, Tarnopoler Rebbe
Rav Levy Yitzchok Landman, zt”l, a scion of the greatest Chassidic and rabbinic dynasties in Galicia, who.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Reb Shlomo Zalman Hakohen Sander
A legendary establishment in Williamsburg is Sander’s Bakery which has been around for more than half a century,.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Yehoshua Baumol
He hailed from an illustrious rabbinic family in Galicia, and was a prominent and esteemed rov in Williamsburg of.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Hagaon Rav Avraham Tropp, zt”l
Rav Avrohom Chaim was born to his father, the legendary Ga’on, Rav Naftoli Tropp, zt”l, known as the.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Zalmanowitz zt”l
In the lore of talmidim of Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yitzchok Elchonon, the tradition is repeated about Rav Moshe.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Avrohom Shloime Blumenkrantz
The aftermath of the Holocaust found Williamsburg teeming with survivors from the terrible Churban. Prominent among.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Avrohom Levovitz
Williamsburg was home to a sizable contingent of Mirer alumni, mostly European-born talmidim of the legendary yeshiva who kept the memories and.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Manis Mandel
The first, and longest-serving, of the early institutions in Brooklyn is the Yeshiva of Brooklyn—founded in the 1920’s in Williamsburg. But.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: The Fire on Clymer Street
YS GOLD This week, we focus on a fire that took place in the winter of 1982 at the Satmar Yeshiva on Clymer Street, as reported by the.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Ephraim Berman
This is the story of a rov and talmid chochom from who valiantly stood at the helm of Congregation Beis Aaron Beis.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Pinchos Ingberman
In August of 1955, an El Al plane was shot down over Bulgaria, in an act that its government would later admit was.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: The Helmetzer Rov
Postwar Williamsburg saw an influx of Rabbonim from prewar Hungary—great men who had presided over kehillos and yeshivos, only to see it all go.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Congregation Ahavas Israel, 108 Noble Street
Roughly a mile from the Williamsburg Bridge lies what is today known as the “Greenpoint Shul,” also known as Congregation Ahavas Israel, at.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Yoel Fink, zt”l
One of the pioneers of establishing Torah Judaism in America— a ga’on b’Torah whose heart that burned with yearning for Hashem—Rav Yoel.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Zev Wolf Hirschprung, zt”l
Adjacent to the ohel of the Sadigerer Rebbe lies the grave of Rav Zev Volf Hirschprung of Krakow, a ga’on and.... read more
Iconic Williamsburg: Rav Menachem Mendel Leib Lokshin
Our previous foray into the early history of Williamsburg involved the most prominent concentration of Yidden at.... read more
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