
Monsey Memories: Building Beth Tefilla
Yitzy FriedIn last week’s edition of this column, we wrote.... read more

BONUS Monsey Memories: The Fire That Consumed the Skverer Beis Medrash
Yitzy FriedAs we mourn the Churban of the Beis Hamikdosh, we recall the fire that consumed another.... read more

Monsey Memories: Beginning of Congregation Bais Tefilla
Yitzy Fried Bais Tefillah is a legendary place for both Torah and tefillah in Monsey today,.... read more

Monsey Memories: Monsey Lodge; “Finest Day Camp in Rockland County”
Yitzy Fried As the summer season dawns, we are reminded that Rockland County was once a major hotel and resort destination. The.... read more

Monsey Memories: When Rockland Began to Shift from Hamlet to Metropolis, and Its Demographics Changed Along With It
Yitzy Fried We tend to think that the changes coming over Rockland County today are.... read more

Monsey Memories: The Old Village of Piermont
Yitzy Fried The Village of Piermont is located on the banks of the Hudson River on the eastern edge of Rockland County. According.... read more

Monsey Memories: A Lifelong Firefighter Recalls the ‘Summer of Arson’
Yitzy Fried Our column on a wave of arsons that plagued Rockland prompted the following.... read more

Monsey Memories: Dr. Sidney Levine, Monsey’s Physician for 40 Years
Yitzy Fried For more than four decades—from 1959, when Monsey was a little hamlet and its Jewish community tiny, until his.... read more

Monsey Memories: When Beis Medrash Elyon’s 25th Anniversary Was Marked
Yitzy Fried In the fall of 1968, 25 years ago, a dinner was held in Monsey, marking 25.... read more

Monsey Memories: The Kashauer Rebbe
Yitzy FriedA holy and revered presence in old Monsey of the.... read more

Monsey Memories: When a Car Overturned, Sending Passengers to Spring Valley General
Yitzy Fried On May 24, 1962—close to 61 years ago—Michael J. McDonough was driving through the intersection of Route 45 and.... read more

Monsey Memories: Reb Shmuel Wudowsky, Beloved Beis Dovid Rebbi
Yitzy Fried The phenomenon of Monsey being a bustling metropolis, with congested traffic and.... read more

Monsey Memories: The Tenure House on Saddle River Road
Yitzy FriedOn Saddle River Road in Monsey stands a home that was built in the year 1756 by Zacharia Ferguson, twenty years before the.... read more

Monsey Memories: Rabbi Yechiel Dov Shoham
Yitzy Fried As we approach Pesach with its unique kashrus needs, we profile a Rov who.... read more

Monsey Memories: The Spook Rock Bridge
Yitzy FriedOn the edge of Wesley Hills sits a pond which is bordered by a dam which allows only a stream of water to flow further into.... read more

Monsey Memories: Reb Moshe Weiss (Batlan), a Legend in Skver
By: Yitzy FriedIn the lore of the Skverer chassidus, the name of Reb Moshe ‘Batlan,’ the gabbai of the previous Skverer Rebbe,.... read more