Wednesday, January 7th, 2009...5:49 pm
The Changing Face
of Boro Park
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“At any rate, the Indians sold Boro Park, along with the rest of Brooklyn and Manhattan, for some shirts, shoes, stockings, knives, scissors, and combs. Boro Park as a community celebrated its 120th birthday last year. In the early decades, Boro Park was sparsely populated, and there were few, if any, Jews here.”
“There were very few Jews here who were shomer Shabbos. Very few. Our house was the only one on the block that had a sukkah. Most of the Jews here ate kosher, lit candles Friday night, and went to shul on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and when they had yahrzeit.” more@JPress.com
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