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Photos: There Were Days…

From the Archives of Oholei Torah Educational Institute, an album of photos from its early years in the ’70s and ’80s. Can you identify any of the children in the photos?

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15 Comments

  • Wow What Memories

    Note that in the second picture they are Davening away from the Aron Kodesh, that is because it was a reform Shul and the members would still come on Sundays to Daven there.
    In those days it was known as the ‘small Shul’.
    Would love to see more!

  • to # 3:

    The reason we davened away from the Aron Kodesh in the small shul was NOT because they had the old minyan on sundays, but because the Aron Kodesh was on Maariv side of the room.

    and pretty sure the Brooklyn Jewish Center was conservative, not reform.

  • HALEVAI

    These were the days when ALL children spoke Yiddish, ALL men wore jackets and hats, ALL women dressed al pi halacha.
    How deep have the mighty fallen!!!!

  • Talmid

    I spy… Reb Avrahan Grlitzky, Rabbi Burston in the same first grade class room that he taught me in, and Rabbi Twersky.

  • Teacher of the Three year olds

    What memories. I taught there some years ago and those students area combination of Shluchim and upstanding yiddishe families and individuals today. With all the complaints Oholei Torah can be very proud of their pierois. May OT only go maychayil el chayil. Thank you to Rabbi Rosenfeld the back bone of the Rebbes desires in this school and to all who have put in koichois over these 57 years. Hatzlocha Rabba for the future.

  • WOW!!!

    You can tell that these pictures were taken a long time ago because of the glases!!!

  • Eli

    Davening with our backs to the Aron Kodesh was allowed because there was an Aron Kodesh on “Mizrach Vant” in the “big shul” across the hall.
    Otherwise, one Davens towards the Aron Kodesh even it’s on the wrong wall. Or so we were told.