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Dei'ah veDibur - Information & Insight - NEWS: "community has been around for over a century. The first Jew recorded living in Passaic was Jacob Basch who moved there in 1867. He was in the wool business that was very prevalent in Passaic at the time and continued as such for years. The Botany 500 clothing company made its suits here for a while. In fact, the industrial part of the town is called Botany Mills; the nearby town of Clifton was called Botany Village. The community grew after that, comprising mostly Orthodox people. The Bnei Jacob shul opened in 1897 and flourished through the seventies. The town boasted many prominent rabbonim over the years. Rav Yosef Rosen, a Volozhiner talmid and a noted talmid chochom was rav through the '30s. HaRav Dovid Leibowitz zt'l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim who was a Slobodke talmid and a contemporary of HaRav Yaakov Kamenetsky and HaRav Aaron Kotler, would send his talmidim to him forcommunity has been around for over a century. The first Jew recorded living in Passaic was Jacob Basch who moved there in 1867. He was in the wool business that was very prevalent in Passaic at the time and continued as such for years. The Botany 500 clothing company made its suits here for a while. In fact, the industrial part of the town is called Botany Mills; the nearby town of Clifton was called Botany Village. The community grew after that, comprising mostly Orthodox people. The Bnei Jacob shul opened in 1897 and flourished through the seventies. The town boasted many prominent rabbonim over the years. Rav Yosef Rosen, a Volozhiner talmid and a noted talmid chochom was rav through the '30s. HaRav Dovid Leibowitz zt'l, rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim who was a Slobodke talmid and a contemporary of HaRav Yaakov Kamenetsky and HaRav Aaron Kotler, would send his talmidim to him for"