Probably largest Yiddish levaye, the USA has ever seen. need to post the photo where you can literally see tens of thousands.
If you can top 250k that Rav Moshe Feinstein had then we can talk...
Fake news! No such a thing was possible 30+ years ago
The NYT claims 20k, so hard to believe there were more than 50k. https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/25/obituaries/thousands-mourn-talmudic-scholar.html
Theyre notorious on crowd sizes. More likely they dropped a zero than flipped a 5.
Ok your rebbe is the greatest...
You have support from the highest office in the land
Who really cares about who had a larger crowd? Does that really make a difference?
Rabbi Tuvia Hod-Hochwald z"l
my guess is Reb Moshe had more, but a friend of mine who was at Reb Moshe's levaya saw how that number was made up. There was a news van on one of the streets with a lady reporter who stayed in the van and she asked her assistant "John how many people do you think are here?", he took one look around and said 250K and thus was born the myth
Acc to wikipedia Funeral of Sholem Aleichem had 250k in NY in 1916.
100k per the nythttps://www.nytimes.com/1916/05/16/archives/vast-crowds-honor-sholem-aleichem-funeral-cortege-of-yiddish-author.html