In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, JEM’s Our Story project is proud to announce a new WhatsApp series for women, featuring a weekly story of the Rebbe. To sign up and receive the weekly story or to submit a story, WhatsApp: 718.604.4690.
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As reported earlier, over the last few weeks, girls from 24 English-speaking Chabad high schools and seminaries around the world have been interviewing their mothers, aunts, grandmothers, neighbors and friends about their stories with the Rebbe.
In the second round of recording, hundreds of fascinating new stories have come in!
The grassroots project conceptualized by a group of Beis Rivkah seminary students, spearheaded by Leah Goldman, was started after realizing that not enough women were sharing their precious stories of the Rebbe. Together with JEM’s My Encounter project, Our Story aims to record hundreds of women’s stories via audio, otherwise untold, and share them with the world.
Video that was shown to the High School and Seminary girls
Congratulations to the winners of the girls that submitted stories: Chevy Harpenes (Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School, London) Devorah Leah Wineberg (Ohel Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch Girls School, Manchester), Sheina Danow (Ohel Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch Girls School, Manchester) Malky Keller (Bais Chana, Tzfat, Israel), Mushka Hackner (Lubavitch Senior Girls’ School, London) Mushky Niasoff (Ohel Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch Girls School, Manchester), Toba Kievman (Ohel Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch Girls School, Manchester), and Mushky Brashevitzky (Rohr Bais Chaya Academy, Coral Springs, FL).
A special thanks to the sponsors of this round: Dr. Chaim & Chavi Goldberg, Yosef Chaim & Chani Brook, Mendel & Reut Pinson, Mishpochat Bareket, Shimon & Leah Barber and SGM SOCHER, Inc.
Here a High School student shares her experience:
Chaya Mushka Silberberg – Bais Chomesh Toronto
When I first found out about the Our Story project, I thought that I didn’t have any story to share, so I moved on. But I kept seeing the flyers hanging around the school encouraging us to participate and I really did want to be part of it.
Then I remembered a story that my mom once mentioned, about how a school in Mexico became established through the Rebbe’s bracha. I got in touch with my mother who put me in contact with the lady in the story. Now I was able to participate. It took a lot of time and effort, especially because the lady now lives in Israel, so there was a challenge with the time difference, but it was 100% worth it.
The woman in the story was moving from New York to Mexico City, and went for the first time with her father to the Rebbe. She was worried about educating her children there, and told this to the Rebbe. The Rebbe gave her a bracha that she should be successful there. Eventually she opened up a school, that my mother is now the principal of.
The Rebbe got over a hundred letters and calls a week, as well as many visitors, and despite all this he answered every one of them with care and precision. Even though the Rebbe isn’t physically here anymore, these stories help to see what the Rebbe directed other people and I can apply that to myself.
WELLLLLL DONNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
YOU GUYS R EPIC
MUSHKI…….LOVE THE PICCCCC
LOVE FROM A HIGH SKWL MATE AND ONE OF UR CLASSMATES!!!!!!
great job!! so proud of u!!!
a classmate
Mushky Niasoff so cute :))
Way to go friends!
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