In recent days, the Chabad Shliach in the city of Rivne, Rabbi Shneur Schneersohn (a tenth generation descendant of the Ba’al Hatanya), has made a dramatic and surprising historical discovery: it turns out that the only synagogue that survived the horrors of the Holocaust and Communism, at 39 Shkolnia Street, where the Jews of Rivne pray today, is actually the “Alte Kloiz”- the old beit midrash used by the Maggid and his disciples • Full Story

Two hundred and twenty two years years after the Maggid of Lubavitch was Nistalek, a tombstone was erected at his Kever in the Russian town of Lubavitch. Known as the “Maggid of Lubavitch”, R’ Yisochar Ber was a deciple of the Baal Shem Tov, and taught the Alter Rebbe in his youth. Later, the Maggid became a Chosid of the Alter Rebbe • Photos