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Legendary Synagogue of Maggid of Mezeritch Identified

In recent days, the Chabad emissary 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.