How a Texan, a Naval Officer and a Runaway Girl Met the Rebbe 30 Years After His Passing

Rivka was 17 when she left the Orthodox Jewish home where she was raised in Monsey, N.Y., and moved to Colorado with a non-Jewish man. Rivka was not just moving west; she was running. She’d felt suffocated, as if every part of the life she was living was in conflict with who she felt she was.

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Leave The Calculations to Me

The week of Shiva had just come to an end for the hundreds of thousands connected to the Rebbe who were reeling from the loss. My family was heading back from Crown Heights in Brooklyn, NY to Binghamton, NY where we are shluchim of the Rebbe. Giving voice to my inner turmoil I asked my father “What now?”