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Chevrah Connection News – 2025 Newsletter
Chevrah Connection News – 2024 Newsletter
Chevrah Connection News – 2023 Newsletter
Chevrah Connection News – 2022 Newsletter
A Unique Organization
Meaningful, dedicated, productive, valuable – these are all words that describe Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah and its work. After close to a decade…
The Dream Request
A True Story by Rabbi Nachman Seltzer The only reason Robin Meyerson traveled to Israel at the age of 27 was because…
The Day it All Worked Out
(Reproduced from I Have an Amazing Story for You! by Rabbi Nachman Seltzer, pgs. 67-76, with permission from ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications, Ltd.) It…
Meet the Author
At a Loss
Originally printed in the Family First magazine My Brother Chesky I was a post-seminary graduate when my thirteen-year-old only brother, Chesky, started…
Favor For a Neighbor
Behind the Scenes: When Caring Counts Most
Grappling with Yizkor
Originally published in the Ami Magazine Grappling with Yizkor for My Not-So-Ordinary Family I used to feel angry when it came time…
Chevrah Connection News – 2021 Newsletter
A Burning Issue
By Margie Pensak As the West Coast director of The National Association of Chevra Kadisha (NASCK), headed by Rabbi Elchonon Zohn, Robin…
And More Little Things…
“Your story ‘Those Little Things’ changed my entire perspective,” she told me. I was on the phone with a woman who informed…
Zera Shimshon Revisited
I have written many stories over the years. Hundreds of stories. Many of them have made an impact, baruch Hashem. Once in…
Attorney for Heaven
People love stories. People especially love hearing stories that are incredible, that seem almost too good to be true. This is such…
Standing at Your Side
You know, we had a baby boy a few months ago,” Reb Chatzkel* began, by way of introduction. “I was at the…
Chevrah Connection News – 2020 Newsletter
The Lightbulb
There I was, sitting on a plane. Interesting: I had had no indication whatsoever that I’d be sitting on a plane at…
The Grave Clause
There I was in the car and it was getting late. I glanced at my list. One more property to visit before…
The Unlikely Funeral
Walking through Bnei Brak in the summer is like enjoying quality time in the sauna, while trying to go about everyday life.…
The Garbage Caper
I stay in hotels. It’s not that I enjoy them. It’s just something that I have to do a lot for business…
Chevrah Connection News – 2019 Newsletter
Making a Difference: Experience Rabbi Nachman Seltzer at His Finest
Lakewood Shopper A substitute doctor. A woman sent to the hospital against her better judgement. Was it all in vain? In his…
Reaching Beyond Ourselves – Impacting Neshamahs in this World and the Next
Yated Ne’eman Acclaimed author and speaker Rabbi Nachman Seltzer made his debut in Lakewood last week on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz with a…
Binah Interview with Mrs. Miriam Ribiat
Binah Everything was so completely ordinary—until it wasn’t. The before and the after. Although there was also a nice amount of during as well—in between the before…
My Story by Mrs. Miriam Ribiat
Chazak Hotline Hello, my name is Miriam Ribiat and I just would like to thank Chazak for giving me this opportunity to…
Comfort, Courage and Clarity: Supporting Adults through Loss
Yated I had lost my mother nine months previously, and I felt her absence everywhere. I wanted to pick up the phone…
A Burning Desire
Illuminations of the Magid Mrs. Robin (Davina) Meyerson and her husband Charlie (Yoshiyah) are Orthodox Jews in Scottsdale, Arizona, who are members…
To Comfort And Be Comforted
Yated The novi Yeshayah tells us in this week’s haftorah that we must feel comfort following all of the destruction we felt on Tishah B’av. Nachamu, nachamu, ami.…
Book Review: To Comfort And Be Comforted — A Guide To The Mitzvah Of Nichum Aveilim
Five Towns Jewish Times By Rochelle Maruch Miller Several years ago, Rabbi Moshe Haikins, Founder and President of Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah attended…
I Lost Someone Special Book Helps Children Address Grief
Arizona Jewish News By: Leisah Woldoff | Managing Editor of Arizona Jewish News January 2016 A new book designed to help children…
Aliyas Neshamah Program Implemented in Phoenix-Area Schools
Hamodia This year, in conjunction with the parshiyos teaching about the passing of the Avos and Imahos, a special program was implemented in the Phoenix Hebrew Academy…
‘I Lost Someone Special’: A Conversation With Bracha Goetz
Five Towns Jewish Times By Rochelle Maruch Miller Bracha Goetz is no ordinary author. The author of 29 books, she is dedicated…
Scent of Heaven
Sitting in the Low Chair Beth Firestone For a baalas teshuva there is a first for everything. The first time you say…
Rosh Hashanah 5775
Dear Friends, Rosh Hashanah is almost upon us; a new year, a new beginning. The Hebrew term for ‘year’ – ‘shanah’ is…
A Thought from Miriam Leibermann
Dear Friends, This evening is the yartzeit of a dear friend of mine. She passed away 7 yrs ago, died in a…
The Circle of Life
Unparalleled Power: Inside Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah – August 2014 Unparalleled Power: Inside Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah is an internationally renowned…
A Different Kind of Shidduch
This is the story of a shidduch – of sorts – that was made through the offices of Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah. The…
“Unfinished Symphony” by Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn
When the Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Aaron Rokeach came from Europe to Haifa, Israel, in 1944, he gathered a cluster of chassidim Friday…
Introducing…
Dearest Friends, It is a privilege for me to join the Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah and I’m grateful to have this opportunity to…
Bringing Merit to the Soul
Inyan – Hamodia Weekly Magazine Rabbi M. H., a Lakewood yungerman, was about to start his morning seder in Bais Medrash Govoha when he was asked…
Generating Merit for Our Forebears, Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah Fills a Crucial Need
Inyan – Hamodia Weekly Magazine Loss of a loved one is a pain-filled experience. Yet it is comforting to know that it…
Mishnah Study Offered to Mourners
Jewish Press Rabbi M. H. established The Society for Mishnah Study (Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah) in 2005 to serve mourners who wish to have Mishnayos…
A Book That is Needed By All
Yated By Rabbi Boruch Leff I once read the following story in the Me’iri’s Chibur HaTeshuva (available in any complete set of Me’iri in…
Sweet Moments Indeed!
The Voice of Lakewood Hadassah got married around 8 years ago, and was hoping to start a family of her own. After…
Siyum on Shishah Sidrei Mishnah for Yahrtzeit of Rabbi Jacob Joseph
Yated Last Thursday, chof-daled Tamuz, marked the 107th yahrtzeit of New York City’s first Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Jacob Joseph, who was niftar in 1902 at the age of…
Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah
Viewpoint Magazine The loss of a loved one is a searing experience. Confronted with a gaping hole in their lives, bereaved family…
Chevrah Lomdei Mishnah – The Society for Mishnah Study
Mishpacha Magazine By Libi Astaire He had a birthday coming up – one of those big, milestone birthdays – and his wife…
Daring to Hope… Once Again
Binah It happened whenever Leah returned home from a class gathering or reunion. She would enter the house, stop for a brief…
A Link to the Past; A Gift for Eternity
Five Towns Jewish Times Anna Preisand was a single woman from Atlanta, Georgia. For many years, Anna devotedly cared for her ill…
From Lakewood to Teaneck—and Beyond
Hamodia The drive from Lakewood to Teaneck is a long one, and yungeleit usually only attempt it—often somewhat reluctantly—for family get-togethers. What, then, could…
Institute offers Surrogate Mishnah Study
The Jewish Press LAKEWOOD, New Jersey The Society for Mishnah Study commissions scholars to study the oral law for people who have…
Eternal Memory for Your Loved Ones
American Jewish Spirit Jewish tradition has always taught the eternity of the soul. We have also always believed that there is much that…
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