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OUR COMMUNITY

reach out to Spirit and connect 
with loved ones on the other 
side, Rosen said.
“We all have the gift to a 
certain degree. It’s like a mus-
cle that requires development. 
Meditation helps. It gets you out 
of your mind and ego so your 
intuitive senses can start work-
ing. It takes practice and faith 
and trust.
”
For those still working on our 
own intuitive skills, a reading 
with someone like Rosen can 
provide comfort and validation 
to those who are grieving. 
“My group reading with 
Rebecca changed my life,
” says 
Adam Weiner of Ann Arbor. 
“I was a skeptic but decided 
to open my mind and my 
heart and see what happened.
” 
Weiner says the guidance Rosen 
provided from the other side 

helped him become a better 
father. 
Matruka Sherman of Ann 
Arbor, shares that her late 
husband, Richard Mann, a 
professor at the University of 
Michigan, met with Rosen, 
who helped him connect to his 
deceased son, who had passed 
from ALS and couldn’t speak 
at the end of his life. “Through 
Rebecca, he told him he was 
free of pain and happy and 
learning, studying, growing and 
evolving … He told her that it 
took him leaving the physical 
body to open and to remember 
the truth that there is a God … 
The validation and relief that 
this brought to my husband and 
myself was immeasurable.
”
Rosen will be introducing 
her new book and provid-
ing audience readings on 

Wednesday, May 17, from 7-9 
p.m. at the Berman Center for 
the Performing Arts at the JCC. 
Attendees can expect to experi-
ence validation that we are not 
alone as we journey through 
“Earth School.
” 

Tickets start at $96 and can be pur-

chased at https://tinyurl.com/4nu7rd4v. 

Each ticket purchase includes a signed 

copy of the book. Rebecca will also be 

available following the event for a book 

signing for more personal inscriptions.

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Rebecca 
Rosen tapes 
her podcast.

F

lint Sheriff Christopher 
R. Swanson proclaimed 
April 2, 2023, to be 
“Education Day, Genesee 
County.
” With a growing men-
tal health crisis and crisis of 
purpose among young people, 
Education Day seeks to high-
light the critical need for moral 
and ethical education.
At an event on April 5 at 
the Genesee County Sheriff’s 
office, Swanson was joined 
by community members and 
influencers from around the 
country, including Rabbi 
Sholom Lipskar, founder 
and chairman of the Aleph 
Institute. The Aleph Institute 

is an organization committed 
to criminal justice reform and 
recidivism reduction through 
preventive-education and faith-
based rehabilitation programs, 
re-entry assistance, alternative 
sentencing guidance and coun-
sel, and policy research and 
recommendations. 
Swanson presented this 
year’s Education and Sharing 
Day proclamation to Rabbi 
Israel Weingarten of Chabad of 
Eastern Michigan during the 
event.
“The Rebbe told us, ‘We 
must translate pain into action 
and tears into growth,
’” Rabbi 
Weingarten said. “That is 

what education makes possi-
ble. Children are the kite strings 

that hold our national ambitions 
aloft — everything America will 
be tomorrow depends on how 
we deliver for our young people 
today. So let us remember his 
teachings. Let us prepare our 
children to be tolerant, curious 
and moral, ensuring that they 
lift up others as they rise.
”
Education and Sharing Day 
was championed by the Rebbe, 
Rabbi Menachem Mendel 
Schneerson, of righteous mem-

ory. Forty years ago, Congress 
passed a joint resolution and 

President Carter signed into 
law a resolution to designate the 
Rebbe’s birthday as Education 
and Sharing Day. Each pres-
ident since Carter, as well as 
numerous local legislatures, 
governors and mayors have 
annually recognized the date 
corresponding to the Rebbe’s 
birthday, celebrated four days 
before Passover, as Education 
and Sharing Day. 

Rabbi Israel Weingarten (right) hands matzah to Adam Mizel, 
co-founder and CEO of California-based US United, who was in Flint 
for Education Day.

Sherif
 echoes the Rebbe’s call for renewed 
focus on moral and ethical education.

Genesee County 
Marks Education Day

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