America's Top Rebbetzins

Rebbetzin Miriam Lipskier is the co-founder and Director of the Chabad Student Center at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. In this powerful interview, she teaches us that while previous generations of Jews had to deal with outside forces persecuting them (enslavement in Egypt, Spanish Inquisition, pograms, Holocaust, etc.), our generation is battling our own personal darkness that is within us. The...

Empower yourself!   Rebbetzin Shterna Ginsberg is the co-founder, along with her husband, of Mosdos Chinuch Gan Yisroel, where she has served as an educator since 1998.  In 2012, Rebbetzin Shterna founded Energized Living https://www.energizedliving.org/ Rebbetzin Shterna shares with us some of the life changing principles from her book, Your Awesome Self. She reminds us that there is really only...

Rebbetzin Chanie Goldman is the co-director of the Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville. She shares her special journey as the Chabad rebbetzin on a college campus, as well as the mother of a child with Downs Syndrome. The life lessons she shares with us are meaningful and deep. She tells us that all Jews are one soul and that soul is part of Hashem. Our true...

Rebbetzin Toby Bernstein is the co-founder of the Chabad Romano Center in Richmond Hill, Canada. She shares some interesting insights about how we can encourage Jews to become more interested in fulfilling the mitzvot, and what we can do to help our family and friends become more engaged in Yidishkeit. Contact: ⁠atrebbetzins@gmail.com⁠ Vera Kessler (host of America's Top Rebbetzins) is a certi...

Rebbetzin Tamar Taback is the founder of the Nexus School for Transformational Torah. In this conversation, she delves deeply into the meaning of the 22-verse poem known as the Ayshet Chayil. She shares with us that you are ALREADY an aishet chayil. Hashem made each one of us unique and innately precious to Him. We need to give ourselves permission to be ourselves. Rebbetzin Taback talks about the...

So much wisdom! Rebbetzin Leah Wilhelm is the Chabad emissary at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She shares three distinct Chassidic teachings and helps us apply them to our lives.  Rebbetzin Leah shares the teaching of Miriam bat Bilga--learning to see the good in others and bring it out. She also shares about hecksher mitzvah--the beforehand preparations that we do in order to carry out a...

Rebbetzin Devorah Buxbaum is the co-founder of the LEV Experience. She talks about the power that we, as human beings, have to positively affect ourselves AND those around us JUST with our thoughts. We are able to affect POWERFUL changes in our lives and in those around us, simply by rewiring our thoughts. First, we need to be aware of our thoughts. Then, we need to envision our goal in detail--re...

Rebbetzin Chaya Chava Pavlov is the founder and director of She'arim College of Jewish Studies for Women, located on Jerusalem. Rebbetzin Pavlov talks about the reasons why we are jealous, and gives us tools and strategies to work through this often counterproductive, albeit human, emotion. One of the three reasons that Rebbetzin Pavlov states is the root of our jealousy, is that we feel somet...

Rebbetzin Bracha Leeds is the Chabad emissary at the University of California in Berkeley. She talks to us about the middah (character trait) of tznius (modesty) as a mindset. It's not about the clothes we wear, it's about "What does Hashem want from us in this moment?" She emphasizes that we are not exempt from stepping forward when we are needed. That is such a powerful stateme...

If you have ever wondered about what is truly behind our obsession with food and eating, and if you really want to know how to achieve optimal health, you must listen to this interview. It was FASCINATING!!! Thank you Shimona Krengel Tzukernik !!! A coach and an international lecturer, Shimona Tzukernik is the creator of The Method, a practical approach to personal transformation, rooted in Torah...

We all have challenges in life. In this engaging interview, Rebbetzin Maryashie Deren, Chabad emissary at the Chabad of Greenwich, Connecticut, teaches us how to develop trust in G-d through 7 steps: 1. G-d is full of compassion and love  2. G-d is attentive and never ignores us  3. No one knows us better than G-d  4. Any harm or benefit that we receive is all from G-d  5. G-d can get us out of an...

Rabbanit Chana Henkin is the Founder and Dean of Nishmat. She is one of today's most acclaimed Jewish educators and a leader in re-drawing the landscape of Torah leadership and scholarship for women. Rabbanit Chana has been instrumental in creating a group of Yoatzot Halacha--women who are highly educated at the level of rabbis, specifically in the field of taharat hamishpacha. The yoatzot are...

Rebbetzin Fay Kranz Greene was an emissary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe for more than 30 years in various cities, including Detroit, Michigan and Richmond, Virginia. She was the managing editor of The Richmond Jewish News, and is a contributor to various Chabad publications and websites. Rebbetzin Fay shares her truly incredible journey from a seemingly ordinary young girl to an extraordinary rebbetzi...

Rebbetzin Raizel Rosenfeld is the rebbetzin of Chabad of Portugal, located in Lisbon. She talks about accepting ourselves just as we are, imperfections and all. Accepting ourselves makes it easier to accept others. No one is perfect; only Hashem is perfect. You just need to try your best, and if you fail, just pick yourself up again. Hashem wants us to use the talents that He gave to us. We need t...

Rebbetzin Dena Schusterman is the rebbetzin of Chabad Intown in Atlanta, Georgia. Rebbetzin Dena offers practical pointers on truly connecting with our children, as opposed to controlling them. Authentic connection leads to a strong parent-child relationship and ultimately leads your child to be more willing to cooperate you because they have formed a bond with you. She also talks about empathetic...

Rebbetzin Bassy Landa is the Chabad Rebbetzin of the Chabad Jewish Center in St. Charles, Missouri. Rebbetzin Bassy talks about the two souls that each of us has: the G-dly soul and the animal soul. Hashem created us with both physical and holy inclinations and both of those inclinations is what makes us human. She tells us that our animal soul is actually a vehicle of expression for our G-dly sou...

Rebbetzin Gevura Davis of Aish Philadelphia talks about a Jewish woman's true beauty. It's not about hair, nails and shoes. True beauty is not actually even about outer appearance. It's about your own inner essence of beauty that comes out in your daily life. Your true essence must be good in order for you to be authentically beautiful. In the words of Torah wisdom, true beauty is achi...

Rebbetzin Sara Yoheved Rigler is the author of several books, including her latest I've Been Here Before: When Souls of the Holocaust Return. This riveting books talks about souls coming back into this world in order to do a tikkun. Rebbetzin Sara Yoheved specifically addresses the return of souls who were alive during the time of the Holocaust. She shares true stories from her book about peop...

Rebbetzin Lisa Septimus is the Yoetzet Halacha of the Five Towns. She is also the Rebbetzin of Young Israel of North Woodmere, and a Judaic Studies Teacher at North Shore Hebrew Academy High School in Great Neck, New York. She talks about the responsibilities of a Yoetzet Halacha, and how having a woman in this position is helpful for other women in the community. Rebbetzin Lisa also talks about h...

Bracha Goetz, a popular author of inspirational books for children, did what many people struggle to do everyday...she overcame an eating disorder. For those who have been down this road--emotional eating, binge eating, bulemia, anorexia, overeating--Bracha offers hope in the form of the Pleasure Ladder. Bracha tells her story of disordered eating while she was a student at Harvard University. She...

Rebbetzin Haya Uzan, and her husband, Israel Uzan, are the Chabad emissaries in Abuja, Nigeria. In this fascinating interview, Rebbetzin Haya talks about the Jewish community of Nigeria, and the incredible infrastructure that she and her husband were able to create to serve the Jewish community. Rebbetzin Haya worked with her husband to build a mikvah, create a pre-school, and teach classes to wom...

Rebbetzin Rachel Isaacs, the rebbetzin at the Rebibo Center for Jewish life in Phoenix, Arizona, talks about the importance of being yourself. We are all unique individuals created by G-d. We all have a unique purpose in life. When we feel comfortable in our skin, we can feel free to be who we are, and only then, can we accomplish what we are meant to do in this world. Everyone contributes to the...

Rebbetzin Simone Broide of the Boca Raton Synagogue discusses a variety of chesed activities that can be done by people of all ages. She also talks about family chesed projects. There are so many ways that people can get involved in acts of kindness and touch the lives of others, affecting then in a positive way.  Acts of kindness benefit the giver as well as the receiver. Contact: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠atrebbetzi...

Rebbetzin Abby Fink, the rebbetzin of Young Israel of New Rochelle, talks about the importance of being part of the Jewish community. She discusses the significance of every single Jew in the community and also talks about how each person has their own unique talents that they can contribute to make the community strong and vibrant. Rebbetzin Fink also talks about the delicate subject of what a pe...

Rebbetzin Chaya Chitrik of Chabad of Istanbul, Turkey, shares with us some powerful life changing perspectives on seeing the revealed good in our lives. When we proactively seek out the positive aspects of people and situations, and when we really rewire our brain to look for our blessings (instead of things that are going wrong), we draw down revealed good from Hashem. You see what you focus on....