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Rabbi Finds New Home

After delivering some 1,500 lectures over the last 10 years on five continents, Brooklyn’s wandering Rabbi Simon Jacobson and his staff are finally ready to settle down. Secular-minded scholars, religious skeptics and Jews of every affiliation (and unaffiliation) will now join the chasidic author and lecturer in the Lower East Side at a newly renovated Meaningful Life Center, which has found itself a more permanent, well, center. The Community Synagogue Center, a neighborhood landmark of Orthodoxy since 1940, has opened its doors to Rabbi Jacobson’s group, housing it within the red brick walls along a tree-lined block of Sixth Street. In exchange for internal building renovations and 30 percent of his proceeds, the synagogue, which has seen its membership fall over the years, will allow Rabbi Jacobson to run all his programming from its ground floor.

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Melinda Gates is presented with Rabbi Jacobson's Towards a Meaningful Life.

Melinda Gates, co-founder of the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, was given a spiritual road map for living based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

It happened while she was at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, to deliver the 2013 Commencement Speech for more than 5,000 students Sunday at the university’s Wallace-Wade Stadium.

“You can change the way you think about other people. You can choose to see their humanity first,” Gates told students of her alma mater about the choice they have to impact the larger community.

“We are finally creating the tools to turn the world into a neighborhood. You can light up a network of 7 billion people with long-lasting and highly-motivating human connections.”

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Rabbi Simon Jacobson hosted on #2 most popular Business Podcasts.
Media giant Glenn Beck reads and quotes Toward a Meaningful Life on leadership.
The Meaningful Life Center