Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shmuel Posner has hopes of returning his Chabad of Nova Outreach Center to Cooper City, Fla., after reaching a settlement with the Southwest Broward community and finally putting a federal discrimination lawsuit to rest.

According to the terms of the deal reported in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Posner's organization will receive $330,000 out of a $800,000 settlement with Cooper City, which U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga ruled violated federal law in 2005 by preventing the outreach center from operating in a business district.

That year, Posner moved to the neighboring city of Davie, but is now looking for an available space in near the original location.

Said Posner's attorney, Franklin Zemel: "Hopefully, no other religious [groups] will have the same problems Chabad did." ...

Speaking in front of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyau, President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and a crowd of grieving families at a Jerusalem Memorial Day ceremony for fallen soldiers and victims of terror, Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg - father of slain Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rivka Holtzberg - said that "with every day that passes, the pain grows stronger," but that an equally growing faith in G-d "gives us the strength to cope with all the hardship."

In his televised speech, Rosenberg, whose daughter and son-in-law, Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, were among the six Jews who perished at their Mumbai, India, Chabad House last November, also referred to his orphaned grandson Moshe as a miracle "whom all of Israel has embraced."

Speaking after Rosenberg, Netanyahu, who lost his brother Yonatan in a 1976 commando operation to free Israeli hostages at the Entebbe airport in Uganda, told the assembled that he knew the pain of grief.

"As a member of a bereaved family, I recognize and know your pain," said the prime minister. "The entire nation stands with you today ... and with you, remembers and commemorates the sons and daughters, the fathers and mothers, the brothers and sisters who are gone." ...

The Jewish community of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's fourth-largest city, celebrated the grand opening of the Shalom in Gruzinskaya restaurant in the central synagogue on Gruzinskaya Street.

Two members of the Jewish community of Nizhny Novgorod enjoy their new restaurant.

The kosher eatery, which for the time being will be used for banquets and other large events, welcomed more than 90 people at its opening, inlcuding community patrons Mark Feldman, Boris Sherman, Boris Rabin and Dmitry Birman.

At the function, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shimon Bergman, the region's chief rabbi, exhorted the participants to recommit themselves to the community, specifically "to not expect miracles to appear out of nowhere, but to create them by helping people who are in need."

The Jewish community of Nizhny Novgorod is a member of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. ...

With the help of recently-found historical documents, Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Mendel Teichman, chief rabbi of Uzhgorod, Ukraine, has identified a mass grave for about 200 Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.

According to a JTA report, Teichman came across an unmarked area in the local Jewish cemetery with no fence and no headstones.

He then found documents stating that the parcel of land was the final resting place for the Nazis’ victims.

Now, the Rabbinical Centre of Europe is seeking out relatives of the victims in order to build a monument at the site. …