Pudong, China, is among the latest of locales gearing up for its first Chabad-led "Shofar Factory" in advance of the High Holidays...

While the news of Chabad-Lubavitch of Delaware's new construction on Wilmington was first greeted with vocal community opposition, one local wrote the Delaware News Journal that contrary to what he feared, "the building does not look out of place in the neighborhood. The center looks better than other nearby structures."...

Israeli Health Minister Ya'acov Ben-Yizri led the congregation of the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Cannes, France, as hazan during Musaf prayers this past Shabbat. Remarked the pol after his surprise visit: "Chabad is everywhere I go." ...

Irina Pervarzavah, mayor of the Russian city of Kostroma, stopped by the local Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue on the occasion of the municipality's 855th birthday. Recognizing the recent growth of Kostroma's Jewish community, she remarked that the success Chabad has had in just 10 years is "a miracle." ...

Russia's Interfax news service reported the birth of a 12th child, a daughter, to the country's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and his wife Hannah...

Rabbi Avrohom Bernstein, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Freehold, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the New Jersey community for allegedly conducting illegal surveillance against him to prove that he was violating an ordinance by leading Shabbat services in his home. Backed by the non-profit Rutherford Institute, Bernstein asserts that the First Amendment protects his and others' rights to worship in a private residence...

Rabbi Yosef Landa, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Greater S. Louis, was a featured speaker at the national conference of the Coalition for the Advancement of Jewish Education, which took place at Washington University...

New York Mets pitcher Scott Schoeneweis shared some winning secrets to campers – his own son among them – at Camp Gan Israel in Greenwich, Conn...

Teenagers with bats terrorized customers at Glick's, a popular Jewish hangout in Melbourne, Australia, owned by a Lubavitcher...

Some 1,775 chain stores are distributing 325,000 Jewish New Year calendars in advance of Rosh Hashanah. The calendars direct users to more Jewish information on Chabad.org, and tell them all about programs at Chabad-Lubavitch of Houston...

Chabad of Naples, Fla., is excited about the Sept. 9 opening of its new center, which is timed to coincide with the beginning of Hebrew school classes...

Construction began on a new mikvah complex in Palm Harbor, Fla. A project of Chabad-Lubavitch of Pinellas County, the 600-square-foot facility is slated to open next year...

Joseph Safra, 119th on Forbes' list of world billionaires and chairman of the Safra conglomerate of companies, including Safra National Bank of New York, hosted 45 emissaries for a dinner in salute of the work of Chabad-Lubavitch in Brazil. He took the time to relay his family’s relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory...

Hot off the press, 130,000 High Holiday brochures are set to be distributed to Jews in French-speaking countries...

Northeastern University's new president, Joseph Aoun, visited the campus Chabad House this week for more than an hour and pledged to help integrate its activities into the university's official student life system...

Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Diskin, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Kiryat Ata, Israel, topped the newspaper Yediot Hakrayot's list of the 50 most influential people in the Krayot section of neighborhoods in Israel’s north...

Maariv newspaper writer Eli Buhadna thought that Gold Coast, Australia was the farthest he could get from his past life in Israel after being evacuated from Gush Katif. There to meet him, however, were Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries who vowed to keep him in touch with Jewish life...

Rabbi Binyamin Klein, a long-time secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, joined the OU administrator Rabbi Menachem Genack at a ribbon-cutting at New York's JFK airport to celebrate the inaugural flight of El Al's newest 777 plane, named in honor of the southern Israeli town of Sderot...

Academy Award winner Jon Voight visited Rabbis Shimon and Avi Raichik of the Chabad Children of Chernobyl project on the passing of their mother, Leah Raichik, the first woman Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to be sent to California. Voight is a benefactor of Children of Chernobyl...

Larry King is expected to be on hand for this year's Chabad Telethon, benefiting Chabad of the West Coast. "I'm looking forward to dancing with Rabbi Cunin and Jon Voight," the newsman reportedly said...

The local Chabad honored Kingston, N.Y., mayor James M. Sottile for the growth of Ulster County, birthplace in the 1950s of the largest and very first Chabad-Lubavitch girls camp...

EU parliamentarian Professor Bronislaw Germek, a former member of the Polish parliament, visited the Chabad-Lubavitch center in Warsaw and found himself challenged by a film of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, urging each person to never be satisfied with yesterday's achievements or today's successes, but to soar tomorrow to even greater heights (click here to watch)...

Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger toured the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, expressing the wish that Israel had its version of the Brooklyn, N.Y., institution...

Raymond Weil Co. president Benny Shabtai toured the study hall bearing his name at the Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbinical College of Quebec. "This has been the best return on my investment," he remarked...

Some Tel Aviv residents are objecting to the municipality's recent decision to demolish an unused but historic Lubavitch synagogue there...

NFCJE (The National Council for Furtherance of Jewish Education) announced recently that it has raised and spent $100 million on educational programming since the passing of long-time director Rabbi J. J. Hecht in 1990...

Supporters of the Friendship Circle in West Bloomfield, Mich., are walking for dollars to raise money for the organization that pairs teen volunteers with children with special needs...

A pair of "Roving Rabbis" visited former Irish member of parliament Ben Briscoe, who put on tefillin and affixed a mezuzah to his doorway...

Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis visited the home of Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) to offer condolences on the recent death of his mother...