Tamar Runyan

Kaylee Andrusier’s Bat Mitzvah celebration wasn’t about the party or the gifts. For the Bal Harbour, Fla., resident, it was about bringing happiness to fellow 12-year-old girls living in the shadow of Palestinian rocket fire.

In neither name nor origin, Togliatti is not your typical Russian city. Its moniker evoking more Italian countryside than Communist-era river port, the city itself was built in 1964 after waters from the Volga River inundated the city of Stavropol during ...

Inaugurated by David and Eda Schottenstein, the center was named Shula’s Soup Kitchen in memory of Alte Shula Swerdlov, the three-year-old daughter of Rabbi Yossi and Hindel Swerdlov who passed away in a traffic accident in 2009.

Thanks to the help of Kiryat Malachi resident Ephraim Mor and the Israeli city’s Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruslavsky, Georgian-immigrant families in the southern town received new backpacks filled with notebooks and writing utensils.

Rabbis from across the Middle East and Asia joined the Jewish community of South Korea recently to celebrate the dedication of the local Chabad-Lubavitch center’s first Torah scroll.

Rebbetzin Chave Hecht, the longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who co-founded Camp Emunah, a Jewish summer camp for girls, in Greenfield Park, N.Y., was honored at the 10th Annual Empowerment Breakfast of Ulster County Chabad.

The occasion, which will include a parade of a new Torah scroll to the three-story structure, will also mark the arrival of Rabbi Refael and Mushka Brod, the newly-appointed emissaries who will run the facility.

The campers at Camp Gan Israel of Chestnut Hill, Mass., are having a blast, and they still have more than a week’s worth of fun left for this summer’s general session. From 30-month-old toddlers to 14-year-old teenagers learning to become counselors, the ...

Boys attending a new Jewish overnight summer camp in Bournezeau in western France met with the commune’s mayor, Louis Marie Giraudeau.

Camp Gan Israel of Orange County, N.Y., just finished a fun-filled three weeks of day camp that culminated in recording a Jewish-themed music video for the entertainment of hospitalized children.