Joshua Runyan

While their husbands manned the proverbial forts back home, more than 3,000 Jewish leaders from across the globe camped out in and around Brooklyn, N.Y., last week for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Women Emissaries.

Hundreds of teenagers representing a total of 54 communities stretching from Las Vegas to Vienna spent a long weekend experiencing traditional Jewish life in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y.

New York Speaker of the House Sheldon Silver and Rabbi Yisroel Rubin of Albany hosted a reception in honor of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year of Trees.

Israel’s Postal Authority released a stamp honoring the foundational work of Chasidic thought known as the Tanya and commemorating 200 years since the passing of its author, the First Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

Despite the loss of 90 percent of their Jewish population in the Holocaust and periodic legislative battles against kosher practices and ritual circumcision, the vast majority of the people of the Netherlands are not anti-Semitic, Dutch Chief Rabbi ...

A group of elderly Jews in Ulyanovsk, Russia, launched a new twice-weekly prayer group.

After spending the day immersed in Chasidic Jewish life and culture, television personality Oprah Winfrey concludes that Judaism’s focus on family life and on developing individuals’ innate potential offers a wealth of lessons for people all over the ...

Jewish patients and family members now have a spot they can call their own at the University of Miami Hospital after the Civic Center institution unveiled a “bikur cholim room” with the help of Israeli Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.

An estimated 500 people, about 10 percent of the Jewish community of Glasgow, attended the eighth Kosher Food and Wine Expo hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch of Scotland.

The City of Hartford has effectively ended a Connecticut Jewish student center’s legal battle for the full religious use of a former church.