Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman caucused with Jewish community leaders in his new hometown of Stamford to support the city’s Chabad Center for Living Judaism in its capital improvement campaign. The legislator invoked the current Ten Days of Repentance period to stress the importance of "finding ways to assist this institute that spreads Yiddishkeit to thousands of Jews." ...

Chabad-Lubavitch of Peoria, Ill., is one step closer to winning printer supply company RK Dixon's "Make My Non-Profit Run Better" contest after its promotion to the final five. The Midwestern corporation's contest, which will award $30,000 to the victor after Sept. 24, lets visitors vote on the contenders by logging on to the company’s Web site, rkdixon.com...

A delegation from the Jewish community of Perm, Russia, led by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zalman Deutch, met the region’s new Gov. Oleg Chirkunov and presented him with a silver Chanukah menorah as well as blessings for health and success in his new post...

Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shlomo Cohen-Aduro of Haifa was promoted to deputy chief of rabbis for Israel's prison service...

The Central Florida chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is looking into the case of a Chabad-led Rosh Hashanah service being disrupted by police on account of neighborhood parking complaints, according to the Orlando Sentinel...