Children of the Jewish school in Hamburg, Germany, will celebrate Simchat Torah with stuffed toy Torahs that they made themselves in the school...

Listeners of Israel’s Army Radio were asked "what is a moving this that is part of Jewish tradition?" Answer: The Chabad-Lubavitch mobile sukkah...

An El-Al flight from Israel en route to Hong Kong made an unscheduled stop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Sunday night because of an engine problem. Its 300 passengers spent 12 hours in the Uzbek capital, unable to leave the airport without visas, but a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi in the city greeted them with food and the opportunity to make a blessing on a lulav and etrog while they waited for a replacement jet...

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner visited with Rabbi Levi Shemtov, director of American Friends of Lubavitch in Washington, D.C., during his first official trip to the American capital...

Ben Weider, co-dounder of the International Federation of Body Builders, received a set of the Four Species from Montreal-based Rabbi Avraham Cohen...

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni made a blessing on the Four Species in front of the spot where vandals scrawled a swastika on the B'nai Abraham synagogue in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. Chabad Rabbi Ari Raskin, the spiritual leader of the congregation, told the visiting dignitary a teaching of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, that "the way to fight evil is through doing good deeds." ...

Despite the rain, Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman joined Rabbi Moshe Feller, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Upper Midwest, to perform the mitzvah of lulav during the community Sukkot fair... (Photo: Moshe Berghoff)



Municipal chiefs from the Israeli city of Givatayim joined Mayor Reuven Ben-Shachar in attending the 40th birthday party of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Bekerman, co-director of the Chabad House in the Tel Aviv suburb... (Photo: Meir Dahan)



More than 500 people, including regional governor Valentina Matviyenko and other government officials, turned out for the gala dinner hosted by the Jewish Community of S. Petersburg, Russia...



Dozens of members of the Israel Defense Force’s Givati Brigade visited the sukkah on the grounds of the Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Kiryat Gat...