Australia's Attorney General Maxwell Ruddock and Kevin James Andrews, the country's immigration and citizenship minister, met with Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yoram Ulman, director of the suburban Sydney-based Friends of Eastern Europe. While at Ulman's house, Ruddock highlighted the long and friendly relationship he's maintained with Sydney's Jewish community…

Chabad-Lubavitch of California's Camp Gan Israel campus in Running Springs became a base for fire-fighting operations in the mountains surrounding Los Angeles. Helicopters filled giant buckets with water from the facility's pool to be dropped over hotspots, and staff fed hungry fire-fighters and provided them with inspiration in their battles against the flames…

A work authored by writer Sue Fishkoff and originally intended to be last chapter of her acclaimed book, The Rebbe’s Army, but left out of the manuscript due to space considerations, was published on Chabad.org this week. It tells the story of the illustrious Posner and Deren families. Click here to read the work...

In response to a recent anti-semitic outburst broadcast during a local television show, Chabad-Lubavitch of Hungary is expanding its learning program to include extra classes for those with little to no knowledge of Judaism...

Sydney, Australia-based pilot David Wakil will be taking a "Jewish survival kit" with him during a four-month scientific mission to Antarctica on behalf of the Australian government. Wakil, who begins his tour of duty this month, received a traveller's prayer card and a menorah from Rabbi Levi Wolff, chief rabbi of Sydney's Central Synagogue. The rabbi also gave him a dollar he received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory…

While in Copenhagen recently to learn about how the Dutch conduct small-scale government, 25 Israeli mayors and municipal leaders enjoyed a dinner at Chabad of Denmark, co-directed by Rabbi Yitzchok and Rochel Loewenthal. According to the rabbi, the guests got into a argument over whose city had a better Chabad House. "They presented their local emissaries in the best light, and talked about their influence on the locals," he was quoted as saying…

Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York apparently earned admiration among onlookers when earlier this month, he "scaled" a stone wall to get to the Capitol Hill sukkah built by American Friends of Lubavitch. Quoting an unnamed GOP witness, Washington Post columnist and "The Sleuth" blogger Mary Ann Akers writes, perhaps a bit tongue in cheek, that Nadler, who had stomach-reduction surgery five years ago, displayed an "athleticism" worthy of a "pole vaulter." …

Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in Australia held a conference at the Chabad House of the North Shore in Sydney to unveil the latest Rohr Jewish Learning Institute course on Israel, "The Land and the Spirit." Rohr JLI director Rabbi Efraim Mintz and Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, participated via conference call from New York. …