During a visit to Washington, D.C., a delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to China met with the Chinese ambassador to the United States. In the meeting with Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, which took place at the Chinese Embassy and was arranged by American Friends of Lubavitch, the rabbis gave a run-down of Jewish communal activities in China to the diplomatic personnel. ...

In town for a stopover on a return trip home from the United States, Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar visited the Chabad yeshiva in Frankfurt, Germany. He discussed Torah with the students and gave a class on the laws of shemittah, the biblically-mandated cessation of agricultural activity in Israel that occurs once every seven years. ...

Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar told the family of deceased Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, who was his teacher in Morocco, that he saw significance in the timing of his death last week during the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. "The timing of his passing was clearly ordained from Heaven," said Amar. "All of the emissaries were able to take part in the last honor accorded this very special Jew." He added that the self-sacrifice of Matusof, who went to Morocco at the behest of the Rebbe in 1951, would serve as a model for the thousands of emissaries who have been sent around the world since then. ...

Miami's Jewish Museum of Florida recently added an exhibit showcasing the early years of Chabad-Lubavitch activities in the state. The first Chabad House opened in Miami in 1960, and today more than 150 Lubavitch emissaries serve Jewish communities throughout Florida. ...

Leib Leyzon, the youngest survivor of the factory made famous by the movie "Schindler's List" told his story at an event of Chabad Jewish Center of Oceanside, Calif., and of life inside the factory of Oscar Shindler, who saved the lives of 1,200 Jews during World War II. ...

"The Lubavitchers are this incredibly outgoing, outwardly oriented organization, so engaged with the world in so many ways and so willing to talk to outsiders," said novelist Michael Chabon to the Journal Sentinel in Wisconsin. The author of a novel about Jews moving to Alaska added: "I felt very welcome" during a visit with a Lubavitch family in Alaska. ...

Rabbi Boruch S. Cunin, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Coast, made it to The Forward's "Forward 50 List" of the most-powerful Jewish leaders. ...

South Africa sent its largest delegation ever to the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries. The delegation, consisting of more than 40 emissaries and lay leaders, flew more than 7,700 miles to attend the conference in New York. ...