Yosef Lewis

While the typical bar and bat mitzvah party celebrates the coming of age of 13-year-old Jewish boys and 12-year-old Jewish girls, a grand celebration of an entirely different nature took place at Binghamton University in New York.

Despite a few rumors and some press reports to the contrary, Moshe Holtzberg, the two-year-old orphan of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg will be raised by his family in Israel.

Judging by student reactions to the largest-ever gathering hosted by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation in the Brooklyn, N.Y., enclave of Crown Heights, this year’s International Shabbaton and Conference had something for everyone.

An exclusive group of emerging leaders at college campuses across the world kicked off the largest-ever weekend event hosted by the Chabad on Campus International Foundation.

From the start, Chabad-Lubavitch activities in Madison, Wisc., have been centered on the 40,000-strong University of Wisconsin. Almost three decades after the arrival of emissaries to the state capital, the university will get a Chabad synagogue.

When a friend signed up to tackle the grueling New York City Marathon, Rabbi Zev and Rivka Wineberg looked for ways that they could mitigate a possible dehydration problem: The marathon’s official sports drink is not kosher.

Chabad-Lubavitch of Owings Mills, Md.’s new Torah scroll was rescued decades ago from a synagogue destroyed by Soviet authorities.

State Sen. Eric Adams hailed the dedication of parents of children with special needs, while Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz boomed from a platform: “Happy Sukkot!”

Sukkot is here, and judging by the accounts of consumers and retailers alike, many suburban streets are seeing more of those temporary huts spring up in driveways and lawns.

When Jewish men, women and children walk through the doors of Chabad-Lubavitch centers all over the world for Yom Kippur prayer services, they won’t be expected to pay a dime.