Yehuda L. Ceitlin

“It’s just me,” she said sheepishly. “Will you still stay?”

Our synagogue was recently ransacked. It got me thinking . . .

Although Nepal presents its own special difficulties in coordinating the world’s largest Passover Seders – like a closed border that stalls a shipment of wine and matzah – Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz says such headaches are well worth it.

Friendship Circle volunteers emerged from last month's annual leadership conference in West Bloomfield, Mich., energized in their work with children with special needs. At the meeting, they also elected a new slate of international leaders.

The Jewish community in Basel, Switzerland, celebrated the dedication of the new Feldinger Chabad Jewish Center.

Every morning, 10 Jewish men and women sit down to learn a portion of the Tanya with a Montreal rabbi. They just completed the year-long study.

In a visit with the family of the late Rabbi Shlomo Matusof, the Moroccan consul in New York praised him and Chabad-Lubavitch for building a network of schools in the North African country.

As hundreds of lay leaders join the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, one Canadian doctor and his family embark on a tour of Crown Heights and the offices of Chabad.org.

Nine groups of rabbinical students have embarked to Africa, where they will be running High Holiday programs for local Jews.

For the second year in a row, Challahpalooza: The Berkshire Jewish Music Festival, treated vacationers to Jewish tunes and an introduction to Pittsfield, Mass.’s Chabad House.