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A just-released video that is being screened by Jewish communities around the world chronicles a 1972 Chasidic gathering made famous by a request from the Rebbe to open 71 new Chabad-Lubavitch institutions in the ensuing year.

Ask some typical suburban teenagers how they spent their weekend, and you’ll likely get a range of answers along the lines of shopping at the mall, hanging out at the beach, or maybe catching a movie. But for some 40 Jewish young adults from Boston’s nort...

An estimated 900 people, including politicians, prominent business leaders and one professional football player, descended on the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in downtown Newark to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the state’s branch of the Friendshi...

As her family members concluded the traditional weeklong mourning period, Jewish community members across Southern California and throughout the world credited Mrs. Sarah Rochel Schochet – who passed away Feb. 23 at the age of 65 – with inspiring thousand...

With thousands of people crammed into the tiny Canadian resort of Whistler, British Columbia, three young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students have had their hands full providing kosher food, prayer services and Torah classes to Jewish visitors and locals...

More than 500 people dedicated a new Torah scroll in the Long Island town of Woodmere, N.Y., Sunday, a little more than one year after the sudden passing of a nine-year-old sent shock waves through the tight-knit Jewish community.

Among the quarter of a million visitors now in Vancouver are some 20,000 Jewish competitors and spectators.

With the publication of a new book, the central Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York has made it possible to, in a manner of speaking, place a piece of Jewish history on a coffee table.

With just 400 residents, the Jewish community on the tiny Caribbean island of Martinique makes up less than .1 percent of the French territory’s population. It’s a small, but vibrant group.