Mimi Hecht (Notik)

At the urging of Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel, co-director of the Chabad Center for Jewish Student Life, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign now gives their students the option of eating kosher meals every day.

In the weeks following the death of Charlotte Rohr, a network of campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch women emissaries and their students pledged to learn the Tanya.

In its two years of operation, the Jewish Learning Network has paired some 1,500 people with volunteer teachers through the phone lines. A couple in Chicago and a woman in Northampton, England, are among those who have been assisted by the service.

University-based Chabad Houses across the United States flung open their doors for late-night study sessions and Midnight Breakfasts designed to make the end-of-semester study season a bit more relaxing for students.

For Rabbi Shaya and Goldie Gansbourg, taking the wrong bus home opened up a world of Jewish opportunities in Harlem.

The Jewish Children’s Museum’s Chanukah workshop was a hit with kids and parents who were shopping at the Macy’s flagship department store on 34th Street in Manhattan.

Chabad-Lubavitch of Pittsburgh lit a Chanukah menorah in front of the building that 20 years ago set off a legal showdown that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

An online school serving children of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries held a banquet Thursday during the International Conference of Emissaries in Brooklyn, N.Y.

More than 500 college students turned out for the second annual Jews Cruise, a project of Chabad House serving New York University and Jewish Heritage Programs.

The Lubavitch Center of Essex County in West Orange, N.J., welcomed more than 2,000 people for its 29th annual Jewish Renaissance Fair.