Yonit Tanenbaum

Dressed in their finest and energized for the new academic year, some 400 students sailed the Hudson River to celebrate a wealth of programs serving the Jewish community at New York University.

For Mendel Aisenbach, stories of Jewish immigrants throwing their tefillin overboard upon entering New York Harbor ages ago are not merely the stuff of legend.

When the opportunity arose for a Teaneck, N.J., rabbi to potentially risk his life in the preservation of another’s, he paused. He wanted to give one of his kidneys to a suffering man; the problem was how to tell his children.

As the day winds down at coalition headquarters in Kabul and the Friday afternoon sun begins its descent in the Afghanistan sky, a group of Jewish soldiers gathers for a pre-Shabbat infusion of spiritual inspiration.

Putting a twist on Chabad-Lubavitch teenagers’ usual summer camp experience, a physically-intensive program sent its third-annual group of young men into the wilderness.

Community leaders and academics gathered at a Brooklyn, N.Y., museum to discuss the state of Jewish life on college campuses in the United Kingdom.

Hundreds of campus-based Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries kicked off their seventh-annual international conference with a prelude event in honor of philanthropist George Rohr.

An estimated 50,000 people flocked to the resting place of the Rebbe, producing scenes similar to the block-long lines that used to snake through Brooklyn when people waited for their turn to meet the Jewish leader in person.

Tragedy struck the Jewish community of Baltimore when a freak traffic accident claimed the life of a 53-year-old resident heading to a doctor’s appointment after visiting his mother.

Among the more than 6,500 people who flocked to Washington, D.C., this week to attend the annual Policy Conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee were more than 1,000 college students from some 325 campuses.