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Media hype may label today’s youth as selfish, lazy and borderline criminal, but the Good Deed Awards challenged that portrayal, instead showcasing the best of the next generation.

For Jewish communities around the world, Lag B’Omer has always been about joy and joyous pride, but in Manchester, N.H., the holiday held an extra bit of significance.

It’s four years away, but that hasn’t stopped Milan Mayor Litizia Moratti from doing all she can to boost World Expo 2015.

Israeli dignitaries tend to be taken care of wherever they go, but when Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalan went to Norway last week, there was a freshly-baked loaf of challah waiting for him.

Chabad-Lubavitch run institutions represent 10 percent of 100 finalists in the first round of this year’s Chase Community Giving competition.

Brazil’s newest Chabad-Lubavitch center barely launched before events would take its director to the highest court in the land.

Scores of European dignitaries, including Princess Laurentien van Oranje-Nassue of the Netherlands visited the European Jewish Community Center in Brussels to memorialize the accomplishments of Stanley Crossick, a British native who co-founded the Europea...

“When we go out there, it’s not a stint for five years or 10. This is for life.” Thus explains 26-year-old Rivky Goldman, a wife and mother who has dedicated her talents to directing the Rohr Chabad Centre for Jewish Life in Waterloo, Ontario.

The BBC dubbed Dnepropetrovsk a city of contrasts, illustrated nicely in a video featuring the clipped tones of an announcer over traditional prayer sounds indicative of any synagogue from Brooklyn to Brisbane.

It’s the first of its kind for the medium, and it’s launching today: Sichos in English, in conjunction with Chabad-Lubavitch of Maryland, are presenting the first-ever web-based Jewish prayer book containing a full digest of Chasidic interpretations and i...