Dovid Zaklikowski

Former Israeli Chief Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, a Holocaust survivor whose travels around the world have made him an ambassador of Judaism, will address this year’s International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York City.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the iconic Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, has embraced the Jewish revival his policies helped set in motion, telling Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar that “Russia is good for the Jews and Jews are good for Russia.”

Built in the shadow of the 16th-century fortress surrounding the closest Jewish community to the town of Lubavitch, Smolensk’s historic synagogue reopened this week, decades after its Communist-era closing.

An overflow crowd of 600 attorneys and judges packed The Birchwood Manor in Whippany, N.J., to attend the Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center of Madison’s annual Jewish Law Symposium on “The Ethics of Winning at all Costs.” (Photos: Eli Gabor)

Millions of people learned about the High Holidays through a combination of dance, song and liturgical performances courtesy of Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Coast’s 32nd annual “Lchaim! To Life!” Telethon.

Joe Kubert, the pioneering comic artist who passed away Monday night, drew for a variety of audiences and outlets, including a Chabad-Lubavitch children’s publication whose storylines saw a pair of American kids exploring key moments of Jewish history.

With two weeks left on their itineraries, rabbinical students are continuing their global travels to strengthen Jewish life in remote communities and reach the unaffiliated in established ones.

Said outdoors at night, Kiddush Levana ( Sanctification of the Moon) is a ritual highlighted by a Hebrew blessing, selections of Psalms and other prayers, and is often followed by joyous dancing.

Yitzhak Shamir, the former Israeli prime minister who passed away Saturday in Tel Aviv at the age of 96, shepherded his country through its young and tumultuous history, first behind the scenes as an intelligence officer and then as a politician with a st...

Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, once called Chabad-Lubavitch’s “globetrotting ambassador” and the first in the United States to have a regular class on Chabad philosophy broadcast over the radio waves, passed away Wednesday at the age of 94.