More than 1,500 children from a wide range of backgrounds attended Jewish summer day camps organized by Chabad-Lubavitch centers in London, Edgware, Ilford, Wimbledon, Bournemouth, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester, England. Go here to read the rest: English... 

More than 1,500 children from a wide range of backgrounds attended Jewish summer day camps organized by Chabad-Lubavitch centers in London, Edgware, Ilford, Wimbledon, Bournemouth, Leeds, Birmingham and Manchester, England. Read more from the original... 

The price of a thermos of chicken soup went through the roof as Kristina Keneally, premier of New South Wales, stopped by a Chabad-Lubavitch run soup kitchen in Sydney, Australia, and handed over $20,000 to “pay” for a meal that helped her get through... 

The special 30th-anniversary Chabad “To Life” Telethon will air live from Hollywood, Calif., this weekend, bringing together host Larry King and dozens of other celebrities and performers in support of Chabad-Lubavitch of the West Coast’s numerous... 

Jewish residents of Aruba, including Prime Minister Mike Eman, welcomed two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students to their Caribbean island, using the opportunity to talk about spiritual matters and lead the visitors on a tour of the country. Excerpt from:  Aruban... 

Since establishing the only Chabad House in all of West Virginia just two years ago, Rabbi Zalman and Hindy Gurevitz have become adept at dividing their time. Go here to read the rest: West Virginia Jewish Center Caters to Students and Federal Inmates  Read More →

A US judge ordered the Russian government to return a Jewish library, according to the World Jewish Congress website. A federal judge in Washington, DC issued a ruling against the Russian government for its refusal to return a library of historic books... 

Researchers of families living in Eretz Israel during 1915 and 1922 have additional resources available to all. Now on the Israel Genealogical Society website, the following two databases were originally in Hebrew. The names have been transliterated into... 

Ancestry.com issued a press release on its acquisition of ProGenealogists (see below for the text). Genea-Musing’s Randy Seaver asked some interesting questions about the new development and what it means in practicality to both organizations, while... 

The five-volume printed set of the “Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World” is now available in print and online … for a price. The “Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World” (EJIW) covers an area of Jewish history,...