The Jewish community of Donetsk celebrated the “Rosh Hashana of Chassidus” on the 19th of Kislev, marking the release from prison of the first Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch.

On December 12, Jewish inmates and Jewish community leaders participated in the opening ceremony for a synagogue, newly opened at the corrections facility 7 (otherwise known as Yablonevka) in S. Petersburg.

As Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Light, approaches, a Brussels-based organization BASSAD has distributed more than 50,000 kits that include menorahs, candles and explanation brochures in 8 languages to 32 European Jewish communities.

The Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee reportedly have suffered steep declines in contributions over the past five years.

The Jewish community of Kremenchug, in Ukraine’s Poltava region, welcomed a new Torah scroll into the city’s synagogue.

Thanks to a humanitarian campaign, Jewish families in financial distress in Krivoy Rog have much needed sustenance.

Germany's Jewish community signed a new treaty with the government Wednesday to double its annual state funding, reflecting its growing size and prominence more than 65 years after the Holocaust.

Thousands of rabbis gather in front of Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, for a group picture on the occasion of the annual international conference of Chabad-Lubavitch ''schluchim'' or emissaries.

The Chief Rabbi of Paris, David Messas, died Sunday, France’s Jewish Consistory announced. He was 77

At last week’s football game hosted in London’s Wembley Stadium, England, in a surprise twist, beat Spain, something that has not occurred for the last fifteen years.