What is it about this movement, that it’s able to touch so many Jewish lives and inspire such deep Jewish commitment?

The Hassidic Chabad-Lubavitch movement announced on Sunday that it has opened three new Chabad houses – in Uganda, Montenegro and Laos.

Rabbi Moishe and Yocheved Raskin established the Chabad of Uganda in the capital city of Kampala in October, it was announced Sunday at the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York.

Nearly 5,000 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis and their families converged on the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn this past weekend for the annual conference that connects the dots for the emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, the late Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson o.bm.

In Kampala, there is no organized Jewish community, except for a synagogue and a school affiliated with the African community of Abayudaya, who keep certain Jewish customs and see themselves as Jews.

More than 5,500 Jewish rabbis made their way to Brooklyn, New York, this week for the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, or Kinus Hashluchim.

Eight weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Rabbi Mendel Zarchi, Chabad’s emissary in San Juan still faces a daily challenge: balancing his organization’s needs with those of the community it supports.

The Chabad House at Syracuse University has hired Zalman Ives as its new associate rabbi and program director. His sole focus will be on supporting Jewish undergraduate students.

High street location will enhance work of the organisation

The co-director of Chabad of the Undergrads at Penn State University says a vandalized public menorah on campus has provided a lesson in child-rearing.

Co-director of the outreach and student programming Rabbi Mordy Kurtz tests out the computers in the new technology laboratory at the Illini Chabad.

While praising court decision, rabbi says Hasidic sect faced ‘serious religious bias’ during 10-year legal fight