Over 100 students and community members spent part of Monday night at Binghamton University to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim.

Before the war came, the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk was home to a thriving community of 15,000 Jews. This was a place where organisations like Chabad, Israel’s Jewish Agency and the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), among others, were all active.

Azerbaijan will soon be home to its first-ever kosher-certified restaurant. The meat restaurant, named 7/40, will open in May on Samed Vurgun street in Baku, the capital, with supervision from the city’s rabbi, Shneor Segal, the restaurant’s operator, Moshe Moiseev, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Jewish talk show icon Larry King donned tefillin late last week as he joined a campaign launched in honor of a rabbi suffering from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Twinsburg Chabad’s annual Purim celebration will be March 21 at Gleneagles Golf Club. The theme of the party is “Purim in the Jungle” and will feature a children’s buffet dinner, live animal show, Hamantash making and more.

Chabad of Yonkers will host a sports-themed Purim celebration at The Stadium at the Greystone Jewish Center, 600 North Broadway, on Thursday, March 21.

The stepsister of teenage Holocaust diarist Anne Frank will meet with Southern California high school students who were pictured making the “heil Hitler” salute over a swastika made of beer cups.

An Auschwitz survivor and stepsister of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank will meet on Thursday with some California high school students seen in viral online photos giving Nazi salutes over a swastika made of red cups used in a drinking game.

Music flooded the room as participants got up from their seats and danced in celebration of tradition, community and Judaism. While cherishing the past and looking toward the future, members of the Chabad community at the College cultivated an atmosphere of laughter and joy during their bar mitzvah celebration.

The kids and their parents make hamantaschen at the workshop in Chocolate Works Sunday afternoon, March 3, sponsored by Chabad Montclair.

Chabad Lubavitch of the North Shore heralded its new arts initiative, the North Shore Jewish Art Co-Op, with the opening of a show featuring internationally exhibiting “Pop Art Rabbi” Yitzchok Moully at the Chabad Lynn Campus

Chabad of Port Washington’s teen club joined thousands of teens from around the world to celebrate Jewish unity, heritage, and pride at the 11th annual CTeen International Shabbaton.