History is in the making in Minsk. Following the opening of a spacious new building, an unprecedented number of Jewish residents attended synagogue services during the High Holidays. One week before Chanukah, they keep coming back.

Days before the second anniversary of the Mumbai, India, terror attacks, the financial capital’s local Jewish community is placing the final touches on a restored ritual bath built by the murdered directors of the city’s Chabad House, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg.

For the first time in the northern state’s history, Montana will have its own kosher certification agency.

With the olive harvest two weeks late and Chanukah arriving two weeks early, rabbis across the country have been praying that they’ll get enough of the ripe fruit in time for holiday classes.

After 23 years of using the Pacific Ocean for ritual immersions crucial to the observance of Judaism’s family purity laws, members of Honolulu, Hawaii’s Jewish community are just about done with building the capital’s first-ever indoor ritual bath.

Jewish communities around the world are readying the frying pans, constructing towering candelabras and encouraging an increase in acts of kindness in preparation for the fast-approaching holiday of Chanukah.

Rabbi Mendel Deren, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary considered by many New York area businessmen as a personal adviser and confidant, passed away during the annual International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries.

S. Antonio, Texas’ landmark River Walk will be flooded in light this Chanukah as an expected 800 people, some travelling by specially-outfitted menorah-carrying barges, descend on the public waterway in a show of Jewish pride.

A flurry of Chabad House openings stretching from the Ohio River valley to the East Coast is bringing a burst of Jewish life and learning to campuses and communities.

One of the first Chabad-Lubavitch centers to be established in the coming year might soon be known as a “Little (Jewish) House on the Prairie,” its location so remote that it would take nine hours to cross its region by car.