Drawn by the chance to celebrate 350 years of American Jewish history at the newest addition to the most historic square mile in the nation’s first capital, hundreds of people from across the country descended on Philadelphia to hear Vice President Joseph Biden announce that a new museum’s Jewish stories were, in fact, manifestations of distinctly American ideals.

The off-again on-again restoration of the historic Choral Synagogue in Tomsk, Russia, is nearly complete after well-wishers and passersby strained their necks to witness the installation of a giant dome to the century-old building.

On top of juggling academics at an Ivy League school, actively participating in the community, maintaining a social life and scoring goals for the Princeton Tigers, star player Solomon Braun also diligently observes the Jewish Sabbath.

Hundreds of people chose not to shop when they showed up at Downtown at the Gardens in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., last weekend. They were at the luxury retail center for a decidedly more spiritual event: the commissioning of a Torah scroll.

Ask Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov how he feels about the recent construction that has more than doubled the size of Chabad-Lubavitch of Northeast Florida and he flashes a big smile.

A week after torrential rains flooded much of the tropical paradise in Koh Samui, Thailand, claiming dozens of lives in the countryside and causing extensive damage to the local Chabad House and attached kosher restaurant, preliminary assessments indicate that travelling Jewish backpackers have safely left the area.

While his government debated its next move in an ongoing diplomatic engagement with the White House and the Arab world, Israel’s ambassador to the United States told a crowd of approximately 400 people that his country would emerge victorious in its struggle against Palestinian terrorism.

With the days growing colder, shorter and darker, a new Jewish center for Philadelphia art students wants to bring light and warmth to the City of Brotherly Love.

In the midst of central Florida’s thoroughbred wilderness sits a Chabad-Lubavitch center that on Saturday, celebrated its status as the first location to use a newly-dedicated Torah scroll commissioned way north of the Mason-Dixon Line.

With a parliamentary system marred by a series of fractious political parties and beset by conflicting forces within and without, the tiny country of Israel is difficult ship for any prime minister to steer.