As he does every year, Israeli Chabad activist Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman has been making his rounds gifting sets of daled minim for Sukkos to prominent figures in Eretz Yisroel. Today he delivered a set to Defense Minister Benny Gantz, a close friend of Rabbi Glauberman’s and of Chabad for many years • Photo, Video

When Category 4 Hurricane Ida recently wreaked havoc on New Orleans, power, basic supplies and patience quickly grew scarce. Having seen firsthand how hurricanes can affect a city, several Houston Jewish community members sprang into action. Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff of the Chabad Lubavitch Center, Texas Regional Headquarters, contacted Rabbi Mendel Rivkin and others in New Orleans to see what they could do to help • Full Story

A 16-year-old boy and three other people were detained Thursday in connection with a suspected plan for an Islamic extremist attack on a synagogue in the German city of Hagen, authorities said. The detentions took place on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, and two years after a deadly attack in another German city on the Yom Kippur holiday • Full Story, Photos

Hundreds of community members, dignitaries, and rabbis attended the festive inauguration event in which a brand new Torah Scroll was introduced into the historic Golden Rose Synagogue of Dnipro, Ukraine, first established in 1868. The Chief Rabbi of Dnipro and the surrounding region, Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky, warmly thanked the members of the Jewish community who contributed towards the writing of the new Torah Scroll • Full Story, Photos

A life-changing directive of the Rebbe 30 years ago is coming to fruition with the opening of a new yeshiva in South Florida. TAG Academy, an acronym for ‘Torah, Avodah, and Gimilus Chassadim’, will create an individualized educational experience for Bochurim ages 14-16 • Full Story, Photos, Video

A new Children’s Сultural and Educational Center under initiative of the Jewish community opened in Tomsk on September 12. The ceremony was timed to coincide with the 120th anniversary of the city’s Choral Synagogue. About 100 people attended the opening, including Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, leaders of FJC and city officials • Full Story, Photos

Rabbi Yossi Rapp, Director of Chabad Air, sent out an announcement that once again, a Sukkah has been arranged at Terminal 4 of JFK Airport. You can visit the Chabad Air website for more details • Full Story

As America commemorated the solemn 20th anniversary of the heinous attacks of September 11, 2001, photographer Dov Ber Hechtman travelled to Ground Zero in Downtown Manhattan, capturing a collection of stunning images of the place where thousands were murdered in cold blood on that fateful day • Photos

As chassidim around France’s capital sat down to share words of inspiration and stories of the Rebbe MH”M’s mother, Rebbetzin Chana, whose hilula was marked today, 6 Tishrei, preparations were being made for a large women’s event in Paris’s Beth Chaya Mouchka. Images captured by photographer Mordechai Lubecki • Photos

A residential apartment building in Holon collapsed on Sunday afternoon, a day after 16 families were evacuated from the building. Israel Fire and Rescue Services evacuated the residents of the building on Shabbos morning after they were called to the site due to the sound of a blast in the building • Full Story, Video

Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky Director of Bris Avrohom, based in Hillside, NJ, together with Rabbi Avrohom Kanelsky Director of Chabad of Newark Airport, participated in a yearly ceremony held at Newark Airport, remembering those lost during the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001. At the ceremony, a new monument at the airport was dedicated, and Rabbi Avrohom sang the traditional ‘kel molei rachamim’. Rabbi Mordechai shared words of inspiration, encouraging those present to engage in positive action to remember the 3,000 people killed on that fateful day • Photos

Captured fugitives identified as Yaquob Qadiri and Mahmoud al-Arida, both of Islamic Jihad. Al-Arida said to be the mastermind of escape; searches continue for remaining escapees fro Gilboa Prison • Full Story

An assailant was shot as he attempted to stab police officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday afternoon, and later died of his wounds, police and hospital officials said, amid heightened tension as security forces carry out an intense manhunt for six escaped Palestinian security prisoners • Full Story

The children of the American missionary “kohen” Michael Cohen, who lived with his family in the Chareidi community in French Hill in Jerusalem before his identity was discovered in April, are attending a religious school in the Jerusalem suburb of Mevaseret Tzion, B’Chadrei Chareidim reported. The principal of the Gonenim mamlachti dati (state-religious) school, where the children are enrolled, told B’Chadrei that she discovered the true identity of the family only after receiving phone calls from concerned parents of children in the school • Full Story

On a winter night in 1943, a young, frightened woman knocked on the window of the Vashkinel home in a small town not far from Vilna. The woman quickly handed Amelia Vashkinel a small, tightly wrapped bundle containing a baby, who was just a few days old. That night was preceded by several secret meetings held between Amelia and Batya, the baby’s mother, who knew she had been sentenced to death and wanted to save her son • Full Story

President Joe Biden announced today sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations. The expansive rules mandate that all employers with more than 100 workers require them to be vaccinated or test for the virus weekly, affecting about 80 million Americans • Full Story

The Sefer Torah was commissioned in the memory of Idan Greenstein, a Binghamton University junior from Greensboro, North Carolina. Greenstein came home from New York at the start of the pandemic to quarantine with his parents in Greensboro. He died in Chapel Hill as the result of a motorcycle accident. “Out of something so tragic, something really special” • Full Story, Photos

“Jewish religious organizations are doing a lot to facilitate Russia’s successful development, they devote tireless attention to fruitful social work and are actively involved in implementing highly popular educational, enlightenment, patriotic and charitable projects,” he said • Full Story

Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last month, the country’s last remaining Jew, 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, has fled the country, according to Tuesday reports. With the United States’ complete withdrawal from Afghanistan at the end of August leaving the country in the hands of the extremist group, Simantov crossed the border to a neighboring country over the weekend • Full Story

The Jewish High Holy Days begin Monday night, but one Westchester County place of worship can’t open its doors because Ida destroyed everything inside.  It’s a place that’s supposed to bring families together but instead, Ida, tore it apart. “We saw the water going higher and higher and higher,” said Rabbi Sruli Deitsch . “I knew right away we were looking at great devastation” • Full Story

Ninety extraordinary Jewish students from across Ukraine, members of the STARS Intensive learning program, enjoyed an unforgettable 7-day trip, combined with an inspiring seminar, to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and its surrounding region. “This program is a real lifechanger,” Says Rabbi Pinchas Wishedsky, the director of STARS Ukraine. “It turns these students, who arrived at STARS without any previous involvement with Judaism, into committed Jews that become an integral part of the Jewish nation, establish Jewish families, and serve as living examples in their hometowns after they arrive back from the trip” • Full Story, Photos

The Mayor of Lod, Israel Yair Revivo recently injured himself at home, when after stumbling and falling on a glass railing, a shard of glass penetrated his hand. As soon as he arrived home from the hospital, Revivo sent his tefillin to be checked by a sofer and was shocked by the results • Full Story

Rabbi Raziel Cohen doesn’t want you to have to draw a gun in synagogue. But if you must, he doesn’t want you to waste precious time unbuttoning your kapota, a type of jacket worn by men in the Chabad Hasidic community on Shabbat and Jewish holidays • Full Story, Video