On Sunday morning, family and friends of Duke University’s Jewish community gathered from all around the country to celebrate the Fleishman House’s ribbon cutting ceremony. The Fleishman House, formerly the King’s Daughters Inn, is located just off East Campus and will serve as the new home for Chabad at Duke University Undergrads. With three floors, a kitchen, 17 bedrooms and a 2,100 square-foot rooftop deck, Jewish students at Duke will have an official communal space to celebrate Shabbat and the High Holidays • Full Story

Yidden gathered this morning to say l’chaim with Paris Shliach Rabbi Mendel Azimov, who was chazzan for Shachris in the Chabad shul on Rue Des Rosiers to mark the seventh yahrtzeit of his father, legendary Shliach Rabbi Shmuel ‘Muleh’ Azimov. Rabbi Azimov was responsible for changing France’s Jewish landscape, bringing down over 400 Shluchim and making thousands of baalei teshuva over the decades of his tireless work • Photos

The last remaining Jew in Afghanistan, Zabulon Simantov, is on his way to Israel after leaving his home due to the complete takeover of the country by the Taliban, after the group installed its own government in Kabul in late August. He was greeted by Istanbul Shliach Rabbi Mendy Chitrik, who, with the help of Israeli-American businessman Mordechai “Moti” Kahana, helped facilitate the Jew’s journey out of Taliban-controlled Kabul • Full Story, Photos

To commemorate the yahrtzeit of Rachel Imeinu, 70 brave women rescued by Yad L’Achim from Arab villages visited her tomb in Beit Lechem last Thursday. The visit was part of the organization’s ongoing social/educational program aimed at deepening the Jewish identity of these women who for years were cut off from any trace of Judaism. It was meant to give them the tools to continue their journey back to our people and to afford them the merit of davening at the holy site • Full Story

The staff and students in Yerushalayim’s Yeshivas Toras Emes marked the 110th anniversary of the famed yeshiva’s founding by the Rebbe Rashab by travelling to the city of its founding, Chevron • Full Story, Photos

A large crowd gathered in the Chabad House of Flandre, France for a special melave malka and farbrengen in honor of the yahrtzeit of legendary Shliach Rabbi Shmuel ‘Muleh’ Azimov, who spent decades of tireless effort building Jewish life in France. Several speakers took the mic to share words of inspiration, including R’ Muleh’s son Rabbi Mendy Azimov. Images captured by photographer Mordechai Lubecki • Photos

On a state visit to Kazakhstan, Israeli Minister of Tourism, Yoel Razvozov, arrived to the Chabad Center in Almaty, the country’s largest city, to meet with Senior Shliach and Chief Rabbi Yeshaya Cohen. The minister, together with his entourage and Rabbi Cohen proceeded to the resting place of the Rebbe’s father, Horav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, where the minister prayed together with the Shluchim and local community memebers • Full Story, Photos

The Jewish community of Regina, Saskatchewan was put in the spotlight as its Shluchim, Rabbi Aharon and Mrs. Shterna Simmonds, amongst several other Shluchim in remote North American cities, initiated a successful campaign to raise funds to build mikvaos. Now they are in the last leg of their endeavor, and they need your help • Full Story

“At first, I was nervous about going to Chabad for Rosh Hashanah,” said Matthew Edelstein from Florida, “… I was worried about feeling out of place and excluded. “But, those worries were put to rest as soon as I called Rabbi Shmuli [Slonim] to tell him I was coming for services. I could tell just by his tone that Chabad was going to be a familiar and hospitable place I could go to meet a lot of great, new people” • Full Story