Jewish communities in Belgium gathered Monday for a large atzeres tefillah following the filing of criminal charges against several mohalim in Antwerp, in a case that has sparked growing concern over the future of traditional bris milah in the country • Read More

With great joy and excitement, the bris of the son of the Rebbe’s shliach, Rabbi Liraz Zeira, was held at a festive and emotional gathering at the spacious and elegant Chabad on Campus center under Rabbi Zeira’s leadership • Read More, Photos

At the height of communist repression in Zhytomyr, one courageous grandmother circumcised her grandson Felix in secret while his parents were at work. This week in Tomsk, Siberia, the son of that same child— Yevgeny —entered the covenant of Abraham and received the Jewish name “Chaim,” completing a remarkable family story that began under the shadow of the Stalinist regime • Full Story

Rabbi Chaim Hillel Matusof of Toulouse, France, relates: “The day after Purim, I got a call from a friend in Paris. The five-year-old son of a family who lives an hour from me was dangerously ill in the hospital, and he asked me to call them and visit… I told him, I know them very well. The mother is Jewish but unfortunately married a non-Jewish man who’s a Jew-hater. He’s the main anti-Israel activist in Toulouse, and he’s part of the “Free Palestine” group” • Read More

Twenty-four hours of Purim joy and celebration swept through Lima, Peru, as hundreds of community members, travelers, and local Jews who were unable to return home due to security concerns and flight cancellations gathered at the Chabad House to mark the Yom Tov • Read More

Joy filled the beautiful Beis Chabad in the Zukovka neighborhood of Moscow as the bris Milah of Rabbi Yanki Kooperman’s son was held. The Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, was honored with giving the brachos and naming the baby, while the President of the Union of Jewish Communities in Russia, Rabbi Alexander Boroda, was honored to stand for the brachos. The sandek was the grandfather, Rabbi Rafael Levinson, Shliach to Tel Adashim • Photos