Two new Shuls were opened this week in Russia under the leadership of the Chief Rabbi and Shliach, Rabbi Berel Lazar, with small events in accordance with local health guidelines to celebrate the opening. Photos by Levi Nazarov • Photos

Hundreds of members of the Borough Park Orthodox community took to the streets Tuesday night defying orders to disperse and lighting a fire in protest of new state-mandated restrictions imposed on area synagogues, schools and non-essential businesses over a COVID-19 surge • Full Story

Following Governor Cuomo’s announcement that Shul’s will only be allowed a reduced number of Mispallelim, Agudath Israel of America is filing an injunction against the governor due to religious discrimination • Full Letter

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a three-tiered system for new rules and restrictions in New York’s high-risk cluster zones and surrounding areas • Full Story

With much excitement, the Shul in the city of Lubavitch known as the Akeida Shul was restored just in time for the special day of Yud Gimmel Tishrei. This Shul is where the Ohel of the Tzemach Tzedek and the Rebbe Maharash is • Photos

This morning, the Gedaliah Society, in conjunction with Dr. Eli Rosen published update #42 in their series of Covid-19 updates for the Crown Heights community warning everyone that there is a worrisome uptick in cases in the community • Full Story

Four friends from the UK have created an app that helps Shuls from all over the world to run services whilst keeping social distancing measures. It also allows participants to be alerted if a person tests positive after participating in a service • Full Story

A federal judge on Friday issued an injunction blocking New York from enforcing restrictions on outdoor religious gatherings, and from limiting indoor religious gatherings any further than any other industry that is part of Phase 2 of the state’s reopening plan • Full Story

Ahead of the reopening of the central Moscow Shul, the Shliach and Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, visited the Shul and met with the administrator of the community, Rabbi Mordechai Weisberg, and the Gabbai of the Shul to make a L’chaim on the occasion of the Shul’s reopening. Here are some pictures of the intensive cleaning the Shul has undertaken in recent weeks • Photos

Quebec houses of worship can resume holding services and ceremonies as of Monday, but with a maximum of 50 congregants • Full Story

Bais Eliezer Yitzchok Shul, the Shul in Crown Heights where Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, OB”M, was Rov, announced that Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld, a devoted member and Gabbai who was also a very close confidant of Rabbi Levy and worked for him at the OK is the new Rov of the Beis Eliezer Yitzchok Shul • Full Letter

Houses of worship across Quebec are expected to reopen at the end of the month under new COVID-19 deconfinement rules — with choirs not permitted and doors remaining open during religious services to prevent the spread of the coronavirus • Full Story

As Allegheny County entered the green phase on Friday, June 5, loosening restrictions that had been put in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19, local Chabad centers have taken the first tentative steps toward reopening • Full Story

Following a number of months where all Shuls were closed in France due to coronavirus, the Chabad house in Paris, called Beis Chaya Mushka, reopened with a number of restrictions imposed by the French ministry of health. Chabad photographer Mordechai Lubetzki captured photos of the Tefillos in the current restrictions • Photos

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that Shuls and other houses of worship will allowed to reopen on Wednesday with some health restrictions put in place • Full Story

Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Harav David Lau called on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to allow shuls to reopen after a near two-month ban on indoor tefillos • Full Story

Rabbi Yossie Denburg and Rabbi Avraham Friedman of Chabad of Coral Springs, FL, sent out a letter to their community members informing them of the reopening of their Chabad House with a number of guidelines in place to make sure that all health regulations are followed • Full Letter

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, said today in his daily covid-19 press conference that there is a strong possibility that Shuls can be opened for Shavuos with a maximum of fifteen people and several safety precautions in place • Watch

A decision was made to re-open shuls in Israel at a meeting of senior officials of the National Security Council (NSC), the Health Ministry and Interior Ministry on Sunday • Full Story

Breaking: The Badatz of Crown Heights just issued a Psak Din that all Shuls and Mikvaos have to close • Full Letter

Today, a new Beis Chabad in the likeness of Beis Chayenu — 770 was consecrated in Pisgat Ze’ev North, under the leadership of Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Kurtz • Photos

Since the onset of Ukraine’s civil war, Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman has been working tirelessly to alleviate the plight of the refugees, establishing the ‘Antbeka’ village for Jewish refugees. Yesterday, the beautiful Tehilas Hashem Shul was consecrated in the presence of dignitaries and government representatives, including the honorable philanthropist and sponsor Mr. Baruch Dubinsky • Photos

The Jewish community in Orgeev, Moldova are in shock upon discovering that their shul had been vandalized and desecrated. Over the years they’ve overcome some episodes which consisted of damage to property, but the extent of the current desecration reaches ‘pogrom’ levels, including finding an open Sefer Torah thrown on the ground (!) • Photos

Member of Vaad L’hafotzas Sichos Rabbi Shalom Jacobson and philanthropist Yosef Popack were seen learning together in a Crown Heights Shul on Lefforts Boulevard.

The ancient synagogue in Aleppo is in danger of being destroyed as regime forces move in on rebel strongholds in Syria’s second city. Buoyed by a relentless Russian air campaign and heavily backed by Iranian forces and Hezbollah fighters, the Syrian regime has recently gained the upper hand against rebels in both the north and south • Full Story