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Passengers on what started out as direct El Al flight LYO2 to Israel from New York arrived safely back in Israel early Sunday after a Shabbat-long diversion in Athens that gave 150 at-first extremely disgruntled travelers the bonding experience of a lifet...

Many rabbis have graced German soil through the ages—some famous, even luminous, like the great Rashi. Today, though, there is one who has the distinction of being one of the first German-born rabbis to be ordained in that nation after the Holocaust, with...

Since Phoenician traders landed on its breathtaking shores nearly 3,000 years ago, the 122-square-mile cluster of Mediterranean islands that make up the European nation of Malta has had a rich and varied Jewish past. Jewish exiles landed on its shores in ...

A markedly historic site neighboring Helsinki’s Presidential Palace of world summit fame being refurbished for a Chabad center just got even more historic with the discovery below its surface of what archaeologists believe are the remains of a 300-year-ol...

Ari Fuld, a Jewish activist and vocal champion of Israel, died like he lived—“like a warrior”—at the hands of a terrorist Sunday, managing to draw and shoot his trademark handgun while chasing his assailant before collapsing on the spot where he was once ...

Two years ago, the Jews of Norway—small in number and historically reserved—marched boldly as ever down Oslo’s main street with a new Torah scroll to the local Chabad center, landing for dancing and a festive meal at the Nobel Peace Prize’s official host ...

Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries throughout Houston gave the gift of exhaustive material and spiritual sustenance to fellow victims of America’s second most costly tropical storm, Hurricane Harvey, last year. Upon the anniversary of the monumental disaster as ...

The latest public campaign to ban circumcision in Denmark fell apart earlier this month after the nation’s ruling party stated its qualified opposition to the measure. Yet, Jews in Denmark—as well as in many other nations in Europe and around the world—ar...

Second only to the Gazan border cities such as Sderot and Netivot in its vulnerability to rocket attacks, including the latest barrage of more than 180 fired on Israel today, Ashkelon has another claim to fame. It’s home to a rare diversity of publicly fu...

While locals in Montenegro speculate that with a checkered Jewish past going all the way back to the 12th century, there must have been bar mitzvah celebrations at some point in this Balkan country’s history, no one seems to remember anyone having had one...