Kindness is contagious. One positive action can change the entire world for good.

Better yet, this was in Las Vegas, as the after-party of the Religion News Association’s annual conference. 

With the Jewish new year of Rosh Hashanah comes a new building for the more than 300 local families who are part of Chabad of Parkland.

Seven hundred and fifty Jews participated in a Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) dinner at the Keren-Or Chabad House in Budapest, Hungary.

This upcoming week, Binghamton University students and faculty will enjoy an extended weekend in celebration of Rosh Hashana, a Jewish holiday that calls upon practitioners to reflect upon their past year and celebrate the onset of a new, more fruitful one. For students not heading home for the holiday, several organizations will offer ways to celebrate.

Rabbi Yishai Dinerman and his wife Bluma recently moved with their two young daughters to Winchester to open the city’s first Chabad Jewish center.

Nearly 50 women in pink aprons gathered Tuesday night to share stories, faith and fun as the group took part in the Great Pink Mega Challah Unity Bake at Chabad of Palos Verdes.

The first record of Jews living in the Russian region of Astrakhan dates back to the mid-10th century. The Jewish community at the time was believed to be Khazars, a tribe of noble warriors who had converted to Judaism centuries beforehand.

“I finished the two Torah scrolls myself at the place where 75 years ago, our martyrs were brutally shot into the water,” said Rabbi Shlomo Koves in Budapest.

A dozen children ages 4 to 14 were getting ready to usher in the Jewish High Holidays at the “Shofar Factory” workshop held Wednesday at Chabad of Southern Minnesota in Rochester. 

About three dozen Penn undergraduate and graduate students attended the event. During the dinner, guest speaker Rabbi Shlomo Minkowitz, an assistant professor of radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine, gave a lecture on the safety debate around vaccinations and its relation to Jewish law.