Danny thinks his birthday is already over, until something unexpected arrives at his door and sends him on a mysterious adventure filled with clues, surprise visitors, challenges and laughs, leading him to discover that there may be much more to a Yiddishe birthday than he ever imagined.

Hundreds of Jewish vacationers representing a wide range of communities gathered in Tannersville, New York, for the community’s annual Yarchei Kallah and Melaveh Malkah in honor of the 82nd Yahrtzeit of Harav Levi Yitzchok.

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including holding the eitz chayim during kriah, Crocs and open-backed slippers outside on Shabbos, and saying “Good Shabbos” on Friday.

“After I gave the shiur on Gemara, many of the bachurim were able to go back and read it inside. That made me think that maybe the problem is not that Gemara is too hard. Maybe many bachurim were simply never taught how to approach it.”

A brightly wrapped Mitzvah Cybertruck has recently been making its way across the country, turning heads and drawing Jews out of the woodwork wherever it goes. Since its launch, the truck has sparked chance encounters with Yidden who had no connection to a Jewish community.

A century-old wooden shul from the Siberian town of Zima has been painstakingly reconstructed beside Lake Baikal, restoring a vanished piece of Jewish life in one of the world’s most remote regions.

For the 47th consecutive year, dozens of veteran shluchim who were personally sent by the Rebbe to Eretz Yisroel between 5736 and 5738 (1976-1978) gathered this past Shabbos for their annual reunion in Kfar Chabad.

Less than a year ago, the site was little more than excavated earth and concrete footings. Today, Bais Levi Yitzchok’s new shul stands enclosed, insulated, and rapidly moving toward completion, with the community hoping to open its doors in time for Rosh Hashanah.