Event held on 45,000 devices in lieu of traditional in-person gathering in New York to commemorate 26 years since passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Worshipers celebrate reopening with dancing, the same way they parted from 770 Eastern Parkway synagogue when it closed due to coronavirus restrictions

Binyamin Wolff, a father of 8, initially believed to have died of COVID-19, but hospital says he repeatedly tested negative: 'His passing is a terrible loss for German Jewry'

Chani Lifshitz says she can't enter 'fires of controversy' as Hasidic religious leaders tell her not to go ahead with torch-lighting ritual

Police open investigation into attack in city of Kherson; no reports of injuries, with building closed due to coronavirus

When a Brooklyn yeshiva closed, 100+ Israeli students flew home on El Al. Dozens have now tested positive, and other passengers, fearful, want to know why they were put at risk

Andre Touboul, a rabbi affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, who led one of France’s most prestigious high schools, has died aged 64

Group sent to Jerusalem hotel after arrival on on El Al flight last week amid fears many had already been exposed to virus; 200 passengers were on plane

Boarding of El Al flight last week was temporarily halted due to concerns that members of Hasidic group had already been exposed to virus; some 200 were on plane

Chabad's Rabbi Masoud Tubul, 64, passes away from COVID-19 in Paris; Satmar's Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum, 72-year-old head of world's largest Hasidic sect, is diagnosed with virus