Lubavitch officials are suing in a Washington court to recover a treasure trove of documents belonging to the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, which were seized by the Nazis ...

WASHINGTON (JTA) — During the 1990s, the world was seized with stories of Nazi plunder and heirless property from the Holocaust era. Stolen bank accounts, looted artwork, confiscated real estate and ...

On a Manhattan pier, one day last week, 75 cantors chanted. Five hundred rabbis, 500 pious Jewish laymen craned at a stout, full-bearded man in a fur hat debarking from the Swedish liner Drottningholm ...

Russia has refused to return a library of sacred documents to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. A Washington, D.C., District Court ruled earlier this month that the Russian Federation must hand over to ...

MOSCOW – MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has rejected a U.S. court ruling to turn over a Jewish library to a Hasidic group in New York. A U.S. judge last week ruled against the Russian government for its refusal ...