Sugar, Yehuda

Chabad educators like to turn their students into leaders and influencers in their own right as quickly as possible. So upon leaving this year’s European Maccabi Games in Budapest, where he had journeyed last week to support his country’s team, Rabbi Yank...

In a Newsweek op-ed last week, Dr. Howard Kaye, who lost his wife to a gunman’s bullet on April 27 at Chabad of Poway, Calif., shared with the world for the first time since the tragic shooting the depth of his grief and his resolve, and sought to prevent...

With its author in high demand among a broad spectrum of audiences, a newly released book on the power of positivity based on the teachings and personal example of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—is in its second printing, way ...

The southern Israel town of Sderot hunkered down on Friday, fearing a return to incessant rocket fire from Hamas in Gaza after a missile struck a building housing a yeshivah adjacent to the local Chabad center and synagogue, where dozens were in the middl...

Most Chabad centers host large annual get-togethers, including festival celebrations, High Holiday services, Chanukah menorah-lightings, fundraising dinners and, of course, their ever-expanding Passover Seders, where attendance topped out this year at aro...

Israel lunar-space program chief engineer and Chabad Chassid Alexander Friedman of “Beresheet” moon mission fame will be the honored guest on May 22 at a gala event in Montreal. Chabad of Westmount’s, “Venture: An Evening With Philanthropists and Global I...

A prominent Chabad-run Moscow synagogue, itself a target of 21st-century anti-Semitic hate and destruction, has donated a Torah scroll to the yeshivah in Tel Aviv that was launched and led by terror victim Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger. The 47-year-old father of 1...

As the Jewish world grapples emotionally with another deadly synagogue shooting—and the family of Lori Kaye begins a grievous mourning process—Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, the indelibly injured yet indomitably spirited founding rabbi of Chabad of Poway, has a...

Nearly 50 years after man first set foot on the moon during the U.S. Apollo 11 mission—perhaps with a little less fanfare—Israel and its supporters around the world were looking to celebrate another moon landing. But their hopes were dashed at the last mo...

Nepal’s world-famous Passover Seder, held annually high in the Himalayas in the capital city of Kathmandu, reaching a peak of some 2,000 guests last year on its 30th anniversary, stands as a perpetual icon of Chabad-Lubavitch’s “no mountain too tall to cl...