Sugar, Yehuda

Just as life in Israel’s northern Galilee region was returning to a semblance of normal after Sunday’s long and hot fast of Tisha B’Av, two Syrian surface-to-surface missiles trained on the north triggered warning sirens and sent people running for bomb s...

SAFED, ISRAEL—A sizeable fire blazed across the ancient Safed cemetery Monday night amid the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of the great Kabbalistic sage, Rabbi Isaac Luria, on the anniversary of his passing. Prayers at the gravesite were interrupted brief...

As the world’s eyes turn towards Helsinki’s hosting of U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in one of the Finnish capital’s traditional summit meeting places, the Presidential Palace, Rabbi Benyamin Wolff has his eyes set more ...

A Jewish high school operated by Chabad-Lubavitch in Berlin took top honors in the capital city’s state Regents exams, in which Hebrew was recognized for the first time by the German government as a tested subject. The students who took the exam at the Je...

Members of the Israeli Knesset and other high-ranking Israeli officials took time from their busy legislative schedules to hail the legacy of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—and the work of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries as a unif...

If Rostov-on-Don Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Chaim Danzinger has his way, thousands of Jewish soccer fans who will descend on his storied town and 10 other historic cities for the upcoming World Cup games in Russia will leave inspired not only by the ...

SAFED, Israel—Battleworn from years of war and border skirmishes, residents throughout Israel’s north are reacting with a mix of confidence and foreboding in the face of attacks and counter-attacks from Iran and its allies in what threatened to become a c...

With the rising threat of war between Israel and its enemies to the north, hundreds of thousands streamed to the village of Meron, Israel, Wednesday night and Thursday to celebrate the annual Lag BaOmer festival at the resting place of the great sage, Rab...

In Chabad circles, there are no small assignments for the movement’s emissaries, sent near and far to bolster and spread Judaism, often in isolated outposts. But there are some who take on missions of heroic proportion, such as one assigned to a young Cro...

Almost 25 years after its founding, Friendship Circle will further complement the lives of people with disabilities during an unprecedented leadership mission to Israel from April 22-26, designed to tap the country’s significant advances in the field and ...