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SAFED, Israel—Tucked into the side of a mountain with the resting place of Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai, the author of the Zohar, looming in the distance, Yeshivah Temimei Darech was founded nine years ago with a low budget and high hopes by two young English-s...

Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries are nothing if not adaptable. Scattered the world over, from Japan to India to Vietnam, Russia to South Africa, and throughout big American cities and small towns, they often do their work in foreign surroundings. That can be t...

If Rabbi Shneur and Rocha Turkov would have bet on the prospect of entertaining a standing-room only crowd this High Holiday season in a stunningly adorned, newly renovated synagogue, their odds would not have been favorable.

More than 6,000 men, women and children danced and sang their way through the streets of Jerusalem’s Old City Wednesday, celebrating the completion of a Torah scroll written in the name of peace and the merit of Jewish children the world over.

Mother of six Chaya Kaplan remembers two tasks she and her husband, Yisroel Ber Kaplan, faithfully performed after the birth of each of their children: They signed each child up as a member of the international Chabad-Lubavitch children’s organization Tzi...

When most people think of Safed, two things immediately come to mind, aside from the city’s sheer beauty and vistas, perched as it is atop Israel’s Upper Galilee region: Jewish mysticism and art.

Deriving inspiration from its role in the recovery of six stolen Torah scrolls, the Safed branch of the Israel Police has established a synagogue in the local police station and arranged for the use of one of the scrolls belonging to the holy city’s histo...

Fires suspected to be the work of arsonists raged near Jerusalem late Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of 300 homes and the closing of the main highway linking the capital and the ocean metropolis of Tel Aviv for hours.

Residents of Southern Israel remained on high alert Sunday as rockets from the Gaza Strip continued to fall on the fifth day since Palestinian terrorists resumed their targeting of civilians.

In keeping with their mystical and artistic surroundings – Safed, one of Judaism’s four holy cities, is known throughout the world as the seat of the esoteric teachings known as the Kabbalah and a lively artists’ colony – Yeshiva Temimei Darech’s students...