CROWN HEIGHTS — A Jewish man was robbed on Carroll Street after being duped into giving a stranger change for a $20 bill, only to discover that he received only half of a torn $20 bill.
This year, the Walmart on Jean-Talon in Montreal is going all out to give its Jewish customers a Chanukah treat. Centrally located just off Decarie, between the de Vimy neighbourhood and Cote-St-Luc/Hampstead, Walmart recognizes that the Jewish community of Montreal forms an important part of their customer base. Together with the MK-Canada’s Kosher Certifier, this is Walmart’s way of saying “thank you” for their patronage.
Jacob Kolton, a Holocaust survivor who moved thousands with his story of a renewed faith late in life despite the atrocities he endured, died last month in New Jersey. He was 88.
Students in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France were hard at work preparing for Chunkah with many menorah-topped vans loaded up with free Menorah to be distributed in the surrounding areas.
Chabad Lubavitch of Colorado dedicated the Grand Menorah lighting to the children who assisted Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Engel in lighting the Menorah on the 2nd night in front of the Allied Jewish Federation in Denver.
A Mitzvah Tank loaded with a group of Bochurim and Chanukah spirit to spare headed out for Manhattan, where they set up a table and distributed hundreds of Chanukah Menorahs in front of the only 24 hours Apple store on 59th Street.
A Jewish student organization at Binghamton University is claiming to have broken a record for dreidel spinning, but a student newspaper there says the spinners spun out before breaking the mark.
Students in United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway brought the light of Chanukah to Yidden who unfortunately were unable to spend the holiday with their family and friends.
Chabad at Lehigh, Hillel Society and Friends of Israel sponsored the event that was a perfect break from studying for finals for students, complete with coffee and hot chocolate.
Forget the War On xmas, a building on the East Side has become ground zero for the War On Hanukkah. The board of 2 Beekman Pl. has refused a resident’s pleas for a menorah in the lobby to accompany the co-op’s elegant nine-foot tree.
A Brooklyn orthodox rabbi who was jailed after refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury, saying his religion forbid him from testifying against other Jews, was ordered freed this week by a district court judge in Los Angeles, the rabbi’s attorney said.
A crowd of over 350 adults and children joined Chabad Lubavitch of North East London & Essex (Ilford) as they celebrated their Annual “Chanukah on Ice” evening.
Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, spent a celebratory weekend in Chicago December 1 and 2, officiating at the rabbinic ordination of 14 community members on Saturday evening, and then and addressing the greater Chicago Jewish community on Sunday in a speech that drew a crowd of nearly 1,000.
Religious circumcision is again legal in Germany after the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of Parliament, passed the final version of a circumcision bill today by a vote of 438 to 100. The upper house of Parliament passed the draft law in October, and the final vote means the right to religious circumcision is now guaranteed. A court in Cologne previously ruled it a criminal act.
Despite the rain, a dedicated group gathered Sunday night to light a menorah in Atlantic City, celebrating the second night of Hanukkah.
The audience cheers as jugglers perform. Lubavitch of North Carolina invited the Jewish community for a grand Hannukah celebration and menorah lighting in the heart of SouthPark Mall. Children from Ohr HaTorah as well as Chabad Hebrew School sang traditional songs
It’s Chanukah at the Kravitsky home, and a Dreidle spin-off is taking place. But one player is bent on winning, and will stop at nothing to get the gold…… coins!
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