For the second year in a row, U.S military service members stationed around the world will join together virtually to celebrate Chanukah via live video broadcast tonight, Wednesday evening.
“I would like to extend my holiday greetings to you and to all of Russian Jewry. I wish you a happy Chanuka and all of the very best, along with your family and all of the Jews in Russia. I must say that there are very positive developments in Russia. New Synagogues and Jewish Centers are opening up, and I am thankful to you for that. I hope that our joint efforts will continue to thrive and progress.” These were the wishes of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar at a private audience that was granted in honor of Chanuka at the Kremlin office in Moscow.
An overflow crowd of thousands of men, women and children packed into the three levels of Gulfstream Park and Casino in Hallendale Beach, FL, to celebrate the 37th Annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah Festival on Tuesday night, the fourth night of Chanukah.
The Tzeirei HaShluchim West Coast Boys’ Winter Camp, in partnership with Merkos 302’s MyShliach, has concluded an amazing eight, fun-packed days of chayus, chassidishkeit and excitement!
The Barclays Center hosted two consecutive menorah lightings this Chanukah, first at Monday night’s Nets basketball game and then at last night’s Islanders hockey Game.
Mrs. Leah Kosofsky and Lilia Luzhanskiy of Lubavitch Yeshiva Academy in Massachusetts demonstrate some great activities for Chanukah on the Mass Appeal TV show.
Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) joined Shliach to Montana Rabbi Chaim Bruk to light a public menorah in Bozeman, and delivered a message of unity and equal rights.
Or Elyakim, the son of Dalia Elyakim – the Israeli woman killed last week in a truck-ramming terror attack in Berlin – lit the fourth candle on a giant menorah erected by the local Chabad Shluchim at the German capital’s iconic Brandenburg Gate.
Bring on the puns: Huntington Beach community members, along with students and faculty of Hebrew Academy, took the adage “go big or go home” very seriously on Friday as they attempted to fry and flip the world’s first 7-foot traditional Chanukah latka.
Chabad of Prospect Heights’ two Menorahs were vandalized over Chanukkah. The branches were broken and the wires cut. One Menorah was located at the Park Slope Playground between 5th and 6th ave. and the other at Underhill Playground.
Warmer than usual weather had those from near and far coming together to celebrate Chanukah with Chabad of Kew Gardens, Queens.
Philanthropist and businessman R’ Yosef Yitzchak and his wife Batsheva Popack have once again given a special Chanukah gift to all the teachers and morahs of Oholei Torah in honor of Chanukah. The Oholei Torah PTA joined, as in previous years, to sponsor the Mesivta, Beis Medrash and administrative divisions.
The ladies at OK Headquarters were treated to a fun day out at the annual staff Chanukah party on Monday. This year they ventured outside the office to the Aliya building on East New York Avenue for a fun and relaxing “paint your own pottery” session with The Art Café.
Mont Saint-Michel, a UNESCO world heritage site and popular tourist attraction in northern France, was lit up by the light of Chanukah for the first time this year, organized by Shliach to nearby Caen, Rabbi Motty Levin.
#DeafChanukah is more than just eight nights a year. It is a movement—a movement made up of a huge and widespread population of Jewish people who also celebrate their Deaf identity, writes Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, executive director of the Jewish Deaf Foundation.
David Friedman, the newly appointed American Ambassador to Israel, joined Rabbi Zalman Wolowik of Chabad of Five Towns, NY, to light the large menorah at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park.
A huge Kiddush Hashem was made last night at CTeen’s fourth annual Jewish Heritage Night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
