Los Angeles first Jewish mayor, Eric Garcetti, hosted a Menorah lighting ceremony with the consuls general of both Israel and France along with many other city officials in attendance. The event was organized by Chabad of the West Coast led by Rabbi Boruch S. Cunin.
The first night of Chanukah was marked by a unique event at Chabad of Tucson, Arizona: The lighting of a 4-foot-tall Menorah made out of Lego blocks.
For the first time ever, U.S military service members stationed around the world will join together virtually to celebrate Chanukah via live video broadcast on Wednesday evening. The center of activities will be Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, with Chaplain Rabbi Mendy Stern organizing and leading the celebration.
Hundreds of boys and girls gathered in 770 for special Chanukah Rally, which featured a special performance by Chaim Fogelman. Children also enjoyed doughnuts and gave Tzadakah. The rally concluded with Mincha and the lighting of the Menorah in the downstairs Shul of 770.
Four Israeli singers joined together to record a song honoring and inspiring Chabad Shluchim all over the world who bring the light of Chanukah to Jews far and wide.
Rabbi Gershom Ohana, a longtime friend of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, was joined by his son Uriah as they lit a Menorah for the elder statesman at the Peres Center in Jaffa, with many of the center’s employees joining in as well.
With Chanukah this year starting on Sunday, a day that RV rental companies are closed, the Mitzvah Tank Org. made special arrangements to have them open Motzai Shabbos so that the tanks can start going on Mivtzoim on Sunday starting from the very first light.
Some 45 vehicles took part in the 2nd Annual Car Menorah Parade in Queens, New York. Organized in collaboration with local Chabad centers and Yeshiva hundreds of Menorah kits were distributed and the light of Chanukah was spread.
Hundreds gathered in Ocala’s City Square on Sunday night to celebrate Chanukah in the heart of Florida’s Horse Country.
Last night, Rabbi Chaim Kosofsky was joined by Springfield, Massachusetts, Mayor Domenic Sarno and Congressman Richard Neil for a Menorah lighting ceremony in Court Square. Also, children from the Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy filled the courtyard to see the Menorah lit, which it was so big it had to be lit with a lift.
Rabbi Turk’s Seventh grade class at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva got off to a great start this Chanukah, with an amazing night of mivtzoim in Manhattan.
Last night, Monday, Dec. 7, the second night of Chanukah, was the 36th Annual South Florida Chanukah Festival. The event welcomed a crowd of over 10,000 people, and thousands more via the live webcast on CrownHeights.info!
Chabad Hebrew Schools all over the world are marking Chanukah of the Hakhel year by joining together in song! One energetic anthem, one spirited dance, performed by hundreds of Jewish children expressing their love for Torah, their youthful exuberance, and their Jewish unity and pride.
This year’s presentation at the Parliament House of Victoria of the lighting of the Chanukah Menorah and the Speeches given by the guest speakers – organized by Chabad of Melbourne-CBD under the leadership of Rabbi Chaim Herzog – surpassed any of the twelve previous functions given at Parliament in past years.
Creative and edible Menorahs, candle making and Mivtzoim are just a few of the ways students in Darchai Menachem prepared for Chanukah. This dancing menorah is one of many cool menorahs soon to be posted. Posted by Darchai Menachem on […]
A Menorah that was vandalized twice in Manhattan’s Carl Shurz Park, which is the backyard of Gracie Mansion – the official residence of the New York City Mayor – was rededicated Monday night and was lit with Mayor Bill DeBlasio in attendance.
Recently, two electric pylons that transfer electricity from Ukraine to Crimea were bombed, and Crimea has been in the dark, without electricity except 2-4 hours a day. The Russian authorities ruling the peninsula decreed that all public gatherings of more than three people were forbidden. Permission to erect the menorah on a public square, where it has been for many years, was not forthcoming to the Chabad Shluchim in the disputed region’s capital city, Simferopol.
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