Chabad of the Valley once again hosted Chanukah at Universal Studios CityWalk with thousands in attendance. This years event was headlined by Gad Elbaz who had the crowd dancing.
Tune in tonight at 7:30pm to a live video broadcast of the 36th Annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah Festival in the special Hakhel year of unity, featuring a full concert with the popular Chasidic superstar Avraham Fried, followed by the sensational singer Dovid Gabay. Also featuring the lighting of Florida’s largest Menorah led by Cantor Yossy Lebovics along with more fun, celebration and entertainment.
From Park Heights to the Inner Harbor, the city of Baltimore was treated to wonderful reminder about the holiday of Chanukah. Dozens of cars topped with Menorahs made their way through city streets, escorted by the Baltimore Police, spreading the light and message of Chanukah.
Rabbi Sholom Harlig, Chabad Shliach to San Bernardino, CA, lit a Chanukah Menorah at a makeshift memorial for the victims of a terror attack that took place there last week.
Hundreds gathered in ‘Little Odessa’s’ Brighton Beach Avenue for the lighting of the first candle on the Menorah that stands there year round.
A large Menorah erected outside Chabad-Lubavitch of Utah headquarters in Salt Lake City was stolen and vandalized the night before Chanukah. This is the second time the Menorah was vandalized in three years.
Some 180 people turned out to watch the lighting of the first candle on the Chabad Menorah, which is supported by Harrow Council.
For its 14th consecutive year, New Jerseys largest Chanukah Menorah was lit in Monroe Township by Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky with hundreds in attendance.
A rocking concert kicked off Chanukah for hundreds of Brooklynites at Grand Army Plaza. Latkes and jelly doughnuts were distributed along with Menorah kits for those who didn’t have. Meanwhile Brooklyn’s Boro President joined in the fray of “whose Menorah is bigger?”
Just weeks after terrorists murdered 130 people on the streets of Paris, an estimated 6,000 people gathered tonight at the Eiffel Tower to watch the lighting of a 30-foot-tall menorah on the first night of Chanukah. The annual public menorah-lighting at the base of the iconic Eiffel Tower—a decades-old French tradition—is organized annually by Chabad-Lubavitch.
After Mincha, the first light of Chanukah was lit in the Rebbe’s Room by Rabbi Chaim Boruch Halberstam. The lighting was broadcasted around the world through the Chanukah Live hookup.
Many Jewish residents of Moscow, Russia gathered this evening in front of the Kremlin walls for a Menorah lighting ceremony marking the first night of Chanukah. Standing alongside Rabbi Berel Lazar the Chief Rabbi of Russia, was the Israeli Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau.
In the face of terror, a massive menorah lighting will take place on the Eiffel Tower plaza in Paris, France. This will be the kickoff lighting event for this years Chanukah Live, which will link up menorah lightings in three major cities on three continents. This French program, filled with music and song, is based out of Paris, and will hook-up with menorah lightings in Israel and New York.
Backpackers and locals gathered at Chabad of Kathmandu, Nepal to celebrate the first night of Chanukah and light the first candle on the Menorah.
The Forta family of Oak Park, Michigan, built a giant Raspberry Pi powered LED menorah for Chanukah. This video is a demo of the full animation sequence, and a description of how it was built.
Every year, one of the largest outdoor celebrations of Chanukah in Australia takes place at the public park in Caulfield. The Chabad House in Caulfield hosts Chanukah in the Park, an event which attracts up to 15,000 people each year. But this year the event will not take place.
Municipal official in the southern French city of Marseilles have apparently requested that Chabad cancel their annual public Menorah lighting ceremony, due to security concerns stemming from an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish teacher in the city last Wednesday.
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