California Gov. Jerry Brown led the annual ceremonial Capitol menorah lighting Monday, lamenting the use of an electric menorah instead of one with “real fire,” and using his brief remarks to compare the story of Hanukkah to his push for renewable energy.
Connect with Jews all over the world, from Los Angeles to Sydney, celebrating the first night of Chanukah. Now Showing: Chanukah celebration at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
Chabad Lubavitch of Ulster County is proud to host the first solar powered Menorah in the world. It is standing in the Center of Woodstock, NY. “We are very excited about this,” said Rabbi A. B. Itkin, who came up with the idea, “and hope to be able to duplicate this in other Menorahs around the wold.”
Perfectly Crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside and oozing with delicious jelly – i set out on a quest to find the perfect jelly doughnut – that greasy chanukah treat we look forward to an entire year. So, I took a stroll up Kingston Ave. and ate every type of jelly doughnut i saw, from every bake shop in Crown Heights. (On a side note, I think I’ll be sticking to the latkes over this year’s Chanukah.)
The Bochurim at Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon Chabad in Los Angeles, California have been gearing up for this year’s annual Chanuka campaign: packing thousands of menoras to hand out, building car menorahs, and coordinating the various logistic arrangements in anticipation of this week’s full force campaign of light accross the boulevards of Los Angeles.
Chanukah begins Tuesday evening, December 20, but visitors to Home Depot’s St. Louis store got an early start on the Festival of Lights last Sunday building their own, usable, take-home wood menorahs.
The following is a clipping from today’s New York Times sent to us by one of our readers. In a section titled “Dear Diary,” a Jewish woman writes about her encounter with a Lubavitcher Bochur doing Chanukah Mivtzoim.
The organizers of the Annual NYC Chanukah Menorah Parade, run by the Mitzvah Tank Org. under the auspices of the Lubavitch Youth Org., have announced that due to more “Pirsumei Nisa”, this year tradition will change. The parade will be advanced to Thursday night the 3rd night of Chanukah – Dec 22nd at 5pm, instead of Motzoei Shabbos as every year.
BANGALORE, India [CHI] — Chanukah parties in the Chabad House in Bangalore was celebrated throughout the eight nights with a wide variety of people in attendance, including businessmen, students as well as families and children. But the special story of finding a lone Jew, who has been in India for more than 40 years, particularly brightened the local Shluchims Chanukah.
“In Odessa we closed the shutters when my grandfather lit the Menorah. Now, we celebrate in public, both indoors and outdoors”, said Rima Mazurovsky about the series of Chanukah events by Project Neshama – Chabad Lubavitch of Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.
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Orel was wounded two years ago in the city of Bee’r Sheva by a rocket attack during the war in Gaza. The rocket pierced his brain and caused a fatal injury. Doctors did not give him much hope.
Chanukah is usually a joyous time, most especially in Israel. At Chabad Terror Victims Project (CTVP) we try hard to bring the beauty of this very special holiday to thousands of victims in Israel whose lives have been shattered.
For most of the 250 Concordia University students that braved Montreal’s first snow storm on December 6, it was just another party with great music, food and drinks.
Chabad Youth Network of Florida lit up the streets with an amazing 7 Menorah Parades!!! Cities around Florida were rocken the orange menorahs!
Acclaimed Hollywood director Kevin Bright (producer and creator of the very popular Friends series) spent the seventh night of Chanukah bringing light and happiness to wounded soldiers of the IDF. About 25 soldiers who were wounded in the recent wars in Gaza and the second Lebenon war, came to a special Chanukah party organized by CTVP for them and their family members.
