Chanukah
Accidents
Blogs
Camp News
Chabad News
Chanukah
Comics
Communal Matters
Crime
Crown Heights News
Farbrengens
Fires
General
Israel
Jewish News
Kinus Hashluchim
Letter and Spirit
Mazal Tov!
Merkos Shlichus
Mivtzoim
Monsey News
Notices
NYC News
Op-Ed
Photo Galleries
Picture of the Day
PSA
Real Estate
Rockland County News
Satire
Shlichus
Simcha Galleries
Something Jewish
Upstate News
Videos
Weekly Voice

Chanukah opens with Deptford Mall event

Senator Madden addresses the crowd at the annual Chabad sponsored Menorah lighting at the Deptford Mall, as Rabbi Avi Richler looks on.

DEPTFORD TWP. — In what has become a yearly tradition, the start of the Chanukah holiday was celebrated Wednesday evening at the Deptford Mall. The event, sponsored jointly by the Chabad Jewish Center and the Mall, featured crafts for the children, a real live Judah the Maccabee, delicious Chanukah foods, and a giant Menorah lit by state Sen. Fred Madden.

Posted to Chanukah on
2
Mazal Tov's View More
New Engagement!

Menny Leitner (Monsey, NY) to Bracha Goldberg (Monsey, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, July 20th, 7:30pm at Bais Yosef Meir Simcha Hall 19 Olympia Ln, Monsey
New Engagement!

Mendy Sulami (Los Angeles, CA) to Aidel Spielman (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Tsvi Feygin  (Teaneck, NJ) to Faigy Kahn (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Shmuel Gurary (Buffalo, NY) to Esther Leeba Eidelman (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s Downstairs
Baby Boy!

Sendy and Mali (nee New) Labkowsky from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Baby Boy!

Yehuda and Raizel Marrus from Davie, FL, had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shalom Alon (Kfar Gidon, EY) to Bluma Potash (Noe Valley, SF, CA)
New Engagement!

Jack Abramson (NW4, London, UK) to Shayna Ash (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Baby Boy!

Mendel and Soro (nee Brennan) Manne from Penn Wynne, PA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yisrolik Chein (Toulouse, France) to Chanale Greenberg (Shanghai, China) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at 695 East New York Ave
New Engagement!

Schneur Motchkin (Crown Heights) to Sarah Schmukler (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
New Engagement!

Shmayah Schechter (Miami Beach, FL) to Bella Kimball (West Hartford, CT) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 7:30pm at Chabad of Greater Hartford 2352 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT, 06117
Baby Girl!

Shneur and Sara (nee Heber) polter from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Yonah Galili (Toronto, Canada) to Ora Zuckerman (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Monday, July 7th, 8:00pm at Bais Avraham Yitzchak 305 Remsen Ave
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Baila (nee Spielman) Vogel from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Yechezkel Markovitch (Kiev, Ukraine) to Layah Carlbach (Montreal, Canada)
New Engagement!

Meir Manssouri (Los Angeles, CA) to Raizy Altschul (Chicago, IL)

Nevada Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign met today with Rabbis Chaim and Yosef Cunin from Chabad of Nevada to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah. Together they recited a Brachah, a traditional Jewish blessing said before the lighting of each candle on the menorah.

Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid Celebrates Chanukah

Nevada Senators Harry Reid and John Ensign met today with Rabbis Chaim and Yosef Cunin from Chabad of Nevada to celebrate the beginning of Hanukkah. Together they recited a Brachah, a traditional Jewish blessing said before the lighting of each candle on the menorah.

Posted to Chanukah on
8

World’s Most Carbon Emitting Menorah!

A group of bochurim from Yeshivas Lubavitch of Detroit, Meir Shemtov, Shmulik Levin, Sruli Baron and Yehuda Glaser came to help Southside’s Shliach, Rabbi Shmuly Novak for Chanukah. One of the members of the community, made it his “Chanukah Project” to go “dumpster-diving” looking for some old mufflers and make the world’s first muffler menorah!

Posted to Chanukah on
4

Gov. Perry met with a delegation of Texas Jewish leaders Thursday to mark the first full day of Hanukkah, lighting the menorah in the governor's public reception room, then singing and dancing along to traditional songs. The menorah holds one candle for each night of Hanukkah, with the ninth candle, the shamash, used to light the other candles.

Shluchim Light the Menorah with Texas Governor

Gov. Perry met with a delegation of Texas Jewish leaders Thursday to mark the first full day of Hanukkah, lighting the menorah in the governor’s public reception room, then singing and dancing along to traditional songs. The menorah holds one candle for each night of Hanukkah, with the ninth candle, the shamash, used to light the other candles.

Posted to Chanukah on
3

When Jews at Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch west of Boynton Beach began their Hanukkah celebrations Wednesday, they were reveling in a miracle that might seem to some as wondrous as a candle that burned for eight days.

On Eve of Chanukah Shliach Resolves Foreclosure Dispute

When Jews at Congregation Chabad-Lubavitch west of Boynton Beach began their Hanukkah celebrations Wednesday, they were reveling in a miracle that might seem to some as wondrous as a candle that burned for eight days.

Posted to Chanukah on
4
Baltimore Sun

Peter Silton lights the first candle on the menorah as Rabbi Yekusiel Schusterman who helped organize the first public menorah lighting in Harford County at the William A. Humbert Amphitheater in Shamrock Park.

A song in Hebrew rang out from a crowd gathered in a Harford County park at sundown Wednesday. Throughout the joyful salute to Hanukkah, Peter Silton held a burning torch.

Hartford Rabbi Organizes Public Hanukkah Prayers

Baltimore Sun

Peter Silton lights the first candle on the menorah as Rabbi Yekusiel Schusterman who helped organize the first public menorah lighting in Harford County at the William A. Humbert Amphitheater in Shamrock Park.

A song in Hebrew rang out from a crowd gathered in a Harford County park at sundown Wednesday. Throughout the joyful salute to Hanukkah, Peter Silton held a burning torch.

Posted to Chanukah on
6

Governor Participates in Menorah Lighting Ceremony

Globe

Governor Deval Patrick (far right), State Senate President Therese Murray (lighting candle), House Speaker Robert DeLeo (second from right) and Rabbi Rachmiel Liberman of the Congregation Lubavitch Jewish Educational Center participated in the event.

BOSTON, MA — Governor Deval Patrick and other dignitaries attended a menorah lighting ceremony at the State House this afternoon to mark the beginning of Hanukah, the eight-day celebration that commemorates the victory of a small army of Jews, known as the Maccabees, over the much larger Syrian Greek army in 139 B.C.

Posted to Chanukah on
1

CTVP Brings Light to the Houses of Bereaved Families

ISRAEL [CHI] — Yesterday, the first day of Chanukah brought the first of many nights of home visitations to families of terror victims. Scores of volunteers guided by the CTVP staff visited many bereaved families of terror victims and family members of fallen IDF soldiers. They lit candles and brought them the message of Chanukah with a special emphasis on “Haor Yinatzeiach” – “the light will win.”

Posted to Chanukah on
1

Queens Shluchim Meet with Borough President

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall accepted a menorah from Rabbi Eli Blokh, the director of Chabad of Rego Park/Jewish Russian Community Center of Queens during meeting with the Shluchim who serve in queens at Borough Hall, Wednesday, December 1st, just hours before start of Chanukah.

Posted to Chanukah on