On Sunday, December 5th – 28th Kislev, Torah Café will be airing its 6th webcast, entitled “Conversations: Free to be Jewish.” The webcast will be moderated by Baila Olidort, editor-in-chief of Lubavitch.com, and will feature remarks from Alan M. Dershowitz, Dr. Malcolm Hoenlein, and Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet of London.
PITTSBURGH [CHI] — The first night of Chanukah was ushered in by the mayor of Pittsburgh and the Head Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld, with the lighting of the Menorah at the Government building.
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined West Coast Chabad’s Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, city officials and community leaders to illuminate the historic Menorah at City Hall today to usher in the Festival of Lights.
Lighting the first candle in 770.
BROOKLYN [CHI] — NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined the Menorah lighting celebration at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, where he recited the Brochos and lit Chabad of Park Slopes Meonrah.
Melbourne, Australia [CHI] — Wednesday, 24 Kislev 5771. The first Chanukah event in the world took place this afternoon at the law chambers of prominent Jewish barristers Robert Richter QC, and Remy van de Wiel QC, in the Melbourne Central Business District.
