An amazing story of Hashgacha Protis occurred to the operators of a Mitzvah Tank in Ottawa, Canada’s Capital, this Chanukah. What began as the unexplained diversion of the Mitzvah Tank to a new location, ended with the grandson of Holocaust survivors – who had just discovered his Jewish identity – finding his way home to his roots.
On the last day of Chanukah, Menachem Ladayov – founder of the French language Chabad news website Anachinfos.net – was out in Paris spreading the Chanukah spirit, when he happened to meet a man in a Santa Claus costume who was spreading the spirit of a very different holiday.
Emilio Mogilner, an internationally acclaimed artist and Lubavitcher chossid, created the world’s largest ‘artistic’ Chanukah Menorah. Standing at over 31 feet all, the menorah – designed to look like an olive tree – is made up of 13 tons of steel and concrete stands in the heart of the city of Rechovot.
A group of Brooklyn Shluchim flanked by Williamsburg Askonim, community members and police officers lit a Chanukah Menorah at the intersection of Tompkins and Marcy Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn – the corner were two NYPD police officers were murdered in cold blood.
Hundreds participated in the annual ‘Light up AmsterDAM’ Menorah lighting last week, and that was thanks to a letter sent in to the Ohel by the event organizer Rabbi Menachem Evers. Just before the event began the strong rain and winds ceased and calmed down.
Hundreds of Menorah-topped-cars and dozens Mitzvah ‘Tanks’ participated in a massive parade this Motzai Shabbos, leaving from Crown Heights and traveling through the streets of Manhattan and spreading the light of Chanukah.
NHL Hockey’s Florida Panthers’ victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday, December 16, made it into the record books, and Chanukah on Ice was a big part of it.
Each Friday afternoon, an excited group of Kesser Torah College Boys’ High School students race from class to board buses to different parts of Sydney’s Eastern suburbs. This weekly foray is a highlight of their week, when they get the opportunity to share the warmth of Judaism that they experience during their school day with Jewish men and women in the wider community.
A group of Bochrim braved the poor weather conditions and brought the Chanukah spirit to Times Square – “the crossroads of the world.” The Bochurim assembled a Menorah made of PVC, and gave the honor of lighting it to a passing Jew. They then fanned out and distributed Menorah kits and the traditional jelly doughnuts to the many passersby.
You know them when you see them, and when you see them, you know it’s Chanukah. The car menorah is a uniquely American innovation—a marketing gimmick created by young yeshivah students in the early 1970s as a way to spread awareness and the message of the eight-day Jewish holiday.
Four young Bochurim who worked as counselors in Camp Yeka are planning a Chanukah return trip to help raise the spirits, and bring light to war torn Ukraine. Their plan is to raise enough money to travel back, make 5 Bar Mitzvah’s and 8 Chanukah parties in 8 different cities.
Josh Wolff, a documentary filmmaker, was annoyed. It was Rosh Hashana, and Chabad students eager to share the mitzvah of shofar were canvassing the streets of Brooklyn offering to blow the ram’s horn for any Jew who hadn’t made it to services.
In honor of the upcoming wedding anniversary of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin the volunteers at Released Time, the Jewish Hour program in NYC Public Schools, set out to achieve a lofty goal – get 114 new children to sign up.
An Israeli tourist visiting Pittsburgh came across a couple of young Lubavitcher Bochurim doing Mivtzoim last Friday afternoon. Their warmth, sincerity and joy touched the man, who filmed the encounter and posted the videos to his Facebook page under the title “Ashreinu Sheyesh Lanu Am Kazeh” (How lucky we are to have a nation like this).
Coming off a wildly successful year, the Chabad Club of Yeshiva University has already been seeing tremendous success and growth since the start of the new school year.
“Are you Jewish by any chance? Do you want to hear the Shofar?” New York based filmmaker Joshua Wolff laments that he could not walk around this time of year without ‘being accosted’ with those questions. He did not want to stop and hear Shofar, so what did a Lubavitcher Bochur do? It was all captured in an amazing clip!
Hundreds of Jews across the island of Montreal were able to shake the Lulav and Esrog on Chol HaMoed Sukkos thanks to an environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional Sukkahmobile.
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