Ten hard-working boys from niine Lubavitch mosdos around the country were the recent lucky winners of magnificent Rambam-style silver-plated Menorahs. The Menorah prizes were part of the monthly raffles held for the Gemara Bifnim project, a unique initiative of Chabad Chinuch Organization Igud Hamelamdim.
The lighting of “Largest Menorah in Brooklyn” on the sixth night of Chanukah took place Tuesday night honoring the life-saving work of Hatzalah and Dr. Bushra Mina in the fight against COVID-19.
Heart-stopping footage of a firefighter pulling children from a shul engulfed in flames Wednesday morning, after a famed Boro Park shul caught fire. Thankfully, no one was injured in the blaze, but the shul was completely destroyed.
The gleaming two-ton Chabad-Lubavitch menorah on the corner of Manhattan’s storied crossroads at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street—one of the busiest and most affluent thoroughfares on the planet—has long been an inseparable part of life in New York. So how did it come to be?
The annual Kids’ Chanukah Party for the Staff at the OK Kosher wasn’t able to take place in person this year, so each family received a Party in a Bag to take home instead.
The 2020 Jewish Street Art Festival has been reimagined as a decentralized art event in which nine Jewish artists will each be creating a public art piece in their own city. Each artist or artist team will be painting a Chanukah menorah, linking the eight participating cities through art.
Usually a robust event featuring thousands in attendants, the lighting of the public Menorah at the Eifel Tower in Paris took place despite the increased hardship of COVID-19, with the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo and other community leaders in attendance.
Tens of Shluchim across the world are using this Chanukah to formally launch their own Tzivos Hashem CKids brigade, and children are downloading the new “Chabad Plus” app to mark off their missions, and win prizes. Over 10,000 boys and girls have recently enrolled and now is the time to get them started on their missions.
Moscow’s public Menorah was lit by Russia’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Berel Lazar, in a live broadcast outside the Kremlin. The broadcast was seen by millions across Russia.
To celebrate the Chanukkah season, The Cairns Jewish Community lit up a giant boomerang menorah at the Cairns Esplanade. The life size menorah, was constructed entirely of boomerangs and provided Cairns’ Jewish and wider community with a safe way to celebrate Hanukkah amid the pandemic.
Paris gave new meaning to the City of Lights Motzei Shabbos with a car Menorah Parade that brought the light of Chanukah to the streets of the city.
Two murals showing Jewish pride were completed this week, one bringing light to Pico Blvd and the other giving life to the Bais Chaya Mushka School of Los Angeles.
A crew of three thieves driving a stolen car became the center of an all out police search Motzei Shabbos after they crashed their car while driving through Crown Heights.
This holiday season, Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston of Chabad of Orange County found innovative ways to bring the Chanukah spirit to children despite pandemic challenges. Chanukah creativity came in bright colors at the Chanukah Art Fest, held at the Chabad Center in Chester.
Over 20,000 people watched the lighting of the first virtual Hanukkah light at the Brandenburg Gate live on the evening of December 10th.
or the first time in history, a giant public menorah has been raised in the United Arab Emirates. The 12-foot metal menorah was designed and constructed locally and stands at the foot of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, for all eight nights of Hanukkah.
On the last sitting day of the Australian Parliament for 2020, Chabad ACT hosted the traditional “Chanukah on the Hill” ceremony in the Great Hall of Parliament House in the presence of tens of Members of Parliament and Senators including multiple Government Ministers and Shadow Ministers. Jewish parliamentary staffers and community leaders were also in attendance.
