Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, a Chabad Rabbi and Historian, was a guest speakers at a recent shabbaton in Warsaw, Poland held under the auspices of the Shliach, Rabbi Sholom Ber Stambler. The event was noted as historic, as it marks the first ever Chabad shabbaton event in Poland since the Holocaust.
A beautiful connection point event that took place in 770 Motzai Shabbos dissolved into a brawl after a group opposed to the event took offense at the videos political leaning. Fists flew, people were injured, and the police were called. There were no arrests made over the incident.
What do a Democrat Mayor of Cincinnati and Republican Governor of Ohio agree on? Celebrating Chanuka with Chabad! The honorable Mayor John Cranley and Governor Mike DeWine both hosted Chanuka parties at their offices – for their staff and city Council – and invited Rabbi Gershon Avtzon to share the message of Chanuka in a way that all can understand.
The students, teachers, and hanholo of Oholei Torah marked the Yom Tov of Yud Tes and Chof Kislev with two days full of joy, warmth, and chassidus. Every grade and division participated in events and farbrengens designed to bring the story and lessons of this holy day to life.
A Jewish building on East New York Ave in Crown Heights was targeted over shabbos by package thieves. The thieves shattered the front glass door to the building, and stole packages left in the entrance.
Tuesday night, Chabad of Georgetown in Brooklyn, celebrated Yud Tes Kislev with special keynote speaker and Mazkir of the Rebbe, Rabbi Leibel Groner
Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, NY, became a lot brighter Thursday afternoon as a beautiful nine foot tall menorah was unveiled at a small ceremony attended by hospital leadership, local politicians, and community members.
After many years of planning and fundraising, the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah Melbourne) conducted a ground-breaking ceremony to launch Stage 1 of its most ambitious project yet – a multi-stage extension and redevelopment of its Alexandra Street campus.
Darchai Menachem’s PTA invites all Darchai families and friends to join together for Darchai’s first outdoor Menorah Lighting on Sunday, December 22nd, the first night of Chanukah.
More than a thousand Jews took part in the big celebration held in central Moscow celebrating Yud Tes Kislev, the day of redemption Alter Rebbe. The event is organized each year by the caretaker Central Synagogue “Marina Roscha ” in central Moscow.
On a thoroughfare once named for Adolf Hitler, where Nazi troops goose-stepped and saluted in all-too-familiar infamous scenes from before and during World War II, the Jews of Freiburg, Germany, marched with joyful abandon against a backdrop of blaring Chassidic music to inaugurate a new Torah scroll and Chabad center earlier this week.
Lubavitch Educational Center held their annual Family Melava Malka, bringing together hundreds of boys along with fathers, grandfathers and uncles on Tes and Yud Kislev. The program was none like ever before including a unique feature of “my lamplighter moment”.
The “NYC – IT’S LIT” Chanukah campaign under the auspices of the Lubavitch Youth Organization is the platform for schools, families, couples and girls to participate in Mivtzoim, to share the message of Chanukah throughout New York City.
The Ambassador of Israel in Ukraine, Mr Yoel Liron took part in the grand Yud Tes Kislev Celebration in Kharkov Ukraine, with over 300 people in attendance.
Israel has in recent weeks rounded up 50 Palestinian terror suspects, including those believed to have murdered 17-year-old Rina Shnerb in an attack at a West Bank tourist spot in August, the Shin Bet security service announced Wednesday.
See these photo galleries of Yud Tes Kislev farbrengens in Kfar Chabad from 1972 (5723) to 1983 (5744), courtesy of JEM.
Across the world, public Chanukah menorahs are being taken out of storage and placed for all to see. Brooklyn is no different. In front of the Kings County Supreme Court, a large menorah was seen this morning being lifted into place using a boom.
