From Park Heights to the Inner Harbor, the city of Baltimore was treated to wonderful reminder about the holiday of Chanukah. Dozens of cars topped with Menorahs made their way through city streets, escorted by the Baltimore Police, spreading the light and message of Chanukah.
Hundreds gathered in ‘Little Odessa’s’ Brighton Beach Avenue for the lighting of the first candle on the Menorah that stands there year round.
Some 180 people turned out to watch the lighting of the first candle on the Chabad Menorah, which is supported by Harrow Council.
For its 14th consecutive year, New Jerseys largest Chanukah Menorah was lit in Monroe Township by Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky with hundreds in attendance.
A rocking concert kicked off Chanukah for hundreds of Brooklynites at Grand Army Plaza. Latkes and jelly doughnuts were distributed along with Menorah kits for those who didn’t have. Meanwhile Brooklyn’s Boro President joined in the fray of “whose Menorah is bigger?”
Just weeks after terrorists murdered 130 people on the streets of Paris, an estimated 6,000 people gathered tonight at the Eiffel Tower to watch the lighting of a 30-foot-tall menorah on the first night of Chanukah. The annual public menorah-lighting at the base of the iconic Eiffel Tower—a decades-old French tradition—is organized annually by Chabad-Lubavitch.
After Mincha, the first light of Chanukah was lit in the Rebbe’s Room by Rabbi Chaim Boruch Halberstam. The lighting was broadcasted around the world through the Chanukah Live hookup.
Many Jewish residents of Moscow, Russia gathered this evening in front of the Kremlin walls for a Menorah lighting ceremony marking the first night of Chanukah. Standing alongside Rabbi Berel Lazar the Chief Rabbi of Russia, was the Israeli Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau.
Backpackers and locals gathered at Chabad of Kathmandu, Nepal to celebrate the first night of Chanukah and light the first candle on the Menorah.
Over 300 people participated in Chicago’s annual Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen that was held on Tuesday Night at The Bellows Center-FREE of Chicago.
Yud Tes Kislev was day on which Bais Rivkah High School was entirely transformed, with every aspect of the day infused with the messages of Chassidus.
Bais Chaya Mushka students had never been more excited to see their fathers and grandfathers in school before! At a very special, Hakhel-inspired event presented by BCM’s Bubby Club, Tattys and Zeides came out in droves to spend time with their Pre-1a through Second grade students.
Darchai Menachem students in Rabbi Chazzan’s class polished and assembled the large brass Menorah that is lit every night of Chanukah in 770. Built in 1982, the Menorah was lit in front of the Rebbe following Mincha each night of Chanukah.
A massive celebration took place Monday in Jerusalem’s Binyanei Ha’umah for Yud Tes kislev, beginning with a Seforim fair in which tens of thousands of books on Chassidus – especially Chassidus Chabad – were sold, continuing with a lively concert with Avraham Fried, and concluding with a Farbrengen with Reb Yoel Kahan.
The students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Montreal arrived to school on Yud Tes Kislev, the yahrtzeit of the Mezritcher Maggid and Yom Hage’ulah of the Alter Rebbe, wearing their finest Shabbos clothes. Together with their teachers, they celebrated the auspicious day with a seudah and farbrengen.
Following the directive of the Rebbe to print Tanyas in cities and locales worldwide, it was time to elevate the city of Miami Gardens with a Tanya printing. Uniting all department heads and staff members of the Lubavitch Educational Center (LEC), a coordinated and well planned effort was underway to create an event that would surely bring nachas to our Rebbe, and make Miami earn its nickname the Yerushlayim Shel Chutz L’aretz.
On Tuesday evening, a grand Yud Tes Kislev farbrengen was held at the main Lubavitch Shul of Montreal, with the participation of many members of Anash and the wider Jewish community.
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