PARK SLOPE [CHI] — A sizeable crowd gathered at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza in order to partake in the Menorah lighting ceremony sponsored by Chabad of Park Slope, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was honored with lighting the first light.
Photos from the Menorah lighting on the White House Lawn in Washington, DC.
Pictures of Yud Tes Kislev farbrengens from ULY and Bais Chaya Mushka in Crown Heights, the Chabad community in Sydney and Kiryat Gat, Beis Chana Seminary in Tzfat, and Yeshiva Ketana of Baltimore.
Boys in United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street had their annual father and son Melava Malka on Motzai Shabbos.
Boys in Oholei Torahs Pre-1a through 2nd grade had a Melava Malka with their fathers, together they learned Chumash and each got their own Tanya at the end of the event.
Pictures of Yud Tes Kislev farbrengens from Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New York, Montreal and… the Amazon Rain Forest!
Hundreds of men, young and old, participated in a Chinese auction Motzei Shabbos to benefit the Oholei Torah educational institute. The evening was dedicated in memory of Reb Dovid Malka OBM, who kept the bochurim in Zal and Mesivta well fed throughout the years, and Reb Moshe Abelsky OBM, beloved bus driver for the elementary school over two decades.
Children make creative Chanukah Menorahs at Chabad of Orange County, headed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston.
Several Shluchim and Chabad dignitaries came together last week to pay respects to R’ Dovid Raskin OBM by writing the first letters to a new Sefer Torah being dedicated in his memory.
Just as world Jewry marked three years since the massacre at the Chabad House in Mumbai, which killed six Jews – including Chabad emissaries Gavriel and Rivki Holtzberg HYD, a photo album was discovered documenting the activities of the Chabad House during happier times.
The Jewish community in Zhitomir, Ukraine, is celebrating a series of accomplishments, from the construction of a new fence protecting its local cemetery to the recent circumcisions of three boys and one 60-year-old man who decided to embrace their heritage. The community is led by Chief Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary serving the region.
Photographer Chaim Perl shares the moments before the group photo is taken and the banquet begins.
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz
Pictures by Shmuli Evers and Binyomin Lifshitz
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