California, Iraq and Afghanistan Spread the Light of Chanukah on Cable TV

SACRAMENTO, CA [CHI] – Tens of millions of Americans were treated to a special Chanukah broadcast over the ION cable network, organized and produced by Chabad of California under the directorship of Rabbi Boruch S. Cunin.

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At Historic Synagogue, a Congregation at Last

The following is a beautiful story about a Shliach in Connecticut which is going to be published in the Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. The piece in the Times is the result of a similar story that appeared on Chabad.org’s news site, which we here at CrownHeights.info ran, two weeks ago and caught the attention of the editors at the NY Times. This article follows a long stream of similar successes by the Chabad.org/news section.

MILFORD, CT — THE Hebrew Congregation of Woodmont is 81 years old, but when its members lighted a menorah on the Milford Green on Tuesday night, they were celebrating more than the first night of Hanukkah. They were also celebrating Hanukkah for the first time as a congregation.

Built a few hundred yards from Long Island Sound in 1926, their temple, a one-room wooden building with stained-glass windows that faces the water and has been on the National Historic Register since 1995, served for decades as a place of worship for hundreds of Jews from Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York who spent their summer vacations in Woodmont, a small borough on the southeastern edge of Milford.

Eight Nights of Delights and Lights

CHAPEL HILL, NC — One of 10 public menorahs — and perhaps the most unique — between Durham and Chapel Hill was kindled Tuesday, the first night of Hanukkah, at the Lerner Jewish Day School in Durham.

Governor marks Hanukkah

CARSON CITY, NV — Gov. Jim Gibbons’ Capitol office took center stage Thursday for a ceremony honoring the third night of the Festival of Lights, with representatives of Nevada’s Jewish community participating in the lighting of a menorah.

Gibbons helped Supreme Court Justice Michael Cherry in the lighting ceremony central to the Hanukkah holiday and played dreidel for chocolate coins with children from two Nevada Jewish schools. A dreidel is a spinning top that is part of the celebration.

Annual Chanukah Telethon to Rebuild Shul in Mineola

The Telethon is to Air this Sunday Dec 9th 7pm-11pm on WLNY TV 55, Channel 10 and can be seen all over the world on the internet at ChanukahTelethon.com.

Shortly after the rains swept over L.I. last July and flooded Chabad of Mineola and the headquarters of the NCFJE on Long Island, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, began to turn a disaster into triumph.

Digging Into Chanukah

ALEXANDRIA, VA — As the story goes, after the Jews won a triumphant battle against the ruling Syrians in the 2nd century B.C., one of their first priorities was to reclaim and rededicate their desecrated temple.

A Truly Hairy Situation Despite Beard, Rabbi Cleared to Serve as Chaplain

GAITHERSBURG, MD — Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum, like his uncle before him, has pierced the “beard threshold.”

That term was coined by Germantown resident Martin Hershkowitz to describe a Department of Defense grooming regulation prohibiting military personnel from having beards.

Chanukkah’s First Rite

A crowd of more than 80 people laughed and cheered Tuesday night at the annual lighting of the Grand Menorah outside Portland City Hall.

The ceremony has marked the beginning of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish celebration of religious freedom and miracles, in the city for more than two decades.

Chabad of Greenwich Builds Lego Menorah

GREENWICH, CT — “It’s a creative way to celebrate the holiday — For several years, the Chabad of Greenwich has placed a giant menorah outside their building on Mason Street, but this year they outdid themselves, building a giant menorah out of Legos at the Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy.