Historic Menorah Lighting Ceremony at the Nassau Coliseum

PORT WASHINGTON, NY [CHI] — In an unprecedented move, Rabbi Paltiel of Chabad of Port Washington performed a short pre-Chanukah ceremony at the Nassau Coliseum during their Islanders-Bruins game on Monday night, December 3rd.

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Chanukkah’s Meaning Spun in Monroe

MONROE TOWNSHIP NJ — Rabbi Eliezar Zaklikovsky of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe used modern technology to revive an Old World art and teach a dozen youngsters the meaning behind the miracle of the Maccabees.

Rabbi Chaim Bruk to Light Up Bozeman

Holiday lights on Main Street in downtown Bozeman are about to get a whole lot brighter.

BOZEMAN, MT — In observance of Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights, a 9-foot-tall menorah will be lit in front of First Security Bank during a public ceremony 6 p.m. Saturday. The giant candelabra symbolizes the holiday, which begins Tuesday and lasts until Dec. 12.

A Unique Yud Tes Kislev Gathering in Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ [CHI] — This year all across the world Yud Tes Kislev was celebrated marking the 211th year of the first Chabad Rebbe, the Alter Rebbe’s redemption from imprisonment in Russia. This day is known as the New Year of Chassidus. However, amongst Chasidim, Yud Tes Kislev is also coined as the Bris of a Chossid.

What’s the connection between olives from California, Press from Dnepropetrovsk and a Menora from New York?

DNEPROPETROVSK, Ukraine [CHI] — Seeing the success of last years olive oil kits the Director of programs and publishing division of Tzivos Hashem, Rabbi Shmuli Brown was flooded with lots of telephone calls to once again make more olive kits. Tzivos Hashem of the C.I.S. worked very hard in providing more kits to many Shluchim across the Former Soviet Union.

Chanukah at City Walk

UNIVERSAL CITY, CA [CHI] — Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend “Chanukah at the Universal City Walk” on Tuesday, December 4; from 5-9pm. Organizers of the event say that it will be the largest Chanukah celebration of its kind in Southern California.

Home Away From Home

Through Chabad at F&M, Jewish students at Franklin & Marshall College find a sense of community — especially important as they prepare to observe Hanukkah.

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA — When Ruth Wiener first came to Franklin & Marshall College as a sophomore, it seemed that she had come to another world.

Jewish Community Plans Hanukkah Festivities

NAPERVILLE, IL — Hanukkah begins at sundown on Tuesday, with the lighting of the first of eight candles.

Barrington Changes Law to Allow Chanukkah Celebration at Town Hall

BARRINGTON, RI — What is being called by its sponsors a “grand family Hanukkah celebration” will take place on Sunday, Dec. 9, in front of Town Hall from 3:30 to 5 p.m. “This is the first time in history in Barrington that this is going to be taking place,” said Rabbi Moshe Laufer, director of the Chabad of Barrington, which is coordinating the event. “There has been a lot of strong interest from the Jewish community at large about this,” he said.

Word by Word a New Torah is Born

BASKING RIDGE, NJ — On a recent chilly evening, more than 150 people gathered inside a fancy hotel ballroom to witness an uncommon 3,318-year-old tradition.

As all eyes watched, the white-bearded rabbi in the black robe and yarmulke bent over an animal hide parchment scroll. He dipped his turkey quill into black ink, lifted his unhelpful spectacles to his brow, and pressed the pen to parchment.