Bibi Netanyahu Lauds #LightForPeace Campaign
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a warm message to the organizers of the #LightForPeace Chanukah campaign, a worldwide project initiated by Chabad Shluchim in Melbourne, Australia.
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Video: Interactive Activities for Chanukah
Mrs. Leah Kosofsky and Lilia Luzhanskiy of Lubavitch Yeshiva Academy in Massachusetts demonstrate some great activities for Chanukah on the Mass Appeal TV show.
Video: Montana Senator Lights Public Menorah
Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) joined Shliach to Montana Rabbi Chaim Bruk to light a public menorah in Bozeman, and delivered a message of unity and equal rights.
Son of Israeli Killed in Berlin Attack Lights Menorah
Or Elyakim, the son of Dalia Elyakim – the Israeli woman killed last week in a truck-ramming terror attack in Berlin – lit the fourth candle on a giant menorah erected by the local Chabad Shluchim at the German capital’s iconic Brandenburg Gate.
From Days Gone By: Chanukah Wedding, 1971
We present to our readers recently uncovered video footage from the wedding of Rabbi Joshua B. Gordon, OBM, longtime Shliach to The Valley in L.A. before he passed away earlier this year. In the video several notable guests can be seen, including the Chosson’s brother-in-law Rabbi Manis Friedman and the latter’s younger brother Avremel, who was still a child at the time, singing on the stage. Can you identify anyone else in the video?
Music Video Takes Us Back to Shtetel
He rose to fame with his moving songs, thought-provoking articles, guitar-accompanied shiurim on the Torah of Izhbitza, and the clips he starred in. Reb Mendel Roth, son of the Shomrei Emunim Rebbe, stars in this masterfully created music video titled ‘Mincha.’
Music Video: Chanukah Blues
Two students of Yeshivas Beis Menachem of Wilkes-Barre, Yosef David and Noam Frishman, recorded the popular Chanukah song ‘Sevivon’ in the blues style.
Video: What Is the Message of Chanukah?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Mikeitz. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we be inspired to not be intimidated from obstacles and forge forward with success? A bonus video on the message of Chanukah is presented in the extended article.
King of Bahrain Hosts Menorah-Lighting Ceremony
It was a menorah lighting like no other, with a Chasidic rabbi dancing hand in hand with a kafiya-clad Muslim man in the tiny Persian Gulf country of Bahrain, located off the northeast coast of Saudi Arabia.
Menorah Lightens Up the Eiffel Tower
The second light of the Menorah was lit Sunday night in the Champ de Mars park in Paris, underneath the Eiffel Tower, with thousands of people in attendance.
Artisan Chocolate Menorah Lit in Buckhurst Hill
Chabad of Essex, UK, kicked off the first two nights of Chanukah with two Menorah lightings in two towns, which – despite the clash with local holidays – brought out huge impressive crowds, showing the true strength and real Jewish Pride which often lays beneath the surface of this community.
Twenty Five Years of Pirsumei Nisa in Moscow
This is the twenty fifth year in a row that the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, lit the Chanuka candles in Moscow’s Red Square, and every year he feels the same surge of excitement as he pronounces the words “she’asa nissim la’avoseynu bayamim hahem bizman hazeh.” When the crowd roars “amen” in reply, the words echo and reverberate off of the Kremlin fortress.
Video: Kansas Gov. Receives Custom-Made Dreidel
Rabbi Zalman Tiechtel presented Kansas Governor Sam Brownback with a custom-made dreidel during a Chanukah celebration at the state Capitol.
At National Menorah Lighting Shliach Evokes Rebbe’s Message to Netanyahu
In a stunning betrayal of the State of Israel, the United States abstained from voting at a Friday session of the United Nations Security Council on a resolution condemning the Jewish State. At the National Menorah Lighting ceremony, a Chabad Rabbi seized the opportunity to deliver a harsh reminder to the outgoing administration.
8:00pm: Do the Benefits of Community Life Outweigh the Struggle?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 143, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Chanukah Applied to Our Lives Today; Do the Benefits of Community Life Outweigh the Struggle? How to Be a Shliach in a Non-Religious Workplace? Is Public Protesting Ever Acceptable? What is a Torah ‘Proof’?
Video: How to Build a Menorah
Videographer Mendel Grossbaum prepares for Chanukah at his parents’ Chabad House in Livingston, NJ.
Video: Shmelke Lip Syncs a Chanukah Song
Mitzvah Boulevard character Shmelke lip syncs to the popular Chanukah song by Miami Boys Choir – Light Up the Night.
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