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Displaying one of the free menorah kits they will distribute are Rabbi Elazar Green (center), his wife, Shira Green(from left), and Franklin & Marshall College students and Chabad at F&M student board members Gabriella Wiener, Jessie Toback, Ruth Wiener, Sara Edrich, Laura Epstein and Michael Morgenstern.
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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.

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Yud Tes Kislev at Miami Beach

MIAMI BEACH, FL [CHI] — When the Alter Rebbe was freed from prison on Yud Tes Kislev over two hundred years ago who would ever have imagined that Torah and Chassidus would come to the shores of Miami Beach. A place that the stones and sand were ‘treif’, and many Jewish leaders said it could never happen; but it happened this year at the Captain Hyman Jewish Learning Center of Miami Beach, Florida.

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Land and the Spirit – JLI Video Visits Tiveria

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — With over 10,000 men and women across the globe partaking in JLI’s current course on Israel, titled The Land & The Spirit, JLI Central produces each week a brief, striking flash presentation depicting each “city of the week” being explored during the semester. This flash, shown at each JLI chapter at the conclusion of the lesson takes the student on a visual journey through the featured holy city of the week’s lesson.

Jewish Community Plans Hanukkah Festivities

Suburban Chicago News

Alta Goldstein reads to children during story time hour Tuesday at Naperville’s Barns and Noble. Alta and her husband Rabbi Mendy Goldstein of the Chabad of Naperville will celebrate Hanukkah beginning Tuesday at sundown with the lighting of the first of eight candles. (Jonathan Miano/Staff Photographer)

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

Picture of the Day! – SNOW!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Residents awoke this morning to a Crown Heights cloaked in layer of white, in the first snow to accumulate this winter. Anash and Bochurim braved the 27 degree weather on their way to Shul, Mikvah and Yeshiva.

The temperature is forecasted to rise to the upper thirties and lower forties, melting the snow and by evening turning the snow into torrential rain, which is to last all night.

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Yud Tes Kislev at Cheder Tzeirei HaShluchim

QUEENS, NY [CHI] — The distinguished educator, Rabbi Naftali Roth farbrenged with the talmidim of Cheder Tzeirei HaShluchim at the Ohel in honor of Yud Tes Kislev . Rabbi Roth inspired the talmidim with encouraging words, about the meaning of joy, what a chassid should have when he implements the teachings of the Rebbe…