I was not molested as a child, yet a number of close friends were. Boruch Hashem, the perpetrators are locked up. The tide has turned, and molestation is no longer tolerated, nor swept under the rug. Yet, there are some real questions that no one seems willing to address in a meaningful way.
A Chanukah menorah candle lighting ceremony took place every night of Chanukah at the Tachana Rishona (First Station) complex in Jerusalem.
When Rabbi Yudi Winterfeld, director of Chabad of Mile End, ordered the “pedi-Sukkah” from a company in upstate New York, he didn’t expect such positive response in Outremont, an area where Chassidim and their neighbours appear to be at odds with one another. He also initially thought that when the Sukkos holiday would finish, he would throw the pedi-Sukkah, a Sukkah connected to a bicycle, into storage.
Over Chanukah, the children who spent last summer at Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY were delighted to find a special Chanukah edition of the CGI Newsletter awaiting each of them in their respective mail boxes.
The construction of an 8 foot Rainbow-Loom Menorah was the highlight of the annual Chanukah celebration at Freehold Raceway Mall in Freehold, NJ on Sunday, Dec 1st.
On Sunday, the fifth night of Chanukah, the second annual public Menorah lighting in Kanata – a suburb of Ottawa – was dedicated in memory of Rabbi Mordechai Berger, OBM, the Rebbe’s first Shliach to Canada’s capital city.
About a thousand children and parents from various communities of Montreal participated in the 41st annual Chanukah Spectacular & Carnival at Beth Rivkah.
Remember that feeling when you saw something you’ve only heard about for the first time in your life? Remember the emotion? It’s a pretty cool moment, isn’t it?
Chabad of Canberra, Australia’s Capital Territory, lit a public six foot Menorah erected at Westfield Belconnen in the presence of hundreds of people. It was followed by a community-wide celebration kicking off the first night of Chanukah.
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