Philanthropist and businessman R’ Yosef Yitzchak and his wife Batsheva Popack have once again given a special Chanukah gift to all the teachers and morahs of Oholei Torah in honor of Chanukah. The Oholei Torah PTA joined, as in previous years, to sponsor the Mesivta, Beis Medrash and administrative divisions.
The ladies at OK Headquarters were treated to a fun day out at the annual staff Chanukah party on Monday. This year they ventured outside the office to the Aliya building on East New York Avenue for a fun and relaxing “paint your own pottery” session with The Art Café.
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.’
Mont Saint-Michel, a UNESCO world heritage site and popular tourist attraction in northern France, was lit up by the light of Chanukah for the first time this year, organized by Shliach to nearby Caen, Rabbi Motty Levin.
Two students of Yeshivas Beis Menachem of Wilkes-Barre, Yosef David and Noam Frishman, recorded the popular Chanukah song ‘Sevivon’ in the blues style.
#DeafChanukah is more than just eight nights a year. It is a movement—a movement made up of a huge and widespread population of Jewish people who also celebrate their Deaf identity, writes Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, executive director of the Jewish Deaf Foundation.
David Friedman, the newly appointed American Ambassador to Israel, joined Rabbi Zalman Wolowik of Chabad of Five Towns, NY, to light the large menorah at Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park.
A huge Kiddush Hashem was made last night at CTeen’s fourth annual Jewish Heritage Night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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.
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Liorah Rochel Kashanian OBM. She was 62 years old.
Four generations later, a Swedish Jew traces his roots to a Melamed teaching his pupils in an iconic black-and-white photo taken in the Polish town of Lublin in 1924.
Hundreds of Menorah-topped-cars and dozens Mitzvah ‘Tanks’ participated in a massive parade Monday evening, leaving from Crown Heights and traveling through the streets of Manhattan and spreading the light of Chanukah.
A 6-foot tall menorah was stolen from Washington Square Park in San Francisco over the weekend. It was last seen on Friday, December 23, by Rabbi Peretz Mochkin of the North Beach Chabad.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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