Since its inception three years ago, the annual Camp Yeka “Light Up Ukraine” Chanukah campaign has shown to be a great success. Each day of Chanukah, a dedicated group of staff-members travel throughout the country and bring the light of Chanuka to their campers, their friends and their families.
Rabbi Gershom Ohana, a longtime friend of former Israeli President Shimon Peres, was joined by his son Uriah as they lit a Menorah for the elder statesman at the Peres Center in Jaffa, with many of the center’s employees joining in as well.
Dovid and Miriam (nee Palace) Schmukler (Crown Heights)
The largest Jewish religious and cultural center to be built over the past 15 years opened in Moscow on Sunday amid fanfare and a celebration that drew religious and political leaders from across the region.
With Chanukah this year starting on Sunday, a day that RV rental companies are closed, the Mitzvah Tank Org. made special arrangements to have them open Motzai Shabbos so that the tanks can start going on Mivtzoim on Sunday starting from the very first light.
Some 45 vehicles took part in the 2nd Annual Car Menorah Parade in Queens, New York. Organized in collaboration with local Chabad centers and Yeshiva hundreds of Menorah kits were distributed and the light of Chanukah was spread.
Hundreds gathered in Ocala’s City Square on Sunday night to celebrate Chanukah in the heart of Florida’s Horse Country.
Miami-Dade police have arrested a 15-year-old teenager in connection with the Shabbos morning murder of R’ Yosef Raksin HYD in August of 2014.
Yossi Kagen (Crown Heights) and Sara Epstein (Pittsburgh, PA)
Last night, Rabbi Chaim Kosofsky was joined by Springfield, Massachusetts, Mayor Domenic Sarno and Congressman Richard Neil for a Menorah lighting ceremony in Court Square. Also, children from the Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy filled the courtyard to see the Menorah lit, which it was so big it had to be lit with a lift.
A bomb threat targeting 770 was called into 911 and forced a complete evacuation of the buildings. Taking no chances, the NYPD enlisted the help of the neighborhoods volunteer patrol Shomrim to assist with the evacuation.
Rabbi Turk’s Seventh grade class at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva got off to a great start this Chanukah, with an amazing night of mivtzoim in Manhattan.
Last night, Monday, Dec. 7, the second night of Chanukah, was the 36th Annual South Florida Chanukah Festival. The event welcomed a crowd of over 10,000 people, and thousands more via the live webcast on CrownHeights.info!
Tens of thousands of Satmar Chassdim flocked from Kiryas Joel to the Union-Bedford Armory in Crown Heights on the eve of Chof Alef Kislev to celebrate the day Rabbi Yoel of Satmar was rescued from the flames of the Holocaust.
Philanthropist and businessman R’ Yosef Yitzchak Popack and his wife Batsheva have once again given a special gift to all the teachers and morahs of Oholei Torah in honor of Chanukah. New to this year is the additional support from the Oholei Torah PTA, which sponsored the Mesivta and administrative members divisions.
Representatives from many of the Crown Heights Jewish schools met this afternoon with members of the NYPD’s counter-terrorism division in order to discuss safety and security matters.
Chabad Hebrew Schools all over the world are marking Chanukah of the Hakhel year by joining together in song! One energetic anthem, one spirited dance, performed by hundreds of Jewish children expressing their love for Torah, their youthful exuberance, and their Jewish unity and pride.
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