Standing in the shadow of American icons, the White House and the Washington Monument, the Vice President of the United States of America thanked the Chabad-Lubavitch movement for erecting the menorah and spoke of its leader the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.
Esko Seppänen, a former member of the European parliament and a leading figure in Finland’s Left Alliance party, has condemned the decision of the Helsinki City Council to sell old maritime customs barracks to the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
300 people joined Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin, MBE, and fellow Shluchim Rabbis Moshe Muller and Odom Brandman for their annual public Menorah lighting on Motzei Shabbos, the 5th night of Chanukah.
Mendy Setton (Crown Heights / Argentina) and Mushka Mahpour (Crown Heights)
Elazar Gabay (Montreal, Canada) and Lea Benezra (Montreal, Canada)
In the latest episode of Jewbellish The News, Lubavitcher comedian Mendy Pellin discusses an oil spill in Israel that the Greeks have not claimed responsibility for, a Chanukah wrapping-paper scandal, Joe Biden lights the Menorah and Irish rock-star Bono disguises himself as a Chasidic Jew.
Chabad of Kentucky lit a giant 16-foot menorah at their Chanukah on Ice event at 4th Street Live, a community Chanukah celebration on December 21.
The Orlando Jewish Day School and Chai Preschool, under the auspices of Chabad of South Orlando, produced the following ‘Chanukah Spiel’ video for their Chanukah event tonight.
Emilio Mogilner, an internationally acclaimed artist and Lubavitcher chossid, created the world’s largest ‘artistic’ Chanukah Menorah. Standing at over 31 feet all, the menorah – designed to look like an olive tree – is made up of 13 tons of steel and concrete stands in the heart of the city of Rechovot.
The vice president of the Rabbinical Council of New South Wales, Australia, Rabbi Eli Feldman, along with his wife Rebbetzin Elka Feldman, led a group of young adults in distributing hundreds of Latkes and doughnuts in Martin Place, Sydney.
The weather forecast in Monroe, New York, on the 3rd night of Chanukah: Raining Chanukah Gelt! Thousands of Chanukah Gelt Chocolate Coins rained from atop of a ladder of a fire truck.
For the first time in over 25 years, a jewelry store has opened its doors on Kingston Avenue. Popular jeweler Levi Laine has opened his new store – L. Laine Jewelers – in time for Chanukah, and a grand opening will be held in the coming weeks.
The Rogers Park Band, starring Yosef Peysin and Mordy Kurtz, recorded this moving rendition of Beggar Woman, a song composed by the late Jewish music star Moshe Yess, to whom their performance is in tribute.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani criticized his successor, Bill de Blasio, for letting the protests in the aftermath of Eric Garner’s chokehold death get out of hand, saying “This is what we learned with Crown Heights, and it seems like we’ve unlearned it.”
The Chabad Centre in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, UK, has done it again with another amazing record-breaking Menorah to feature at their Chanukah party this year. The World’s First Tombola Menorah.
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