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.
Mrs. Tzivia Dray is sitting Shiva after the passing of her father, Yehuda Elbaz, OBM, of Sderot, Israel, at 765 S. Johns Place [between Nostrand and Rogers Aves.] Apt. #2B, until Sunday morning. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim.
A group of Brooklyn Shluchim flanked by Williamsburg Askonim, community members and police officers lit a Chanukah Menorah at the intersection of Tompkins and Marcy Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn – the corner were two NYPD police officers were murdered in cold blood.
Shalom Lipszyc (Woodbury, NY) and Rochel Leah Cohen (Montreal, Canada)
Chezky and Zelda (nee Rosenfeld) Weiss (Crown Heights)
Avremel Vogel (Wilmington, DE) and Shulie Shur (Montreal, Canada)
Hundreds participated in the annual ‘Light up AmsterDAM’ Menorah lighting last week, and that was thanks to a letter sent in to the Ohel by the event organizer Rabbi Menachem Evers. Just before the event began the strong rain and winds ceased and calmed down.
The air was crisp, a wintery breeze caressed the air as the crowds slowly gathered around the strangely-shaped aluminum structure – strangely-shaped only to someone who has never seen a menorah before. To this crowd though, it was a familiar and heartwarming sight.
A ribbon cutting ceremony for the Devon Avenue Streetscape project in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood was held in front of the F.R.E.E. Synagogue on Thursday evening.
To bring in the holiday of Chanukah appropriately and joyously, ULY of Ocean Parkway celebrated with a carnival for all the children of the yeshiva. There were booths for all ages and arts and crafts for the talented and hungry – these art projects not only looked like beautiful menorahs, but tasted great too.
Rabbi Mendy Hecht and other members of the Brooklyn Jewish community joined developer Bruce Ratner, Mayer Bill De Blasio and numerous dignitaries at a special groundbreaking ceremony in Pacific Park.
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