Major Ziv Shilon, of the Israel Defense Forces, was at the border of Gaza a year ago when he was severely wounded. His left hand had to be amputated and it was touch and go whether his badly injured right hand would also be lost.
At the first ‘Chanukah on the River’ 16 years ago, 40 people joined together to celebrate the holiday. But on Sunday, several hundred people packed the Arneson River Theater in San Antonio, Texas for the main event of this year’s festivities — the lighting of the menorah.
Taking advantage of the day off school, the PTA of Lubavitcher Yeshiva hosted a ‘Chanukah Mania’ afternoon for Crown Heights children, featuring two amazing shows with the One Man Sideshow and Bubble Trouble.
Chabad of Wisconsin’s Green Bay area held its annual Chanukah Menorah Lighting Celebration in Allouez on Sunday.
This year’s Chanuakh Menorah Parade was one of the largest ever. Stretching over three miles long with over 350 private vehicles participating – along with a Double Decker bus and 30 Mitzvah Tanks, it surly brought the biggest pirsumei nisa ever to the streets of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Menachem Mendel Greenberg (Anchorage, AK) and Chaya (bas Leibel) Altein (Crown Heights)
During an eight-day Jewish festival that celebrates religious freedom, Rabbi Benny Zippel never expected to wake up to police telling him the six-foot menorah at his Jewish center in Sugar House had been vandalized, but that’s exactly how his fourth day of Chanukah began.
The Great Synagogue of Grodno, Belarus, built in 1578, was partially destroyed by flames caused by an electrical circuit. The praying hall and kitchen were completely ruined, leaving the community homeless and without a place for services.
In this eight-part video series by Shmideo, Rabbi Itche Kadoozy and his associates shmooze with kids about Chanukah. A new video is being released each day of Chanukah.
Thursday was not just Thanksgiving–it was the first day of Hanukkah. As many in the community celebrated the dual holiday, one local rabbi also reflected on the vandalism committed against him one year ago.
The most popular tourist attraction in Manaus, the largest city in Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest, is the historic Amazon Theater – which became the site of a public Menorah Ceremony on the second night of Chanukah.
For the first time in history, a message wishing everyone a ‘Happy Hanukah’ from ‘Beth Loubavitch’ flashed across the exterior of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
On the fifth night of Chanukah, dozens of locals gathered with Chabad of Kew Gardens, Queens at the neighborhood’s Wallenberg Square to pay tribute to Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg.
On Sunday, at a very crowded Wegman’s supermarket in DeWitt, NY, Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport, director of Syracuse Chabad, conducted a demonstration on the pressing of olive oil, with local Jewish children happily joining in for the hands-on workshop.
A Chanukah themed float participated in Houston’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, complete with a giant Dreidel, Menorah and dancing Chabad Rabbis.
The Mayor of the Village of Monroe, NY and his wife, as well as the entire Town Counsel Board of Monroe, joined the Jewish community for a public menorah lighting hosted by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston of Chabad of Orange County.
