‘Chanukah on Fire’ was the theme of this year’s Friendship Circle Chanukah Party, hosted at the Jewish Children’s Museum. Families came and enjoyed a delicious barbecue dinner, fire show, face painting, photo booth and an array of crafts and fun for all ages, arranged by Rabbi Berel and Chani Majesky.
Close to 200 people came out in the rain to celebrate the first night of Chanukah in Monroe, where New Jersey’s largest Menorah was lit.
Sholom and Leah (nee Katz) Laine
350 Lefferts Ave. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.] Apt. #4E
Zalman and Dassie Shenur
1428 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Tzali and Rochel Laufer
617 Empire Blvd. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Efraim and Menucha Rubin
742 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.] Apt. #4B
Yoni and Rivky (nee Friedman) Katz
701 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Choni and Sarah (nee Nemni) Shagalow
732 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
Nissen and Beila Nemanow
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Yoni and Rivky (nee Friedman) Katz (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 701 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Moshe Weissman (Flatbush, NY) and Shaina Liba Solomon (Miami Beach, FL / Flatbush, NY)
In what is becoming a regular occurrence, a car parked on Troy Ave. between Montgomery St. and Empire Blvd. had its tires stripped off by stealthy thieves late Wednesday night, leaving it suspended on crude cinder blocks.
Rabbi Berel Lazar and thousands of spectators braved the freezing Russian winter to light a Menorah in Moscow’s Red Square, mere yards away from the Kremlin – whose occupants were once adamant about stomping out such open practices of faith.
Sender and Brocha (nee Ostrov) Benkhen (Hillside, NJ)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Miketz. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How does one go from the lowest possible place to the highest and greatest place possible?
Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport, director of Chabad of Syracuse, NY, held a public Menorah lighting in Syracuse’s Clinton Square with U.S. Congressman Dan Maffei.
Chabad of Mineola, Long Island, under the leadership of Rabbi Anchelle Perl, will be hosting a Telethon on Sunday, December 8, from 7:00 until 11:00 PM. More details in the extended article.
Nearly 1,000 people attended a lively Chanukah concert in Ulyanovsk, Russia. The Event was titled “Chanukah – Man of the Year,” and was dedicated to raising money for a new Jewish community center.
More light and then even more – that’s the theme of Chanukah. Never stop growing, never stop brightening, don’t let the light go out. The flame of Judaism is in your heart and in your hands. Use it to light one candle. And tomorrow, light another one.
At around 3:00pm today, a woman was pushing a stroller down Montgomery St. between Brooklyn and Kingston Aves. while talking on her cell phone, when two young teenagers on bicycles rode past her and snatched the phone out of her hand.
Last night, the first night of Chanukah, Chabad of West Hempstead held ‘Chanukah on Ice’ at the New York Islanders vs. Winnipeg Jets hockey game at Nassau Coliseum.
A live concert will take place in the heart of Brooklyn this Chanukah, with the proceeds going to support the Released Time program of the NCFJE.
Chanukah celebrations got off to an unexpected start in Redbridge Council, a suburb of London, UK, when an unsolicited invitation arrived from the head of the council to have a Menorah lighting ceremony at Town Hall.
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