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Menorah Lit at Ventura Harbor for Hanukkah Festival

Ventura County Star

It was a menorah nearly 10 times her size. Menucha Muchnik watched wide-eyed as her father, Rabbi Dov Muchnik, and Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean ascended in a cherry picker Sunday afternoon to light a 20-foot menorah at the Ventura Harbor.

Flames of Chanukah Kindled at McGill University

The flames of Chanukah have been kindled on the campus of McGill University once more! This time, on the first night of the eight day festival of lights 2012, Mayor Michael Appelbaum, the first Jewish mayor of Montreal, joined Chabad at McGill to light the “Official Canned Menorah” on the lower field. The Canned Menorah was built from cans of food raised through a student led food drive.

The Divine Candle

by Yochanan Gordon

Despite the vast amount of recovery and relief still ahead of us post-Hurricane Sandy, Chanukah could not come at a more opportune time. The whole purpose of Chanukah is to introduce the notion that where things are naturally dark, G-d introduces a miraculous light to illuminate that darkness.