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Photos: Buying Seforim in 770

Photos by Itzik Roytman – ChabadPictures.com

In honor of Hey Teves – Didan Notzach, hundreds were seen stopping by a Seforim table set up in 770 and making purchases. The Rebbe instructed that this day should be marked with the purchase new Seforim and learn from them.

New Engagement!

Moshe (ben Dovid) Schurder (Pretoria, South Africa) and Mattie Plotkin (Markham, ON, Canada)

L’Chaim tonight, Tueday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]

Chanukah Observed in “The Army’s Home”

Article and Photos from Shturem.net

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — Marking his own personal victory, Chaplain 1st Lt. Rabbi Menachem Mendel Stern joined in officiating the lighting of the US Army’s Menorah at the Fort Hamilton army base in Bay Ridge. The menorah which is made out of a tanks shell casings – a special story on its own – was lit by a group of Rabbis and Chaplains.

Chabad of Naples Mighty Scissor Lift Menorah

Coastal Breeze News

Chabad of Naples has successfully piqued the interest of the entire Jewish community by creating a unique menorah every year for the past nine years, from one made of Legos to a 30-foot aluminum structure, to a menorah filled with jellybeans. This year’s mighty menorah rose at the Village on Venetian Bay, on the second night of Chanukah.

Shooting Victims Remembered at Chakuah Event

Greenbay Press-Gazette

Rabbi Michoel Feinstein explains the importance behind lighting a Menorah for Hanukkah on Saturday outside the Jewish Community Center, 220 Bellevue St.

In the darkest of times, members of the Jewish faith in Green Bay lit candles Saturday night to commemorate Hanukkah and point the way to a brighter future.

Opinion: Sports, Hanukkah and Greek Culture

by Eliyahu Federman – Huffington Post

The Miami Heat hosted a Jewish heritage night at the basketball team’s Dec. 12 game at American Airlines Arena, with tens of thousands in attendance. How odd, I thought, to celebrate Hanukkah in a sports arena, given that the concept of sports is emblematic of Greek culture.

Lessons from Israel, where Guns are a Way of Life

NBCNews

TEL AVIV — The Connecticut school massacre has raised the issue of gun control not only in the United States but also in Israel, where self-defense is not so much a point of law as a way of life. In Israel, schools are protected by armed guards, and everyone is on some sort of an alert for suspicious objects or people.