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Over 150 Congressional staffers and Members of the House and Senate gathered in the prestigious Mike Mansfield Room of the US Capitol to for the annual Capitol Hill Chanukah Celebration.
Over 150 Congressional staffers and Members of the House and Senate gathered in the prestigious Mike Mansfield Room of the US Capitol to for the annual Capitol Hill Chanukah Celebration.
The soldier blinded early on in the recent operation ‘Pillar of Defense’ in Gaza, along with a wounded victim from the terror attack in Bulgaria and assisted by the soldier who thwarted a terrorist attack on Chanukah seven years ago kindled the third candle of Chanukah together with Rabbi Menachem Kutner of Chabad’s Terror Victims Project.
Curtis Sliwa, a well known talk radio host and founder of the Guradian Angels, participated in the public Menorah lighting organized by the Chabad of Rego Park.
As we mark 26 Years to Hey Teves – the Yom Tov of Seforim, Kol Menachem will be offering up to 50% off on all Seforim as well as a gift Collections of their full Library, marking its largest sale yet. The sale will be from Dec 15th though Dec 22nd, Online sale orders start today at KolMenachem.com
Three years ago CrownHeights.info featured a ‘unique and smelly menorah’ created by a Darchai Menachem student, this year it was featured on the Huffington Post as part of an article titled “25 Hilariously Wrong Menorahs”.
The Annual West Hempstead Chanukah fire engine parade blared their Chanukah sirens throughout town to kick off the spectacular grand Menorha lighting ceremony and spectacular Chanukah festival.
Lubavitch of Scotland organized a number of Chanukah events for their community. Their activities included a public menorah, large banners which spread the message of Chanukah and activities at local senior centers.
Israeli and Jewish officials in Denmark are urging local Jews not to wear identifying religious in public, due troubling rise in anti-Semitic incidents. This comes during the holiday of Chanukah whose main premise is to spread the light and message.
CROWN HEIGHTS — A Jewish man was robbed on Carroll Street after being duped into giving a stranger change for a $20 bill, only to discover that he received only half of a torn $20 bill.
Yaakov Backman (Albany, NY) and Chana Miriam Stone (Crown Heights)
Shmuly and Dini (nee Korolitzky) Gutnick (Boca Raton, FL)
This year, the Walmart on Jean-Talon in Montreal is going all out to give its Jewish customers a Chanukah treat. Centrally located just off Decarie, between the de Vimy neighbourhood and Cote-St-Luc/Hampstead, Walmart recognizes that the Jewish community of Montreal forms an important part of their customer base. Together with the MK-Canada’s Kosher Certifier, this is Walmart’s way of saying “thank you” for their patronage.
Jacob Kolton, a Holocaust survivor who moved thousands with his story of a renewed faith late in life despite the atrocities he endured, died last month in New Jersey. He was 88.
Students in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France were hard at work preparing for Chunkah with many menorah-topped vans loaded up with free Menorah to be distributed in the surrounding areas.
Chabad Lubavitch of Colorado dedicated the Grand Menorah lighting to the children who assisted Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Engel in lighting the Menorah on the 2nd night in front of the Allied Jewish Federation in Denver.
A Mitzvah Tank loaded with a group of Bochurim and Chanukah spirit to spare headed out for Manhattan, where they set up a table and distributed hundreds of Chanukah Menorahs in front of the only 24 hours Apple store on 59th Street.
A Jewish student organization at Binghamton University is claiming to have broken a record for dreidel spinning, but a student newspaper there says the spinners spun out before breaking the mark.