300 people joined Rabbi Aryeh Sufrin MBE and fellow Shluchim Rabbis Moshe Muller & Odom Brandman for their annual public Chanukah lighting on Moitzoei Shabbos, Zois Chanukah, led by Chazan Eli Sufrin of Finchley Synagogue.
Chabad of Cancun, Mexico directed by Rabbi Mendel and Rachel Druk hosted Chanukah functions throughout the resort town, including public menorah lighting’s and mivtzoim.
LONG BEACH, NY — The site of much darkness wrought by Hurricane Sandy, is now much brighter. Rabbi Eli and Beila Goodman, Shluchim to Long Beach, have been able to continue to lead the rebuilding of the Jewish community, despite hundreds of families still displaced from their homes till this very day.
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Shluchim and Bochurim farbrenged at yesterday at the Ohel in Honor of Hey Teves – Didan Notzach. The event began with a formal program and Seudah, and later area Shluchim came in to take part a lively Farbrengen which lasted into the night.
Vaad Agudas Chassidei Chabad cordially invites the entire community to participate in its Central Hey Teves, Didan Notzach Farbrengen in the Rose Hall at Beis Rivkas Campus Chomesh.
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.
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]
The Military court of Samaria on Sunday sentenced a Palestinian man on charges of aiding and abetting two other Palestinians who murdered five members of the Fogel family last year in their home in Itamar.
On the first day of Chanukah Chevra Ahavas Yisroel held a benefit dinner marking two years to the founding of the Shul and their new permanent location. The dinner was preceded by a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah to the Shul.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Bochur was hit by a speeding minivan in front of Chovevei Torah, he was thrown over thirty feet and sustained serious injuries. U/D 4:50pm: Yeshiva administration notified us that B”H the Bochur is stable and doing ok.
Britain’s United Synagogue has announced that Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis will replace Lord Jonathan Sacks in the role of Commonwealth Chief Rabbi upon the latter’s upcoming retirement according to the Jewish Chronicle.
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