LONDON, England [CHI] — This Sunday, Zos Chanukah, people throughout London were greeted by the sight of a giant nine foot menorah as it proudly paraded through the city, followed by dozens of cars bearing menorahs.
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Chabad of the Valley’s annual Chanukah @ CityWALK had one of its largest crowds yet with many thousands in attendance. “It has become an annual fixture on the L.A. calendar”, according to Rabbi Yossi Baitelman, Director of Chabad of Studio City, the host city of the event.
SYRACUSE, NY — A minor league hockey game got a whole lot brighter when eight candles of a Menorah were lit on the ice during a Syracuse Crunch hockey game this past Motzoai Shabbos. Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport along with Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Itzinger lit the menorah with the teams general manager Vance Lederman.
Chigwell, in Essex displays a beautiful Menorah and hosts an annual Public Lighting organized by Shluchim from nearby Buckhurst Hill – Rabbi Odom & Henny Brandman. The event, now in its 4th year was originally initiated after a local Town Council Official Cllr Brian Sandler was invited as a guest of honour to the Buckhurst Hill Menorah Lighting 5 years ago.
Before meeting with President Barak Obama, the father of one of the Sandy Hook massacre victims, Noah Pozner, 6, OBM father Lenny put on Tefillin with Connecticut Head Shliach Rabbi Yisrael Deren.
On the last night of Chanukah, Chabad of Manaus, Amazon (Brazil) created a live menorah lighting show on the rooftop of their Chabad House. They decided since the Chanukiah was on the roof why don’t we combine with a show of “fiddler on the roof.”
Chabad of Kentucky arranged programs throughout Chanukah for children, adults and the needy. Chanukah on Ice, public Menorah lighting’s, a parade, and even a canorah which was later distributed.
The Hecht family is sitting shiva after the passing of their dear father Rabbi Peretz Hecht OBM at 580 Crown Street Apt 707.
Minyanim: (2 are needed)
Shacharis 7:15am, starting Tuesday at 9:00am as well
Mincha and Maariv bizman
The family requests that no visitors come after 9:45pm.
The family asks that those who want to share stories about Reb Peretz or send nichumim to please send them to: hechtmemories@gmail.com
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Zevy Greenwald (Long Beach, CA) and Mushi Carlebach (New Jersey)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Hundreds of Jewish children and adults gathered at the Freehold Raceway Mall to fill the “Giving Menorah” constructed by Chabad of Western Monmouth County, NJ, to support the Hurricane Sandy effort.
Shluchim in Boston made history this Chanukah in Boston’s Copley Square with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the newly commissioned Boston Menorah – one of the largest in the world
Levi Yitzchok (ben Rabbi Moshe) Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Mushky Pewzner (Harrisburg, PA)
L’Chaim Monday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]
NEW HYDE PARK, NY [CHI] — With the NHL on strike and the Islanders relocating to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, Chabad of West Hempstead’s annual Chanukah on Ice celebration had to be reworked, with great results! Over 200 participated at the Iceland ice skating Rink.
Going into this Shabbos I was torn and uneasy, how does one digest the news that someone can maliciously and viciously execute anyone, let alone to systematically assassinate 20 children, and how are we supposed to overcome such abhorrent evil?
Worldwide Jewry have come together following New York City’s assault on Mitzvas Milah – particularly metzitzah b’peh. Today, Zos Chanukah, has been declared as a day of mass prayer for the success of an action brought against the city in federal court.
