Tuesday night, the tireless and dedicated Released Time instructors concluded their visits to the homes of their students, bringing the joy and beauty of Chanukah not just to the students who attend their classes, but to their entire family. In total, more than 700 families were visited.
Following the Colel Chabad Dinner earlier this month, Mr. Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, NJ, went on a trip to Israel. As part of his visit, he went to celebrate and dance with 300 orphans at the Chesed Menachem Mendel/Colel Chabad Widows and Orphans Chanukah Retreat at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem.
On the 3rd night of Chanukah, Chabad held it’s first ever public menorah lighting at the Islington Green. Over one hundred participants enjoyed potato latkes, doughnuts and hot cocoa in a family friendly atmosphere.
Shmaryahu (ben R’ Zalman) Labkowski (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Zilberstrom (Jerusalem, Israel)
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday praised the city’s police and fire departments for making 2011 one of the city’s safest years ever.
Zalmy Morris (Crown Heights) and Naomi Levine (New Haven, CT)
Ari Levy (Flatbush) and Rochel Ahern (Crown Heights)
Yossi Itzinger (London, UK) and Leah (bas R’ Yaakov Tuvia) Rapoport (Syracuse, NY)
L’Chaim Thursday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
In a rare occurrence among student tours of the Holy Land, a group of 23 American Jewish college students brought some Chanukah joy to a secretive Israeli army base near the Lebanese border. Bearing candles and the traditional fried jelly doughnuts known in Hebrew as sufganiyot, the participants of the IsraeLinks program joined their uniformed counterparts for dinner and a mass menorah lighting that, in the words of one soldier, gave his platoon “the strength to go on.”
The boys of the Lubavitch Boys’ School in London enjoyed three beautiful Chanuka programs before they broke up for their winter holidays.
Shmuly and Esther (nee Kessler) Borenstein (Crown Heights)
This year, once again, over one thousand people attended the annual menorah lighting in Amsterdam’s Dam Square; located in front of the royal palace, it is the most famous square in Holland.
Many students say they do not relate to the Chabad club because they are not Chabadniks. This is a shame, since the Chabad club at both Yeshiva University and Stern College is open to everyone, not just chabadniks, and everyone walks out a different and better person.
Nearly half a million Jews call Brooklyn, New York their home. To some the image of Brooklyn Jewry is young Yeshiva boys hurrying to school in groups, or hundreds of Kosher restaurants and cafés crowding Flatbush street corners. But to many Brooklyn Jews who do not affiliate with a specific community, Jewish community was never an active part of their lives.
For the second time in under three months, Britain’s second best selling daily newspaper, the Daily Mail, has shown itself to be completely ignorant of Jewish customs.
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