The girls of Beis Chana’s Junior High, Miami, spent the month before Yud Tes Kislev memorizing Tanya during their recess, lunch breaks, and evenings. The score chart hanging in the hallway quickly filled up as the girls got tested each day. Weekend incentives, weekly call-a-thons, as well as the promise of amazing prizes, motivated the girls to put their all into this project.
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Musings on the fall of Matisyahu’s Facial Locks
Matisyahu is a friend of mine so I was not going to comment on his choice to shave off his beard. It was his personal decision. Live and let live. But I changed my mind when my children told me that they were reading all over the internet that young, impressionable, orthodox Jewish youth were also choosing to shave off their beards following Matisyahu’s lead (I’m assuming these were young men, rather than women, who made the choice). It was then that I decided to weigh in.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — One woman was hurt in an accident involving three cars at the intersection of Montgomery Street and New York Avenue. Two cars, a commercial van and a passenger car collided mid-intersection after one of them did not stop for a red light.
Volunteers rebuilt a 15 foot menorah in less than six hours after vandals destroyed Scotland’s biggest public ‘chanukiah’ in an antisemitic attack.
As Jewish families around the world prepare for the second of eight nights of Hanukkah, the Brooklyn Jewish Children’s Museum is giving children a hands-on approach to learning about the holiday.
For the 29th consecutive year (since 1982), Rabbi Raphael Tennenhaus and Chabad of South Broward conducted a Menorah lighting ceremony at City Hall in Hollywood, Florida. The Mayor, Mr. Peter Bober, was decked out in a hasidic black hat for the occasion.
Serbian President Boris Tadić joined the ceremonial lighting of the Chanukah candles at the Sukkat Shalom Belgrade Synagogue last night. President Tadić used the opportunity to spread a message that the Jewish festival reminds us of the importance to show respect and tolerance towards people of all backgrounds.
European and North American human rights activists may have thought that the Lithuanian newspaper Vakaro žinios (‘The Evening News’) could not outdo its past antisemitic sensations, but the 21 December, 2011 edition full front page with a huge banner headline ‘THE JEWS’ may herald a new low in the series of 1930s grade disseminations of hate against Lithuania’s tiny and shrinking Jewish minority (around 95% of the country’s Jewish population was killed during the Holocaust).
Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky of the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe lit the Monroe Township Community Chanukah Menorah, Wednesday, December 21, 2011. The menorah, built by Chabad Jewish Center, is a replica of the National Menorah in Washington, DC.
My phone rings and I hear the subdued voice of a close friend on the other line, “He said no. I really thought this was going to work out. I feel so rejected.”
Chanukah lit up Brisbane, Australia’s CBD as the Jewish community joined with friends and visitors to celebrate the first night of the eight day festival with the lighting of a six metre tall menorah in Reddacliff Place, Queen Street Mall on the evening of Tuesday 20 December.
Over 150 people celebrated the beginning of the Jewish Festival of Chanukah with the lighting of the giant menorah candelabra on Broad Street, Oxford, this past Tuesday, 20 Dec, with the Lord Mayor of Oxford, Cllr. Elise Benjamin, organised by Chabad of Oxford.
Celebrating the holidays are always more joyous when celebrated with family. For the Joyce family of Highland Falls, NY this won’t be possible this year as their dad, Michael, is a US soldier in Afghanistan helping to fight the war on terror.
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