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Photos: 8th Day Brings Down the House in Boca
Fortunate is the eye who beheld the scene at Sanborn Square in Boca Raton, FL on Sunday – the 6th night of Chanukah. In unprecedented fashion, thousands of men women and children joined together to celebrate the Festival of Lights amidst a palpable sensation of unity and joy. Carnival rides and food stalls were the initial order of the day for the throngs who began pouring upon the square in the early afternoon.
Photos: Community Joins New Shluchim for Chanukah
Missourian
Rabbi Avremi and Channy Lapine, who just recently arrived in Columbia, Missouri on shlichus, celebrated the sixth night of Chanukah Sunday at an event in their Chabad House.
Utah Governor Lights Menorah with Shliach
Utah’s Governor Gary R. Herbert and his wife Jeanette hosted Rabbi Benny Zippel, along with 150 guests from Chabad Lubavitch of Utah for a Menorah Lighting Ceremony at the Governor’s Mansion in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, December 20, 2011.
Yalili Fever Comes to Long Island for Concert Benefitting Friendship Circle!
Jewish Music at the Playhouse will be featuring the hottest thing in Jewish music today. 8th Day, is perhaps, the most talked about new Jewish act and their original music and video have captured the worldwide attention of Jewish music lovers everywhere.
Baby Girl!
Yitz and Devorah (nee Katz) Goldberg (Crown Heights)
Picture of Day: Spreading Light on the UK’s Highways
This Chanukah, Lubavitcher truck driver Moshe Rothstein spread the Chanukah light while driving his truck across the UK highways. “If the other truck drivers put an x-mas tree in their cabs, I can put my menorah and show everyone it’s Chanukah” he said.
Photos: Chanukah Celebrations in Curitiba, Brazil
The weather was gorgeous, and hundreds of people joined, as a giant Menorah carefully erected in a pool of water – by the office of the Mayor in Curitiba, Brazil.
13,000 Fill Arena in Largest Chanukah Festival Ever
The 32nd annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah took place on the 7th Night of Chanukah , it was bigger and better than ever – and that’s saying a lot, since more than 10,000 people have participated each year since the event was moved to Gulfstream Park in 2007. Police estimated the crowd at anywhere between 12,000-13,000, with 10,000 people on the main level, and 2-3,000 people on the second and third mezzanine levels. It was a Who’s Who of Community Leaders who participated in the Chanukah Festival and Giant Menorah Lighting.
Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz of Spinka on his way to court.
Brooklyn, NY [CHI] — After years of hardship and worry, the Spinka Chassidim were informed this morning that their Rebbe will be freed from his confinement in the Ottisville, NJ prison earlier than expected.
Spinka Rebbe to Be Freed from Jail
Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Weisz of Spinka on his way to court.
Brooklyn, NY [CHI] — After years of hardship and worry, the Spinka Chassidim were informed this morning that their Rebbe will be freed from his confinement in the Ottisville, NJ prison earlier than expected.
Baby Girl!
Yitzchok Dovid and Vita (nee Edelkopf) Chazan (Beitar Illit, Israel)
‘Menorah Wars’ Return to Brooklyn
by Shavana Abruzzo – The Brooklyn Paper
Oy-vey-izmir, here we go again. Park Slope and downtown Brooklyn was a bissel verklempt when it kicked off Hanukkah on Tuesday with twin menorah lightings that celebrated an ancient miracle — but also re-ignited one of the fiercest feuds since Nimrod and Abraham. And it all boils down to size — what else?
New Engagement!
Getzy Goldstein (Crown Heights) and Mushky Chayo (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
New Engagement!
Shea Schneider (Crown Heights) and Baily Shagalow (Crown Heights)
Absence of Gratitude is Source of Rabbinical Burnout
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
There was only one non-family member whom I highlighted under the Chupa (wedding canopy) of my daughter eight weeks ago. His name is Shneur Zalman Fellig and when I was a boy of ten, from a broken family with a broken heart, he helped me heal and inspired me in the ways of Chabad.
Agriprocessors Manager to Be Extradited to US
Arutz 7
Immigration raid at Agriprocessors in 2008. Inset: Hossam Amara.
The Jerusalem District Court has approved the extradition to the United States of Hosam Amara, to face federal charges in connection with irregularities associated with the Agriprocessors kosher meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, which went bankrupt after a 2008 raid by immigration authorities, in which nearly 400 illegal immigrants were rounded up.
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