Well, it is that time of year again, and along with the change in the year comes a change in the color of the New York State inspection sticker. If you have a yellow sticker then chances are come January 1st you will be giving a $65 new years gift to the city.
Afther Chanukah, the Bet Chabad of Aubervilliers, France, led by the shaliach Rabbi Meir simcha Kalmenson, orgenized a Kinus Hisorerus in Honer of the end of Shivah for Rabbi Shalom Mendel Kalmenson, founder of the Kehilas Shneor institutions. The event was attended by close to 500 people.
In this 12th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how she and her husband Reb Levik “celebrated” Sukkos and Simchas Torah in their far-away exile in Kazakhstan.
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — Thousands gathered to mark the eighth and final night of Chanukah by illuminating a 20-foot Menorah at L.A. LIVE — LA’s new hotspot located across Staples Center, home of the L.A. Lakers, Clippers and Kings. The “Chanukah at LA Live!” celebration took place prior to the Lakers vs. Jazz game, with a sellout crowd of 18,997.
Israelis who were on the streets during Hanukkah likely saw the Chabad ‘mitzvah tanks’, which have become well known on Israel’s streets for their successful activities aimed at bringing the Torah and its commandments closer to people.
In the city of Bariloche, Argentina, Chabad’s southernmost outpost on earth, Chanukah is celebrated with a special energy and light.
Aliya’s grand Chanuakh concert, which featured 6 bands – many their own members, was extremely uplifting.
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.
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