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?
Getzy Goldstein (Crown Heights) and Mushky Chayo (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Shea Schneider (Crown Heights) and Baily Shagalow (Crown Heights)
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.
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.
The Coyotes vs Panthers hockey game last Tuesday was no ordinary game. Chabad of Florida performed a menorah-lighting ceremony on the ice during the first period intermission. The event looked nothing short of a huge Hanukka party. But the event itself was really quite ironic. How odd, I thought, to celebrate Hanukka in a sports arena, given that the concept of sports is emblematic of Greek culture.
On the 3rd day of Chanukah, Chabad of Southern Nevada led a Chanukah celebration with the recently elected Mayor of Las Vegas, Carolyn Goodman. It continued a tradition that began with her husband, former Mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman. During the celebration, the Mayor was presented with a Menorah as a Menorah of Freedom Award.
On Wednesday, December 21, the second night of Chanukah, the 8th Day Band rocked Ottawa!! It would not be a total understatement to say that they brought the house down. Everyone, and I mean everyone, from the Bubbies to the Babies who were there clapping, singing and even dancing in their seats.
MyShliach’s online photo contest will draw together hundreds of pictures of children doing the Rebbe’s shlichus all around the world.
Chabad lights the public menorah in Eisenhower Park on the 930-acre oasis of open space and recreation in the heart of Nassau County. Eisenhower Park is one of the largest public spaces in the New York metropolitan area – larger, in fact, than Central Park!
Every night of Channukah, 3 bouchurim: Saadia Weingarten, Gedalia Hertz and Yaakov Bennish, from Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch of London, distributed donuts and Menorahs at London’s Heathrow Airport.
After weeks of hard work by Chabad Youth NSW and the Rabbinical students of the Yeshiva Centre – Chabad NSW HQ, Car Menorahs and Chanukah Flags were set on top of cars and vans in order to parade through the streets of Sydney and remind people of the great miracles of Chanukah.
Eli and Rochel (nee New) Deitsch (Crown Heights)
The Chabad Lubavitch Centre of Buckhurst Hill, UK has done it again with another amazing Menorah to feature at their Chanukah party this year. A Coin Menorah containing 50,773 coins totalling £2,009.95!
Close to 200 people attended the eighth Annual Public Menorah Lighting and Chanukah Celebration in Tacoma, Washington.
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