A Jewish student organization at Binghamton University is claiming to have broken a record for dreidel spinning, but a student newspaper there says the spinners spun out before breaking the mark.
Students in United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway brought the light of Chanukah to Yidden who unfortunately were unable to spend the holiday with their family and friends.
Chabad at Lehigh, Hillel Society and Friends of Israel sponsored the event that was a perfect break from studying for finals for students, complete with coffee and hot chocolate.
Forget the War On xmas, a building on the East Side has become ground zero for the War On Hanukkah. The board of 2 Beekman Pl. has refused a resident’s pleas for a menorah in the lobby to accompany the co-op’s elegant nine-foot tree.
A Brooklyn orthodox rabbi who was jailed after refusing to answer questions before a federal grand jury, saying his religion forbid him from testifying against other Jews, was ordered freed this week by a district court judge in Los Angeles, the rabbi’s attorney said.
A crowd of over 350 adults and children joined Chabad Lubavitch of North East London & Essex (Ilford) as they celebrated their Annual “Chanukah on Ice” evening.
Former Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, spent a celebratory weekend in Chicago December 1 and 2, officiating at the rabbinic ordination of 14 community members on Saturday evening, and then and addressing the greater Chicago Jewish community on Sunday in a speech that drew a crowd of nearly 1,000.
Religious circumcision is again legal in Germany after the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of Parliament, passed the final version of a circumcision bill today by a vote of 438 to 100. The upper house of Parliament passed the draft law in October, and the final vote means the right to religious circumcision is now guaranteed. A court in Cologne previously ruled it a criminal act.
Despite the rain, a dedicated group gathered Sunday night to light a menorah in Atlantic City, celebrating the second night of Hanukkah.
The audience cheers as jugglers perform. Lubavitch of North Carolina invited the Jewish community for a grand Hannukah celebration and menorah lighting in the heart of SouthPark Mall. Children from Ohr HaTorah as well as Chabad Hebrew School sang traditional songs
It’s Chanukah at the Kravitsky home, and a Dreidle spin-off is taking place. But one player is bent on winning, and will stop at nothing to get the gold…… coins!
A historic event took place on the third night of Chanukah, when the City of Chicago’s first Jewish Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, attended Chabad of Downtown Chicago’s annual menorah lighting ceremony.
More than a decade ago, Rabbi Mordechai Newman brought public Hanukkah celebrations to Alexandria. Last night the third night of the Festival of Lights, Alexandria Vice Mayor Kerry Donley joined Newman at the Crowne Plaza Old Town Alexandria to light the 2012 menorah.
Lubavitcher filmmaker Mendel Katz filmed and produced a powerful video, which is based on a true story, on how we never know how far reaching a perceived small act of kindness can effect a positive change a random strangers life.
After the passing of his mother, Rebbetzin Miriam Gordon obm, last week, Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon of Encino, CA received an outpouring of condolences from his online students all over the world. Thousands of students submitted their condolences through Rabbi Gordon’s daily class page at Chabad.org. The emails were printed out and brought to the shiva house each day.
The Chabad Centre in Buckhurst Hill have done it again with another amazing Menorah to feature at their Chanukah party this year. A 6ft tall Doughnut Menorah containing 380 doughnuts in 9 different colors!
Mivtzoim is for everyone, even young children, on the third day of Chanukah, Ohalei Torah’s second grade; Rabbi Filler’s class went to Roosevelt Island Senior Association to bring the joy of Chanukah to the members.
