Colorado’s governor John Hickenlooper, Denver’s mayor Michael B. Hancock and the Federation’s CEO were among the 300 people attending the Grand Menorah Lighting in Denver with Rabbi Yisroel Engel on the first night of Chanuka. A children’s choir sang Chanukah songs and a number of community leaders and dignitaries – including the governor and mayor spoke at the event.
Photographer Shmulik Sofer spotted a very curious object outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s residence in Jerusalem: what appears to be a replica of the Rebbe’s 770 Menorah. Although the Rebbe’s Menorah was intended to be a replica of the one in the Beis Hamikdosh, the same cannot be said about this one because the official position of the Israeli government is that the Beis Hamikdosh’s Menorah was round. Can anyone explain this?
This year, like every year, Rabbi Yoram Ulman of F.R.E.E. & Chabad of Bondi, together with Rabbi Menachem Dadon of Chabad for the Israeli Community in Sydney, celebrated with their communities Chanukah on Bondi beach.
Colel Chabad, the oldest continuously operating Tzedakah in Israel, celebrated its International Awards Dinner in the Grand Ballroom of the New York Hilton on Monday night.
The Broadwalk Shopping Centre was the first stop for many local Jews this Chanuka, with Lubavitch of Edgware’s public menorah lighting on Tuesday afternoon. Close to 300 people joined Rabbi Zalman Sudak in the lighting of the first candle, followed by singing Chanuka songs, and Eliyahu Gorman on the keyboard.
Rabbi Yossi Shemtov Chabad Shliach of Toledo, Ohio, on Toledo Ohio’s Local Fox Channel, discusses the meaning of Chanukah.
We all know what it’s like to give someone a mivtzoim menorah and wonder if they’ll really be able to figure out what to do from the directions on the side of the box.
The Maccabeats sing the American National Anthem at Chabad of Hallendale’s ‘Chanukah on Ice’ event at the Florida Panthers hockey game. The Rabbis then proceed to light the Menorah made of ice.
A delegation of Dutch Rabbis representing the Rabbinical Centre of Europe (RCE) met with two high-ranking representatives of the Dutch Parliament last night, on the eve of the first night of Chanukah.
As people everywhere usher in the first light of Chanukah, the newly elected Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel hosted Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun, his wife Rivka and their two youngest children, Ruth Shaina and Levi Yitzvhak, in the mayoral chambers for a pre–Chanukah visit.
“Rabbi, is Hannukah the Jewish X-mas?” Richmond Rabbi Yechiel Baitelman is frequently asked that question about the annual eight-day Jewish festival that this year began last night.
In the country that had once tried to annihilate them completely, Jews throughout Germany are getting ready to light their menorahs for the upcoming Chanukah holiday, spreading light in a land that a mere two generations ago was the ultimate symbol of fear and darkness.
PARK SLOPE [CHI] — A sizeable crowd gathered at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza in order to partake in the Menorah lighting ceremony sponsored by Chabad of Park Slope, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was honored with lighting the first light.
Berky and Breindy (nee Fass) Tarshish (Crown Heights)
Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yonah Metzger, Chief Sefardic Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, and Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, Rabbi of the Western Wall and Holy Sites were present at the Kosel for the lighting of the menorah on the first night of chanukah.
