The organizers of the Annual NYC Chanukah Menorah Parade, run by the Mitzvah Tank Org. under the auspices of the Lubavitch Youth Org., have announced that due to more “Pirsumei Nisa”, this year tradition will change. The parade will be advanced to Thursday night the 3rd night of Chanukah – Dec 22nd at 5pm, instead of Motzoei Shabbos as every year.
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Mendy Pellin, the world-acclaimed Chassidic comedian and actor, flew in from Los Angeles to co-host the RCCS “Miracles ’11” Auction drawing. Pellin joins a long list of Jewish superstars who have dedicated this evening on behalf of the several hundred cancer-stricken families helped each year by RCCS, the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society.
The Chanukah Run-a-Latke in Swampscott, Massachusetts was as much about the latke as it was about the run.
What is a Chasid, you ask? The question was asked more than a century ago; the illustrious master answered, “he is a lamternsh’chik, a lamplighter”. But you live in the here and now, and so you ask, what is a lamplighter? He was a common figure in the world before light pollution camouflaged the night. The gas lamps were prepared, fuel and wick, and come eventide the lamplighter-fellow with his long stick, carrying fire at the far end, would light each lamp as he worked his way down the street.
Health authorities have grown alarmed at mounting signs of disorder and danger to patients at a Brooklyn hospital already reeling from major financial problems and allegations of political corruption.
A Jewish friend who leans right offers a shorthand way to understand how Americans see Israel. Liberals, he says, love Jews and hate Israel, while conservatives reverse the pattern.
A local mother is thankful her son with special needs is safe after he arrived home hours late from school.
Westfield, the world’s largest shopping mall empire founded by Holocaust survivor Frank Lowy, will this year welcome in Chanukah on three continents.
A teenager was critically injured Sunday after he crashed a forklift inside an armory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Update: Please say Tehilim for Yaakov Meir ben Bina.
Ariel and Rozy (nee Brashevitzky) Spiegel
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Sholom Mendel Kalmenson of Aubervilliers, France. He was one of the first shluchim of the Rebbe; he started his shlichus in 1963 and founded a school called ‘Schneor.’ With his continued effort, devotion and dedication, Aubervilliers has become a blossoming jewish community. The school currently has about 500 students.
Kim Jong Il, North Korea’s mercurial and enigmatic leader, has died. He was 69.
Crown Heights [CHI] — At around 9:30 tonight, an African-American male in his mid 20s was seen by a number of witnesses smashing the window of a Jewish owned mini-van on Albany Ave., in front of the ULY simcha hall. Shomrim were immediately called.
The man who kidnapped the Shliach to Ecuador, Rabbi Tomer Rotem, is now claiming that he was the victim of a Chabad conspiracy. Even more surprisingly, Israel’s Channel 10 News believes his story.
More than 500 people attended the main Yud Tes Kisleiv farbrengen in Flatbush. Rabbi Yochanan Morozov, Rov of Beis Menachem Mendel and the Rebbe’s shliach to Midwood lead a spirited and moving Farbrengen.
Pictures of Yud Tes Kislev farbrengens from ULY and Bais Chaya Mushka in Crown Heights, the Chabad community in Sydney and Kiryat Gat, Beis Chana Seminary in Tzfat, and Yeshiva Ketana of Baltimore.
