Last night, Wednesday Dec. 8, the last night of Chanukah, was the 31st Annual South Florida Chanukah Festival. The event welcomed a crowd of over 10,000 people, and thousands more via the live webcast on CrownHeights.info!
This year again, hundreds of people attended the annual menorah lighting on the most famous square in Holland, the Dam square in Amsterdam.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Police have set up a crime scene inside of the construction site on Crown Street, where a couple of Bochurim found a dead body.
ROSTOV [CHI] — Chanukah in Rostov was celebrated like never before, with programs for all ages, the highlight of which was a Chanukah concert and person of the year award attended by over a thousand people.
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ [CHI] — Hundreds of local residents participated, despite frigid weather, in the lighting of NJ’s largest Menorah, first replica of the “National Menorah” in Washington, DC, this past Sunday, 5th night of the holiday. Participants included: Monroe Township Mayor Richard Pucci, Senator-elect Linda Greenstein, members of town council, Monroe High School marching band, Cantor Mordechai Schwartz, and the Budapest Jugglers. Hot latkes, doughnuts and sizzling drinks were served following the ceremony.
Dear friends,
As you may know, this motzei shabbos Hatzalah in conjunction with Maimonides Hospital is hosting an event for men and women at the Jewish Children’s museum.
Chaim and Sora (nee Myers) Emanuel (Crown Heights)
Yanky and Rivky (nee Lazar) Klein (Moscow, Russia)
The Jewish Channel visits Dimitry Salita in his gym where he spars with orthodox Jewish reggae artist Matisyahu, together they are promoting Salitas upcoming fight in the Roseland Ballroom.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This coming Sunday Oihel Nosson will be welcoming two new Sifrai Torah to its Shul. The Torahs are being dedicated by the Nagel family in memory of their grandparents.
In this weeks Parasha – Vayigash we discuss the issue of learning while traveling.
We are pleased to present our twenty seventh online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
The community of Chabad of Colorado Springs under the directorship of Rabbi Moshe and Zeldy Liberow took part on Motzei Shabbos to reach out to jews in the neighboring areas of southern colorado to spread the joy of chanukah by handing out menorahs, doughnuts and inviting locals to come inside the porche limosine topped with a beautiful menorah to say l’chaim and hear some warm words about Chanukah.
MONTREAL — The cleanup of soil contaminated by heating oil around the vandalized Young Israel of Chomedey Synagogue was completed last week, after six weeks of excavation, and the beleaguered congregation is now awaiting the final bill.
Every Chanukah, college students around the world can count on their campus Chabad House to electrify the holiday with menorah lighting ceremonies, parties and dreidel spinning contests, galore.
Yair and Rochie Sandhaus (Crown Heights)
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