LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joined West Coast Chabad’s Rabbi Boruch Shlomo Cunin, city officials and community leaders to illuminate the historic Menorah at City Hall today to usher in the Festival of Lights.
Lighting the first candle in 770.
BROOKLYN [CHI] — NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg joined the Menorah lighting celebration at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, where he recited the Brochos and lit Chabad of Park Slopes Meonrah.
Yisroel and Chany (nee Wolf) Haller (Crown Heights)
Friends and family gathered Monday night, the 22nd of Kislev, for a Farbrengen and Seudas Hodaah commemorating one year to the victory of the Shomrim Six. With a lavish Seudah, and words of thanks and Chizuk the group celebrated their continued ability to help and do good.
MALMO, Sweden — Marcus Eilenberg is a Swedish Jew whose family roots in Malmo run deep. His paternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found shelter in this southern Swedish city in 1945. His wife’s parents fled to Sweden from communist Poland in the 1960s.
The Maccabeats, Yeshivah University’s all-male a cappella group singing “Candlelight.”
The Magen David Synagogue at Byculla will re-open for prayers on Wednesday after undergoing renovation work for a year. Israeli ambassador, Mark Sofer, will be the chief guest for the reopening ceremony along with Orna Sagiv, consul general of Israel, along with the Levy family, which donated Rs 75 lakh for the renovation.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A single vehicle accident caused a significant amount of damage this afternoon when the driver lost control and smashed into a tree, a light pole, all while just missing other vehicles.
As heavy rain and crazy winds moved through Crown Heights, storm drains got clogged and formed mini swamps at corners around the neighborhoods.
Chabad at University of Washington, led by Rabbi Elie and Chaya Rochel Estrin, recently held a benefit event to celebrate their sixth year on campus. At the event, they showed this video, which really describes what the shluchim on campus do, and the effect they have on their students.
Hundreds joined to celebrate the completion of a Torah in memory of Holocaust survivor Max Gryczman by his children, at Chabad of Encino.
Winds whipped across the Tri-State on Wednesday as the region wrestled with a day of heavy rain and severe weather that downed trees — killing at least one person, knocked out power and slowed commuters.
Yossi and Esti (nee Reizes) Lowenbein (Crown Heights)
Yud Tes Kislev was an unbelievable experience for all at YNS. Most of the bochurim took upon themselves to learn parts of a Ma’amer Ba’al Peh. Much preparation and effort was put into learning the Ma’amorim of Podoh B’Sholom and Vayishlach Yehoshua and when each bochur recited his part Ba’al Peh one was able to feel the intensity and electricity in the air.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger got an early start Tuesday to celebrating Chanukah outside of the state’s capitol building in Sacramento.
SAO PAULO [CHI] — A spectacular tribute evening took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to Honor and give thanks to The Chabad Yeshiva, for all of it’s tireless efforts of supporting and being at the helm of Torah studies in Sao Paulo.
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