Chanukah with a San Antonio twist
SAN ANTONIO — Life jackets were optional Sunday at an unusual annual Hanukkah celebration that’s drawn an increasing number of San Antonio’s Jewish community to the River Walk since 1998.
SAN ANTONIO — Life jackets were optional Sunday at an unusual annual Hanukkah celebration that’s drawn an increasing number of San Antonio’s Jewish community to the River Walk since 1998.
Approximately 50 students and staff gathered on the Queens Lawn Terrace of Imperial College’s South Kensington campus to light the Menorah with Professor Lord Robert Winston. Lord Winston is one of the most famous British professors, medical doctor, scientist, television presenter, and also a politician who sits on the Labour Party benches in the House of Lords.
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — With shopping malls around the country decking their halls in celebration of the holiday season, one local mall was the sight of a holiday first.
This Sunday, the NCFJE – Chabad of Mineola hosted its 18th annual Chanukah telethon.
Have you heard of Groupon — the group deal coupon you buy on the Internet?
Well, now there’s Jewpon.
LONG ISLAND [CHI] — Thousands of hockey fans were exposed to the miracle of Chanukah at yesterday’s NHL hockey game at Nassau Coliseum, where Chabad of West Hempstead hosted their annual Chanukah festival, Miracle on ice III.
Zalman and Nechama Dina (nee Yarmush) Duchman (Shluchim to Roosevelt Island)
Once again, the Jewish community in Melbourne celebrated the fifth light of Chanukah in the park, with a Menorah lighting, a fireworks show, and performance by Lipa Shmeltzer.
Mendy and Sarah Cunin (Reno, NV)
LOUISVILLE, KY — One of the biggest skating parties in town included a grand Menorah.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: We are presenting a short video clip from a Sicha on the 8th Night of Chanukah, 5751. From the weekly video magazine, ‘Living Torah’. Courtesy of JEM.
MONTREAL [CHI] — Over 500 children and parents attended the Beth Rivkah Montreal 38th annual Chanukah Carnival on Motzoai Shabbos.
The Chabad of Fort Lee held its 8th Annual Russian Chanukah Dinner Thursday night at Villa Amalfi in Cliffside Park.
Just in time for Chanukah, Rabbi Shlomo and Devorah Elkan have opened a Chabad Student Center at Oberlin College in Eastern Ohio.
While many people are out shopping and decorating for the holiday season, Rabbi Anchelle Perl of Chabad in Mineola, is doing what he has done for the past 18 years — preparing for his annual Chanukah Telethon.
A police officer from Cyprus, working to fight the fire in the Carmel, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday afternoon that 80% of the blaze has been contained, as three helicopters from Switzerland prepared to land in the area.
The city is getting its sixth area code. Beginning April 16, many new outer-borough phone numbers will be assigned area code 929, adding to the city’s existing 212, 917, 646, 718 and 347 codes.