
40 Dead As Fire Rages Through Israels North
The ZAKA rescue organization says at least 40 people died in the fire on the Carmel Mountain Thursday.
The ZAKA rescue organization says at least 40 people died in the fire on the Carmel Mountain Thursday.
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The Darchai Menachem Chanuakah Auction held its first of two drawings today, pulling the 2 Menorahs just in time for Chanukah.
Not only was it the first night of Chanukah, but for the very first time a Rabbi Cantor sang the National Anthem and perform a Menorah Lighting Ceremony on the court in front of the exuberant sold out crowd.
PITTSBURGH [CHI] — The first night of Chanukah was ushered in by the mayor of Pittsburgh and the Head Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Rosenfeld, with the lighting of the Menorah at the Government building.
“Chanukah Live” was an event involving thousands of Jews who would join together with the Rebbe at “770,” Chabad headquarters. CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a magnificent photo from “Chanukah Live” 1991, where holiday celebrations in New York, Paris, Moscow, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Jerusalem were united by satellite hookup.
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.