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.
PHILADELPHIA [CHI] — The Jewish community of Philadelphia held their annual outdoor Chanukah Celebration for its 36th year! Joined by Mayor Michael Nutter, they lit the menorah, and paraded through the city with over 150 cars!
TORONTO [CHI] — After a very successful night of Mivtzoim the Yeshiva Shluchim realized they still had a whole night to farbreng, and decided to call Rabbi Moshe Lipszyc who they were told is known to lend his house even last minute, to farbreng in with the Mesivta Bochurim Thursday night.
Over 200 Menorah topped cars and Mitzvah Tanks joined in the annual Chanukah parade this past Motzai Shabbos, parading through Brooklyn and Manhattan spreading the light and joy of Chanukah.
Lipa at the Hose of Rabbi Yossel Gutnick, by the “Chanukah party” with the “Smicha boys”.
How did a small Hasidic court become a phenomenon that is fomenting something of a revolution in the Jewish world? The 4,000 Chabad emissaries who convened in New York offer a simple answer: energy, motivation, love and tolerance.
Magen Boys Presents Hip Hop Chanukah with Chabad Flamingo!
A specialist in the art of designing unusual Menorahs, Rabbi Mendel Kastel has lit the candles on his latest creation, a Menorah made from doughnuts.
Mendy and Devorah Leah (nee Perlow) Bronstein (Crown Heights)
Today Sunday, December 5 at 2:30pm EST , the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute and TorahCafé.com will air a webcast featuring prominent Jewish personalities on the theme of Free to Be Jewish.
Mendel and Chaya Mushka (nee Itkin) Raices (Crown Heights)
Shimmy and Sarah (nee Winner) Silver (Brighton Beach, NY)
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty kindled the Shamash and Senator Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN, 1979-1991) Chairman of Friends of Chabad Lubavitch of Minnesota chanted the brachos and lit the first Chanukah candle on Wednesday night, on the grounds of the Minnesota State Capitol.
DEPTFORD TWP. — In what has become a yearly tradition, the start of the Chanukah holiday was celebrated Wednesday evening at the Deptford Mall. The event, sponsored jointly by the Chabad Jewish Center and the Mall, featured crafts for the children, a real live Judah the Maccabee, delicious Chanukah foods, and a giant Menorah lit by state Sen. Fred Madden.
