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Study: New York is the Saddest State in the Nation

By Randolph E. Schmid for Newsday

WASHINGTON — People in sunny, outdoorsy states — Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida — say they’re the happiest Americans, and researchers think they know why.

A new study comparing self-described pleasant feelings with objective measures of good living found these folks generally have reason to feel fine.

Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Monday

Alternate side parking regulations will be suspended on Monday, December 21 to facilitate snow removal. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.

For up to date info on alternate side parking call 311.

The World’s Only Menorah Fire Truck Parade at Gaithersburg

GAITHERSBURG, MD [CHI] — The Rockville Volunteer Fire Department, in conjunction with Chabad of Upper Montgomery County, paraded through Gaithersburg, with a four foot Menorah perched on the front of Rescue Engine 33, the parade drove throughout town handing out dreidels and chocolate Chanukah “Gelt”. “Chanukah is the Festival of Lights,” remarked Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum of Chabad ,and who is also the Chaplain at the Rockville Volunteer Fire Department “this is a wonderful way of spreading the light and joy of the holiday.”

130-Year Chasidic Discourse Discusses Feminine Mystique

In Feminine Faith, fourth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, delivers a profound exploration of the unique gifts of the feminine soul and its connection to the essence of Divine reality.

Written towards the end of 1879, Feminine Faith explores why the Rosh Chodesh-New Moon is celebrated primarily by women, why the women did not participate in the sin of Golden Calf and how women posses a natural, inherent belief in the Divine.

Part of the popular Chasidic Heritage Series published by the Kehot Publication Society, Feminine Faith speaks in a manner once profound yet accessible to today’s modern women and girls.

“It is remarkable how an essay written by a Chasidic Rebbe in 1879 can bring thought-provoking clarity to a subject so blurred with ambiguity as is the matter of gender delineation in today’s day and age,” says Rabbi Yosef B. Friedman, of Kehot Publication Society.

Nashville Mayor Helps Chabad Light Menorah

Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel and Nashville’s Mayor Karl Dean at the Riverfront Menorah. Rabbi Tiechtel presented the mayor with a Kotel Menorah, which is a replica of the Western Wall in Jerusalem for the Mayor’s office, as the mayor visited Jerusalem last year

Photos: The First Real Snow of the Winter

With winter ‘officially’ starting in just days from now, the east coast has been hit with the seasons first real snow storm, dumping as much as 16 inches in some places. Roads, airports and trains have all been slowed and/or shut down.

Op-Ed: An American Chanukah

By Getzy Markowitz

On a frosty December evening a few years ago, I stood on Pennsylvania Avenue gazing for my first time at the seat of the American Presidency. It was Chanukah, and my friend Shmuley and I were in Washington, interning at American Friends of Lubavitch, sponsors of the monumental National Menorah on the Ellipse.

Video – Fairfield Lights Menorah for Freedom

FAIRFIELD [WTNH] — A ‘Festival of Lights’ marred by ugly disruptions earlier this week went as planned in Fairfield Tuesday night.

Three-men holding Nazi flags, shouted obscenities during Sunday night’s menorah lighting ceremony on the Fairfield Green. Those who witnessed this want to put the ugliness behind them.

The History of the Tin Menorahs – Outreach to Promote Faith

By Jennifer Medina for the New York Times
Rabbi Dovid Raskin watches Tibor Cooperstein in his factory, circa 1973. Chabad.org/Lubavitch Archives

It may not be quite as ubiquitous as holiday trees stands on the city’s sidewalks, but the sight of tin menorahs is certainly familiar to anyone who has lived here long enough – or, for that matter, anywhere else where outreach workers of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement can be found.

First Snow falls in Brooklyn as Blizzard Bears Down on City

By Erica Pearson and Christina Boyle for the Ny Daily News
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The first few flakes of an expected 10-inch snowstorm started falling Saturday afternoon as New Yorkers prepared for a two-day whiteout.

Snow began coming down in the outer boroughs as the storm moved into the metropolitan area from the south.

Chanukah in Sydney Australia

This year in Sydney, Australia. there was a beautiful Car Menora Parade with dozens of cars participating. The Talmidei Hashluchim (Rabbinical Students) of the Yeshiva Gedolah and Smicha Program worked tirelessly to prepare magnificent Menoras using cutting edge technology and very bright LED bulbs bringing the light of Chankah to the Streets of Sydney.