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Masked Men Disrupt Chanukah Ceremony with Nazi Flags

By Linda Conner Lambeck for the Connecticut Post
Top right, Rabbi Shlame Landa of Chabad of Fairfield. Bottom, three pseudo nazi’s, their faces covered in masks wave Nazi flags.. (Phil Noel/ Staff photographer)

FAIRFIELD — Pouring rain failed to dampen the spirts of a small group of families huddled on the Sherman Green gazebo to light a menorah on the third night of Hanukkah Sunday.

Neither did three masked men, who carrying Nazi flags and shouting obscenities, tried to disrupt the ceremony until they fled when police arrived.

Rahm Emanuel Lights U.S. National Menorah

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel lit the National Menorah in front of the White House Sunday evening in celebration of Chanukah. The ceremony marked the 30th anniversary of the first National Menorah lighting in 1979 attended by then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

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Mendel Rubashkin Celebrates his Hanochas Tefillin, with his Father

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – The early release of Reb Moshe Rubashkin came as some welcomed good news in the neighborhood, amidst the tragedy which has befallen Sholom Mordechai as well as to the Shomrim Six, and the happiest of them all was Moshes son, Mendel Rubashkin, who celebrated his Hanochas Tefillin with his father, classmates, and family in 770 this morning.

Over 100 Vehicles in Menorah Parade!

As is a long standing tradition, every Motzoai Shabbos Chanukah the Mitzvah Tanks, that are busy doing Chanukah Mivtzoim every day, along with cars topped with Menorahs set out from 770 in Crown Heights on a parade to Grand Army Plaza in Manhattan where they pass by as they light the worlds biggest Menorah.

Giant Chanukah Menorah Topples in Monroe

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Rabbi Eliezer Zaklikovsky of Chabad Jewish Center of Monroe talks with one of the installers as the broken menorah is hoisted by a crane. Photo: David Gard/The Star-Ledge

MONROE TWP., NJ — The state’s largest Chanukah menorah, which was supposed to be lit tonight for the first night of the holiday, was damaged after it fell over and hit a traffic signal on Wednesday in Monroe Township, police said.

Rabbi Dov Gruzman Shliach in Vienna, Attacked

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Rabbi Dov Gruzman. Photo: Meir Elfasi, Shturem.net

A Muslim man attacked a Chabad rabbi Saturday night as he was conducting the annual ceremony to light the public Chanukah menorah in Stefenfaltz Square in the city of Vienna, Austria.

Video – New York’s Jewish Community Celebrates Chanukah

CROWN HEIGHTS [NY1] — Jews around the city began celebrating Hanukkah, the festival of lights, at sundown Friday.

The holiday marks the Jews’ rebellion against the Hellenistic Greek leader Antiochus, who outlawed Jewish religious customs in the second century B.C. When the Jews rededicated the temple in Jerusalem, the wicks of the menorah burned for eight days, seven longer than expected for the amount of oil they had.