Over the eight days of Chanukah, the tireless and dedicated released time instructors visited their students in their homes, bringing the joy and beauty of Chanukah to each one of the children’s families. They lit the Menorah with the children and their families, played dreidle and distributed doughnuts and Chanukah gelt. Additionally, they put up Mezuzos in those homes that didn’t have one yet.
PEORIA, IL — Sidney Shaffer of Peoria just turned 5 years old, and loves gelt, or gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins.
“You get to eat them or pay dreidel with them,” she said.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Meir and Chanie (nee Tarlow) Perelstein (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
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CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yarden and Bayla Blumstein (West Bloomfield, MI) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Shmaya and Rochi (nee Silver) Galperin (Holmdel NJ) on the birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
Shul in the Park which is a part of Lubavitch Scotland had a extremly succesful with over 140 people attending the Chanukah party & celebrations at the Shul organised by Rabbi Mendel & Tzirl Jacobs together with Stanley Bernstein. Everyone enjoyed t shirt desiging, Wooden Menorah & Dreidel making, Chanukah Menorah Lighting by Rabbi Mendel Jacobs. Tzirl Jacobs made the Latkes, home made soup, extra large jumbo hot dogs & chips along with donuts were enjoyed by all. Everyone got a box of donuts & a Chanukah goodie box to take home. There was a great mix of age groups from babies to senior citizens with many residents from Burnfield Care home joining the event.
Fort Greene resident and clothing designer Kathlene Williams never believed that one day she would have to apply for food stamps.
But two weeks ago, Williams lost her job designing clothes – and the single mother of two found herself in the same boat as 167,503 other Brooklynites who have been approved for the federal subsidy since January 2008.
WASHINGTON [AP] — Senate Democrats won a crucial test vote on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, putting them on track for passage before the holidays of the historic legislation to remake the nation’s medical system and cover 30 million uninsured.
The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) in conjunction with the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) today announced the suspension of Alternate Side Parking (ASP) regulations Citywide for Tuesday, December 22 to facilitate snow removal. However, parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City.
Alternate side parking regulations will be in effect again on Wednesday, 12/23.
For updated information call 311.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A local restaurant gave back to the community this holiday with the only special of its kind: Black Chanukah.
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 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.
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.”
They’ve been carved of chocolate and ice, constructed of lego and food cans, and now, Chabad of Hong Kong will light a menorah made of CROCS.
Crocs Hong Kong donated the CROCS to Helping Hands – a community service organization for sponsored by Chabad of Hong Kong.
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.
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