Around 200 people gathered Tuesday evening to celebrate Chanukah, and to kindle the giant 9 Ft. Menorah at the Deptford Mall. The event, sponsored by Chabad of Gloucester County in conjunction with the mall, featured a balloon clown for the kids, music, dancing, and of course the traditional Chanukah foods – delicious latkes and Jelly doughnuts.
…No, this isn’t the beginning of another Rabbi joke, but this is what took place yesterday in Peoria’s Carver Arena in Illinois when Rabbi Eli Langsam stepped onto the ice to light an ice Chanukah Menorah.
OTTAWA, Canada [CHI] — Ottawa’s Jewish university students flocked to Ottawa University’s prestigious Tabaret Hall on Sunday December 13 to celebrate Chanukah with a Menorah lighting ceremony and a special address from Ottawa University president, Allan Rock.
The Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada took part in a Menorah lighting ceremony in his office in the Langevin Building in Ottawa.
Return one day before your death! (Pirkei Avos 2:10)
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev once encountered a man scurrying about. “What has you so harried,” asked the Rabbi. “Can’t you tell? I am pursuing my livelihood,” said the man.
“What makes you so sure that you are chasing your livelihood?” continued the Rabbi. “Perhaps it is behind you and all you are doing is running away from it?”
A Jewish peasant, who eked-out a meager livelihood farming a small parcel of land, had but one dream; a bigger plot to till. He prayed to G-d incessantly for this wish to come true.
What sweeter way to make Chanukah memorable than a menorah with 100 pounds of jellybeans, sandy candy dreidels and Chanukah Candy Grams?
There was something sweet for everyone at Chabad’s “Chanukah in Candy Land” party, a twist on their annual Chanukah Bowl. The event was hosted by Chabad of Orange County, directed by Rabbi Pesach & Chana Burston.
Palm Beach County had its second hate crime this month against Jews when a menorah was bombarded with eggs at the Chabad Student Center in Boca Raton.
Rabbi Boruch Shmuel Liberow woke up Wednesday morning to find eggs and egg shells splattered around his 2008 Honda Civic that’s topped with a two-foot menorah. The eggs dried up overnight and caused about $1,200 in damage to the car’s paint, according to the police report.
The Chabad of Uptown Houston is making this Chanukah a sweet experience.
Chabad members constructed what they hoped would become the world’s largest chocolate menorah, made up of 480 chocolate donuts, fruit roll-ups and edible gelt.
Yehuda and Sara’le Adelist.
IYH at 580 Crown St, Unit 311 [between Albany and Troy Ave].
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HALLANDALE BEACH, FL [CHI] — For the third consecutive year, 10,000 men, women and children flocked to Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach Florida, celebrating the 30th Annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah Festival.
WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid took time from his busy schedule this morning to light a special Chanukah Menorah with Rabbi Cunin and a West Coast Chabad Lubavitch Nevada delegation. US Senator John Ensign joined the lighting ceremony, which was the highlight of a Chanukah reception held at a breakfast in the Lyndon B. Johnson room in the US Capitol.
A 3-year-old Brooklyn girl was fighting for her life Wednesday night after being pulled from a fire in her home sparked when a lighted menorah toppled over, officials and a witness said.
In an evening entitled ‘Light the Night’ the Moshav Band performed at the Graduate Center in Manhattan.
The Chanukah Auction hosted by Yeshiva Darchai Menachem is only days away, and students in Crown Heights are working hard to earn first place in the annual menorah competition. The unique menorah creations this year promise to outdo the many varieties of those entered in previous years.
ANTWERP, Belgium [CHI] — One of Antwerp’s large parks ‘City Park’ is also known as the ‘Cholent Park’ among its Jewish residents since its known as the place to go for a walk after the Shabbos meal. The park is located in the center of where most jews live in the city and is right near the local Chabad House.
CZECH REPUBLIC, Prague [CHI] — Hundreds of local residents and Israeli tourists gathered on Sunday, the third night of Chanukah, in the Jan Palach Square for the central menorah lighting with local Chabad Shliach Rabbi Manis Barash.
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yisroel Noach (ben R Chaim) Majesky (Crown Heights) and Altie Pevzner (Paris, France) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at the Razag Ballroom, 739 E New York Ave [between Albany and Troy Ave].
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