UNIONDALE, NY [CHI] — As the horn sounded ending the first period of the game between the NY Islanders and the Boston Bruins, at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY, a 6 foot Menorah was ushered onto the ice amidst great fanfare.
SAO PAULO, Brazil [CHI] — This Sunday hundreds gathered for the annual Chanukah Menorah lighting at the Praca dos Arcos square in S. Paulo, Brazil.
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.
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.
An incredible Holocaust Chanukah Story by Mashpia Rabbi Yossi Chazan of Manchester, England, told at the Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Avraham Moshe ben Miriam Tova A 4 year old has cancer that spread to his brain and spine.
Tziporah bas Shoshe Raizel Yocheved
Chaya Mushka bas Chana
CrownHeights.info wishes Mazal Tov to Yosef and Nechama (nee Chein) Lewis (Crown Heights) on the birth of their daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel.
PHILADELPHIA, PA [CHI] – Over 200 cars partook in the annual Chanukah Menorah Parade in Philadelphia. The Parade began at the Museum, passed the Philadelphia City Hall and made its way to the mall where hot Latkes and yummy doughnuts were served followed by the grand Menorah lighting.
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.
Get ready for Chanukah, for the most phenomenal production for women and girls!!
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.
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.
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.
Zalmy Raskin (England) and Miriam Shain (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchock, 556 Crown St [entrance ramp on Albany Ave].
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NEW YORK, NY [CHI] – On hand for an early Menorah lighting was Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg who a few hours before Chanukah lit the worlds largest kosher Chanukah Menorah with Rabbi Shmuel Butman and the Menorahs designer Yaakov Agam.
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.
For the Tenth consecutive year in Tallahassee, Florida Governor Charlie Crist enjoyed the Chanukah celebration arranged by Chabad of Tallahassee, the local branch of Jewish outreach giant Chabad-Lubavitch. The event was well attended with over 100 people, including many Chabad Rabbis from all over Florida. You can feel that the amazing energy of Chanukah was felt vibrantly in the air.
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