The Rebbe addressing children at a Lag Ba’Omer Parade 1953. Special Thanks Rabbi Mordechai Kirschenbaum. Click here to see previous weeks pictures.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — As Rabbi Zalman Light celebrates his 96th birthday on the 5th night of Chanukah, the “Festival of Lights,” he is surrounded by 100+ children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren for the annual birthday party, which grows in number each year K”H.
Rabbi Light (Liachow) was born in 1911 and married Lena Minkowitz in 1944. After leaving Russia in 1946 with their first child, escaping the war through Germany & Austria, where the next two children were born, they settled in Toronto, Canada, and raised their children there amongst the Anash families in the area.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Sholom Bitton (Lyon, France) and Devora Mergui (Paris, France) on their engagement.
The L’Chaim will IYH be tonight, Wednesday at 1548 President St, [between Troy and Albany Ave].
Please say urgent Tehillim for Tanya bas Batya
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A cold and rainy evening turned devastating when an elderly Jewish woman attempted to cross Empire Boulevard and was struck by oncoming traffic leaving her unconscious and fighting for her life.
The incident took place at around 7:00pm when the woman tried to cross from the corner of Balfour Pl. and made it halfway across when traffic began coming she tried to turn around and was clipped by a passing taxi sending her flying through the air and landing on her head, dealing her severe head trauma and knocking her unconscious.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Dovid Chaim Gurovitch (Denver, CO) and Racheli Kats (Toronto, Ontario) .
IYH at 1401 President St, [bet Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].
Sholom Ber Heintz (Netherlands) to Rivky Shuchat (Crown Heights) .
YH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [entrance on Albany Ave].
Sholom Ditcon (Lyon, France) and Devora Mergui (Paris, France)
IYH at 1548 President St, [bet Troy and Albany Ave].
Shaya Gopin (Crown Heights) and Shaina Gershovitz (Crown Heights) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St, [bet New York and Nostrand Ave].
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia [CHI] — This Chanukah, the Jewish Community of Vladivostok filled the Philharmonic Concert Hall, celebrating the achievements of the past year. The evening’s program included entertainers from all over Russia, culminating with the lighting of the Menorah.
GOSHEN, NY [CHI] — The students of Chabad Hebrew School decided that the holiday time is a time for action. On Sunday, December 9, many students and their parents met at Shop Rite in Monroe to launch a toy drive.
S MONICA, CA [CHI] — Sunday at the Chanukah Craft Fair in S Monica, children made menorahs and dreidls during the fair and Rabbi’s Levitansky demonstrated how to press olive oil, and then lit a menorah with the oil.
Full flyer with store times in the Extended Article!
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — This past Thursday, Oholei Torah PTA presented a spectacular Chanukah fun day exclusively for the boys of Oholei Menachem.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Hadasa (nee Mendlewicz) Korer (Crown Heights) on the birth of their firstborn daughter, Rivka.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — More than 600 children came out for a pre-Chanukah production put on by the Beit Jabad del Uruguay in Montevideo.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Yehuda Berl ben Miriam
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — With over 10,000 men and women across the globe partaking in JLI’s current course on Israel, titled The Land & The Spirit, JLI Central produces each week a brief, striking flash presentation depicting each “city of the week” being explored during the semester. This flash, shown at each JLI chapter at the conclusion of the lesson takes the student on a visual journey through the featured holy city of the week’s lesson.
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy and Esty (nee Lazar) Raitport (Cronw Heights) on the birth of their son!
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
To submit a Simcha or Mazal Tov please email us at mazaltov@crownheights.info!
LONGMONT, CO — A rabbi who raps.
Now listen kids, we’re here to say,
We’re rappin’ about a very special holiday,
A rabbi who places candles in a menorah fashioned from bowling pins.
MELBOURNE, Austrailia — The Menorah, or chanukia, is traditionally lit by the window or door of Jewish homes, symbolising the power of light over darkness and right over might
The Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi M. M. Schneerson took this idea a step further, stressing that menorahs be kindled in public throughout the world, with Menorah Lighting ceremonies, to illuminate the pathways of freedom for all mankind.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
