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.
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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.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yitz and Dina (nee Stock) Weiss (Agoura Hills CA) on thr birth of their son.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to his parents, grandparents, relatives and Klal Yisroel.
City and state dignitaries were among the several hundred people who gathered Sunday night in Old Town Square to celebrate Hanukkah with the lighting of a giant menorah.
“It is fabulous. After all of the controversy and things going on in the past week and the past year, it is nice to see their support,” said Jennifer Pustilnik, who attended the celebration with her children.
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We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Shimshon and Rochel (nee Cohen) Vcherashansky 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!
SILVER SPRING, MD — In a holiday celebration Monday, seven children spun like a dreidel as they sang along with children’s entertainer Susan McNelis.
“Oh, dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay. And when it’s dry and ready, then dreidel I shall play,” they all sang.
Nosson Blumes is sitting Shiva after the passing of his dear father, Reb Ephraim OBM, at 640 Eastern Parkway APT #1C from Tuesday afternoon.
Shacharis 7:15am, Mincha and Maariv B’zmanah
Email: nblumes@aol.com
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch Shaar Avaylay Tzion VeYerushalayim
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ALBANY, NY — A Hebrew Day School in Albany celebrates an important milestone on the seventh night of Chanukah. They overcame the destruction of irreplaceable pews at the hands of vandals over the summer. The dedication Monday represented a historic milestone in the history of this city’s Jewish community.
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