Chabadnik News
This past Sunday marked the groundbreaking for Chabad’s new education center. Located in the North Miami-Dade neighborhood of Highland Lakes, Chabad Chayil has broken ground on a new five story building that is estimated to cost $12 million, with construction costing close to $9 million. Chabad Chayil was founded as the local Chabad Center in […]
Mayor-elect Eric Adams joined the Jewish community of Accra, Ghana, for a menorah lighting celebration on Wednesday. Hosted by former Brooklynite and Chabad Rabbi Noach Majeski, the celebration stirred Mayer-elect Adams to comment on the Rebbe’s vision he saw unfolding before his eyes. “Nobody personified the ideal of turning pain into purpose like the Grand […]
By Rabbi Menachem Brod Translated by Yoni Brown We’re always seeking ways to get ahead in life. If we rent our home, we want to buy our own place. If we own a small apartment, we seek out a more spacious one. We want a newer car and a more prestigious or challenging job. But […]
Bringing the joy of the holiday to more people than ever before From the asphalt avenues of major cities to the cobblestoned streets of small towns and villages; from massive sports stadiums to rural private homes; from 15,000 large public menorahs to the small shining lights of 700,000 tin ones distributed this year alone, 8 […]
The origins of most major Jewish holidays, like Passover and Purim, are recorded in the Tanach (scriptures). And for that reason, the stories of those holidays never change, no matter who’s telling them. But the same cannot be said for Chanukah: the story isn’t recorded in the Tanach, so it varies dramatically from one telling […]
Geula Message from Parshas Mikeitz with Rabbi Avrohom Yehuda Kievman, Dayan at Melbourne Beis Din, based on the teachings of The Rebbe
By Rabbi Yisroel Freeman, Sudbury, Massachusetts “Let’s take a drive down Route 20,” I told my children, as we drove home from last night’s Chanukah celebration in Marlborough, Massachusetts, just outside Boston. “Maybe the sight of the menorah on our car will cheer someone up.” On the way, we pulled into the Rugged Bear Plaza […]
Shares Chanukah message of hope Speaking the first night of Chanukah from atop a cherry picker at the lighting of the world’s largest menorah at the corner of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue and 59th Street, New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams declared that “we know what the Rebbe did for all of us,” referring to the […]
During Israel visit in response to soldier’s killing, rock singer dons tefillin at the Kotel Camera crews jostled with security personnel, reporters, and fans as heavy metal star David Draiman made his way across the plaza towards the Kotel (Western Wall). A young man dressed in typical Chassidic garb cut through the throng and approached […]
On each of the eight nights of Chanukah, this year beginning November 28 through December 6, we light the menorah. Here, in a nutshell, is how it works: Though meant to recall the seven-branched candelabrum that once stood in the Temple, our modern-day menorah has eight lights, plus one more, known as the shamash, or […]