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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 […]
Brand new film by Bentzi Avtzon entitled ‘The Idea of Light’. The story behind the White House Menorah.
Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida Kindled a Huge Menorah at their newly purchased property on Mcgregor Boulevard. The First Night of the First Candle was kindle. There after every night an additional candle will be lit. Chabad Lubavitch has designed 2 Beautiful signs wishing the community A Happy Chanukah & stands beautiful displayed on their […]
When they’re a minority in their school, how do these kids celebrate Chanukah? “When I grow up, I’m going to marry Matt. Then we’ll have an Xmas tree in our house,” five-year-old Emma Goodman declared, as her mother, Rebecca, picked her up from school one day in December. Emma, now seven, and her brothers, five-year-old […]
Celebration caps a year of unprecedented Jewish growth at the Ivy League college “They bring the darkness, we bring the light.” That became the motto of the micro-community of Jewish students at Chabad at Dartmouth after last year’s antisemitic attack during Chanukah involving the vandalization of the public menorah on campus. In a senseless act […]
Chabad averts a national menorah shortage amid current shipping crisis A Chanukah without menorahs? It was a disaster waiting to happen. As the national shipping crisis dragged on, with 55 ships dotting the Southern Californian waters waiting to dock at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports, everyone from wholesalers to grocery shoppers had been […]
Jewish tradition fuses with authentic New Mexican flavor in the “chile capital of the world” Anyone from New Mexico knows about its chilies — the ubiquitous pepper is a symbol of pride in the region. Rabbi Berel Levertov of the Santa Fe Chabad Jewish Center wanted a menorah that would bring the community together. What […]