In a city targeted by neo-Nazis with ‘Vax the Jews’ message, Chabad is undeterred One month after a neo-Nazi group displayed a banner reading “Vax the Jews” from a bridge in Austin, Texas, Chabad-Lubavitch of Austin will be hosting a menorah-lighting and pop-up Chanukah celebration on the second night of the holiday, Monday, Nov. 29, […]

It is kindled for 43rd year in outdoor ceremony on White House Ellipse In what many scholars have credited for bringing the message of Chanukah into mainstream American public consciousness, the annual lighting of the National Menorah in Washington, D.C., took place for the 43d year on the first night of Chanukah. “The Ellipse,” just […]

Menorahs great and small brighten the world “The essential thing is the deed,” wrote the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—in his public Chanukah letter for 1973. “First and foremost must come the practical act, the first mitzvah of [Chanukah] being the lighting of the candles … .” But this act of lighting the […]

Fenster will mark his personal Chanukah miracle with his hometown community Chabad-Lubavitch’s annual “Menorah in the D” Chanukah celebration in Detroit’s downtown will pay tribute to a hometown miracle on Sunday night, the first night of Chanukah, when it honors journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently released from prison in Myanmar. Fenster, a Detroit native, […]

For Chabad Rebbetzin Sarah Barash, dropping chocolate coins from a helicopter creates powerful educational moments Like thousands of her fellow Chabad emissaries, Rebbetzin Sarah Barash holds a public Menorah Lighting event each year for her community in Jupiter, Florida. Alongside her husband Rabbi Berel Barash, she serves up latkes, doughnuts, music, and of course, the […]

The public menorah has become a ubiquitous symbol at shopping malls, parks and public spaces the world over. But arguments over holiday displays and the religious nature of their symbols have been waged in town halls, on city boards and have even reached the Supreme Court. From our archives, Lubavitch.com presents two articles that look […]

A chance encounter months before leads to a late-night mitzvah Looming above the Hawaiian island of Maui at 10,023 feet is Haleakalā, a dormant volcano surrounded by lush rainforest and Mars-like red landscapes. Rabbi Mendy Krasnjansky was winding his way up the mountain with two visiting rabbinical students before Rosh Hashanah 2020. The students, who […]

With morphing sizes, shapes, materials and vehicles, they’ve become a familiar sight at Chanukah the world over You know them when you see them, and when you see them, you know it’s Chanukah. The car menorah is a uniquely American innovation—a marketing gimmick created by young yeshivah students in the early 1970s as a way […]

Rabbi Shmuly and Freidy Hecht provide material and spiritual sustenance to all Nestled among breathtaking scenery along the west coast of Canada, the picturesque town of Hope, British Columbia, was hammered with record rainfall earlier this month, flooding the entire town and overwhelming its wastewater system. To make matters worse, all roads linking the town […]