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How the First Grand Public Menorah Was Born in San Francisco, 1975
On a blustery first night of Chanukah in 1975, more than 1,000 Jews crowded into San Francisco’s Union Square to witness the first giant public menorah-lighting in modern history. Forty-four years after this unprecedented show of Jewish pride and observance, some 15,000 large public menorahs will bring light to public squares, government buildings, sports arenas […]
The start of Hanukkah in Forsyth County, in photos
Chabad Forsyth and Congregational Beth Israel celebrated the start of the Jewish festival Hanukkah on Sunday, Dec. 22, at Halcyon with an event featuring live music, performances, food and more. The festival lasts eight days and commemorates the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees after their victory over the Syrians. This year’s Hanukkah ends […]
Is This Chanukah Story Too Violent For Children?
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 […]
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Florida Children Create ‘World’s Largest Dreidel’
Built with help from a local contractor, the top stands 25 feet tall and actually spins! After two weeks of sawing, hammering, painting and puttering, the children of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hebrew Academy Community School in Margate, Fla., stepped back to enjoy the towering sight of the world’s largest dreidel. Measuring a little more than 25 […]
Chanukah Flame in a Hungarian Village Rises From the Ashes of the Holocaust
Newly arrived rabbi and his wife reignite Jewish sparks in Szentendre On June 30, 1944, all of the remaining Jews in a small town north of Budapest called Szentendre were rounded up and shipped to their deaths in Auschwitz. Once part of a thriving Jewish community, these residents were but a small portion of the […]
Chabad of the Bluegrass celebrates first day of Hanukkah, honors Lexington police chief
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Christmas is still a couple of days away, but the celebration of Hanukkah has already started. Sunday night Chabad of the Bluegrass lit the first candle on a 10-feet-tall menorah standing in the Lexington-Fayette Government Center.It’s one of 15,000 public menorahs worldwide. While celebrating the first night of the eight-day holiday, […]