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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, […]
Gov. Beshear and Mayor Fischer join Chabad of Ky. for $5 million ‘Project Friendship’ initiative
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — City and State leaders are giving back to the community in a big way as Gov. Andy Beshear and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer participate in “Project Friendship.” At Fourth Street Live on Sunday afternoon, the two joined forces with the leaders of Chabad of Kentucky to launch the multi-million dollar initiative. […]
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Jewish Pride Highlights Chanukah From 10 Downing Street to Laramie, Wyo.
Amid rising anti-Semitism, Chabad will reach 8 million Jews through the eight days From New Zealand and India to Jerusalem and London, as the first lights of Chanukah begin to shine around the world, Chabad-Lubavitch centers are seeing a groundswell of Jewish pride in response to growing anti-Semitism, with record crowds turning out at the […]
So What If It Is Permissible
Weekly Story by Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon E 12 So What If It Is Permissible Weekly Story by Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon In honor of Tes and Yud Kislev Rabbi Tzvi Telsner of Melbourne, Australia farbrenged. During the farbrengen he mentioned the mesiras nefesh of the Cantonist soldiers and related the following story. I decided […]
Young Jewish Professionals Worldwide Spread Chanukah Light
The goal of the ‘Ambassadors of Light’ effort is to distribute menorahs and make new connections Chanukah was just around the corner, and Yudi Hercenberg was out delivering menorahs. The Manhattan resident is passionate about helping make sure as many people as possible can participate in the mitzvah of lighting Chanukah candles for the holiday, […]
The First ‘Virtual Reality’ Chanukah Comes to Brooklyn
High-tech holiday experiences around the world engage and entertain With Chanukah beginning on Sunday night, Chabad centers around the world are full force into preparing for holiday events. Meaningful and inspirational merges with entertaining and engaging at the typical Chabad event, characteristic of what emissaries offer to communities large and small. And what’s more engaging […]