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 […]

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 […]