Corsica saw its first public celebration of Hanukkah in its recorded history, according to the French Mediterranean island’s only rabbi.

The Chabad Jewish Center at University of Missouri-Columbia recently purchased the house that the organization had been renting.

Chabad Lubavitch of Alexandria-Arlington hosted a community-wide grand Chanukah celebration last night at the Lyceum in Old Town Alexandria. Alexandria Police Chief Michael Brown was honored with lighting the center candle (the shamash) of the six-foot Menorah.

There’s often hefty traffic going through Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village, but there was good reason for it last Sunday: a motorcade of cars decked with menorahs on their roofs headed down Newtown Lane in celebration of Hanukkah.

Chabad’s Giant Menorah Lighting kindled not only Chanukah candles, but a promise to remember the miracle of finding pure olive oil for the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in the year 139 BCE.

Rabbi Ephraim Silverman stood atop a ladder on the stage at East Cobb Park to pour the change gathered from piggy banks, pockets and couch cushions into the tremendous candle holder.

For Rabbi Yisroel Baumgarten, the first-ever menorah lighting in Hufnagle Park on Sunday represented not just Hanukkah, but freedom of expression.

Families celebrated Chanukah, the Jewish eight-day festival of lights, on Sunday, Dec. 17 with live entertainment, activities and crafts, as well as Chanukah treats, dreidel and the traditional lighting of the menorah.

Pasta took on a new shape at the Chabad Lubavitch of Frederick’s Hanukkah party at the Francis Scott Key Mall on Sunday.

For Rabbi Zvi Konikov, of the Chabad of the Space and Treasure Coasts center in Satellite Beach, who presided over the ceremony, there was a personal miracle that arrived earlier in the morning: a new grandson.

As you enter Bell Works, a Menorah greets you, lit for Hanukkah. Beyond the entrance way, the scene opens up to the sounds and sights of Hanukkah.

Hundreds braved the frigid temperatures Sunday night to gather in the courtyard of West Hartford’s Blue Back Square for the 10th annual ‘Fire on Ice’ Chanukah celebration hosted by Chabad of Greater Hartford.