Jack Hoziel founded the Toys for A Smile program, with the Chabad Chai Center. The program aims to visit and put smiles on hospitalized childrens’ faces through volunteers distributing unique gifts to everyone including the parents and staff, while improving the overall quality of life and atmosphere at the hospitals.
American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman and his wife, Tammy, helped package food for needy families at a Chabad charity in Jerusalem earlier this week.
Last Saturday, the Chabad House on the Champs-Elysées Boulevard temporarily closed its doors for the first time due to safety concerns. The Chabad House issued a message saying that “for the first time, the Chabad House will not open on Shabbat morning; the police do not have the situation under control and today is a very dangerous day.”
Assemblyman Anthony D’Urso presented a NYS Assembly citation to the family of Beverly Hazelkorn at the annual Hanukkah menorah lighting held at the Port Washington train terminal and sponsored by the Chabad of Port Washington.
With warm latkeh and a grand menorah, Chabad of Capitol Hill celebrated the eighth night of Chanukah in Volunteer Park on a chilly and wet Sunday in Seattle.
As the Chabad Jewish Center of Vernon Hills celebrated Hanukkah with a Menorah lighting Sunday morning, Rabbi Shimon Susskind said the festivities mark an “unprecedented” growth in group’s 10-year existence.
It wouldn’t be Hanukkah in San Antonio without mariachis playing Hava Nagila on a bridge over the river downtown. On a crisp afternoon under bright sunshine, about 800 people converged on the Arneson River Theatre to watch musical performances and the lighting of a nine-foot menorah Sunday, marking the final night of the Jewish festival of lights.
Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo Ron Huldai inaugurated the renewed Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv by lighting the fourth Hanukkah candle of the central Chabad menorah with Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo.
This year, at Fort Collins’ 14th annual menorah lighting Sunday hosted by Chabad of Northern Colorado, Gorelik added to that message, saying each person can do things to bring light to their community.
The event, which is a celebration of the Jewish festival, Hanukkah, is an annual tradition in the city. It is hosted by the Chabad of Venice, which Davis has been a part of for the last 13 years. This year’s festival was also co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee.
Although students on the Chabad Board began planning the specific event about a month and a half ago, the event has been in the works for much longer, according to Chabad’s Co-Holiday Chair Benji Freeman ’21. Director of the Chabad House Rabbi Eitan Webb explained that he has been working on trying to host a fully kosher Jewish event at Prospect House for “over a decade.”
The Jewish community at California State University Northridge held a menorah lighting on Dec. 6 in response to the anti-Semitic graffiti that was found a day earlier.