It’s dreidel-making time at the Ottawa Torah Centre Chabad, and this year they’re incorporating some new technology to keep young people interested in the ancient tradition.

Friday night marked the sixth night of Hanukkah, and the Chabad Jewish Community Center off Cedar Street in Milford celebrated by lighting a massive menorah on the front lawn.

Eight Holocaust survivors were honored Sunday at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life’s public menorah lighting and Chanukah celebration at Fashion Island in Newport Beach.

The start of the story is all too familiar. For nearly two decades, Chabad at Harvard has erected public menorahs across the city of Cambridge. Like many such public Jewish holiday displays, these menorahs have occasionally been defaced by those angered by Jews and their symbols.

An “indie-industrial” menorah will light up Greenpoint Avenue this weekend during an outdoor “Lights and Latkes” ceremony.

Rabbi Mendel Polichenco, director of The Chabad Carmel Valley and Del Mar Jewish Center, will join The National March for Light Organization during the last night of Chanukah to spread a message of hope and a firm commitment to transforming the world from darkness to light.

With the help of the Forsyth County Fire Department, on Tuesday the community of Congregation Beth Israel and Chabad Forsyth made it rain gold. Chocolate gold, that is.

A 6-foot Lego-style menorah and a “latkes and vodkas” event were among the ways Harford Chabad greeted Hannukah.
Hannukah, of the Festival of Lights, started Dec. 2 and continues through Monday.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis and free doughnuts aplenty were among the familiar sights at the event, organised by Chabad, the Jewish Leadership Council and London Jewish Forum and supported by Genesis Philanthropy Group.

It was latkes, sufganiyot, dancing and singing all around last night at a Hanukkah celebration at the Boxford Police Station.
Chief James Riter and Rabbi Asher Bronstein, of Chabad Lubavitch of Merrimack Valley, hosted the gathering for families, who came from Boxford and area communities to participate.

“Hanukkah is a holiday of quality over quantity,” Ezagui announced. “We Jews have never been in the biggest numbers as far as population. Our number and our journey has always been challenged by exterior circumstances. But like a little flame in the darkness of night, we’ve never been deterred.”

“Prior to the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people were dispersed all over the world,” explained Rabbi Shmuel Lipsker, administrator for Colel Chabad, Israel’s longest running charity, to Breaking Israel News. “When the exiled nation returned to their homeland, they brought with them customs and cuisines acquired along their journey.”