“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.”
On Friday evening, Chabad at Brandeis and Hillel at Brandeis — two Jewish organizations on campus that usually conduct separate Shabbat dinners — held a joint Shabbat dinner. The combined Shabbat dinner had over 400 guests, according to Hillel Social Justice and Community Service Coordinator Cynthia Crispino ’21.
The salty-sweet smell of hot, fried potato latkes and doughnuts lingered in the air as a large, festive crowd gathered in front of a 9-foot tall menorah in a northeast wing of Eugene’s Valley River Center.
They were 125 strong—cars, vans, SUVs—with a menorah attached to the top of the vehicles, headed from Squirrel Hill to the Waterfront in Homestead.
The world’s first-ever gumball-dispensing menorah towered over the Button as a crowd of students, faculty, and Philadelphia residents gathered in front of Van Pelt Library to celebrate the second night of Chanukah.
Chabad at MU hosted a menorah lighting for Hanukkah on Monday at the MU Student Center. Chancellor Alexander Cartwright lit the first candle and then the next two candles were lit. Doughnuts and latkes were served to attendees following the lighting ceremony.
You don’t really understand what Hanukkah is all about? Just ask, said Rabbi Mendel Danow of the newly formed Pensacola Chabad Jewish Center, a part of the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic movement that stresses a deeper quest for understanding of the nature of God and intellectual pursuit of the divine.
The window of synagogue in Basel, Switzerland was smashed by a hammer this past Sabbath, according to a report posted on the BZ Basel news website.
The Chabad House at Harvard’s menorah was knocked over on Sunday, the first night of Hanukkah, an incident that is reportedly being investigated as a hate crime.
The eight-day festival of lights celebrates the miracle of a one-day supply of lamp oil that burned for eight days in the temple.
Chabad Lubavitch sponsored the event at City Hall.
Children had the opportunity to light the first candle the same day they built their menorah to begin the celebration of the eight-day festival designed to bring more light into the world, according to Esther Greenspan, youth director of Lubavitch Chabad of Northbrook.