A menorah can be made out of just about anything, including food cans. Miami students will build a “CANorah” beginning at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 4, at the Phi Delt Gates to celebrate Hanukkah, now through Dec. 10.

A large crowd of adults and children filled Pennsylvania Capitol’s East Wing Rotunda on Monday to celebrate the lighting of Pennsylvania’s menorah and to honor the memory of those 11 people whose lives were lost in the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Chabad of the Rivertowns transformed Irvington into a Hanukkah village with activities for families Dec 2, 2018 before the first evening of Hanukkah.

Dassie Prus, co-director of Chabad Lubavitch of Doylestown, wrote If the Candles Could Speak to meet the need she saw for children’s books that told the Chanukah story.

Chabad at Oberlin College Student Group is hosting “People of the Book Project: Bringing Books into Prison” through Sunday, Dec. 2. The group is seeking gently used books that will then be donated to libraries in the Lorain County correctional system.

With the celebration of Hanukkah nearing, Jews in the Shelton and Monroe area can now rejoice right in their own city.
Rabbi Shneur Brook and his wife, Leah, natives of the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., have planted roots on Soundview Avenue and, right out of their home, created the Chabad of Shelton-Monroe

n the mid-1970s, former Chabad Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson encouraged his emissaries to build public menorahs in major cities and organize nightly lightings to increase public awareness about Hanukkah and inspire fellow Jews to light menorahs in their homes.

In Russia, a rabbi is expected to be like the country: conservative, respectable and traditional. But a few pioneers have been bucking the trend in recent years by using social media to reach not only their congregants, but a much wider audience.

The Chabad synagogue in Olney, Md., of which Gittleson is a member has a tradition of constructing a large themed menorah each year and lighting it in one of the Montgomery County town’s main shopping centers. And in 2018, there was an obvious choice for the motif: the Washington Capitals capturing the Stanley Cup.

For the last 10 years, Chabad of Olympia Jewish Center has done a giant menorah lighting at Sylvester Park in Olympia, but this year, the menorah is coming to Yelm. “For the first time we are putting up a giant menorah in (Yelm) City Park,” said Rabbi Yosef Schtroks. “We will be there the whole week in memory of the Pittsburgh massacre a few weeks ago.”

A month after the massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue, Jewish students and the Penn State community will come together to light a 12-foot menorah, organized by Chabad of Penn State.

A project of Chabad of Mill Valley, Brooklyn welcomes anyone who walks through its doors, Rabbi Hillel Scop says.
Inside the tastefully designed space is a wide range of offerings, including original art, fine tableware, silver candelabras, cozy throws and much more. There’s even a coffee bar.