A menorah certified the world’s tallest by the Guinness Book of World Records will return to Midtown Manhattan this weekend for the eighty-day celebration of Hanukkah.
Rabbi Yechiel Baitelman had a special reason to smile at Richmond City Hall on Tuesday afternoon.
In the company members of city council, the Chabad of Richmond rabbi switched on the lights for his congregation’s eight-foot tall menorah to mark the beginning of Hanukkah, one of the biggest Jewish celebrations in the Hebrew calendar.
Hosted by Chabad Islington and supported by a grant from Islington Council, last year’s event attracted up to 1,000 visitors – including a number of dignitaries and polticians – who came out in force despite gloomy weather conditions.
s part of the world’s largest Hanukkah observance, Chabad Mercer Island will ignite a public Hanukkah menorah erected at New Seasons Market, followed by a community-wide celebration on Dec. 6, the fifth night of the eight-day holiday.
A senior Israeli diplomat on Monday called on Pakistan to hold accountable the terrorists responsible for the deadly attacks in Mumbai exactly 10 years ago.
Every great visonary needs disciples to spread their message from outside their direct sphere of influence, and for the Chabad Jewish movement that disciple is Democratic District Leader Geoffrey Davis.
The two Rabbis are in Australia at the moment as members of an organisation that provides to the spiritual, emotional and material needs of Jewish people living away from Jewish centres.
A Jewish organization that made its return to the Northland a couple of months ago will announce its presence in a big way on Sunday. “We’re not hiding our Judaism,” said Rabbi Mendy Ross, leader of Chabad of Duluth. “That’s our thing. Everything is big. Go big or go home.”
This past Saturday, Nov. 24, during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, my family, which has a residence in Wilmington, Vt., and lives permanently in Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, D.C., celebrated the 32nd anniversary of my bar mitzvah at the Chabad of Southern Vermont in Brattleboro.
The biological son of a teenage Jewish mother and non-Jewish father, Murray was adopted as a newborn baby and raised nominally Conservative in rural Connecticut by warm and loving adoptive parents, themselves a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father.
A Maryland circuit court ruled last week that the recently built, $1 million Chabad Center at Towson University and Goucher College must be demolished by Dec. 21, citing a violation of property law.
Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Kathleen Cox said on Nov. 21 that Chabad failed to comply with a setback covenant.
Rabbi Doniel Grodnitzky of Chabad Young Philly knows a little bit about unorthodox matches.
Grodnitzky, formerly a self-described “dreadlocked- hippie,” met his future wife on the Oberlin College quad back when she, too, was a so-called hippie.