The Nariman House, one of the places that was under siege during the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, is being transformed into a memorial to commemorate all those who lost their lives 10 years ago in the incident.

Chabad of Los Alamitos honored the victims of the mass shootings in Pittsburgh and Thousand Oaks and the fires in California – along with the first responders who came to their aid – as part its annual Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony on Sunday, Nov. 25, at the Seal Beach Pier.

Hundreds of residents from all over Connecticut will kick off the holiday of Chanukah as they observe a master ice-carver sculpt a giant Menorah from a raw block of ice, at what has become one of West Hartford’s mega events, and the largest Chanukah celebration in the state.

Announcing this, present Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, who also heads the Chabad Trust in India, said here on Friday that the renaming ceremony would take place on November 25, the eve of 26/11 attacks, at the main Jewish social-cultural-religious hub at Colaba in south Mumbai.

Local Chabads are holding a variety of Chanukah festivals and menorah-lighting ceremonies in the area.

An eight-day commemoration of the Maccabees rededicating the Temple after their victory over the Syrians in 165 B.C.E., Hanukkah begins on the evening of Dec. 2 this year and ends on the evening of Dec. 10.

Only in Israel: Radio 103FM “Breakfast Club” hosts made a passing comment on air expressing desire to wear tefillin, and were shocked and delighted when local Chabad emissary Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Beckerman arrived to their studio to facilitate Jews connecting to their Creator.

The Chabad Jewish Center of Monroeville received over 100 decorated mezuzahs and sentimental cards from the Moriah School in Englewood, N.J. The school’s mitzvah, or good deed, followed a Chabad Lubavitch of Pittsburgh campaign seeking 1,100 mezuzahs from around the world to symbolize unity.

The free event, which will feature a public lighting of a Jewish menorah, will take place starting at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 3, at the Monroeville Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Panera Bread’s parking lot.

Jewish Heritage Celebration with the Long Island Nets will kick off the fun-filled family festivities featuring kosher stadium food, a half-time rabbis vs. teens basketball game, and an on-court menorah lighting ceremony.

Rabbi Mayer and Chanie Gurkov and their children, Shmuli and Lana, have joined the Wayne-based Chabad Center of Passaic County.

Gary Spund, an Israeli businessman, was scheduled to be in the Mumbai Chabad House on Nov. 26, 2008, the night it was attacked as part of a massive terrorist assault that murdered 164 people.