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 | Chanukah 5770 in Photos
Chabad.org Staff — 12/22/2009 11:00:00 AMChanukah events sponsored by local Chabad-Lubavitch centers brought giant menorahs, exotic celebrations and dozens of parades to cities and towns all across the world. Slideshow |  |
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 | Canadian PM Hosts Menorah Lighting
Chabad.org Staff — 12/21/2009 9:00:00 AMCanadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper participated in a Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony in his Ottawa office. |  |
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 | Hawaiians Light Giant Cake Menorah
By Chabad.org Staff — 12/21/2009 10:00:00 AMChabad-Lubavitch of Hawaii reportedly baked the world’s largest Chanukah cake-menorah last week, kindling the 2.5-foot-high and eight-foot-long candelabra at its “Chanukah in Ancient Israel” event. 1 Comment |  |
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 | Lego Menorah Kindled in Canada
By Chabad.org Staff — 12/21/2009 12:00:00 PMThe Toronto suburb of Markham played host to what was believed by residents to be one of the world's largest Lego menorahs. |  |
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 | Polish Parliament Celebrates Chanukah
Chabad.org Staff — 12/17/2009 9:30:00 PMChabad Lubavitch of Warsaw kindled the Chanukah menorah in the Polish Parliament with senators, deputies and the legislative body’s vice marshal, Stefan Niesiolowski. |  |
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 | Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson Welcomes Chanukah Delegation
By Joshua Runyan — 12/14/2009 10:15:00 AMIn his first official meeting with Chabad-Lubavitch representatives since assuming Kansas’ highest political office, Gov. Mark Parkinson took the occasion of Chanukah to speak about his favorable impressions of the Holy Land. Slideshow |  |
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 | Schwarzenegger Enjoys Chasidic Dance at Capitol Lighting
Chabad.org Staff — 12/16/2009 1:00:00 PMThis year, guests at the Sacramento celebration participated in a “reverse toy drive” sponsored by Disney. The governor passed gifts out during the ceremony, and Chabad of California asked that attendees give the toys to children in need. Slideshow |  |
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 | Nationwide Chanukah Festivals Light Up the Daytime
By Chana Kroll — 12/15/2009 1:20:00 PMParents on the lookout for fun and exciting ways to keep the flame of the Festival of Lights alive during the day have found the answer to their prayer in dozens of Chanukah Wonderlands that have popped up across the United States. |  |
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 | Worldwide Menorah Lightings Live Online
By Joshua Runyan — 12/13/2009 1:45:00 PMThrough its streaming video portal, Jewish.tv, Chabad.org is taking viewers around the world this Chanukah by broadcasting an assortment of public menorah lightings live. |  |
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 | Australian State Parliament Celebrates First Chanukah
By Chabad.org Staff — 12/10/2009 1:00:00 PMOrganized by the regional headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, the first Chanukah party since the parliament’s inception in 1856 drew prominent politicians and dignitaries, including Premier Nathan Rees and Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell. |  |
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 | Free Menorahs Available in Advance of Chanukah
By Chabad.org Staff — 12/8/2009 12:00:00 PMWith the approach of Chanukah, Chabad-Lubavitch institutions around the world have been working around the clock to make the eight-day Festival of Lights more accessible to Jewish people of all backgrounds. |  |
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 | South Korea Gets a Public Menorah
1/2/2009 8:30:00 AMSouth Korea made history last week with the country’s very first public Chanukah menorah lighting, sponsored by the new Chabad-Lubavitch center in Seoul. Slideshow |  |
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 | Vietnam’s Jews Take to the Great Outdoors
12/28/2008 9:30:00 AMThe Jewish community in Vietnam’s largest municipality, Ho Chi Minh City, took their Chanukah festivities outside after last year’s party overflowed the confines of the local Chabad-Lubavitch center. Slideshow |  |
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 | Tallest Mountain in the World Gets a Chanukah Menorah
By Joshua Runyan — 12/25/2008 6:15:00 PMTwo Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students erected a menorah at the summit of the tallest mountain in the world, driving a line of torches into the ground as a couple of tourists walked past. |  |
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| Flames Carry Mumbai Menorah’s Light Skyward
12/25/2008 11:15:00 AMHundreds of people crowded in the small alley outside of Mumbai, India’s central Chabad-Lubavitch to witness a public Chanukah menorah lighting outside the six-story building destroyed in last month’s terror attacks. 1 Watch (4:01) |  |
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 | Menorah Shines From Scene of Mumbai’s Prior Devastation
By Joshua Runyan — 12/25/2008 3:45:00 PMOne month after a coordinated series of terror attacks brought life to a standstill in Mumbai, more than 600 people crowded in front of the city’s Gateway to India monument for a public Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony proclaiming that the goodness typified by the targeted Chabad-Lubavitch center would always prevail over evil. 4 Comments |  |
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 | Light Again Issues Forth From Mumbai Chabad House
By Joshua Runyan — 12/25/2008 7:30:00 AMFamily, friends and colleagues of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries murdered in last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai, India, gathered at the couple’s Chabad House to issue a beacon of light in the form of a Chanukah menorah. 1 Comment |  |
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 | Capitol Menorah Lighting Warms Subzero Air
12/24/2008 6:15:00 PMAssisted by Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman kindled the giant Chanukah menorah erected outside the state capitol in S. Paul by the Upper Midwest headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Slideshow |  |
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 | Can Menorahs to Champion Hunger Relief
12/23/2008 4:00:00 PMJoining scores of other Chabad Houses around the United States, shoppers at a mall in Cherry Hill, N.J., constructed a giant Chanukah menorah out of an estimated 1,000 donated cans of food |  |
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 | French Floridians Welcome Chanukah
12/22/2008 1:00:00 PMFrancophone Jews living in Florida ushered in the eight-day holiday of Chanukah during a menorah lighting ceremony at the home of French Consul General Philippe Vinogradoff. 1 Comment |  |
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 | Menorahs Down Under Draw Parliamentary Leaders
12/22/2008 11:00:00 AMHours before the rest of the Jewish world lit its menorahs for the first night of Chanukah, thousands of people in the Australian state of Victoria celebrated the holiday during a party at a local park |  |
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 | Rendell Cites Chanukah in Call for World Peace
12/22/2008 9:00:00 AMIn remarks delivered the same day as Jewish community leaders and politicians attended a Chanukah party hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch of Harrisburg at the Pennsylvania State Capitol, Gov. Edward G. Rendell called on all nations to work together to “to bring |  |
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 | Brother of Mumbai Rabbi to Light NY Menorah
12/21/2008 2:00:00 PMRabbi Avraham Holtzberg, brother of Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg - the slain director of the Chabad House in Mumbai, India - is expected to light a giant menorah at a Long Island park and speak about the self-sacrifice of his brother and sister-in-law Rivka. |  |
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 | Lone Star’s Chief Welcomes Rabbinical Delegation
By Joshua Runyan — 12/12/2007Texas Gov. Rick Perry met with 16 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis – including directors of two campus-based Chabad Houses – in his private capitol office Tuesday to mark the eight-day holiday of Chanukah. |  |
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 | With a Menorah in Parliament, Polish Jews Make History
By Oliver Bradley — 12/11/2007Monday night marked the first-ever Chanukah menorah lighting in the Sejm, Poland’s parliament. Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Shalom Stambler assisted Vice President Jaroslaw Kalinowski in lighting the candelabra. |  |
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 | Chanukah at Macy’s
By Mimi Notik — 12/11/2007The Jewish Children’s Museum’s Chanukah workshop was a hit with kids and parents who were shopping at the Macy’s flagship department store on 34th Street in Manhattan. |  |
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 | Photos: Millions Watch Menorah Lighting in Brazil
12/10/2007A reported tens-of-millions television viewers, as well as tens of thousands of commuters and pedestrians, witnessed the Dec. 6 Chanukah menorah lighting conducted by Chabad-Lubavitch of Brazil on S. Paulo’s Avenida Paulista. The regional governor and the city’s mayor were on hand for the celebration. Slideshow |  |
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 | A Far East Chanukah
12/9/2007Russia’s Far East Celebrates Chanukah With 210-Meter-Tall Monument |  |
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 | City Once Opposed to Menorah Sponsors First Lighting
By Mimi Notik — 12/6/2007 12:45:00 PMChabad-Lubavitch of Pittsburgh lit a Chanukah menorah in front of the building that 20 years ago set off a legal showdown that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. |  |
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