The Tampa Bay Lightning, a National Hockey League team on Florida’s western coast , is hosting a Jewish Heritage Night on Dec. 6 for its game against the Carolina Hurricanes. Area Chabad Houses are participating in the event, which will include a menorah lighting ceremony before the game. Glatt kosher hotdogs will also be available for fans. Chabad-Lubavitch of Oregon is holding a similar event in conjunction with the Portland Trailblazers at the National Basketball Association team’s Dec. 9 game against the Milwaukee Bucks. ...

Moscow’s city government has set aside space on Manezhnaya square in front of the Kremlin for a public menorah lighting ceremony on Dec. 4. Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, director of Chabad-Lubavitch activities in the country, will preside over the event, which will feature music, dancing, fireworks and a 24-foot menorah. ...

Beth Lubavitch of Paris posted hundreds of advertisements across the French capital in preparation for the upcoming eight-day festival of Chanukah. Each sign gives the dates of the holiday and directs viewers to Chabad Houses where more information may be obtained. ...

Nachum Itzkowitz, director-general of Israel’s Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services toured the schools at the village of Kfar Chabad. He also stopped by the village’s life-size replica of Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, N.Y. ...

Tens of thousands of copies of a special edition of the Talmud were published by Chabad in Israel in advance of the Hebrew date of 19 Kislev, when Lubavitch Chasidim traditionally take up a Talmudic tractate to study for the upcoming year. ...

Chabad-Lubavitch of Fort Worth, Texas, officially dedicated its new Sonnenschein Chabad Jewish Center. The North Texas city has seen an upsurge in Jewish life, and Rabbi Dov and Chana Tovah Mandel, co-directors of the center, are already thinking in terms of further expansion, including the opening of a mikvah. ...

The December issue of Reader’s Digest directs readers to Chabad.org's new Chanukah site, hanukkah.org, for "how-to guides on celebrations and customs." ...

The Aleph-Institute's Northeast region, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., purchased a new building to house its expanded programs assisting Jewish prison inmates and their families. While the building is not yet ready to occupy on a regular basis, 40 volunteers gathered to celebrate the acquisition. On hand was Ramon C. Rustin, warden of the Allegheny County Jail, which received an award for its assistance and cooperation with the Aleph Institute. ...

After 24 years of marriage, Rabbi Menachem Mendel and Genia Morosow, co-directors of Chabad-Lubavitch at Brooklyn College, gave birth to a baby boy. Hundreds came to celebrate the baby's bris and naming. ...

Australian Malcolm Turnbull suggested to Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, director of Yeshiva Center, that his electoral victory this week could be attributed to a dollar handed out years ago by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. According to the Australian Jewish News, the Rebbe gave the dollar to Rabbi Dovid Slavin of the Yeshivah Centre, who gave it to Turnbull during his recent campaign. ...