New York – Hanukkah Menorah Lightings Around The Globe

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    New York – The Chabad-Lubavitch outreach organization is hosting a variety of public menorah lightings for Hanukkah with events and activities around the world, from cruises to skating.

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    The eight-day holiday begins the evening of Dec. 20.

    In Birmingham, Ala., a menorah made from ice will be lit Dec. 22 at an event at the local Chabad house with crafts, treats and other children’s activities. On Dec. 25, Chabad of Alabama will host a dinner with kosher Chinese food and a menorah lighting.

    In Anchorage, Alaska, at the Egan Convention Center on Dec. 20, “Cirque de Hanukkah” will feature an acrobatic display by a troupe that recently appeared on “America’s Got Talent.”

    A number of communities are hosting events at skating rinks, including one on Dec. 20 in Central Park in New York at Trump Wollman Rink and another one Dec. 26 at a rink in Louisville, Colo., near Boulder,

    Cruises will be held to celebrate Hanukkah in several cities, including one in Australia that will offer a barbecue dinner plus latkes, live music and a magic show on a boat that will sail under the Sydney Harbor Bridge as the menorah is lit. In Shanghai, a pre-Hanukkah cruise will take place Dec. 11 on the Huangpu River with food, music, games and a Hanukkah shop.

    In Tallahassee, Fla., a pre-Hanukkah bowling party will help students get ready for the holiday at Florida State University. In Chandler, Ariz., several events are taking place on Dec. 18, including a candle-making workshop, drum circle, and Hanukkah party. And in Metairie, La., a parade of cars bearing menorahs will take place the evening of Dec. 20, followed by a “latkes on roller skates” party on Dec. 21 at a local rink and a menorah lighting on Dec. 22 at the local Riverwalk.

    In New York City, what is said to be the world’s largest menorah will be lit at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue near Central Park each night at 5: 30 p.m., except for the Sabbath when the lights will be lit at 3:30 p.m. Dec. 23 and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 24. And at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, interactive workshops will take place on pressing oil, which was traditionally used in menorahs instead of candles.

    For more Hanukkah events, visit http://www.chabad.org/HanukkahEvents


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    12 years ago

    Okay so this is a non paid Chabad advertisement.

    brunfin
    brunfin
    12 years ago

    To each his own.

    I am not knocking others, just a different perspective. My Mesorah is that we do not demonstrate our religion publicly. IT CAUSES ANTISEMITISM. For example: I was told not to wear my Talis over my coat when walking to shul on Shabbos. I was told that Reb Yaakov Kamentsky ztvk”l zy”a told someone not to carry his lulav openly to shul (I do not know all of the specifics of that situation). Therefore, when I walk into a bank or any other place I DO NOT want to see a Menorah and certainly not on highways and such public places. My Rebbe was very upset that an alarm goes off on Friday afternoons in Boro Park before licht benching. This causes antisemitism. Amongst Jews, like in Israel, gevaldig! But we are in America, a medina shel chesed, yes, but it is not our home.

    A freilichan Chanukah!

    zalee
    zalee
    12 years ago

    I want to slam you and your comment, but I realize that you will get slammed anyway by many, many other comments, so I will let them do the talking for me.

    Shame on you, you have no Jewish pride.

    chosid
    chosid
    12 years ago

    History has proven that the most assimilated kehillos are the ones that faced the worst anti-semitism. I don’t think I need to point out the most obvious example.

    moshe11
    moshe11
    12 years ago

    maybe we should hide our yalmulka and cut our beards and payis and wear goyishe clothing maybe hide our shuls in bunkers be a proud jew non jews respect you when you are proud of your relligion its a fact
    and besides do you know how many yidden are reminded about chanuka and to light the menora because they saw the public menorahs
    and dont forget about the mitzva of pirsumei nisa
    and before you slam chabad get your facts strait, it does not any anti-semitisom and if anything they respect it

    Samsaposhnik
    Samsaposhnik
    12 years ago

    Every year this comes up. Look in BK 60b, when there is peace ypu walk in the middle of the road, at the time of a plague go to the sides.
    Look at the Rashbash who explains “middle of the road” and “sides” (extremes) to be regarding health matters.
    Chabad also understands this to refer to spiritual health. Now is a spiritual plague, so they go to the extremes. It has been mekarev many.

    12 years ago

    More than once I have heard from people from “mainstream orthodoxy” who have witnessed one of these Menorah lightings for the first time say, “Now I understand the Gadlus in these pubic lightings.” So join along and help your fellow Jew who didn’t have the zechus to grow up with the knowledge that you have.

    12 years ago

    My Dear reb Moishe Emes. Davka Chanukah and the menora has the mitzvah of publicly advertising the

    It’s time for Jews to be proud.

    Please take a moment to see the video form rabbi Jonathan sacs. Since you are Moshe Emes, you would appreciate his clarity on what seems to be a uncomfortable concepts to some very erlich and frum yidin who’s whole perspective on the velt is limited to Brooklyn and benei braq.

    Paulie123
    Paulie123
    12 years ago

    #1 , is 100% correct. There is a difference between hiding the religion completely and flaunting it in peoples faces. When a gentile walks through the street and is bombarded by youngsters shoving lulalim in peoples faces, that is wrong. When certain people approach goyim and don teffilin on them out of the blue, that is wrong. Never in 2000 years has any Torah Sage ever suggested we do that, not up until recently. Noone is suggeting that we take our yurmelkes off and cut off our beards. What we are suggesting is NOT commercialize our religion. let us practice it without flaunting it and making a hullabaloo about it. It cheapens it and causes anger. As I said Chazal never instituted a din for us to throw ourselves at people in the name of kiruv .
    On a side note, would any of you be offended if Muslims were to make mass prayers in public inconveniencing you on your way home from work?

    cdg528
    cdg528
    12 years ago

    maybe the reason wearing the talis under the coat is, it can fall off and you might come to carry it. on shabos.