Chanukah (Hanukkah)

Throughout Saturday night and Sunday, as waves of aircraft pounded military targets in the Gaza Strip and Hamas forces retaliated with rocket attacks aimed at Israeli civilians, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students made the rounds of hospit...

Negril is one of Jamaica’s tourist capitals. People typically flock to the city’s iconic Seven Mile Beach to relax, get some sun, and enjoy the crystal waters and white sandy beaches. On Sunday, Dec. 29, more than 500 people gathered there for another rea...

History was made in 1620, when the 102 passengers aboard the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock on the shores of what would later become the United States of America. Fast-forward a few centuries, the site bore witness to another historic event: a public m...

On a dark, frigid winter’s night in Fairbanks, Alaska, as the mercury descended to 20 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a light shone forth from the city’s first-ever public menorah. As the rabbi kindled the menorah’s wicks, icicles clung to his face and bea...

Incoming U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joined Chabad-Lubavitch of Arkansas for the lighting of the menorah on the first night of Chanukah in Little Rock, Ark. The menorah-lighting in the state’s capital city has become somewhat of a family affai...

Starting in New Zealand and rapidly making its way west, the Chanukah lights were kindled around the world for the first time in 2024. Menorahs were lit at home by young and old, and in public places in front of crowds numbering in the thousands, spreadin...

Inside Lebanon, mere hundreds of meters from Israel’s northernmost border town of Metula, soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces recently discovered a chilling document: detailed plans for an Oct.7-like massacre that never came. Among the intelligence foun...

Declaring that “the main lesson is that light prevails over darkness,” Argentina’s new President Javier Milei donned a kippah two days after his inauguration and helped light a giant menorah at a Chanukah celebration in the center of Buenos Aires. Chabad-...

From national capitals and parliaments to state legislatures and small town squares, presidents, governors, ministers, mayors, legislators and other officials are marking Chanukah with Jewish communities around the world by participating in Chabad-Lubavit...

It’s finals week at Michigan State University—when every available moment is usually spent studying—but senior Alex Mision and a group of Chabad on Campus students stopped what they were doing and got on a bus from East Lansing to Detroit on the first nig...