By Pam Pollan CORRESPONDENT WESTBORO — Chabad of Westboro is part of an international Jewish outreach organization. “We try to make Judaism accessible to everyone. We have a whole different idea about Judaism than your average temple. Sometimes temples are trying to gather funds, and money has t...

Wellesley - The faint sound of people singing drifted out over the hum of cars traveling on Route 9.“I have a little dreidel,� the group of more than 30 people sang. “I made it out of clay.� This past weekend marked the end of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. During each of the eight...

Hanukkah drew to a close yesterday and a final lighting of the menorah was held Sunday evening at Kukui Grove Shopping Center in commemoration of the lives lost at the Mumbai Chabad house 30 days ago. “The terrorists came with guns, grenades and missiles, and the only thing we could come back with...

Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel of Chabad of Chico replaces a light bulb with a candle as he prepares a giant menorah for lighting Sunday at the Chico Mall. The rabbi led a public Hanukkah celebration there on the last night of the eight-day Jewish festival of lights. On Tuesday evening, Zwiebel also led a Hanu...

Hanukkah ended last night, and I hope our Jewish readers and friends passed a good one. On Jeffrey Goldberg's blog I found this pretty great Chabad Lubavitch video. Seems to me to be a sentiment that Jews and all friends of the Jewish people, and of Israel, should keep in their hearts and in their p...

Fuelled by doughnuts and latkes aplenty, more than 500 revellers of all ages gathered in the heart of Brussels last Sunday for an historic Chanukah candle lighting celebration billed as the first pan-European event of its kind. Specially-arranged buses brought community members from Germany and Holl...

By Janet I. TuSeattle Times staff reporter To many in this area, the Chabad Lubavitch movement may have been best known — if at all — for the large menorah displays it sponsors each year in public places such as Westlake Park and the state Capitol. But this year, after terrorists targeted the Ch...

"Every drop is a blessing, according to tradition," said Langer. "May you be drenched by rain." Reframing common events, even rain in darkness, in religious terms is at the essence of Langer's work: trying to bring secular Jews into greater religious practice. Though Chabad Lubavitchers like him occ...

Chanukah amidst Crisis by Emuna BravermanThese are dark times. But they are not the first ones we have faced. *******The Maccabees didn't pray and do nothing to lift themselves out of the abyss of darkness the Hellenists plunged them into, but rose up like sparks of holy fire and ascended the Temple...

Associated Press4:52 PM CST, December 20, 2008 MILWAUKEE - A parade of cars with menorahs mounted on the roofs will celebrate the start of Hanukkah in the Milwaukee area Sunday. About 50 vehicles are expected to drive from Red Arrow Park downtown along Lake Michigan to the Bayshore Town Center mall....