Students from all 5 campuses, joined in all of Chabad of Rutger’s Chanukah get-togethers on campus. From a spirited public Menorah lighting of a gigantic Menorah on the front steps of Brower Commons on College Ave., to an exciting Menorah Car Parade to a mega, campus-wide JCafe Chanukah Party. Nearly 1,500 menorahs were distributed campus-wide, • Full Story

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Chief Rabbi of Russia, Berel Lazar, Visited the Jewish Prisoners at Moscow’s Butirsky Prison during Chanukah. • Most of the Jewish activities at the Butirsky Prison in the center of Moscow take place in the synagogue in one of the most guarded wings of the building • Full Story, Photos

On the final night of Chanukah, Zos Chanukah, at the United Palace Theater in Manhattan, the packed, sold-out theater, welcomed to the stage with wild cheering sensation Ishay Ribo singing his original compositions of Hashem’s praises. He was joined by “the soundtrack of his childhood,” Mordechai Ben David • Full Story, Photos, Video

Thousands of New York City nurses are threatening to strike as contract negotiations with seven hospitals continue as the contracts for 12,000 nurses at other hospitals expired on Tuesday. The hospitals at risk of a strike include Montefiore, Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Maimonides, and others • Full Story

In the middle of Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport, which serves as a major transit hub. A public Menorah and mitzva stand were set up at the airport by the Rebbe’s Shluchim to Ethiopia, Rabbi Eliyahu Habib, to ensure that Jewish travelers have a Chanukah experience while traveling through the airport during the holiday. In addition, a large Public Menorah in the center of Addis Ababa, joined by hundreds, including government officials, and Ambassadors from all over the world • Full Story, Photos

The Chabad community of Paris celebrated Hei Teves on Wednesday night at Beis Chaya Mushka in Paris with a Seforim sale and Farbrengen. The Farbrengen included Rabbi Menachem Mendel Azimov of Paris, Guest speaker Rabbi Pinchas Vishetzky of Ukraine, and his son Rabbi Moshe Vishetzky of Beis Chaya Mushka shul • Photos

At a Hei Teves Farbrengen at Reyim Ahuvim in Crown Heights, Rabbi Zalman Liberow, Shliach in Flatbush, shared his memories of the days leading up to the ‘Didan Notzach’ on Hei Teves 5747 • Watch

The Zion Memorial Park Holocaust Monument in Ohio has received federal recognition as a National Holocaust Memorial, becoming the first such memorial outside of Washington D.C. The monument, which was established by Holocaust survivors in 1961, has received this designation amid a surge in antisemitism in the United States • Full Story

When on Mivtzoim, we tend to count success by how many people say “Yes” to putting on tefillin. But as this video shows – When a Shliach asked his fellow Jew to put on Tefillin on Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida – sometimes a “No” can be just as, or even more powerful • Watch