Most Friday over the past several years, R’ Dov Moshe Newmark goes on mivtzoim in downtown Naples, Florida, reaching out to shopkeepers and visitors to put on Tefillin, distribute Shabbos candles, offer a mezuzah, and share a dvar Torah. While distributing Chanukah menorahs he was flagged down by a man who waved and said:   “I’m so glad to see you, I’m Richard Steinberg, I am Jewish too!” • Full Story

“Today I visited the Estonian Jewish Community,” Mr. Alar Karis wrote, “and lit a candle for the Chanukah Festival together with the congregation and community representatives. This fire symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and the courage to stand firm in your faith. Light brings clarity and hope in even the darkest of times, just like education and knowledge. Light is always more beneficial than darkness” • Full Story, Photos

For the first time since the arrival of Shluchim Rabbi Yakov and Mrs. Hana Poliwada to the small Panamanian town of Boquete in 2016, the town’s Mayor Joswar Alvarado appeared at Chabad’s yearly public menorah lighting. “This is definitely a milestone and honor in the recognition of our work in the community”, said Rabbi Poliwoda after describing the joyous event that included sing-along music, dougnuts and latkes for all. Uniquely, the menorah remains installed all year-round in the town’s central park – a standing testimony of the good will between its Jewish residents and the broader community • Photos

Chanukah in Springfield, Illinois was one for the books! Chabad of Springfield, directed by Rabbi and Mrs. Mendy Turen, was full of action from the start of Chanukah until it’s final moments; from programs to house visits, from Menorah lightings to a Grand Menorah Parade. Images captured by Yisroel Rambach • Full Story, Photos

Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida under the leadership of Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz held their grand community Chanukah celebration at the prestigious Castle Golf 18 Hole Golf Course with delicious Chanukah doughnuts, hot potato latkes & plenty of drinks, as well as clown & face painting with the highlight of lighting the grand Chanukah menorah by members of the community • Photos

The Jewish community of Dnipro, Ukraine converged on the city’s central square the seventh night of Chanukah for a large public menorah lighting. This comes just several days after the now well-known incident where anti-semitic vandals toppled the menorah overnight. Those gathered were addressed by the city’s senior Shliach Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky • Full Story, Photos, Video

In a unique project, led by the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS, tens of thousands of special Chanukah Kits were distributed to Jewish families in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and additional former Soviet Union countries. The kits were warmly welcomed, and brought the joy, delight and traditions of Chanukah to the most remote and isolated cities and villages • Full Story, Photos

As ChabadInfo.com reported less than a month ago, a new Chabad house was established in the southern African country of Namibia by Shluchim Rabbi Yosef and Mushka Rahimi. As soon as they arrived, the young couple rented an elegant space for their new Chabad house. This Chanukah the Rahimis got right to work with various successful activities, including Chabad’s first Chanukah event in Namibia • Photos

Chabad of Flatbush, under the auspices of venerated Shliach Rabbi Zalman Liberow, erected several menorahs along Kings Highway, one of Brooklyn’s busiest streets, spreading the light of Chanukah across southern Brooklyn • Watch

Photographer Dov Ber Hechtman spent all eight days of Chanukah 5782 with camera in hand, capturing all of the goings on in and around 770. Today, on Zos Chanukah he presents a summary album of the 50 most special moments of this Chanukah • Photos

Michael Brodsky, Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine, joined Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi and Shliach Rabbi Moshe Azman on a cherry picker to light the city’s giant menorah on the last night of Chanukah. A large number of spectators gathered next to the large stage erected for the event and were treated to inspiring words and engaging entertainment • Photos

In 1942 the Nazis gathered all of Rostov’s Jews at Zmiyovskaya Balka – Snakes valley – which ultimately became the site of the worst massacre by the Nazis in Russia. Yesterday, Rabbi Chaim Danzinger, Shliach to Rostov, together with a group of community members, visited the site to pray and light the menorah in the memory of the holy kedoshim who perished there • Photos

Chabad of New South Wales, under the auspices of Senior Shliach Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, held a public menorah lighting in Downtown Sydney’s Martin Place. Hundreds attended the event, which featured rides, shows, a children’s rally, and the lighting of a giant menorah. The crowd was addressed by both local Shluchim, as well as Sydney’s Mayor. Images captured by Noel Kessel • Photos, Video

The large procession of mitzvah tanks continued on its way through the width and breadth of Eretz Yisroel, stopping in towns and settlements on their way to their final destination, the holy city of Yerushalayim. Images captured by Yossi Jerufi • Photos

The yearly ‘Chanukah Live’ rally will be taking place today at 2:15 PM, with a live hookup to rallies around the world. Unable to attend in person? You can watch it live on ChabadInfo.com • Watch

In honor of Rosh Chodesh and the seventh day of Chanukah, the Moshiach Sefer Torah, as well as the Sefer Torah of the Rebbe MH”M were used for Shachris this morning in Beis Chayenu. Images captured by photographer Dov Ber Hechtman • Photos

Soon after Rabbi Moti Grumach moved to Kyoto, Japan, about three years ago to serve as an emissary there for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he realized that a local craft dovetailed neatly with Jewish traditions. Warosoku, or candles made from the fruit of the haze tree — or Japanese sumac, sometimes called the wax tree — are a longtime Kyoto specialty, dating back centuries • Full Story

Rabbi Yossi Rapp, Director of Chabad Air, conducted a public menorah lighting in Crown Height’s NYPD 71th precinct on the fourth night of Chanukah. Rabbi Rapp was joined by a large group of officers, for whom he expressed immense gratitude on behalf of the Crown Heights community • Photos

Over 400 orphans and 150 widows attended 3-day annual Colel Chabad Chanuka Retreat at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem this week. The three-day getaway included full meals, nightly candle lighting and parties, children’s and youth entertainment programs and day excursions • Full Story

Paris Shliach Rabbi Isser Lubecki held a special Chanukah event for a very niche crowd: Jews that are deaf. Himself deaf, Rabbi Lubecki ran an engaging program, including a menorah lighting and olive oil press exhibition. Despite their disability, those in attendance had a meaningful and touching Chanukah experience. Images captured by photographer Mordechai Lubecki  • Photos, Video

From the desk of Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Director of the Meaningful Life Center: “Men darf zich tzuheren vos di lichtelech dertzeilen” – we need to listen to what the Chanukah flames tell us – says the Rebbe Rayatz. But how do we listen to flames? We can see them; we can study and meditate on them. But light is a visual, not an audible, experience. A pure flame does not give off a sound. So how do we listen to the Chanukah flames? • Click to Read

The annual Chanukah Parade of Kvutzah 5782 took place with over 50 Grand Menorah lightings across New York City. Images captured by photographer Dov Ber Hechtman • Photos

Photographer Shmulik Reinitz accompanied a large group of students of Cheder Ohr Menachem, who traveled to Midtown Manhattan on their mitzvah tank, lighting up the streets with Mivtza Chanukah. The boys engaged passersby, handing out menorahs to Jews who needed them and making a great kiddush hashem • Photos

Witnesses said that as Shay Pesso, a 30-year-old Israeli from Haifa, was waiting outside the Chabad house in the Columbian city of Medellín next to his car, two motorcycles pulled up next to him and one motorcycle driver pulled out a gun and shot Pesso ten times from point-blank range. Pesso passed away in the hospital shortly later.