Amid war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the Sydney massacre, senior Ukrainian officials, diplomats, and Jewish community leaders gathered in Kyiv for the lighting of the third Chanukah candle, delivering a powerful message of unity, resilience, and light in the face of terror and hatred.

On Yud Tes Kislev this year, just days before he was brutally killed, Rabbi Eli Schlanger HYD, shared an incredible story that he was privy to. “The day the Alter Rebbe left prison… is the day he did too.”

In conversations with major media outlets, Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff, shliach and director of Chabad of Houston, shared an update on the state of his nephew Leibel Lazaroff and a message of Jewish strength and resilience.

This year, Chicago’s Menorah Car Parade reached new heights, as hundreds of participants filled the roads with brightly lit menorahs in a powerful display of Jewish pride, resilience, and unity.

A decades-old matzah bakery in Boro Park was devastated early Wednesday morning when a massive five-alarm fire tore through the facility, which for years maintained a chaburah under the CHK and supplied matzos to thousands of Lubavitcher families.

In response to a growing number of incidents in which public officials and government institutions sought to interfere with Yiddishkeit and mivtzoim, the Knesset approved new legislation this week to withhold government funding from such institutions or remove public officials who attempt to interfere with the fulfillment of these mitzvos.

After a Chicago man took his family on the last day of Chanukah to see the world’s largest menorah and it was not there, he wrote a frustrated letter to the Rebbe, who sent it to the organizers with a large question mark. Ever since, the menorah remains standing for all of Chanukah.

A public lighting in the streets of Lubavitch in the middle of Chanukah with the participation of shliach Rabbi Gavriel Gordon looked everything like a Menorah lighting. But it was something else entirely.