CTeen’s “Transform Chanukah” initiative sees 40 Jewish high schoolers flex their leadership muscles as they develop their own community-wide Chanukah programming and pitch philanthropists for funding to spread the light despite the pervading darkness.

Thousands of underprivileged homes in Russia received extra help this Chanukah, thanks to an initiative by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar and a major operation by Moscow’s Chessed Center.

The Jewish communities in Southwest Florida enjoyed a Chanukah party with miniature golf, doughnuts, latkes, music, face painting and balloons, and the lighting of a grand menorah by local leaders of the Jewish community.

20 Talmidim got tested on Hilchos Bossor B’Cholov as part of their Smicha learning with the renowned Online Smicha program, successfully passing the b’china.

Cheder Oholei Torah celebrated the 37th anniversary of Hey Teves with its Annual Didan Notzach Book Fair, a vibrant event held for the benefit of all Cheder Talmidim.

Chassidim from New York and around the world utilized the auspicious day of Hey Teves to visit the Rebbe’s Ohel. Some even took the opportunity to buy a Sefer Chassidus while there.

One of the revolutions of the Rebbe was making even the deepest Chassidus available in English. Standing at the forefront of that effort were Rabbi Yonah Avtzon and Sichos in English. His son, Rabbi Shmuly Avtzon, who currently directs SIE, gives an inside look at its past, present and future.

It was a busy Motzei Shabbos Hey Teves at Heichal Menachem, the Anash Shul in Golders Green, London, with an Avos Ubanim for children and a farbrengen for men.

Hey Teves will see chassidim everywhere heading to their bookstores to shop for their favorite titles or new publications. In this interview, we explore the other side of the coin: The world of the seforim seller, as experienced by Shlomo Goldman, founder of SeforimDeals.com.

Avraham (Boomie) Fried of Kew Gardens, brother of Mrs. Sheila Simon of Crown Heights, passed away on Zos Chanukah.

Anash.org Exclusive: Take a glance into the Rebbe’s library, usually kept under lock and key, far from the public eye. How many of the seforim can you identify?

Hundreds of Anash, shluchim and bochurim gathered Motzei Shabbos in 770 for a melava malka farbrengen celebrating the Rebbe’s victory on Hei Teves.

As the auspicious day of Hei Teves began, hundreds of shoppers used the opportunity to purchase steeply discounted seforim, at the makeshift seforim market at 770 Eastern Parkway.

From Yekaterinburg to Siberia, and from Siberia to Belarus, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar brought a message of encouragement and warmth to the local Jews on a whirlwind three day trip.

Anash in Paris gathered to mark the auspicious day of Hei Teves with a celebratory farbrengen led by a special guest speaker Rabbi Chaim Benzion Vishedski of Kfar Chabad.

Seforim stores across Crown Heights were packed on Motzei Shabbos with hundreds of shoppers of all ages and stages taking advantage of the Hei Teves sales offered by each store.

A festive farbrengen celebrating Hei Teves was held after Shabbos night near the Ohel, addressed by Rabbis Shmaya Shmotkin, Yosef Chaim Kantor, Yosef Greenberg, and Levi Shemtov. Watch a full replay.

War Summary, Day Seventy Two: Three hostages were tragically killed in Gaza by IDF forces who mistook them for terrorists; Hamas sends a message of thanks to the UN.

Join Live or In Person: Vaad Or Vechom Hahiskashrus invites you to join a warm Chassidishe Farbrengen starting at 9:00 pm near the Rebbe’s Ohel, with Rabbi Yosef Greenberg, and Rabbi Shmaya Shmotkin. 

Join Live Now: R’ Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin will celebrate the sixth anniversary of his miraculous release with a night of chizzuk and simcha. Speaking will be Lakewood Rosh Yeshiva Harav Yerucham Olshin.

Besides the annual Hei Teves sale at SeforimDeals.com, site owners will be opening their Crown Heights warehouse for a once-a-year sale to mark the ‘Yom Tov of the Seforim’. A free gift will be given to Anash.org readers.

In light of recent challenges, a new textbook that empowers educators and shluchim to illuminate their students’ lives with a Geulah perspective using engaging curricula was released by the Moshiach Office at Merkos 302 ahead of Hei Teves this year.