New York Mayor Bill de Blasio joined the Upper East Side Chabad and nearby Kehilath Jeshurun for the second night of Chanukah lighting, a day after vandals tore down and smashed the community’s menorah in Carl Schurz Park over the night.
Despite security concerns in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks that left 130 dead, some 6,000 people gathered in Paris for the public lighting of a Chanukah menorah at the base of the Eiffel Tower.
Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Jambon said that his government has made the battle against radical and violent extremism and terrorism a top priority since the terrorist attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels in 2014 which left four people dead.
Hundreds of members of the Bnei Menashe community from across northeastern India gathered in the town of Churachandpur in the Indian state of Manipur to celebrate Chanukah and light the traditional candles.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed concern that at the Republican Jewish Coalition candidates' forum on Thursday, when asked if he acknowledged Jerusalem as the undivided Capital of Israel, Republican presidential candidate frontrunner Donald Trump stated that he will wait until after his upcoming visit to Israel before answering.
Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Jan Jambon is to address Monday evening an annual Euro Menorah candle lighting at the Schuman roundabout, in the midst of the European Union institutions in Brussels, as he will be the guest of honour of the ceremony to celebrate Chanukah, the Jewish Festiva of Lights.
