Chanukah News from Across the Globe

South Korea made history last week with the country’s very first public Chanukah menorah lighting, sponsored by the new Chabad-Lubavitch center in Seoul.

Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the United States embarked on a unique Chanukah campaign to fight hunger.

More than 900 Manhattan residents gathered for a family Chanukah event at New York City’s Central Park sponsored by Chabad-Lubavitch centers on the island.

More than 16,000 people were on hand for a Chanukah menorah lighting at Nashville, Tenn.’s Sommet Center stadium sponsored by the city’s Chabad-Lubavitch center.

For the first time in the state’s history, a Chanukah menorah stood beneath the rotunda of the capitol building in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Thousands gathered outside the Kremlin for a traditional Chanukah menorah lighting in below-freezing weather presided over by Russian Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.

Jewish leaders from the Sunshine State joined Gov. Charlie Crist in celebrating Chanukah at a menorah lighting at the state capitol in Tallahassee.

Rockville Volunteer Fire Department in suburban Maryland made history this Chanukah with what is believed to be the world’s only menorah fire truck parade.

Mayor Job Cohen lit the giant Chanukah menorah in Amsterdam’s central Dam Square during a ceremony organized by Chabad-Lubavitch of the Netherlands.

The Jewish community in Vietnam’s largest municipality, Ho Chi Minh City, took their Chanukah festivities outside after last year’s party overflowed the confines of the local Chabad-Lubavitch center.

Two Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students erected a menorah at the summit of the tallest mountain in the world, driving a line of torches into the ground as a couple of tourists walked past.

Hundreds of people crowded in the small alley outside of Mumbai, India’s central Chabad-Lubavitch to witness a public Chanukah menorah lighting outside the six-story building destroyed in last month’s terror attacks.

One month after a coordinated series of terror attacks brought life to a standstill in Mumbai, more than 600 people crowded in front of the city’s Gateway to India monument for a public Chanukah menorah lighting ceremony proclaiming that the goodness typified by the targeted Chabad-Lubavitch center would always prevail over evil.

Family, friends and colleagues of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries murdered in last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai, India, gathered at the couple’s Chabad House to issue a beacon of light in the form of a Chanukah menorah.

Assisted by Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman kindled the giant Chanukah menorah erected outside the state capitol in S. Paul by the Upper Midwest headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised to do all he could to defend religious freedom throughout the globe as he helped light a Chanukah menorah erected by Chabad-Lubavitch of Alberta.

One month after their children perished in the Mumbai, India, terror attacks, the parents of Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg will light a Chanukah menorah at the Gateway to India monument.

Joining scores of other Chabad Houses around the United States, shoppers at a mall in Cherry Hill, N.J., constructed a giant Chanukah menorah out of an estimated 1,000 donated cans of food

Thousands of London’s Jewish residents gathered around the 30-foot menorah erected at Trafalgar square for a lighting ceremony with none other than Mayor Boris Johnson.

Francophone Jews living in Florida ushered in the eight-day holiday of Chanukah during a menorah lighting ceremony at the home of French Consul General Philippe Vinogradoff.