PHOTOS BY SCOTT WATERS To celebrate the 2019 Hanukkah season, Hebrew School students from the Chabad Jewish Center of Suffern designed a giant gumball menorah standing 11 feet tall, constructed of over 7,000 gum balls, on display at the Shop Rite of Tallman shopping center. Chabad of Suffern has been hosting the public menorah celebration […]
BY SCOTT WATERS On December 19 Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern held an installation ceremony to unveil a new 9 ft. high menorah that will be displayed outside the hospital. It was donated by Meyer Tauber, the CEO of Metrex Realty, a Rockland County based Real Estate Company. Tauber has a special connection to the […]
BY DIANA BIERMAN What’s nine feet tall and carved out of a 500-pound block of ice? The menorah lit at the Chabad Jewish Center of Suffern’s annual Chanukah celebration! The event, held on December 10 at the Suffern Community Center gazebo and led by Rabbi Shmuel Gancz, featured lighting of the unusually tall ice menorah. […]
Chanukah car parade tradition continues; Streets will be jammed with cars on Sunday, December 9 About 70 “menorah-mobiles” – cars with menorahs mounted on top -will parade throughout Rockland County on Sunday, December 9, the second night of Chanukah. The festivities will begin at a Monsey synagogue at 5 p.m. with a crafts program for children, […]