SUNDAY NIGHT OF CHANUKAH DEC 25 @8pm COME RAISE THE SPARKS! Women’s Night Chanukah – Rosh Chodesh Teves FEATURING SHAINDEL ANTELIS www.shaindelantelis.com MC Elana Greenspan! www.elanagreenspan.com Rivka Nahari & the Brooklyn Jewish Dance Institute www.bklynjewishdance.com The ALL NEW BROOKLYN VOCAL ENSEMBLE SONGWRITER RACHEL JAKOB * DANCER REINA POTAZNIK COMEDIENNE LESLIE G! AND MORE Followed by

A On Time Studios production Live drawing December 19th, 2011. Monday Evening, 7:00pm- 10:00pm Hosted by Rabbi Yosef C Golding, Yossi Zweig, Mendy Pellin & Yoely Lebowitz Featuring Shloime Daskal • Yitzchak Fuchs • Yoely Greenfeld • Michoel Pruzansky • Beri Weber • Eli Gerstner with YBC Soloist Music by Aaron Teitelbaum Orchestra conducted by

MACCABEATS Will be singing at CHANUKAH ON ICE 1st Night of CHanukah 6-9pm Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at Trump Wollman Rink in Central Park, NYC Join as they light the GIANT HANDCARVED ICE MENORAH Skate Under the Stars to Jewish Music Enjoy complimentary Kosher Food ChanukahoniceNYC.com Tweet

] Last Thursday, the Maccabeats announced their partnership with the Gift of Life Bone Marrow Foundation and the start of the Judy Greenberg Memorial Miracle Match Campaign. The Maccabeats are the a capella group based out of Yeshiva University, known for their viral video, “Candlelight.” Gift of Life is one of the nation’s public bone

A On Time Studios production Live drawing December 19th, 2011. Monday Evening, 7:00pm- 10:00pm Hosted by Rabbi Yosef C Golding, Yossi Zweig, Mendy Pellin & Yoely Lebowitz Featuring Shloime Daskal • Yitzchak Fuchs • Yoely Greenfeld • Michoel Pruzansky • Beri Weber • Eli Gerstner with YBC Soloist Music by Aaron Teitelbaum Orchestra conducted by

CHANUKAH R E T R E A T at the DoubleTree Hotel Somerset, NJ Friday December 23 – Sunday December 25 FEATURING WORLD RENOWNED GATEWAYS SPEAKERS: R’ MORDECHAI BECHER R’ DOVID GREENBLATT MRS. DEBBIE GREENBLATT MRS. TZIPORA HARRIS DR. CHAIM PRESBY MRS. CHAYA REICH R’ JONATHAN RIETTI R’ MORDECHAI SUCHARD Gala Motzei Shabbos Entertainment featuring

Motzei Shabbat Chanukah – December 24th, 2011 Starring C Lanzbom Nochi Krohn Yisroel Juskowicz Doors Open at 7:30 pm Advance reservation: $20, $15 with Student ID Fee at the door: $25; $20 with Student ID Congregation Ohab Zedek, 118 West 95th Street, NYC Register online at www.oucommunity.org or by calling 212.613.8300 Enter an auction for

This Chanukah Benny Friedman will be performing at the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel in Asbury Park, NJ on December 22-26. The Berkeley features a full day camp, carnival, Friday night Kumzzitz, Lectures and SHiurim, concert and melave malka! Catering by Nesher. For more info call 212 292 7806, or email Chanukah@berkeleyhotelnj.com Tweet

VIN News by Sandy Eller New York – More than four hundred people turned out last Thursday night for a Volunteers Appreciation Banquet held by L’asurim, a not for profit organization founded approximately three years ago to advocate for the needs of incarcerated Jews in addition to providing prisoners and their families with moral support.

Lchaim music is ALWAYS coming out with new and exciting products. This year they have outdone themselves with their latest; A spinning Dreidel that lights up and… plays Lchaim Tish Chainkah songs!!. Lchaim has recently started venturing out of the music industry, into the realm of children’s games and it seems that also here is