What an amazing Chanukah!
➊ Saturday night, our family was featured in nationally televised prime time football for millions during the Texans vs. Bengals for the first night of Chanukah. - ➋ Sunday, we celebrated at Aishel House for the Pidyon Haben of our great nephew born to our nephew Peretz & Mushkie Lazaroff, followed by a family at Rabbi Chaim's parent's home.
- ➌ Monday, YJPHouston joined Hoops and Hanukkah at the Houston Rockets, displaying the Chanukah Menorah on jumbo screen during the first quarter (Levi wished all the fans Happy Chanukah) from the suites, pregame shoot around, pregame high fives and half time high fives with the players!
- ➍ Tuesday, we joined the lighting of the amazing menorah sculpture at the Galleria, where Levi performed in the Torah Day School Choir. We then headed over to Memorial City Mall to light up the ice menorah in the ice rink! Facebook live feed at the galleria and memorial city malls.
- ➎ Wednesday, we joined the Torah Completion Ceremony in memory of Mendel Cotlar. Our son Mendel, performed the live music at the event in memory of his friend!
- ➏ Thursday, approximately 300 people joined us for the Wacky Waxy Chanukah Carnival for a wax themed party & buffet dinner, complete with wax hands, candle making, prize wheel, moon-bounce, live music and more! The car menorah parade left from Chabad, finishing with a menorah lighting at City Hall with Mayor Sylvester Turner and Ellen Cohen! Here is the Facebook live video tour.
Mendel & Levi recorded an original "Happy Chanukah" song to promote the party - obviously it worked pretty well! :) Drone footage of the parade.... - ➐ Tonight we will light the seventh candle with a Community Chanukah Shabbat Dinner, please RSVP and join us!
- ➑ Tomorrow night, we will light the final candle in shul, please join us!
By now, you should have received our invitation to the Jan. 15, "Growing Uptown" Grand Opening Dinner & Cocktails, complete with piano recital and housewarming gift shower. Please RSVP to the free event at www.chabaduptown.org/growing.
Today (& tomorrow night after Shabbos) is your last day to make a donation to Chabad in 2016. Please consider supporting our important work at www.chabaduptown.org/donate
Shabbos Chanukah, Parshas Mikeitz
Friday, December 30
Services at 6:30 pm
Menorah Candles THEN Shabbos Candle Lighting COMPLETED BY 5:15 pm
Chanukah Community Shabbat Dinner - RSVP
Shabbos, December 31
Chassidus at 9:00 am
Services at 10 am
Followed by Shabbos Kiddush & Farbrengen
Mincha at 5:15 pm
Maariv, Menorah Lighting, Havdalla & Shabbos Ends at 6:12 pm
Living Torah
Sunday, January 1
Shacharis at 8:30 am
Followed by the real BLT - Bagels, Lox & Tefillin
Have a good Shabbos!
Rabbi Chaim & Chanie
WE DID IT!! Mazel tov!! We are so thankful to be part of this special community and appreciate the love and support from all of you! This is a real testament to how incredibly invested each of you are in Chabad of Uptown and we can't thank you enough for partnering in our work. Thank you everyone, ALL 162 OF YOU, comprised of and representing so many across the spectrum of our community indicates the breadth and reach of where we are! Most importantly, a major thank you to our matchers who helped make this all happen!
