8th Day in Grand Florida Festival

By COLlive reporter

The 33rd Annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah Festival in Hallandale Beach will be attended by a crowd of more than 10,000 people live and hundreds of thousands more via live internet connection on Chabad.org’s video site, Jewish.TV.

The headline act is 8th Day, co-founded by brothers Shmuel and Bentzi Marcus. Other Festival highlights include the lighting of Florida’s Largest Menorah, led by Cantor Yossy Lebovics.

For the last two years, the Chanukah Festival was seen live around the world via Jewish.TV and was the most watched live Jewish TV event in 2010. People from across the globe were fixed to their screens for the three hour Chanukah production.

The Festival will be preceded by a one hundred Car Menorah parade, starting out from the Yeshivah Gedolah of Greater Miami.

The event’s coordinator is Rabbi Levi Tennenhaus, who took over this year for his father who received blessings from the Lubavitcher Rebbe to make this yearly Chanukah event which is now world famous. Chanukah also marks the birthday of Chabad of South Broward, the first Chabad center in Broward County.

From their Headquarters in Hallandale Beach, Chabad of South Broward runs over forty programs and institutions including Project PRIDE, The Friendship Circle, Florida’s only Teachers Seminary for Women, CHAI TOTS Preschool and Hebrew Club, Bar and Bat Mitzvah Clubs, CTEEN, three Mikvahs, Camp Gan Israel, Kollel for Businessmen and Professionals, and twelve synagogues.

Chabad of South Broward is headed by Rabbi Raphael and Goldie Tennenhaus, who came to Broward County in December 1980.

The event’s main sponsors are David and Eda Schottenstein & Swiss Stays.

To help sponsor the event, go to Chabad of South Broward’s webpage to donate.