The 33rd annual South Florida Chassidic Chanukah Festival is getting bigger and better. Over 10,000 people have attended the event since it was moved to Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach in 2007, and the upcoming festival set for Thursday, December 13, will include a star-studded show that is guaranteed to attract the largest attendance yet.
The festival (at Gulfstream Park, US1 and Hallandale Beach Blvd.) is produced and directed by Chabad of South Broward, leaders in Jewish education, social services and community outreach.
The festival will be preceded by a 100-car menorah parade, starting out from the Yeshivah Gedolah of Greater Miami, under the auspices of Florida Friends of Lubavitch.
Other festival highlights will include music by 8th Day brothers Shmuel and Bentzion Marcus; A BMX Pro Spectacluar Show; the lighting of Florida’s largest menorah led by Cantor Rabbi Yossy Lebovics, a large lineup of community leaders and dignitaries, free Chanukah gelt and goodies for the thousands of children in attendance, as well as a delicious dinner (for a nominal fee) and scores of valuable prizes.
The Festival will honor the Friendship Circle, a program with 87 branches worldwide, that caters to children with special needs, who are teamed up with local teenagers. These teenagers serve as volunteers and friends of these children with special needs.
Rabbi Levi Tennenhaus, the event’s coordinator and Chabad’s program director, encourages those who can afford it to get reserved seating,
“The event, as always, is free. However, in addition to our major sponsors, individuals are entitled to reserve VIP seats for $100 per seat. This will help both the festival, which runs at an enormous cost as a service to the community, and individuals who want the luxury and convenience to sit up front with their seats reserved exclusively for them and their families,” he said.
Corporate sponsors include Gulfstream Park and Casino, and Kosher Central. The event will be broadcast live around the world courtesy of Chabad.org.
Chanukah marks the birthday of Chabad of South Broward. The first Chabad Center in Broward County. It sponsors over forty programs and institutions throughout Broward County, including Project PRIDE, a non-sectarian drug prevention and education program; The Friendship Circle, an incredible interactive program for children with special needs; Florida’s only teachers seminary for women; the fast-growing CHAI TOTS preschool and Hebrew Club; bar and bat mitzvah clubs, CTEEN Club; three mikvehs accessible to the physically challenged; Camp Gan Israel; kollel for businessmen and professionals, and twelve synagogues.
For more festival information, or to reserve VIP and box seats, call 954-458-1877; e-mail levi@chanukahfestival.com; or log on to www.chanukahfestival.com.
For parade route, menorah orders or more info, please visit klurmanshluchim.com/chanukah or email chanukah@klurmanshluchim.com.
when are they coming to england?!?!?!
To all the Collive readers
I want u all to know that the man behind araging these parade and making everything work out is the Shluchim of Klurman Mesivta And Yeshivah Gedolah,
May Hashem Grant you all with much Success and Hatzlochoh in all you do
p.s. Thank you Mendel Gutinck for the beautiful Chanukah Menorah Flyer that you have Designed and I also want to thank Kinko’s inc. for giving the shluchim a first glance at how the flyer will look.
Thank You all
My highlight always is the parade joining with the event. It comes to show what a kiddush hashem achdus brings. Everyone who can should join the parade
always a great event.. should be off the charts this year
no doubt this will be an amazing Chanukah Festival put out by Chabad of Hallandale !
a freilichen Chanukah.
great people!
For parade route, menorah ordering or more info: klurmanshluchim.com/chanukah or email chanukah@kllurmanshluchim.com