Spirituality

Spreading
The Word

Chabad high school students teach
Chanukah lessons.

SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN

Staff Writer

F

rom a caravan of 80 cars
affixed with glowing elec-
tric menorahs to a nightly
rooftop Chanukah candle
lighting to a holiday display in the
West Bloomfield Jewish Community
Center, the boys of Chabad Student
Outreach spread the message of
Chanukah in a big way.
"The students make all the
arrangements," Chezkel Deren, 18,
of Stanford, Conn., says of teens
from the Oak Park-based Cheder
Lubavitch and Yeshivas Lubavitch,
where he is a senior.
"Some of them organize the cars
in the parade that are also driven
around town every day during
Chanukah, with menorahs on top of
them. Others run the Chanukah

mobiles, parking them near different
shopping centers so people can, come
inside for Chanukah literatures and
free menorahs," he said.
Friday afternoon visits to wish a
Shabbat Shalom to local businesses
have come to include Chanukah dis-
cussions during the holiday. Dennis

Chaiken's Direct Optical in
Farmington Hills hosted a
Chanukah party planned by the
group Dec. 14.
And for those unable to make it
to any of the planned events, five
menorah-laden minivans cruised the
streets, playing Chanukah tunes
through loud speakers fastened to
their roofs. -7

PHOTOS BY JOSHUA KRISTAL

Clockwise from top left.
Students of Yeshivas Lubavitch prepare to light the menorah on the roof of the school.

Parade of cars with menorahs atop.

Ben Zion Treitel, 18, and Mendy Shemtov, 17, both of Oak Park, set up the Yeshivas
Lubavitch. Chanukah display in the lobby of the West Bloomfield ICC.

Mendel Teldon, 22, of Oak Park lights the candles on the giant menorah atop
Yeshivas Lubavitch.

Guests of Chabad Student Outreach Chanukah celebration dance outside Yeshivas
Lubavitch.

12/28
2001

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