Men, women and children dressed in favorite costumes stepped right up for a fun, festive evening last Tuesday, when Chabad of the South Hills hosted Purim at the Circus.
This year’s Hanukkah celebration has a special significance for Rabbi Mendel Rosenblum and, by extension, Jewish communities throughout the world. In leading the annual South Hills Lights festival on Dec. 19, Rosenblum told a story related to him by a fellow rabbi, Eliezer Chitrik of Nuremberg, Germany. In 1938, the