December 5, 1998
Source: The New York Times
On December 5, 1998, the New York Times reported that the American Friends of Lubavitch, a Hasidic Jewish sect headquartered in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, has set up a website - www.chanukah98.com - to broadcast simultaneously the lighting of menorahs in Jerusalem, Moscow, New York, and Paris at 3:15pm (Eastern time) on Sunday, December 13th.