First Chasidic Rabbi commissioned into the Maryland Defense Force

Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum being sworn in as Chaplain Captain to the Maryland Defense Force, Chaplain LTC Charles Nalls officating. Photo courtesy of Maryland Defense Force.

GAITHERSBURG, MD [CHI] — Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum became the first Chasidic Rabbi to be commissioned into the Maryland Defense Force last night in a ceremony that took place at Chabad of Upper Montgomery County in Gaithersburg.

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Chasidic Artist Keeps it Lyrical and Spiritual

Sara Trappler-Spielman – Chabad.org

Michoel Muchnik, a Lubavitch Chasid and artist, adds some color to one of his paintings.

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — Michoel Muchnik’s new gallery in the ground floor of his Brooklyn, N.Y., home resembles the interior of one of the Jerusalem stone houses from one of his many colorful landscape paintings. While the walls are at first close together, you descend a few stone steps and around a circular shape carved into the floor before entering the main gallery. Its rooms are small and intimate; the paintings compete for your attention.

Please Say Tehillim for…

Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.

Dina Divosia Sarah bas Divorah, She had an operation and can not breath on her own yet.

Binyomin Rephael Menachem Mendel ben Tova Chana, He is having a surgery to try and restore his eye sight.

“What is your light this Chanukah?”

LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — International Chanukah Contest Kicks off “The Mendy Pellin Tour”

Hassidic Comic Mendy Pellin will be asking this question to countless people during his myLight Chanukah tour across California, finding out what Chanukah means to the man-on-the-street. Mendy will be driving an RV ‘Mitzva Mobile’ from one end of the golden state to the other, as part of the new AskMosesTV addition to the popular AskMoses.com website.

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Menorah Lighting in Civic Square

The Mississauga News

MISSISSAUGA, Canada — The Chabad Jewish Discovery Centre is welcoming all Mississauga residents to its Hanukkah celebration, as members of the Jewish community light the Menorah in the Civic Square on Dec. 4.

Alumni of 50-Year-Old Detroit Institution Gather to Honor Benefactor

Sharon Udasin – Chabad.org

The alumni of Detroit’s Lubavitch school are scattered across the globe. One of them, Rabbi Shaul Wilhelm, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Oslo in Norway, teaches a class.

NEW YORK, NY — When the six-hour-long grand banquet of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries drew to a close earlier this month, more than 100 black-hatted men spilled out of the hall at Manhattan’s Pier 94 along the Hudson River to board a waiting coach bus. The group, which had attended the fete with 3,000 of their closest friends – fellow emissaries stationed all over the world – then headed to the historic Puck Building downtown near New York University.

Chabad on Campus Sending Free Menorahs to Jewish Students Nationwide

Joshua Runyan – Chabad.edu

BROOKLYN, NY — The Chabad on Campus International Foundation is offering free menorahs to any Jewish student who wants one. In the pre-Chanukah initiative, the organization will provide a Chanukah kit complete with a menorah, candles and a booklet.

Land and the Spirit – JLI Video Visits Chevron

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — With over 10,000 men and women across the globe partaking in JLI’s current course on Israel, titled The Land & The Spirit, JLI Central produces each week a brief, striking flash presentation depicting each “city of the week” being explored during the semester. This flash, shown at each JLI chapter at the conclusion of the lesson takes the student on a visual journey through the featured holy city of the week’s lesson.