“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.

Video in the Extended Article!

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

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.

Torah Or and Likkutei Torah Adapted into English

Baruch Shehecheyanu Vekimanu Vehigianu Liz’man Hazeh!

In what may be the most important development in chassidic publishing since the translation of the Tanya in the 1960s (and just in time for Yud-Tes Kislev), Purity Press has announced that the Alter Rebbe’s classics, Torah Or and Likkutei Torah—considered the “Oral Torah of Chassidus” (Tanya being the “Written Torah”)—have been adapted into readily accessible English for the first time since the maamarim they contain were originally delivered over 200 years ago. The first volume in the six-volume series, containing 12 fundamental maamarim (discourses)—one for each weekly Torah portion in the book of Bereishis—has just been released, with Hashem’s help. This is to be followed, G-d willing, throughout the year with volumes on Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim, Shmos, and the Jewish holidays.