More than 50 people last night attended a ceremony marking the Jewish festival of Hanukkah at the Chabad Jewish Center of South Brunswick in North Brunswick.
Rabbi Levi Azimov, who led the ceremony by lighting a 15-foot menorah, said the holiday is about sharing.
Festival of Lights – Hanukkah Celebrated
More than 50 people last night attended a ceremony marking the Jewish festival of Hanukkah at the Chabad Jewish Center of South Brunswick in North Brunswick.
Rabbi Levi Azimov, who led the ceremony by lighting a 15-foot menorah, said the holiday is about sharing.
“It is a time for doing good things,” said Azimov, the director of Chabad. “It is a holiday that enriches our lives with the light of tradition.”
Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the temple in Jerusalem in 165 B.C. A small band of guerrillas, the Maccabees, had defeated the Syrian Greeks in a three-year war, ending the persecution of Jews under King Antiochus IV.
The temple had been desecrated and Jews forced to worship pagan gods.
Families from the area will converge at 12:15 p.m. today at Princeton Sports Center, formerly ProSkate USA Ice Arena, 1000 Cornwall Road, Monmouth Junction, to celebrate “Chanukah on Ice.” Children and adults can ice skate to contemporary Jewish music and classic Hanukkah songs.
