Flying Dreidel Transports Montevideo’s Children to Maccabean Times

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — More than 600 children came out for a pre-Chanukah production put on by the Beit Jabad del Uruguay in Montevideo.

Called “Candles on Strike,” the professionally-produced show at the city’s Metro Theatre told the story of two children who travel back in time through the use of a flying dreidel after their Chanukah candles accuse them of not understanding the holiday and refuse to light.

Each member of the audience received kosher popcorn and a newsletter published by Jewish Kids in Action, the children’s outreach program run by Chabad-Lubavitch of Uruguay that makes visits to schools every month. In addition, they each received a menorah and candles.

All of the city’s Jewish schools sent classes to the show.

“Each of you children is now like a lit candle,” Rabbi Eliezer Shemtov, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Uruguay, told the audience. “You now have the responsibility to light the other candles, the Jewish kids you know, with the light of your soul that was kindled here today.”

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