Hanukah 5773

Happy Hanukah!

 

The first night of Hanukah is Saturday night, December 8;

the last night is Saturday night, December 15

 

 

EVENTS

Sunday, December 9,  4 to 6 pm:  
Kolot Hanukah gathering for Kolot Chayeinu member multi-racial families
Hosted by Bob Usdin and Ruth Cohen and family 
361 5th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues, Home: 718-965-0588.   RSVP:  rebellen@earthlink.net
 

Friday, December 14, 6:30 pm:  

Kabbalat Shabbat Hanukah + latke supper.  

Service to welcome this special Shabbat of Chanukah, with Shabbat and Hanukah songs and melodies, menorah lighting, Shabbat candle-lighting, kiddush, motzi, and a latke supper.  Service led by Cantor Lisa B. Segal with Rabbi Ellen Lippmann and others.  

Bring your menorah and 8 candles for this seventh night which in some Sephardic and Mizrakhi cultures is Hag HaBanot, the festival of women or girls.  

Volunteers to participate in a latke-hamantaschen debate, contact the rabbi at rabbi@kolotchayeinu.org.  

 

RESOURCES:

Here are some great resources we'd like to share to help you with preparing and creating your own Hanukah:

 

 

FUN

GIVING

A friend of Kolot has written to suggest that this year, in the midst of so much economic hardship, we think about giving gifts of friendship and time, rather than things.  One thing you can give is a new children’s book to the children of the Church of Gethsemane, our landlord.  .  They should be unwrapped, but you and your child can write in them a brief greeting to the child who will receive it.  Bring the books to Gethsemane Monday through Thursday 9 to 5 and tell them you are from Kolot Chayeinu.   

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