Event Category: Hanukkah
Hanukkah – Jewish Community of Arad
Bright Holiday, Celebration of Light – This Year (2016) Generating “#Christnukkah” Hashtag
The evening of 2016, December the 24th, although with a different meaning for us than that for our Christian brothers, accounted for every person the beginning of a special holiday: Eve of Hanukkah / Christmas Eve. This coincidence has led to an unprecedented demotion of a traditional event. Here is its story: Many years ago, […]
Keep readingThe festival of light celebrated through music
Hanukah is a remembrance of the victory of the Maccabees over a larger Syrian army and a miracle that made the oil supply for Menora in the Temple of Jerusalem to last 8 days instead of one. Named the feast of light, it reminds us of the victory of good over evil, being a leitmotif on the […]
Keep readingA flame burning for over two thousand years!
On the evening of December, 7th, 2018 the Jews of Arad rejoiced together on Hannukah. Also called the feast of lights, Hag Haurim, in Hebrew, it celebrates the victory of the Maccabees on the Hellenes in Israel, and the miracle by which the synagogue oil lasted for eight days instead of one. In each of […]
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