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Palisades Chabad Builds Hanukkah 'Can-orah'
The Palisades Jewish Early Childhood center shines during the holiday season with a Hanukkah celebration for the community.
welcomed the community onto the grounds of its new at Sunset Boulevard and Los Liones Drive on Sunday to celebrate Hanukkah. The family festival came complete with games, food, rides, crafts ... not to mention a petting zoo and pony rides.
The centerpiece of the carnival was a—a canorah, carefully constructed by Rabbi Shloime Zacks and “Uncle” Fred Parzivand. The collection of kitchen staples is destined for SOVA, the food pantry and multiservice center powered by Jewish Family Service. JFS promises on its website that “SOVA provides free groceries and an array of supportive services to nearly 12,000 individuals of all ages, ethnicities and religions each month.”
Chabad Center director Rabbi Zushe Cunin showed Patch around the rest of the compound, all the way up the side of the hill, past a rolling stream, to the site of a little rustic amphitheater.
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Watch the video for a short one-on-one Hanukkah teaching from Rabbi Cunin. He also delivers an invitation to the center’s menorah lighting and celebration at the 15207 Sunset Blvd. location on Tuesday.
Click through the photo gallery to see more of the festival!
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- For more about the food drive that supplied the cans for the can-orah, .
- For information about SOVA, click here.
