Hillel's Hanukah Party is Friday, November 30 from 7-8pm in Moseley 215.
Is it Chanukah, Hanukkah, or Hanukah? However you spell it, come celebrate with Elon’s Jewish community! Elon Hillel’s annual (pre-)Hanukah Party will be held on Friday, Nov. 30, 7-8 p.m. in Moseley 215.
Enjoy hot fresh latkes (potato pancakes) and traditional sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts) while you play dreydel games and try to win some gelt (chocolate coins). The event will feature a symbolic lighting of Hanukah menorahs. There will be edible-dreydel-making, too!
The party is free and open to all students, faculty, staff, and families.
The Jewish holiday of Hanukah begins this year on the evening of December 8, and continues on for seven nights.
Hanukah is a Jewish festival commemorating the rededication and cleansing of the Temple after an uprising against the Syrians the 2nd century BCE. When Jews, headed by the Maccabee family, went to light the Temple’s menorah, they found only one small flask of oil with which to light it. However, the light burned miraculously for 8 days. On each night of Hanukah Jews light candles on a hanukkiah, the proper name for an eight-flamed menorah, to celebrate this miracle.
For more information, please contact Kim Gersh.
The planning committee also includes Millie Rosen, Johanna Rosen, and Allison Roteman.