Celebrating Hanukkah in the City

With the second day of Hanukkah under way, celebrations are taking place both on campus and around Philadelphia.

Temple’s Hillel has eight different programs you can sponsor to get involved this Hanukkah. A list of those programs can be found here.

There are also a variety of festivities happening in the city:

• There will be a candle lighting sponsored by the Center City Kehillah in Rittenhouse Square on December 8 from 5-6pm.
• The National Museum of American Jewish History will host their annual Cocktails and Candle Lighting Chanukah celebration on December 10 at 7 pm.
•  Temple University’s Feinstein Center for American Jewish History will have a musical holiday program with Dan Blacksberg’s Shining Stars Orchestra on December 11 from 5-7 pm. It will be hosted by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• The Larger than Life menorah will be on display at the Independence Mall on December 11th from 5-8:45pm.
• On the 12th, there will be a Shabbat Storytime at the Big Blue Marble Bookstore from 10:30-11:30am.
• There will be a Young Family Hannukah Celebration on December 14th at the National Museum of American Jewish History from 10am-2pm.
• On December 19th, there will be a festival of lights at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York band DeLeon will perform folk music with Temple University’s Feinstein Center for American Jewish History. It is a free admission from 5pm- 8:45pm.

Hanukkah will run from December 6th through the 14th.