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Celebrate Hanukkah with Nassau Coiunty on Dec. 15 at 5 p.m. in Mineola.
Courtesy Nassau County
Nassau County will celebrate Hanukkah on the front steps of the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building at 1550 Franklin Ave., in Mineola on Thursday, Dec. 15 at 5 p.m.
County Executive Bruce Blakeman will mark the eight-day Jewish Fesitval of Lights during the event being called Latkes and Lights. Latkes are potato pancakes cooked in oil which synmbolizes the small portion of oil that was found which stayed lit for eight days after the Second Temple of Jerusalem was ransacked.
This year, Hanukkah begins on the night of Dec. 18.
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