Friday, January 17, 2025
Kennedy Plaza was alive with colorful lights and festive music as city officials and members of local synagogues celebrated the second night of Hanukkah for the city’s grand Menorah lighting on Dec. 26.
Rabbi Eli Goodman of Chabad of the Beaches led the festivities, and went up in the Long Beach Fire Department’s cherry picker to light the third candle and toss chocolate coins to the children in the crowd below them.
Despite the cold temperatures, people danced in front of a band shell, ate jelly donuts and latkes next to a large spinning dreidel and, of course, the much anticipated great Gelt drop.
