Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
The Forde Files No 138
Rabbi Shmuli Schlanger sings about the miracle of Chanukah.
The rabbi's wife Esther with Gisa, 5, one of their six children.The others are Leah, 14, Mandy, 13, Chaya, 10, Shimshi, 8, and Raisy, 18 months.
Uryah, 2, Samantha, 8, and Joshua, 4, Dominguez color pictures of dreidels and other Chanukah symbols. Visitors ate traditional latkes and jelly donuts
Moses MIzrache lights the menorah.
Chabad of Bakersfield lights public menorah in Tehachapi
Chanukah (also spelled Hanukkah) is a happy eight-day Jewish celebration of the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greek army in 165 BCE. The opposing army had left the temple in Jerusalem a wreck, breaking the jugs of holy oil, and only one day's worth of undefiled lamp oil could be found. The lamp miraculously burned for eight days until more holy oil could be installed. Rabbi Shmuli Schlanger of the Jewish outreach organization Chabad of Bakersfield set up a menorah in Tehachapi on Dec. 27 in front of Moses Master Carpet, owned by Moshe "Moses" Mizrache, who lit the lights for the fourth day of Chanukah. Inside the store, visitors ate latkes (potato pancakes) and jelly donuts fried in oil. "Life is full of lights – open our eyes to see it," Schlanger said.
