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Auckland’s first-ever Hanukah in the Park
DIARY NOTE November 14 2013
“Hanukah in the Park”
It’s Auckland’s first-ever Hanukah in the Park!
Join Auckland’s Jewish community and the Israeli Embassy to celebrate the festival of Hanukah with an evening which will include singing performances, live Klezmer music with The Truppmann Brothers, arts and crafts stories and activities for the kids as well as traditional Israeli and Mediterranean cuisine from “Ima’s”.
Come taste latkes, donuts, falafel and shwarma as well as mint tea and Middle Eastern coffee! Watch the lighting of Auckland's tallest Menorah on the 4th Day of Hanukah!
Hanukah, also known as the Festival of Lights and Feast of Dedication, is an eight-day festival commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Greeks in the 2nd century BC. Hanukah is observed for eight nights and days, by the kindling of the lights of a unique candelabrum, the nine-branched Menorah or Hanukiah, one additional light on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night.
WHAT: HANUKAH IN THE PARK (RAIN OR
SHINE)
WHEN: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 2013 FROM 6.00-8.30PM
WHERE: ALBERT PARK (BANDSTAND AREA), PRINCES STREET, AUCKLAND
ENTRY: FREE
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Released on behalf of the
Embassy of Israel and the Jewish Federation of New Zealand.
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