From the vault: Hanukkah
Hanukkah, a remembrance of the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem almost 2,200 years ago, began at sundown Sunday and continues through Dec. 14. Read more
- Peggy Wolf, president of the Jewish Community Center, prepares to light the first candle, representing the first night of Hanukkah. (Amy Davis/Baltimore Sun, 1987)
- The Jewish group B’Nai B’Rith, of Reisterstown, held a Hanukkah candle lighting ceremony by lighting an electric Menorah at the Reisterstown Shopping Center marking the beginning of the Hanukkah season. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun, 1991)
- Kids make menorahs at The Lubavitch Center in Columbia, Md. Rabbi Hillel Baron called this the menorah factory. (Randall K. Wolf/Baltimore Sun, 1987)
- Ann Tsitlik, 12, lights a menorah. (Irving H. Phillips, Jr./Baltimore Sun, 1982)
- About 75 members of a variety of Jewish youth groups in Baltimore, march down Park Heights Avenue marking the city’s first annual Hanukkah Torch Parade. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun, 1981)
- Adam Sirkin, left, and Aaron Beytin at a table of Sabbath candles at the Beth Israel Hebrew School in Randallstown. (Baltimore Sun, 1990)
- A Beth Tfiloh Congregation, Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg and Zipora Schorr ready the menorah for the celebration of Hanukkah. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun, 1990)
- The lighting of an electric menorah in Towson. (George H. Cook/Baltimore Sun, 1981)
- During a Hanukkah party for kids, Matthew Pagano and Adam Schulman are wrapped up like mummies by Brian Schulman and Jason Hickey. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun, 1989)
- Les Raymond, 9, preps for Hanukkah ceremony. (Baltimore Sun, 1986)
- Oakland Mills Hanukkah party – Wendy Brodsky, 10, and Jackie Taubman, 4, make greeting cards. (Baltimore Sun, 1987)
- Twins Tzeona (left) and Meechael Ben-Natan, 2, help light Hanukkah candles in menorahs in family’s living room window. (Irving H. Phillips, Jr/Baltimore Sun, 1979)
- Rabbi Seymour Essrog officiates at menorah lighting ceremony at the Towson courthouse. (Barbara Haddock/Baltimore Sun, 1984)
- Fredrica Saxon watches as her sons Jack, 12, and Ken 16, light their menorahs. (Richard Childress/Baltimore Sun, 1978)
- The Mitnick family celebrates Hanukkah. (William Hotz/Baltimore Sun, 1980)
- A Hanukkah table setting arranged at the home of Oscar Bonny was part of the holiday tour held in Charles Village. One of the menorahs was an oil-burning type. Debra Bowden prepared the symbolic food including potato latkes. (William Mortimer/Baltimore Sun, 1978)
- Irving Abramowitz lights a menorah as Grace, his wife, watches. (Ralph L. Robinson/Baltimore Sun, 1979)
- Ineza Chikvashvili displays Georgian-style fish for Riva Manasherov during Hanukkah. (Jed Kirschbaum/Baltimore Sun, 1980)
- Allen Snyder, Stanley Oppenheim and Elliott Oppenheim light Hanukkah candels to celebrate the Feast of Lights. (Joshua Cosden/Baltimore Sun)
- Irwin Spittell lights the Hanukkah candles of the large menorah in the lobby of the Jewish Community Center. (Edward Nolan/Baltimore Sun, 1964)
- Rabbi Sheftel Neuberger and his twin sons, Boruch and Yosef, light the second candle on their Hanukkah menoras at their Pikesville home. (Carl D. Harris/Baltimore Sun, 1976)
- The lighting of the first candle begins the celebration by Jews of Hannukah. In this case, the candles on the menorah at Temple Beth Tfiloh are railroad flares. (Ralph L. Robinson/Baltimore Sun, 1979)
- Etta Marovitz lights first of eight menorah candles during a pre-Hanukkah party at Levindale. (Joseph A. DiPaola/Baltimore Sun, 1979)