{"id":58436,"date":"2020-12-13T14:35:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=58436"},"modified":"2020-12-13T14:35:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-13T20:35:51","slug":"chabad-jcc-hold-distanced-chanukah-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/chabad-jcc-hold-distanced-chanukah-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Chabad, JCC hold distanced Chanukah events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If ever there was incontrovertible evidence that the secular year of 2020 was anything but normal, this year&#8217;s celebration for Chanukah proves it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58437\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58437\" class=\"wp-image-58437 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-1536x901.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-2048x1202.jpg 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/176;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58437\" class=\"wp-image-58437 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-1024x601.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-1536x901.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/ChabadRiverwalk20-2048x1202.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-58437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 2020 Chanukah at the Riverwalk event. (Facebook screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Chabad-Lubavitch Chanukah at the Riverwalk celebration was a socially-distanced live event with several hundred people attending virtually via Facebook pages.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s event served to remind everyone of the significance of the eight-day holiday in the mystical term of lighting the world with <em>chesed<\/em> (kindness), but it was also a moment to honor the frontline medical workers who have placed themselves in harm&#8217;s way during the year in the ongoing battle against the spread of the novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Jewish individuals from the medical community served as eight lights representing the Chanukah celebration. Each held a tiki torch so as to serve as a living taper on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>After all eight were on the platform, Rabbi Mendel Rivkin, who served as emcee, invited that the shammash light and the first light on the massive wooden Chanukiah be lit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Uptown JCC held a drive-through Chanukah celebration for the benefit of the Jewish community today. Rather than holding its usual 300-plus crowd with music, free latkes, fried chicken and gelt for the children, the JCC elected to offer donuts for cars that registered in advance of today&#8217;s event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Chabad%2C%20JCC%20hold%20distanced%20Chanukah%20events\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8834,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58438,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58436\/revisions\/58438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}