Listen Up! lights up JCC Chanukah celebration
Listen Up!, a Jewish a cappella four-person group specializing in their own interpretations of popular and Israeli songs, were the headliners at the Jewish Community Center’s Chanukah Community Celebration today from 4:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Listen Up! had a viral YouTube video last year in which they sang a version of “Adon Olam” to the tune of Pharrell’s “Happy” from Universal Studio’s “Despicable Me 2.”
Morris Bart, second from left, and Liba Kornfeld, left, oversee the lighting of the Chanukiah at the JCC. (Photo by Alan Smason)
Part of the Cathy and Morris Bart Cultural Arts series of programs, the annual celebration is always an opportunity to light the large chanukiah donated to the JCC by artist Gary Rosenthal five years ago.
Liba Kornfeld, the JCC’s Jewish Family director, coordinated the candle lighting ceremony with several local representatives of the Bart family and other organizations taking part.
Children responded to many of the songs by dancing at the front of the crowd of nearly 300, one of the largest of Chanukah celebrations in the city.
Kosher Cajun New York Delicatessen provided fried food to coincide with the season including fried chicken and traditional latkes.
