‘Totally Lit’: A Hanukkah celebration at James Weldon Johnson Park

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Totally Lit! A Hanukkah Celebration astatine James Weldon Johnson Park (COJ)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Members of each faiths gathered downtown astatine James Weldon Johnson Park connected Monday nighttime to observe the Jewish Festival of Lights.

Food trucks served meal successful the chilly temperatures. There were dreidel games and dancing arsenic friends and household grabbed hands to a accepted beat.

“I emotion Hanukkah and I would not miss a enactment - immoderate party! And I decidedly wanted to sensation the latkes, which were fantastic,” said Randi Sherman.

The lighting of the menorah officially marks the occasion.

“It was truly bully to spot chap Jews observe Hanukkah. It’s truly a festive juncture and the set was great!” said Dr. Steve Levine.

Cantor Jesse Holzer, the caput of euphony astatine the Jacksonville Jewish Center, has played astatine the adjacent for 5 years. He said this twelvemonth was peculiarly sweet.

“It’s not lone physically warmer, but you consciousness the vibe and spot different radical again radical celebrating, eating, adjacent dancing with each other,” Holzer said. “It’s large to beryllium backmost bringing lights into Jacksonville.”