Jewish festival begins with celebration in Marion Square
The Post and Courier
College of Charleston students (from left) Jenna Harris, Adam Hubschman, Harry Rockower, Sarah Platock and Andrea Griff help make potato latkes in preparation for Sunday's Chanukah in the Square celebration in Marion Square.
The Jewish festival of lights, Hanukkah, begins at sundown. The holiday commemorates the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 B.C. after it had been profaned by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Greek king of Syria and overlord of Palestine.
A small band of Israelite fighters defeated the Greek forces after three years of insurgent attacks, they found enough oil to burn in the menorah for only one day. But, miraculously, it burned for eight.
Chanukah in the Square, the annual holiday gathering sponsored by the Yaschik/Arnold Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston, Chabad of Charleston and the Low Country and the City of Charleston's Office of Cultural Affairs, is scheduled for 4-6 p.m. on Sunday in Marion Square. College of Charleston students are frying latkes for the occasion.
Local Holocaust survivors will light the candles. Music, dancing and children's activities are planned.
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