{"id":58890,"date":"2025-12-02T21:20:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58890\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:20:25","slug":"staten-island-hanukkah-celebration-2025-when-is-the-borough-hall-menorah-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58890\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island Hanukkah celebration 2025: When is the Borough Hall Menorah Lighting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HUFDWPE465DGXM3L42SP66JRUA\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island will hold its 54th annual menorah lighting ceremony at Borough Hall on Dec. 15, marking the second night of Hanukkah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IH5BOPKCANCJ3GKAN5V4J2EKEQ\">Borough President Vito Fossella will host the event. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., with the program beginning at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"S5QPQ5YP6BHSLLIE4WPQ45IHWI\">The ceremony will include the lighting of the menorah, remarks from Fossella, and musical performances by Hebrew School children. Attendees can expect traditional Hanukkah refreshments, including sufganiyot and latkes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MWYT2XRW35E4XIXXKPK7L3NXTI\">The annual event brings together community members to celebrate the Festival of Lights at the Staten Island government building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"NDBR723HRJDTRABHYJM4BFA64A\">Those planning to attend have been asked to confirm their participation with The Council on Jewish Organizations at 718-720-4047.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The Council of Jewish Organizations of Staten Island will hold its 54th annual menorah&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-58890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}