{"id":88432,"date":"2025-12-15T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88432\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:53:15","slug":"el-paso-to-celebrate-hannukah-with-menorah-lighting-and-circus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/88432\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso to celebrate Hannukah with menorah lighting and circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Jewish community in El Paso is set to celebrate the first night of Hannukah with a public menorah lighting at the Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>County Judge Ricardo Samaniego will light the tallest candle, known as the Shamash, on the 10-foot menorah at 4 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>The event follows the Hannukah Playland and Amazing Circus, which begins at 1:30 p.m. and features inflatable rides, arts and crafts, games, face painting, and a circus performance. <\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Levi Greenberg emphasized the menorah as a symbol of religious freedom, saying, &#8220;The menorah serves as a symbol of El Paso&#8217;s dedication to preserve and encourage the right and liberty of all its citizens to worship Gd freely, openly, and with pride.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The menorah lighting is part of a global campaign initiated by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson in 1973 to publicize the Hannukah miracle. <\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Greenberg added, &#8220;The message of Hannukah is the message of light. The nature of light is that it is always victorious over darkness.&#8221; El Paso&#8217;s public menorahs join over 15,000 worldwide, including displays at landmarks such as the White House and the Eiffel Tower. <\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Jewish community in El Paso is set to celebrate the first night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-88432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}