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Spend a festive afternoon with the entire family during the Community Chanukah Celebration at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Albuquerque.

The event will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 15, at the JCC, 5520 Wyoming Blvd. NE. It will feature live music and dancing, sports and craft activities for children, dreidel games, traditional foods such as latkes and sufganiyot (donuts), as well as gift shopping and Jewish organization information booths.

A community menorah lighting will take place at 2:30 p.m.

鈥淐hanukah is Judaism鈥檚 鈥楩estival of Lights鈥� and it is commemorated each year on the Jewish calendar, which is why people are always a little confused about (it),鈥� explained Phyllis Wolf, JCC chief programs officer. 鈥淧eople will say, 鈥極h, Chanukah is early this year.鈥� One year, it was around Thanksgiving, this year, the first candle is lit on December 25, the night of Christmas. It鈥檚 because it鈥檚 based on a different calendar, so it can fall anytime on the Gregorian calendar, which is what we all follow, anytime between late November to late December.鈥�

This year, Chanukah will be celebrated from Dec. 25 through Jan. 2.

In Hebrew, Chanukah means 鈥渄edication鈥� and the holiday marks the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C. after a small group of Jewish fighters led by Judah Maccabee and his brothers, liberated it from occupying Greek-Syrian forces, who were determined to squelch the Jewish faith and its practices, according to Wolf.

鈥淭he tiny supply of ritually pure oil that they found in the temple, they lit the menorah 鈥� and it stayed lit for eight days,鈥� she explained. 鈥淭he ritual of lighting a nightly candle, as well as the emphasis on cooking foods in oil such as potato pancakes called latkes, memorialize this miraculously long-lasting oil.鈥�

Chanukah is a very festive holiday, according to Wolf.

鈥淲e鈥檙e looking at this as a wonderful opportunity for the Jewish community to come together and celebrate, but it鈥檚 also open to the general community,鈥� she said. 鈥淲e will have a live band who will be playing traditional Jewish and Chanukah music, as well as dancing. And then we鈥檙e going to have lots of activities for kids. We鈥檙e getting two bouncers, and we鈥檙e going to have an obstacle course, which our fitness department is putting together. And then we鈥檙e also going to have all kinds of traditional Jewish and Chanukah food.鈥�

The gift shops from Congregation B鈥檔ai Israel and Congregation Albert will be part of the event.

鈥淭hey鈥檙e the two largest Jewish congregations and they each have gift shops with Judaica, it鈥檚 called, so it鈥檚 Jewish art and items for sale, because that鈥檚 what a lot of people are going to be interested in getting.鈥�

The event provides an outlet for the community to peacefully gather and learn more about Judaism and its traditions.

鈥淲e haven鈥檛 done this in many years and we just felt this year, with everything that鈥檚 been going on in the world, particularly for Jews and Israel, we just wanted to make sure that we provided an opportunity and a space for the community to come together and to shed light on a lot of darkness, and so this was just a great opportunity for us to do that,鈥� said Jill Patruznick, JCC cultural program coordinator.