Ventura--The place to be was Ventura Harbor Sunday, December 25, as the 20th Annual Chanukah Festival was a joyous celebration full of snow that brought a great crowd bundled up and ready to celebrate.
THE event featured tons of snow imported to the event, the Eighth Night of Chanukah, along with Hot Latkes, donuts, a Judaica Boutique, lots of prayers, music, and dancing, huge amounts of pride and fellowship, and an ice sculpting of the coolest creation ever, a six-foot frozen ice Menorah.
The event was a joint effort of the Chabad of Oxnard and Chabad of Camarillo, Chabad of Ventura, and Chabad Ojai that came together to celebrate the Year of Hakhel, celebrating Jewish Unity.
Chabad of Oxnard Rabbi Dov Muchnik was thrilled to bring such a memorable celebration to the people and noted they lit more candles in Ventura than the candles in the Temple in Jerusalem.
“Wow, that’s an amazing concept,” he said. “We have the power to bring light in our communities and homes stronger than in the Temple in Jerusalem.”
He said the Year of Hakhel is a year of gatherings, which is extraordinary.
“Once in seven years, all the Jewish people, men, women,…
