By COLlive staff
Photos: Shimon Roumani
The World’s Largest Menorah on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue is now illuminated with an LED light frame so that you can see it from far away.
“This is an awesome scene. It warms your soul with pride,” said a teenage girl from a Bat Mitzvah Club, who attended the lighting of the Menorah on the first night of Chanukah, along with thousands of others.
“To the anti-Semites across the river in Jersey City, or wherever they may be, we say ‘no one will take us down, we will only become bigger and stronger,’” said Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Director Lubavitch Youth Organization.
“Anti-Semitism should not be found in our society,” said Jumaane Williams, the Public Advocate of the City of New York, who spoke at the Lighting of the World’s Largest Menorah.
“It is for this reason that the World’s Largest Menorah has extra illumination to bring more light,” said Rabbi Butman. “As a smart man once said ‘while others cursed the darkness, I lit a candle.’”
The throng of participants greatly enjoyed a special Chanukah rendition by World famed Chazzan Yitzchok Helfgot and a special Chanukah Concert by Dovid Haziza accompanied by Shmuli Zelishovsky.
Hot latkes were distributed and the joyous Chanukah festivities were continued in singing and dancing.
The World’s Largest Menorah is constantly covered by the local and international media, including a live feed from CNN, who bring the World’s Largest Menorah to hundreds of millions of people all over the world.
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