By , JTNews Correspondent
Joel Magalnick
About 50 people showed up at the Pan Pacific Hotel on a rainy Tuesday evening to participate in the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle’s “Hanukkah Flash Mob.” The group walked from the Cascade neighborhood to Westlake Park in downtown Seattle, handing out glow stick “candles” and wishing people a happy holiday.
Rabbi Sholom Elishevitz
Boys from the Eastside Torah Center’s Hebrew school reenact the story of the Maccabees for a group of about 200 at a first-night Hanukkah celebration at Crossroads shopping center in Bellevue. Participants lit a six-foot menorah built out of Starbucks cups.
Joel Magalnick
Miriam gets a little help making her hanukkiah out of clay. When it was dry and ready, she was able to watch the candles lit inside it.
Joel Magalnick
The Seattle Kollel had a booth with decorate-your-own doughnuts, and Ben did just that. Then he ate it.
Katherine Lloyd/SJCC
Families lined up to light the 100 menorahs at the end of the “Coming Home for Hanukkah” celebration at the Stroum JCC.
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Second graders Rifa, left, Celia, center, and Kaylee perform a skit at the Jewish Day School’s all-school Hanukkah assembly on Dec. 5.
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Rabbi Jim and Julie Mirel sing “Maoz Tzur” following the candle lighting at the benefit dinner for MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger, held on Dec. 5 at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle.
Ken Astrein
Cantor David Serkin-Poole, center, and Emily Katcher, right, along with Rabbi James Mirel (not pictured) lead the Shaarei Tikvah Hanukkah service for people of all abilities at Temple B’nai Torah on Dec. 5. The event was co-sponsored by Jewish Family Service Family Life Education and the Seattle Association for Jews with Disabilities. Beth Schoenberg, left, provided ASL interpretation.
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Students from the Seattle Hebrew Academy sing and light the menorah at Kline Galland Home.
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Middle schoolers show off their entries for SHA’s version of the Ace of Cakes (SHAce of Cakes) cake decorating competition — Hanukkah edition.