By MAUREEN DOHERTY
LYNNFIELD — The community is invited to a special Chanukah celebration sponsored by Chabad of the North Shore on Thursday, Dec. 18 at the MarketStreet Green.
The celebration begins at 5:30 p.m. with the lighting of the third candle on the large menorah Chabad has displayed on the Green, symbolic of the third night of the eight-day Jewish festival, which runs from Tuesday evening, Dec. 16 through Wednesday evening, Dec. 24.
The menorah lighting celebration will be followed with plenty of traditional and delicious Chanukah foods such as latkes and jelly doughnuts, and then the participants will be invited to go ice skating, said Rabbi Shmaya Friedman of Chabad of the North Shore.
During the lighting ceremony, the Chabad will also honor former Lynnfield resident Rabbi Marc Baker who is the head of school of Gann Academy in Waltham, one of the largest Jewish day schools in Massachusetts, Friedman said.
“We’ve been putting menorahs up across the North Shore in about 12 or 13 different towns and cities,” Friedman said. “In Lynnfield, we have put up three — one on the common, one at Goodwin’s Circle rotary and the third one at Lynnfield MarketStreet.”
Plans for the menorah lighting ceremony on the common were incomplete at press time. Friedman said it would be a smaller ceremony and the menorah would be tended to by members of his congregation who reside in town. “Someone will be lighting it every night and adding a light,” he said.
Photos and a complete list of Chanukah menorahs erected in the area North Shore Chanukah to celebrate the holiday can be found at www.northshorechanukah.com.
