City to host Hanukkah menorah lightings

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Three nights after a deadly terrorist attack in Australia killed 15 people at a celebration of the first night of Hanukkah, Charlottesville will host a pair of ceremonial menorah lightings for its Jewish community.

“The best thing we can do is only increase in our light, and not back down,” Rabbi Reuvi Mayer of the Rohr Chabad House at UVA.

At 6 p.m. Tuesday, on the Downtown Mall, a 9-foot-tall menorah will be lit at an event organized by Chabad of Charlottesville that will also include latkes, jelly donuts and dreidels…

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