Following a weekend attack on a celebration of the holiday in Australia, Lehigh Valley Jewish leaders celebrated Hanukkah 2025 with a public menorah lighting in Bethlehem.
Chabad Lubavitch of the Lehigh Valley hosted the “Lighting of Unity” event Monday night on Payrow Plaza between Bethlehem City Hall and the Bethlehem Area Public Library.
Hanukkah — also spelled Chanukah or other transliterations from Hebrew — is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one additional candle in the menorah — a multibranched candelabra…