Dozens gathered outside the Betsy Ross House in Old City for a prayer service and religious celebration on the first night of Hanukkah, hours after a mass shooting in Australia at a Jewish party.
“At this point, we have to keep building, we have to keep doing, we have to keep bringing light into this world. It’s not time to do anything less than that,” Rabbi Menachem Schmidt said.
Philadelphia Police used marked and plainclothes officers to secure the area, blocking off a portion of Arch Street before and during the lighting of the Menorah…