Iconic Dreidel—Believed to be World's Largest—Up for Hanukkah
Freestanding 18-foot dreidel will be part of holiday celebration.
A sure sign that Hanukkah is on the horizon is the annual appearance of the giant 18-foot tall freestanding dreidel alongside Valley Road outside the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge. The structure has become a landmark in the community. The dreidel, built 16 years ago by students at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, is assembled and disassembled each year in the weeks leading up to and after Hannukah. The dreidel will be part of Chabad's scheduled events to celebrate Hannukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, which this year begins at sundown on Saturday. The Chabad center proudly points to its dreidel as the largest in the world. Youth Rabbi Yitzchok Moully said he has scoured the Internet looking for other examples, …
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lisa honecker
7:45 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
This is beautiful, why does the left hand corner of the picture say the words. . . "flag as inappropriate?" What person wrote that? Celebrate! Shalom. LH more ›