PHOTO GALLERY: Hanukkah Celebration
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By
Pam Eubanks
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| 5:00 a.m. November 27, 2013
PHOTO GALLERY: Hanukkah Celebration
Rabbi Mendy Bukiet explains the menorah is made of cans, because it was the first time Hannukah overlapped with Thanksgiving.
Jack Gootkin enjoys a falafel.
Dana Neeman, Yaniv Saadon and Hava Neeman
Gwen Dodson, left, attends with her aunt, Charity Steckel, and cousins, Mirav Steckel, center, and Chaya Steckel, right.
Landon Heitner, as Judah Maccabee, hands out dreidels.
River Strand residents Jack and Gayle Mutchnick, center, came with their family, Ben, Will, Amilia and Maggie Hilton.
Schroeder-Manatee Ranch President and CEO Rex Jensen, Congressman Vern Buchanan and Manatee County Commissioner Vanessa Baugh made sure to attend.
Jason Cobb gives his daughter, Phoebe, a birds-eye view of the ceremony.
Marcia Lichtenstein makes jelly doughnuts.
Sandie and Brad Ivers with Jennifer Schiff
Brad, Jack and Jen Kaiser try food after watching the ceremony.
Zohara Cohen cheers on The Extreme Team, as they perform.
Abigail Zion, 13, prepares to try an acrobatic stunt.
Chilly weather doesn’t keep Walker Christensen, pictured with his father, Brian, from eating a snow cone.
