Menorah lighting draws crowds in Valley Stream

Posted Wednesday, December 20, 2017 12:59 pm

Dozens of people braved the cold to attend.

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Rabbi Yitzchak Goldshmid, of Congregation Beth Shalom, and Mayor Ed Fare rode the cherry picker to light the Menorah.

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Mikayla Afriat, 10, grabbed one of the last jelly donuts.

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Children watched as Rabbi Goldshmid and Fare lit the Menorah.

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Rabbi Yechiel Buchband, left, of the Valley Stream Jewish Center, Fare, Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman and Rabbi Goldshmid attended the ceremony.

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By Nick Ciccone

The village held its annual Menorah lighting ceremony on Dec. 12 at Valley Stream Station Plaza. Rabbi Yitzchak Goldshmid of Congregation Beth Shalom joined Mayor Ed Fare in the bucket of a Valley Stream fire truck to light the candle for the first night of the Jewish Festival of Lights, which began that day at sundown.

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