Dec

18 2025

Chanukah Latke Bar Dinner

5:00PM - 7:00PM  

Alpert Jewish Community Center 3801 E. Willow Street, One Sommer Way
Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Jewish Federation Campus
Long Beach, CA

Thursday | December 18 | 5 PM Menorah Contest & Youth Writing Awards, 5:30 PM Candlelighting & Dinner

Celebrate Chanukah with a festive holiday dinner for the whole family! Check out the awards for the Menorah-Making Contest and Evelyn Linden Baldwin Youth Writing at 5 PM, followed by candlelighting at 5:30 PM and a delicious latke bar dinner featuring bounce houses, tot zones, and all-around holiday fun. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

 

Tickets

Presale: $36/family  | $10/individual
At the Door: $45/family | $14/individual

 

What is Chanukah?

Chanukah, also known as the Festival of Lights, celebrates freedom and the Maccabees’ victory over Syria’s armies in 165 B.C.E.

We celebrate by lighting candles on the menorah for eight nights with the shamash (helper candle), eating fried foods like latkes (potato pancakes) and sufganiyot (jelly-filled donuts), and gelt (chocolate coins), and playing with a dreidel.