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by Kevin CodyFor the first time in the long history of the Chanukah celebration on Hermosa Pier Plaza, Jewish Community Center Rabbi Yossi Mintrz was late. He was at the Chargers-Tennessee football game at SoFi Stadium.
But he had a good excuse. Chargers team owner Dean Spanos had invited Rabbi Mintz to light the menorah, in celebration of Chanukah, at Sunday’s nationally televised game.
“In return for the honor I promised him the Chargers would win. And they did,” Rabbi Mintz told the Pier Plaza crowd, after apologizing for being late. The 70,000 fans in SoFi Stadium may have been the largest crowd in the world for this year’s Chanukah celebration, he added.
The Pier plaza crowe of an estimated 1,500 people was modest by comparison, but no less enthusiastic.
A Los Angeles County firefighter, atop a hook and ladder truck from the Hermosa Beach fire station, lit the plaza’s 30-foot high menorah, and then threw hundreds of parachutes bearing candy gilt to the children.
Prior to the menorah lighting, The Jewish Community Center Children Choir sang traditional Chanukah songs, and eight of the center’s children gave a humorous account of the eight-day Chanukah celebration.
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