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by Kevin CodyHot latkes were served and the Jewish Community Center children’s choir performed traditional Chanukah music during the annual Menorah Lighting celebration on Hermosa’s Pier Plaza on Sunday, December 10. Rabbi Yossi Mintz, who founded the annual celebration in 2013, encouraged the crowd that packed the plaza to sing and dance.
But October 7 cast an unavoidable cloud over the afternoon, prompting the rabbi to also exhort the crowd to “bring more light into the world. Not just during the eight days of Chanukah, but every day.” He asked everyone to pray for the hostages’ return and for “complete victory of light over darkness.”
“When it tree is shaken it grows stronger roots,” he added.
Among Sunday’s performers was rapper Kosha Dillz, who had flown back from a tour of Israel that morning. Dillz was born in New Jersey to Israeli immigrant parents. He rhymes in English, Hebrew, Yiddish and Spanish. In 2022, the Jewish Journal named him one of “The Top 10 Jewish Reality TV Stars of All Time.”
Following the October 7 Hamas attack Dillz wrote “Bring the Family Home,” in which he sings, “I marched for BLM/I marched for Ukraine/But this time me and my people in the Negev need rain.” ER
